Top 5 Funniest Movies - With Donny

In today's episode, Tony Tone and his guest Donny go over their top 5 funniest movie lists.

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SPEAKER_02 0:00

Welcome to another show of Triangular Voices. This is your host, Tony Tone. Today we have our special guest, Donnie D. Hello. How are you today, my friend? I'm doing great. Okay, so we were discussing earlier funniest movies.

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Top five, yes.

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Okay, well, before we even get into that, what would you be your definition of funny?

SPEAKER_01 0:26

Funny, to me, I like I like like the zany movies, um, kind of the silly movies. Um, you know, not not not necessarily uh uh what everybody's into, but I I kind of uh I like the uh just zaniness, you know, silly comedy like uh Dumb and Dumber or Airplane, stuff like that. That's just um it's just silly and kind of nonsensical.

SPEAKER_02 0:53

And would you consider like a Woody Allen type where you kind of gotta think, you know, the jokes are yeah, that's like a comedy drama.

SPEAKER_01 1:02

That that would be that would be under like comedy drama. I went with top the top five funniest. Uh I went with just zany silly movies. Okay, well let's start with your number five. What is it and why? Number five, I have Young Frankenstein. Good choice. Uh I like it. It's it's it's uh there's a comedy duo, uh Gene Wilder, uh Marty Feldman, plus a cast of really funny actors, Madeline Kahn, Terry Garr, uh, and just you know, a lot of good actors. They're they're good in their own right as actors, and uh and it's just it's just funny, zany. No, it is I agree, I agree.

SPEAKER_02 1:49

It's it's um almost outlandish that some of the jokes that uh Frankenstein and uh it's just silly, yeah.

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And that's um the director uh is is well who's the director of Nel Brooks is just and I I like all his stuff because of course he's he's he's one of a kind.

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His movies, everything he's done has been funny. But um I think Lost in Young Frankenstein is uh Jing Hapman. Jing Hapman the the blind man scene. Oh, yeah. That's gotta go as one of the classic of all movies.

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Absolutely.

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Poor Frankenstein or Frankenstein, whatever the hell they call him. He uh yeah, he couldn't even get a bowl of soup. But um, so that's a good, that's good, that's good. Um let's go with your uh number four. Four, I got up in smoke. Oh yeah, a classic. Uh uh ahead of its time, um, introducing the real life drama of Mary Juanna.

SPEAKER_01 2:50

Yeah, yeah, but you know what? I can relate to this movie because I've been in some of those similar circumstances. I had a Primarch 64, I drove it around, I remember crazy people, and uh so I could relate to a lot of it, and I got crazy cousins, like he had a crazy cousin. And um the guy Chong actually looks like my dad's friend. I grew up with my dad's friend, looked just like Chong, and he acted like him too. What was his name? John Stewart. I remember him. He had a dog, too. He had a 55 Chevy, yeah, uh he lived in it, and he actually died in it. Yes, he did. That was my father's friend, and he was uh he was a good guy, interesting character. Yeah, he he was from our young days, he was interesting, but it's a real hippie, that's another real hippie went to Berkeley, and he was my father's friend, and then he uh he he turned into kind of a bum. So with Up in Smoke, um it kind of made uh the drug use scene kind of out there, and uh yeah, it was it was um for that for those years, it was pretty uh it was out there, it was yeah, it was it was just um that was like the first movie just really kind of glamorized all that and uh yeah, it was part of the 70s, yeah. It was it's a that's a good choice because um they went there, you know, before its time, before it was mainstream that you could I even remember watching that uh um downstairs at uh at our aunt's house in the when they had HBO or what it was. The box they had the box with all the little numbers and you had to flip it up and down, yeah. And it wasn't even in theater, it was in it was in our house in the home. So it was like uh I seen it in theater. It was it was really uh it was it was really bizarre.

SPEAKER_02 4:33

Okay, so let's go with your number three. Number three, I got the jerk with Steve Martin. That's that's I gotta stop right there because that is one of my all-time favorites. That album absolutely T Martin is just uh he's just wow, he's uh his his rendition of comedy is is and since we're on the jerk, there's there's uh uh an honorable mention that never gets any any love, the lonely guy. The lonely guy, the lonely guy with uh Charles Groden, the cutouts.

SPEAKER_01 5:09

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right.

SPEAKER_02 5:12

I vaguely remember. You gotta look it up before it's Steve Martin is just he's hilarious, yeah. But but the jerk that that that's a uh classic, is it classic?

SPEAKER_01 5:21

Yeah, no, it is, and and the whole storyline. Good storyline. I like the way he went from poor to uh he he went got rich and then lost everything. And it was a good a good plot, also. Oh yeah, no, it's a good movie.

SPEAKER_02 5:34

Yeah, if you're talking movies, but it's just funny. It's just hilarious, and the yeah, the situations he finds himself in just out of stupidity, just he's so dumb, it's it's it's hilarious.

SPEAKER_01 5:45

And he's got a funny little dog, too. Oh shit for brains, he's dragging him, yeah. He's dragging him with the leash. He's like, come on. My trusty dog, he's dragging him on the trusty dog leading the way. Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_02 5:58

So yeah, that that's bringing a smile to my face. The jerk, number three. So uh, wow, that's a good one. Okay, so we're up to number two. Where are we at? Number two, I got blazing saddles. Another one ahead of its time, Mel Brooks. Another Mel Brooks. He went there with the racial.

SPEAKER_01 6:16

Yes, he did. He he went there, but in and it's just hilarious and funny and in a funny way, to where it'd be hard to take offense to some of the language in it. The cast was just, you know, like another comedy duo. Um, Gene Wilder and uh was it Clevon Lou? I think yeah, it just and you know, the cast, the whole cast, and the and the and uh there's a bunch of actors in there, and it's a classic, it's and it's hilarious. They got a guy punching a horse and making the horse, and you know, just silliness farting on you know the fart scene, just craziness, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:50

But um, again, that was uh like up in smoke, he pushed the line. He he he really pushed it, he pushed it with the language, and um yeah, yeah, it was it was out there, yeah. And uh it was hard for for me to kind of try and categorize it because you know it does have that racial epitome. But right, if watching it, you you can enjoy it and know that it wasn't meant to be any negativity, it was all in the joking manner, and um yeah, it was funny, yeah. And it was funny, it was funny. So wow, blazing saddles. That's not one a lot of people would would remember.

SPEAKER_01 7:28

It's controversial, it could be yeah, but it it's it's one of the funnier movies, definitely.

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Absolutely. Okay, so now we're at your top number one, number one.

SPEAKER_01 7:37

Number one airplane.

SPEAKER_02 7:39

Oh wow, that that's uh I can I can watch that over and over again. It never gets it never gets uh classic of all classics. Uh yeah, that introduced Leslie Nelson to the world as as something. I mean, the guy is well, he was already a really good actor. No, yes, but drama actor. He he he never had a part that just defined him, right? And and his role in comedies was because of his seriousness, that you could you couldn't tell that he was actually joking with you, but you know, it's just it was so funny to the point the the slapstick kind of humor in it, the the visuals.

SPEAKER_01 8:19

Um yeah, that's um yeah, it is a classic. It's just it's just hilarious. And um a lot of people didn't get it. A lot there was some people that just didn't get it, you know, like um they didn't get uh he did a TV series called uh Police Squad. I see. And it only ran like it had seven episodes or something like that, and it and it and they didn't pick it up because people didn't get it. They didn't get the humor. Because that it the I don't think there's no laugh track. There was no laugh.

SPEAKER_02 8:46

Well, see, that was before all, you know, it just I don't think they knew what they were doing as far as identity, right? Because they didn't have the live audience, like you know, the happy days and all that stuff. To where you have the laugh tracks, you know when to laugh. Right, you know when it's a joke, because a lot of it's dry humor with with Leslie. You know, he'll tell you, talk to something, it's hilarious, but you don't know it's hilarious because you're just he's serious, you know. He still has a straight face.

SPEAKER_01 9:12

Silliness, there was a lot of silliness of just I mean, just bizarre silliness.

SPEAKER_02 9:16

It you know, yeah, it's it's um and since we're on him, I mean you have to throw in the naked gun for the bigger.

SPEAKER_01 9:22

Yeah, absolutely, all of them. That that's um they're they're up there. Um that that's what made this kind of hard, is because uh we had I had to come up with five, you told me, and I was like, wow, five right off the top of my head. And then later on thinking about it, I'm like, well, what about this? What about that? And then I started breaking them down into like different kinds of genres, you know, like comedy drama, uh zany comedy, you know, uh horror comedy, slapstick, slapstick, you know, like um I wanted to put like Caddyshack. That and see stuff I was gonna say that, you know, the classics. Um, but I just didn't have the room. I was like, well, I gotta come down to the five. And this was after I had come up with my five. I started, but what about that? What about that? When I was like, well, it's kind of a different genre or different, you know, thing. And I don't know. It was tough. It was kind of tough. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:07

Wow. So um Naked Guns, and we talked about Mel Brooks. History of the World was a very, very funny movie. Absolutely.

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Yeah, all yeah, all that stuff.

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Now we go to the newer, the newer movies.

SPEAKER_01 10:22

Uh I've seen the new Naked Gun.

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And it was funny. It's funny. It's funny. It it's again, it's uh kind of a grown-up funny because some of the jokes are, you know, you have to get it.

SPEAKER_01 10:34

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Because he's straight faced, and and but it's a joke and it's funny. Yeah, but a good cast. Very cast. I was surprised.

SPEAKER_01 10:42

I was, I was entertained.

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Yeah, I was very surprised that I thought it was gonna be one of them, you know, remakes that's uh yeah, no, that would that would have been awful. It was good, but it was good, yeah. I enjoyed it with the door ones. I I'm tort there's something about Mary is okay a classic. Yep. Uh scary movies, one and two, they're they're there, they're funny, funny. But I think Lost in It are two movies, Dumb and Dumber. Okay, yep. That's that that that jalopanial scene in in that restaurant is one of the funnier scenes in any comedy, man.

SPEAKER_01 11:18

Well, I can relate to a lot of it because we're gonna be able to do that. Yeah, we did that to a friend of mine in in high school, me and Joe Mores. But we live, I you know, we kind of their apartment setup was uh, I can relate to that because they had nothing. They had just absolutely nothing. Yes, and then he spends all the money on, he says, go get some booze, and he comes back. He gets robbed, and they have nothing, their house is barren, there's nothing to steal, there's nothing, it's like uh, but it's very barren. But um, yeah, yeah, it was very relatable. I I liked it, it was funny.

SPEAKER_02 11:43

A lot of a lot of funny things in that one of comedy comedy love story. Um, and that brings us to Adam Sandler, and there's really really um he's got an offline kind of humor, but the one there's two.

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Okay.

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The Waterboy is uh one of the classics, right off, right off. And um The Wedding Singer. Yeah, both hilarious. The the funny movies, funny movies. Um absolutely Adam Sandler that the the the water boy when when he went there with sports and uh the Louisiana thing and oh yeah, his mom, everything's the devil, and uh that's hilarious.

SPEAKER_01 12:29

It's it's it was uh now what would you what category would you put that in?

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Now see that's that's the question. That would be what um comedy drama? Comedy because it is somewhat of a drama. Yeah, so what what would you classify that as sure? I'm not sure. Because then what that would mean, like what would airplane be? Zaniness, zany, just yeah, yeah, but young Frankenstein has a story, true, so that would be in kind of like Waterboy and uh The Wedding Singer. Yeah, they all have you know, they're a story, but funny, funny, right, funny.

SPEAKER_01 13:10

Um yeah, that's yeah, I'm not sure. We'd have to we'd have to break that down.

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Yeah, we really would because yeah, we're gonna have to start to to kind of categorize uh I think so.

SPEAKER_01 13:20

I think so, because there's a lot that are you know that are like um they should be up there, but they're they're in different kind of groups, and and I couldn't let it go without murder by death being mentioned. Murder by death that's that's uh was was I think it was on one of my top five, and then I changed it because I had it tied with uh what did I have it tied? The chief detective. Yeah, I like that with uh Peter Fall. Yeah, well he's in both. He's in both. Great actor. And those are like they were originally plays that they made into comedies. The time, the timing on that, the way that uh the comedy is put out there, it's just it's it's I've I've never seen like two movies that are just like I don't know, the timing on everything in the way it's directed is just it's kind of in its own little category.

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It pieces together good, and and the jokes, the jokes are are at the precise time they need to be.

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And um yeah, everything's like set in a in a certain uh uh way that it's it's just um I I I can watch those and not and not get bored.

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Definitely. And okay, since I mentioned everything, Woody Allen. I mean right, right. Pretty much all everything. I I can't it's kind of hard to find something Woody Allen's done that isn't funny, right? Right, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:38

Yeah, he's got that certain uh something that's just um in most of his movies. Yeah, it's like uh what would you say, like dry humor kind of? Yeah, I would say because it's a thinking man's comedy, right, right.

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You know, he he's not slap, he's uh thinking, you know, it's real life situations made funny.

SPEAKER_01 14:57

I think he's got like a comedic timing, also, because he's being a comedian.

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Comedian is all about timing, right? When to when to hit you with the joke, and uh yeah, that's like some old school stuff, yeah. He was classic, and and I guess comedy started going a lot more display, you know, people getting hit and yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:16

But um, it's evolved, yeah, it's evolved, and there's um I mean yeah, like just like uh you know the movies have changed during you know, that's dur for the times, the 70s that were doing a certain way, 80s was doing a certain way, 90s, you know, the times have changed, the movies have changed.

SPEAKER_02 15:34

There's one I'm trying to think of with Goldie Hahn and um Chevy Chase. Foul play. Yes, yeah, yeah. See, now that's there. Yeah, that's a classic. That's a classic, and I cannot let it this us not talk about Caddyshack.

SPEAKER_01 15:50

Another Chevy Chase.

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Because the Caddyshack is is that's classic.

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And um what was that from the 70s? 70s, 80s, or early 80s.

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Early 80s, early okay with uh uh the thing Dangerfield.

SPEAKER_01 16:09

Ronnie Dangerfield.

SPEAKER_02 16:10

No, yeah, but he's he's and we're forgetting easy money. I mean yeah, also easy and um very good.

SPEAKER_01 16:17

Easy money, and he has another one. And uh Pesci was in that right too.

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Yeah, yeah. Easy money and um yeah, that's going way back.

SPEAKER_01 16:27

That would that's gotta be from seven.

SPEAKER_02 16:28

High school, uh going back to school, right? Yeah, yeah, that was funny. Not as funny, but it's got some. It was funny. It was funny, but um going back to Caddyshack, that that uh that whole theme, because remember, uh, you know, I helped an uncle of mine at a golf course. So I was familiar with some of the comings and goings of golf courses, and um it just it hit it on the head because some of the groundsmen there that we worked with were out there. Yeah, you know, I mean, really out there. I mean, who really stays there watching, you know, and this was next to a cemetery where I was working at.

SPEAKER_01 17:04

So and probably most of them have been hit in the head by the Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:06

Well, now I used to pick up balls and uh the um locals they used to sell alcohol there, so they used to get drunk and aim at us all day while we're picking up balls.

SPEAKER_01 17:16

A lot of golfing is drinking and and having a good time out there. Um, yeah, so that's it's true. There's really some reality into it. Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 17:26

So we got your top five. Um I'm in agreement pretty much. Um I would think that um the naked guns, I was kind of sad they didn't make your list. Um Caddyshack.

SPEAKER_01 17:44

Yeah, it's a classic. It's a classic, but that kind of had a story and it had like you know, several uh uh you know different talents in there. You know what I mean? It was kind of like spread out. Uh what's that what's that guy's name? Um Knight. Um actors, good cast. Um yeah, but was it Bill Mr. Ackroyd did it? Bill Murray. Bill Murray. Um yeah, all of them guys are in it. It's like it's we're spread out. The comedy. Yeah, so it's kind of like um it's up there. It's definitely up there. I I know I'd have to put it in the code. The pool scene. I mean I'd have to put it in like a different category. See, now they're they're like like like uh yeah, like uh the Revenge of the Nerds, something like that.

SPEAKER_02 18:28

See, and how I was gonna forget about that and revenge of the net Revenge of the Nerds 2.

SPEAKER_01 18:35

Yeah, and it'd be something like that. I'd put it in that kind of that kind of scene.

SPEAKER_02 18:39

So then we we're gonna have to sit down one day and uh categorize and um make lists for each genre of what kind of comedy it is, because in a way it's like not fair to compare Woody Allen to like an airplane because of the way the comma is delivered, the drama. I mean, the comedy's delivered in so different, so different way of approach, you know.

SPEAKER_01 19:03

Right, right, right, right. Yep. Yeah. And then some, you know, yeah, some people are gonna think they're gonna have a different view of the city. Oh, yeah, because we're we're from the 70s, you know what I mean? Like we're we grew up through through these movies, so it's like we're our our opinion's gonna be different than others.

SPEAKER_02 19:17

And I'm sure we're missing some of the newer things that just um yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:23

This was just, you know, you said top five. I just like what into my head. But then I was like, I was like, oh, wait a minute. I thought about it, well, what about that? What about that? Like, oh man, like well, then I started thinking, well, now we gotta put them in a different category because it's it's just a different style.

SPEAKER_02 19:36

The exact same thing happened to me, you know. Um and I'll just give you my top five. Okay, yes, let's hear them. I have um um number five was Caddyshack.

SPEAKER_01 19:52

Okay, that would that was number five.

SPEAKER_02 19:54

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Number four was up in smoke.

SPEAKER_01 19:58

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 19:59

I had a naked gun. Okay. The original. The original. Okay. Naked gun. And then I had um uh Something About Mary. Okay, okay. And Airplane.

SPEAKER_01 20:11

And Airplane. Okay, okay. So we had uh Airplane was in boat in the number one.

SPEAKER_02 20:17

But and something about Mary was because it was a newer but newer movie, but uh Matt Dillon, Ben Steeler, and the Oogie Meister and Cameron Gift. It was it was an awesome cast and well played, and um the story was good, and it was funny throughout, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It it never stopped being funny, but in a in a way that it wasn't you know, silly funny, right? Right, right. Because the movie carried on, and it was good. It was a good movie, was funny. Who was the director of that? I'm not sure I had it written down, but I'll definitely find out.

SPEAKER_01 20:59

Yeah, no, I think you're right. Yeah, that was it was funny throughout. And that's yeah, that's hard. That's yeah, that's a big part of it. Because like some of them will have some funny scenes, and then it gets kind of, you know, that's what I mean. It gets a dull or just you know, nothing happens. It carries you. Yeah, and then you got something else, and it and it the timing, and just uh, yeah, some some movies are are uh it's hard to have all that through the whole thing. So that would be like a whole other category.

SPEAKER_02 21:24

Yeah, see, because it it's a movie that you could enjoy the movie and um enjoy the laughs, right? Right. Whereas airplane is just through come right at you, laughs, you know, come right at you, silliness, naked gun silliness.

SPEAKER_01 21:38

Yes, yes, the the zaniness.

SPEAKER_02 21:40

Yeah, and uh so we're gonna have to we're gonna have to, you know, we're gonna be wrapping it up soon, but um we're gonna have to sit down and uh come to uh categorize these things and come up with new lists. Because it's unfair to some of these movies, like we were just saying, to be compared to one another when they're totally different brands of comedy. Right. Right.

SPEAKER_01 22:00

Um right.

SPEAKER_02 22:02

Yeah, so we're gonna leave it at that. Uh thank you, Donnie D. You're welcome for your time. Um thank you for all who've listened. Uh hope you enjoyed the show. This is Tony Tone out with Triangular Voices. Thank you.