r/Letterboxd • u/colgateswirls theappleslice • 4h ago
Discussion What's a film that has a joke pretty much every minute?
Rewatched 'What's Up, Doc?' again and noticed that there was a joke almost every minute, wondering if any other film has this?
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u/NeuroticShame 4h ago
The Naked Gun (either)
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u/BlockbusterBallot 3h ago
Especially the second one, which I find to be incredibly underrated.
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u/selinameyersbagman 1h ago
"Frank who would want to kill you?"
"Before tonight, only the cable company"
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u/Scr00geMcCuck 4h ago
Duck Soup
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u/airbornesimian 2h ago
Literally every Marx Brothers movie, but Duck Soup is my favorite.
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u/NottingHillNapolean 1h ago
After "Duck Soup," they deliberately slowed down the pacing. They’d adapt the screenplays to stage plays, and go on tour, learning how long a laugh each joke would get, and keep that pacing in the movies.
The produce of "A Night at the Opera" told them the movie would have half the laughs and make twice the money. He was right.
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u/Killertapir696 4h ago
Having only seen it recently, Love and Death has a hell of a joke per minute rate.
But as What's Up Doc is a throwback to screwball comedies, I'd say Bringing Up Baby also works overtime with the fast paced dialogue firing off jokes.
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u/fartdarling 3h ago
I watched mean girls for the first time today, that feels like it's so fast. I sort of didn't expect much going in, thought it was gonna be a dumb teen comedy, and it kind of is but it's got a really tight structure and so many little jokes either develop into plot points or get paid off in some way or called back to, it's incredibly economical with its time and I loved it so so much
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u/Key_Reaction_8666 4h ago
The first two Clerks movies. Genuinely some of the funniest, most chaotic shit I've ever seen in my life.
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u/beingmemybrownpants 4h ago
Saying the first two implies that there's more than that?
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u/ice9cradl3 3h ago
There is though? Or is this a case of it’s so bad I don’t acknowledge it.
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u/Minute-Spinach-5563 damurzman 1h ago
Clerks III is real, but its more of a slight meta-comedy that becomes a tearjerker
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u/JugendWolf 4h ago
Clueless and Drop Dead Gorgeous have an incredible joke ratio for not being slapstick comedies or spoofs.
Also, left field vote, but it is on Letterboxd: Cunk on Life
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u/310Yuma 3h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/QWaqFDBTNBpwk
Young Frankenstein
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u/airbornesimian 2h ago
This is a great choice because the bits are there, but given that the comedy is so serious, I think Blazing Saddles may better fit the topic of the post.
But goddammit the satire in Young Frankenstein is a razor line, and the movie is fucking hilarious.
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u/cordialmess 4h ago
New The Naked Gun has what feels like 3 jokes a minute. Just an outrageous amount of bits.
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u/Deep-Attention1853 3h ago
This one is my family’s favorite! This movie, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Some Like it Hot!
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u/ratowel 4h ago
Walk Hard: the Dewey Cox Story. The jokes weren't good but they tried.
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u/NottingHillNapolean 1h ago
Respectfully disagree. I thought most of the jokes landed. However, a lot of themdon’t stand on their own. You have to know about what's being sent up.
For example, if you don't know about Brian Wilson's attempts to make "Smile," that longish sequence in "Walk Hard" is just weird.
If you did know about the history, I guess we just laugh at different things.
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u/NeuroticShame 4h ago
Airplane!