Five of the Funniest Movies Ever Made

Everyone enjoys a good laugh from time to time. If you are not blessed to be surrounded by funny people, you will need to get your comedy fix elsewhere. Nowhere can this be found more easily than in the movies. The following is a list of five of the funniest movies ever made.

Drop Dead Gorgeous
 
It may require a certain sense of humor to truly appreciate this movie. If you are quick witted, and enjoy humor that is a tad on the dark side, you will love this movie. The movie is about a small town beauty pageant, and stars Kirsten Dunst, Ellen Barkin, Kirstie Alley, and Denise Richards. I am not sure that there has ever been a movie that made me laugh out loud more times that Drop Dead Gorgeous, and this is definitely one of the funniest movies ever made.

House of 1,000 Corpses
 
Fans of both horror and crude humor will love House of 1,000 Corpses. The set up is the typical teens in trouble, and of course, going to be killed. What sets this movie apart from the typical teen horror flick, and makes it one of the funniest movies ever made, is the psycho clown, and his extremely crude humor. This is not a movie to watch with the children, as it contains lots of cursing and sexual references.



National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
 
Is there anything better than a hilarious Christmas movie? Any of the Vacation movies could easily make this list, however, this is considered by many to be the funniest movie of the series. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is the story of Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) and his slightly odd family spending the holidays together. Cousin Eddie (Randy Quaid) has to be one of the funniest characters of all time. This movie offers plenty of laugh out loud moments, and has become a must see movie every December.

Don't Be A Menace
 
The full title is actually Don't Be A Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice In the Hood. Again, not a movie to watch with the kids, but I laughed until I literally cried while watching this spoof of popular gang and urban culture movies. If you have not watched movies such as Boyz n the Hood, you may not find this quite as funny as others. Though I suspect even if you never watched even one of the movies that Don't Be a Menace spoofs, you will still find plenty of laughs here.

Elf
 
Yes, I realize there are two Christmas comedies on this list of the funniest movies ever made, but this movie is Will Ferrel at this best! This is silly humor, and is also humor that is timeless. I could watch this movie over and over again and still be laughing. Elf is the story of Buddy the Elf. Buddy leaves the North Pole in search of this father in New York City. His travels and experiences are quite out of the ordinary, and make for big laughs.


There you have it. Five of the funniest movies ever made. Humor is subjective, but the chances that you will get big laughs from one, or more, of the movies on this list are good. Most, if not all, of these movies should be available on Netflix or Hulu, so get busy watching and laughing!