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[Classic]

I was going to make a joke about how your friends were just worried about you falling off of the wagon but now I feel like I need to do some penance for even thinking that.

[Sharkey]

You're assuming I've ever been on a wagon. I don't even know what a wagon is. Unless it's one of those things with all the legs. You know, they hang out with those dark, broody guys... whatever those are they're an absolute hoot to ride. And then you're all "of course I have to grab them. How else am I supposed to steer?" Pedipalps or breasts or whatever those are.

You know, I was sure that whole crazy mess back there would be embarrassing when I sobered up, but nope. Apparently that shit's just normal.

Crazy twist ending: I was a shark-alien the whole time. I mean, they look indistinguishable from a certain cartoon rabbit, other than the absence of ears. Like a whatever-atog. All the same thing, really. Except one has ears. Also, I have Ebert bits stuck between my millions of fucking teeth and it's really annoying. Though at least they aren't those supermarket "Ebert bits" that don't really have any Ebert in them. Fuck, I don't know how they even get away with selling that stuff. Like the non-melting "cheese" made out of sawdust and puppy tears that you find in the dollar store and really, this is funnier if you can see the mime I'm doing along with it, especially the Drider-groping bit.

Yes, I do know what those are actually called, miraculously-talking-mangled-corpse-of-Ebert. I didn't even have to look it up. If I had a toothpick I'd show you who the nerd is, you... damn, this is getting really complicated to mime properly. I was already using double-claw-hands to be the teeth and how do I even do the toothpick now... maybe someone could just animate this part? Please?

I could ask Miyazaki for you.

... oh, fuck you, Ebert.

Christ, I think my insane-internal-monolgue key is stuck. It's like capslock for elaborate murder fantasies. Also, all the mime is really confusing the shit right out of my dog. She's wearing that old City of Heroes cape and holding a cricket bat in her mouth. "This is what you wanted, right? ... well, fuck it. I'mma just drop fudge on your laundry, then."

And now she's monopolizing the kitchen to make fudge. Goddamn collies. Too smart for their own good.

You know I'm just going to keep adding to this whenever I get bored, right?

Well, now I'm bored again. You ever notice how Robin Williams was way the fuck funnier when he was on coke? I probably need to get some coke. Speaking of, I'd like to add La Cage aux Folles to the list. Because he wasn't fucking in that.

Oh! That's what happened. Goodbye depression, hello mania! Time to get some actual shit done. Or just re-watch Jekyll. Hyde really likes that show for some reason.

Also, I've always loved Ebert and still do. It's just a huge pain in the ass when your heroes disappoint you.

... oh, no. Wait. They're called "women." It sounds just like "wagon." Two legs is lots, right?

[Bongo Bill]

I am too young to have lived through the 80s, but because I watched UHF, I feel like I know what it was like. Has any other movie so perfectly summarized a zeitgeist?

The Court Jester (1954) is one of my favorite comedies, though.

[Healy]

Wait, how old are you, Bill? Because I always imagined you were older than me.

[Bongo Bill]

Born late in 1988, I am one of the youngest members of this community.

[François]

I am simultaneously disappointed and relieved that this board's member list can't be sorted by stated profile age.

[Caithness]

The Fall's depiction of Charles Darwin is hilarious.
Strictly Ballroom is a childhood favorite.
What's that now, 7? I'll get to ten eventually.

[Brentai]

Duck Soup is the best Marx Brothers movie.

Just got around to it.  I'm disastrously unlearned about the Marxes, so it was pretty damned educational.  I know it's probably wrong, but I couldn't help but feel I was watching some of Python's comedic ancestry there; just that sense of non-stop irrelevance that characterizes that particular galaxy of humor.

[Beat Bandit]

The Fall's depiction of Charles Darwin is hilarious.

The Fall is a movie that was obviously the writer / director's pet project that turned out exactly like they were hoping, but feels totally lost on everyone else.

There's also the fact that the last twenty minutes (or the whole film outside of the story) are all about making you feel terrible.

[Thad]

Duck Soup is the best Marx Brothers movie.

Just got around to it.  I'm disastrously unlearned about the Marxes, so it was pretty damned educational.  I know it's probably wrong, but I couldn't help but feel I was watching some of Python's comedic ancestry there; just that sense of non-stop irrelevance that characterizes that particular galaxy of humor.

It's an interesting question.  I don't know how big the Marx Brothers and other Vaudeville/early-Hollywood-era acts were in England, but Terry Gilliam is American and I have to assume he saw a Marx Brothers movie or three in his youth.

He's cited Harvey Kurtzman (creator of Mad Magazine) as his mentor and biggest influence, of course, and that would be one more comedian in the early-twentieth-century Brooklyn Jew tradition (though the Marx Brothers were already performing as a troupe before Kurtzman was born).  There's some overlap in influences if nothing else.

[Caithness]

Tootsie also requires the DVD special feature.

Dustin Hoffman is probably my favorite actor.

[Thad]

I just watched The Muppet Movie and god damn it it is sharply written.

"I don't know how we should thank you!"
"I don't know WHY we should thank you!"

[Brentai]

All of the early Muppet movies are amazingly well written.  I hate giving too much credit to a single contributor, but I think Henson may actually deserve it.