Friday Night OT: Funniest Movies of the Last 15 Years
It's a Friday night and it's pretty quiet in mgoworld so I wanted to pose a question to the board: what are the funniest movies of the past 15 years? I have a theory that there hasn't been a truly great, classic comedy movie to come out in a loooong time. I believe this is likely because studios have gone away from comedies to emphasize big budget comic book movies that generate big box office returns. But it has certainly been a golden age of comedy TV.
My theory is that the vast majority of comedy classics were made in an era stretching from the late 70s to the early 2000s. BUT, that doesn't mean there haven't been great comedies to come out since then. And I'm always on the lookout for new ones. So what are your nominations for the best modern comedy classics (since 2007 -08)?
My favorites:
Step Brothers, Pineapple Express, MacGruber, Tropic Thunder, Bridesmaids, What We Do In the Shadows, They Came Together, Black Dynamite, Wanderlust, Sisters, Pop Star: Never Stop Never Stopping.
Honorable Mention: You Don't Mess With the Zohan, The Heat, Hunt for the Wilderpeople,The Dictator.
Discuss...
January 27th, 2023 at 10:12 PM ^
Just barely in the time frame but Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story is my favorite from the era.
* Edited because I misremembered the title, lol
January 27th, 2023 at 10:26 PM ^
I haven’t watched that movie in years but it’s such a fantastic movie. A lot of great, quotable lines.
AND YOU NEVER PAID FOR DRUGS!! NOT……ONCE.
January 27th, 2023 at 10:31 PM ^
2007. Also more than 15 years old.
Edit: just saw reference to 2008 in the main thread, so this is just under the wire. Dewey Cox and Bridesmaid saving the day.
January 27th, 2023 at 11:25 PM ^
BAD GRANDPA
January 28th, 2023 at 10:08 AM ^
This a million times. I could watch it every day. First time I watched it was in a flight at 7am. I was laughing so hard, got tons of dirty looks lol.
Also, Just Go With It is really really good.
January 27th, 2023 at 10:14 PM ^
It might be generational, but 21 Jump Street is a comedy classic to me. Easily my favorite comedy of the 2010s. This Is The End and Hot Rod also come to mind for the time period you mentioned. Editing again because I just remembered that every Jackass movie gets me dying laughing, but totally understandable if that's not your cup of tea.
January 27th, 2023 at 10:18 PM ^
Jump street was my first thought as well but I think 22 was even better than 21. I would also throw the Lego movie, the Grand Budapest Hotel and both Deadpool's into the ring although they all stretch the definition of a comedy movie a bit for different reasons
January 27th, 2023 at 10:39 PM ^
Lego Batman may be the best Batman movie I’ve ever seen
January 27th, 2023 at 10:14 PM ^
Clerks 2 and Clerks 3 were great if you're a Kevin Smith fanboy like me.
There has been a ton of hilarious tv shows over the last 15 years or so.
Eastbound and Down, Vice Principals, and The Righteous Gemstones if you're into Danny McBride.
Silicon Valley was another HBO show that was pretty funny. Mike Judge was the creator there I believe.
Bojack Horseman was really funny in an extremely dark way. Best look at Alcoholism and narcissistic behavior that I've ever seen.
January 27th, 2023 at 10:20 PM ^
There was a Clerks 3???
January 27th, 2023 at 10:25 PM ^
Just recently. It's not as good, but if you're invested in the characters, it's worth a watch. It's inspired by Kevin Smith's heart attack. If you watch his podcasts, he uses a lot of the lines from them.
January 27th, 2023 at 10:31 PM ^
I cried my goddamn eyes out watching Clerks 3.
It was a beautiful film
January 28th, 2023 at 10:12 AM ^
Well hello Kevin Smith. I didn’t realize you were such a huge M fan.
January 27th, 2023 at 10:29 PM ^
Yeah - TV comedy on the other hand has been great. A number of classic shows and series ran during this time: Key & Peele (obviously), 30 Rock, The Office, Parks & Rec, Broad City, Workaholics. And I'm a big David Wain/The State fan so I loved the Wet Hot American Summer series(es). And I did enjoy Eastbound & Down, that show cracked me up.
January 27th, 2023 at 10:46 PM ^
Second most of these, especially Key and Peele. Cool Story Bro time: I once met Keegan as his wife at the time was a dialect coach and was working on a Miley Cyrus movie in which they needed someone that spoke fluent French with an American accent and a mutual friend recommended me. Keegan is a Manchester United fan and I didn't kick him out of my home, that's how nice of a guy he is.
Also, very big plug for I Think You Should Leave. Another Detroit guy and one of the funniest sketch shows I've seen in forever, I actually re-watch it. So good.
January 27th, 2023 at 11:52 PM ^
So many good ones! It’s always sunny takes the cake for me. I’m a stalwart classic Simpson’s guy. The writing during its best period (seasons 3-9) while maintaining a family show feel is the best I can think of. Still laugh out loud hilarious now. It’s always sunny is maybe the only other show I can put up there with it. The other contenders would be the office and Seinfeld. Southpark is up there with Futurama being a wildcard as I love it so much but it’s not quite as consistent. Family Guy belongs somewhere up there too. I’m focusing shows that make me literally laugh out loud. A newer contender that I now love as well is Bobs Burgers. Which isn’t actually that new as it’s on its 13th season.
January 28th, 2023 at 7:43 AM ^
Username checks out
January 27th, 2023 at 10:19 PM ^
Office space, you’re my boy, old school, talladaga nights.
January 27th, 2023 at 10:21 PM ^
Hate to break it to you, but 1999 was more than 15 years ago, for office space. And so was 2003 for old school. And so was 2006, for talladega nights.
January 27th, 2023 at 10:26 PM ^
Strike one. Strike two. Strike three, your out!
January 28th, 2023 at 12:14 PM ^
I agree with you in the belief these are funnier than more recent comedies. i think the 80s through early 00s were the golden age of comedy, stand up and big screen. comedy will never be the same. if not for adult oriented cartoons like family guy and southpark there would be almost nothing intended to be funny worth watching. no one can laugh at themselves anymore, or handle laughter at their expense. unfortunate.
January 27th, 2023 at 10:20 PM ^
Superbad was pretty funny as it was spot on for my demographic and came out right after my high school years.
January 27th, 2023 at 10:23 PM ^
2007 was more than 15 years ago.
January 27th, 2023 at 10:25 PM ^
You must be fun at parties.
January 27th, 2023 at 10:29 PM ^
Im not being a buzzkill. It’s just funny that the general commenting group in this thread is so old (I’m on of them at 41) that “recent” funny movies are more than 15 years old.
January 27th, 2023 at 10:40 PM ^
Mib, you're really regulating this thread. But maybe it supports my theory: the last 15 years have been really dry for comedy!
January 27th, 2023 at 10:44 PM ^
Mount up. Also more than 15 years ago.
January 28th, 2023 at 12:08 AM ^
Same-ish age here, I think it’s more recently than 15 years. There’s still a lot of gems being brought up. I 100% agree there’s a lack of good comedies, just more like the last 5 years or so maybe. I was thinking about this as well recently and it almost seemed like the most recent funny movies to come out were marvel movies. Deadpool 2 (and 1) are hilarious, Thor Ragnarok and even the new one, the guardians movies are pretty comedic.
January 27th, 2023 at 11:00 PM ^
Gotcha. I'm recently 42 so I agree with your sentiment. But a grace period of a year or two is probably warranted.
January 27th, 2023 at 10:20 PM ^
I've seen Bridesmaids probably 10 times and I still laugh. So many taboos -- women literally losing their shit, for one. So many great scenes.
January 28th, 2023 at 2:16 AM ^
I can’t think of any remotely on Bridesmaids’ level.
For the time period limit by the OP, my runner up is The Big Sick followed by Un Cuento Chino and Forgetting Sarah Marshall (which only baaaarely makes the time cut). But Bridesmaids beats them all fairly easily.
Is The Peanut Butter Falcon a comedy? It was funny, and very good, but I would consider it more of a character-driven story that happened to be funny.
January 28th, 2023 at 11:50 AM ^
Forgetting Sarah Marshall for sure. Absolutely gem, hilarious and also just a good movie.
January 27th, 2023 at 10:23 PM ^
Humor is a fickle thing, but the things I've laughed the hardest at were "Dude, Where's my Car?", the EEAAO fight scenes, and various Rick and Morty episodes.
Idiocracy has become a classic, but for the wrong reasons.
Every now and then I catch a rerun of Cheers and laugh at things that no one would dare put on TV today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmSuRT4fSqQ
January 27th, 2023 at 10:24 PM ^
Both older than 15 years ago. We are all really old!!!
January 28th, 2023 at 12:18 AM ^
If I went by the movie(s) that I laughed out loud the hardest at on first view it would be something like; Borat, Scary Movie, Jay and Silent Bob strike back. You can probably guess pretty close to my age from that.
January 27th, 2023 at 10:24 PM ^
Without repeating others, Strange Wilderness.
January 27th, 2023 at 10:24 PM ^
The Hangover, et al.
Wedding Crashers.
January 27th, 2023 at 10:26 PM ^
1/2. Wedding crashers is more than 15 years old. This is a depressing thread that most of the funny movies referenced are more than 15 years old.
January 28th, 2023 at 10:52 AM ^
Jesus boots...shut up already!
January 28th, 2023 at 12:23 AM ^
Hangover came out in June of '09, so it does make it in the 15 year window, wow coming up to 14 years. Michigan football was a hot mess back then. The time is really flying by!
January 28th, 2023 at 1:05 AM ^
Those are the first and after a long thought, only 2 that came to mind at first. Shocked Wedding Crashers is turning 18 this year.
January 28th, 2023 at 1:41 PM ^
The second half of Wedding Crashers is just depressing with Owen Wilson's depression bullshit. Could have done without 2/3rds of that BS, shortened the movie a bit, and had an even better movie. Vince Vaughn made that film, Owen Wilson almost destroyed it.
(The character - Owen Wilson is a pretty good actor, if only a one trick pony...)
January 29th, 2023 at 10:58 AM ^
But that is what drives him to Chazz. Epic...Ma, the meatloaf...what is she doing I never know what she is doing? Funerals!
Brad Cooper goes from Neidemeyer-like proportions here to the cool one in the Hangover.
January 27th, 2023 at 10:30 PM ^
I dont think most people liked the movie....But there was a scene in CHIPs that I laughed harder and longer at than almost ever.
January 27th, 2023 at 10:38 PM ^
Both CHIPS and Baywatch had a few really funny gags, despite the overall lameness of the concepts.
January 27th, 2023 at 10:30 PM ^
Napoleon Dynamite is a classic
January 27th, 2023 at 10:33 PM ^
2004. Were there any funny movies in the last 15 years! I’m struggling, too, to think of any!!
January 27th, 2023 at 10:39 PM ^
I feel like that’s a movie where you love it or hate it. I’m not sure I hated it, but I was definitely in the category where I came out the other side and just said to myself “I don’t get it. I don’t get what all the hype is about.”
I just found it stupid, and not in a funny way. Just “stupid kind of stupid,” Maybe I’d sing a different tune if I watched it again, but I’m not in a rush to see it again.
January 28th, 2023 at 12:37 AM ^
Watch it again. Preferably with someone who hasn't seen it before. It hits very differently.
January 28th, 2023 at 1:37 PM ^
Watched it, fell asleep for half of it and didn't miss a thing. Dumbest movie ever made.