Freaky Pictures & Whacky Stuff !!

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events is not, one thinks, in the funny videos aisle. But it is considered black comedy, as is one of the best in funny videos for 2005. Especially, the subscript or subtext for the baby, Sunny Baudelaire, is some of the wryest “dialogue” this decade. Sunny’s grunts, representative utterances, or one-word invectives translate logically at times, with her “Hewenkewer [Helen Keller]” denoting she wants to see, but more laughable, her gibberish speaking for all: She tosses out a baby sound at Count Olaf, and the subtitle reads, “What a schmuck!” When the baby with the signature biting fixation is told to bite the head off a bobble-head doll in the car, she utters a gurgled syllable and the baby subtext reads, “Love to!” Sunny, baby-talking in between bites of Count Olaf is translated as “Back off, parrot-face!” and “I’ll bite higher!” And my favorites are her baby burbles translated to “Look it up, bookworm,” and—in response to a loony toons Aunt Josephine about to take in the displaced siblings, who are confronted with her paranoia, obsessive and neurotic fictional tales: Sunny goos and gas and is translated as saying first, in a pejorative uh-oh way, “Someone’s been to crazy town,” and—when continues—“She’s the mayor of crazy town!”
Chris Farley, in The Best of Chris Farley. Though if you watch it knowing it hurt him to play the token fat characters, his hysterical Chippendale wannabe, his Earl “in a van by the river,” and his fat high school girl stuffing her face sets will break your heart at the same time as they have you rewinding to ace with laughs all over again.
If you can get one skit on video, it’s the Goat Boy, created by Jim Breuer on SNL. I was lucky enough to video tape it one night, and no matter who I play it for, we laugh over and over and over. Uncanny.
If you can get them on video or DVD, the stand-up performances of Ellen Degeneres, Paula Poundstone, and Margaret Smith will have you assigning signature bits to your own life, as will the video performances of Louie Anderson. Unforgettable.
As sick as it might be to assert, Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction is also a flick that will have you laughing inappropriately and often.
SNL—Saturday Night Live. The original cast (aka the original SNL players) leaves us humor that is immeasurably unparalleled.
One character skit set on Mad TV: Stuart. Absolutely the best in funny impressions—of a kid and a Midwestern mom. Michael McDonald and Mo Collins should have been on SNL.
Any Seinfeld episode, every Seinfeld episode. All are at the top of the funniest videos of all time. Period.
Almost every Woody Allen, save Interiors, will have the intellectuals popping stuffed shirt buttons with laughter they can’t help but bust into.
George Carlin, Bill Cosby, and Bill Murray. Their stand-up, their comedies, their funny videos, their TV series. Find them. Get them. Watch them again and again. There will be no more war if we all do this.
Some of us are just now growing into Cary Grant’s funny videos, unable to get over the flip, tongue-in-cheek, sardonic lines, delivered in deadpan tones unequalled by anything except his beauty, lines such as “Come in; I don’t bite, you know…unless it’s called for;” or, after Hildy says another man treats her like a woman: “What did I treat you like? A water buffalo?”
Others of us are still hooked on The Marx Brothers and The Three Stooges and Charlie Chaplain, still others of us are re-playing the contemporary and brilliant gut-busters—The School of Rock and Shallow Hal; American Pie (the first one only), There’s Something about Mary [only the uncensored version—useless with the censoring], Meet the Fokkers, Fargo (dark), Ferris Beuller’s Day Off, and Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (with Wilder)
But regardless of subjective tastes, all of the above are clear contenders for the top 100 funniest, drollest, wryest, sickest works of all time.