Best 80s Comedy Movies, Ranked

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Hey y'all, welcome to Pastimes at 80s High. Got another great episode for you today. We're going to do our top seven comedy movies from the 1980s. Uh, this is gonna be, you know, after this one, we're gonna narrow it down and get into some sub-genres because we realized how incredibly impossible this is. But we're running with it anyway, and these are our favorites today, I shall say, because they can change by the minute. And I'm here with Donnie, Kevin, and Mark. How are you doing, boys? Excellent. Hello. I'm doing good. Excellent. All right, and just to not waste any time, we're gonna give Mark the honors today, and we're gonna get going right on the list.

All right, boys. Uh my number seven choice is Teen Wolf from 1985, directed by Rob Daniel. Uh Michael J. Fox stars in this film. Uh he plays Scott Howard. I don't know if he's related to the Three Stooges or not, but but anyway, uh this movie is I mean, you know, he he uh is kind of a nerdy kid. He he's on the basketball team, not very good. And well, he doesn't know the secret that his dad has kept from him and that he's actually a werewolf, for God's sakes. The guy's a werewolf. Spoiler alert. All right, well, you know what? If you haven't seen the movie, it's from 1985. We're talking what? 40 years from 39 years ago. So I'm not worried about spoiler alerts.

So a little sarcasm remark.

Oh, oh, okay. Well, anyway, well, thank you very much. Um, uh so he becomes a werewolf and he's out on the basketball court and he turns into that, and everyone's like incredibly stunned, obviously. And next thing you know, he's out there slam dunking all over the place, and his teammates are scared. He says, Come on, boys, and all of a sudden the place is nuts. He's the big man on campus, he's he's breaking out all the moves on the dance floor. And uh after a while, they get a little tired of him. You know, his head gets too big for his britches, if you will. He gets too cocky, and uh, well, you know what? We're I I don't remember if this if this was the championship game. It's hard to find these things. Anyway, he plays as a human being in his in the last game of the year, and he makes the shots at the end and they win. And you know what? It was a happy ending. I don't know what he's gonna do with his werewolfness.

Um moral of the story is just be yourself. Yes, yeah.

So I that's my number seven pick, and I really enjoyed it. And uh well, there we go.

And that one didn't even show up on my my search, but what a great movie it was, and that's where we all learned the safeness of van surfing.

Yes, yes, yes.

Urban surfing was uh good highly recommended back in the day and a good time. Anyway, what a great pick, Mark. And I just can't move to mine without saying this. The most spectacular thing about that entire movie to me is Styles with his shirt saying, What are you looking at, dick nose? Yes, I think we need to print those up a little line. So, number seven in me, and I could not leave this off my list. I don't even know if anyone will know this movie, but it's very important in me, and it's from 1987, and the movie's called Can't Buy Me Love. Um, what do you? My my buddy's laughing at me. I I watched it last weekend. Oh, nice, nice. It's just one of my all-time favorites coming of age, you know, geek to chic, and just I don't know, it's a feel-good movie that just at the time in my life I enjoyed watching it, and I watched it over and over, and there's some great acting in it, and just that's where we see Seth Green for the first time, right? Right, the younger brother, and God, I forget the guy's name, the red Malachi from Children of the Corn. Also uh hard bodies, yes, yes, yes, and you know, you shit on my house, and just it's you know, everything about it to me, it was just such a you know, unbelievable thing. And but anyway, so I just couldn't leave it out, and I had to leave out so many friggin' movies on this list, but that one I couldn't, it's just really important to me. So I will go number seven to you, Donald.

Thank you, and I I like that that you chose something that was really near and dear to you. Yes, so I my first pick um was in 1984, and doing some research for this, 1984 seemed to have been one of the greatest uh years in comedy. I mean, it was just amazing. There was a ton of questions, but I'm going with Revenge of the Nerds. Yes, indeed, indeed. I mean, I there were so many funny scenes. Like I went with the the comedies that made me laugh out loud. And there's a lot of funny comedies that you you kind of giggle at, and it's a good story, but these like make you laugh out loud. Yeah, right. Revenge of the nerds was one of them with you know, so many one-liners like pan down, pan down. We've got Bush. You know, and anybody who's ever grown up as kind of a nerd, you know, kind of related to.

I wouldn't have any idea what that is.

So for me. And John Goodman in the in the locker room speech, you just got your asses beat by a bunch of goddamn nerds. Nerds!

Nerds! Well, look at you now. You just got your asses whipped by a bunch of goddamn nerds. Is it was it the first one at the end with the nerd?

Spectacular. The nerd is with the hot blonde that's doing the kissing machine thing, and all this kissing is making me horny. And then the nerd goes in and and bangs her. Yep, and he's pretty damn good. Nerd's beating the jocks. All the jocks ever do is think about sports. All we ever think about is sex. And she stayed with him and jumped the friggin' snob. Yeah, thank you.

Ogre, the booger. So many great characters. Lamar? Lamar. And the man on the mic, that's me, Lamar. With his like uh, you know, he created his javelin.

Right. He's the one that did all the sounds, right?

All right. So where are we here? Number seven to you, Kevin.

Seven. Uh all right. Well, this is nobody's probably ever heard of this movie, but I grabbed it for really its longevity and its relatability because it's something that we've all experienced and continue to experience every year. Uh, that would be 1989's National Lampoons Christmas Vacation.

Of course.

Because it's well, like Donnie said, the movies that just made you laugh out loud. And some of these movies, like Revenge of the Nerds, do you watch Revenge of the Nerds every year? I'm not shitting on Revenge of the Nerds, but you're I mean, literally, I look forward to every Christmas when I'm wrapping Christmas presents, and you know, it's on every channel over and over again. But I'll put it on and I'll start, I'll start wrapping presents. And we get to the part where he's in the department store and the woman's showing him how her panties don't have any lines, and he's just being Chevy Chase, and he's like, and and Rusty walks up, he's like, see Rusty, no lines, and it just like breaks me up every time.

You're right. That's an every year movie. Oh, yeah. Every year you kind of find something new that you exactly. It's like, oh my god, I didn't catch that. And it's like I've watched it 10 times. Yes, yeah. But uh I love the part when he's at his his business and he's shaking everybody's hands like Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, kiss my ass.

What a great part.

That's a huge tree, Griswold. What are you gonna do with a tree that size?

I mean, I'll end over shitters full and everything.

There's an RV. The neighbors with Elaine from Seinfeld. And when I mean, you know what? I won't say anymore just in case someone has it. But oh great movie. All right, so we are up to number six for you, brother.

All right, uh, this movie, you guys all know what it's called. This is Spinal Tap. Oh these go to 11. Yeah, it's produced by well, I know him as Meathead. His real name is Rob Reiner. Not throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Uh, he this was a great, great movie. Uh with Christopher. One of his classics. Christopher guest, Michael McKeon, Harry Shearer. One of the guys was from Laverne and Shirley, if I remember. Michael McKeon. Michael McKean, yes, Michael McGill. Glenny. So, but I mean, there was I I felt bad for the drummers because it was a it was a suicide pact to become a drummer for this band.

And it it's just choked on his own vomit. Well, you can't prove that it's his own vomit. You can't you can't dust for vomit, can you?

Yeah, but I I I always felt bad for their you know, their food. Everything was folded. Folded. Look at this. This is so small. You have to fold it.

What a great movie, man.

Yeah, so I mean, yeah. It was a fun band, too. And Donnie, I don't know if you recall, like we were going to some show in Salisbury, Massachusetts, and there was a flyer up for Spinal Tap coming to play there. And I don't recall what that meant. If that was just a band that was like a tribute band. Yeah, like a tribute band, probably, yeah. But they didn't they weren't they did release an album, didn't they?

They released a couple of albums, and honestly, the musicianship from those guys was the key and especially. They were real musicians. Very talented musicians, so is Harry Shearer, um, and and Christopher Guest. Yeah, absolutely. All very talented musicians in in many different musical genres as well.

Yes. Oh, what a great pick, man. What a classic. And they are in fact releasing a sequel next year. I heard that. Allegedly. Allegedly. Allegedly. But uh the head, is it headstone? Am I saying that right? Stonehenge? Thank you. I got it. Oh, when it came from the stone.

When that comes down and it's in danger of being trampled by a dwarf.

I remember those kinds of things.

You clearly wrote here 12 inches, 12 feet.

Oh, that was awesome. All right, great pick. Number six to me. I'm going to 1986, and I am going with back to school. All right.

Great one.

Yeah. Roger Dangerfield. Um Sam Kinison in this, just uh Robert Downey Jr., Derek Lutz. Yeah. And what's his name, man? Burt Young. Oh, Lou. Girls, this is Lou. Lou? These are girls. Just what a classic movie about, you know, him going to college with his son. His son, of course, hates it like any kid would hate his father being around. But, you know, you got Billy Zabka as the dickhead jock. He was perfect in those days. I mean, I can't. I got a cramp.

One of my favorite scenes.

A really bad cramp.

Was Sam Kinnison. Is he right? Is he right? Because I was up to my knees. In Rice Paddies.

Slug it again. Slug it again again. Well, pussies like you. Listen to the Beatles album. Alright, I'll say it. Listen to the goddarn Beatles albums.

Truman was too much of a pussy. Yeah.

And he loved him after that. Yeah. Good answer. Good answer. What a great friggin' movie. All right.

She's going to help me straight on my lung, fella.

Yeah, that's on my list. I didn't say it. Teacher. Very powerful.

Scuba diving in the hot tub. What are you doing on Tuesday? You want to go out? I can't go out on Tuesday. I got class. What about Wednesday? I can't go out on Wednesday. I got class. Hey, call me when you ain't got no class.

Exactly. All right.

Number six, to you, dongo. Oh, it's me. All right. So number six is I'm going to 1980 and kind of like the beginning of a genre of movies. Airplane. The slap stack, slapstick type of movies, um, just over-the-top comedy. I mean, airplane had it all. A comedy that probably wouldn't be okay today, but back then it was, you know, very funny. Like, excuse me, I speak jive. Oh, yeah. Don't no no mofo shit. Golly.

She. And when they said she, it said golly in the subtitle. Yeah.

Have you ever seen The Grown Man Naked?

This is gonna be great because I have a feeling that multiple people, multiple people may have this one, and the quotes will be endless.

I need you to come up to the cockpit. What is it? It's a small room where the pilot sits, but that's not important right now.

Yeah. Oh, Donnie. Classic pick. Yeah. So do you, Kev?

All right. So my number six, and again, we're talking about what's appropriate these days, and I struggled because this is somebody whose actions in the last 20 or 30 years that have been revealed, uh, I don't agree with. But how I rationalized it is that I got enjoyment from what he did, so it was part of my life, and the fact that he is a freak doesn't matter.

You can appreciate it.

Woody Allen don't agree with who he is and what he's done, but at the time we were unaware of that. He made a movie uh back in 1983 called Zelig. And so many people missed it. It was including me. Right. You always come up with a good like I gotta check that out. Thank you. I think you should because it's it's an interesting if you can find it anywhere. The basic synopsis of the movie is that he is, and and I think we can all relate to it a little bit. Um he's a character it's done in the form of like a 20s newsreel about this character that literally changes into the dynamic characters that he meets. So like one of the one of the at the beginning of it, he's talking to like some some Bostonian blue bloods and starts talking like them and then starts looking like them. And then the guy that's observing him sees him in the kitchen talking to the help, and he starts turning into them to the point where where at like as the movie progresses, he like will be talking to somebody who's very much overweight, and he literally becomes larger. So he basically is a chameleon, like a chameleon is the exact word, but I think we all do that because we all have groups of friends, groups of people, yeah, whatever social aspect that we're or situation that we're in, we always kind of shoot ourselves, or at least anybody with any self-awareness.

If someone's talking in an accent, I will start to be able to do that. I absolutely do the same thing.

Absolutely do the same thing. That's why with all that was out there for these movies, I saw this one come up in '83 and I just remembered it. It's been years since I've seen it, but I just remember that being just brilliance on his part.

And and something you said, like Woody Allen, you know, you have to separate the man from the art.

And there's so many kind of like I did with Rob Reiner, right? Right.

And there's so many like Michael Jackson, um, Bill Cosby. That you can the list goes on of people that maybe had less moral character, but their art was, you know, you have to appreciate the art.

And I guess that's how it comes to because that was, even though it was something they created, it was about my experience with that, not about who that individual was, because obviously I disagree with that.

Awesome.

Yeah, something you have to separate. But definitely if you can find it anywhere, I would highly recommend checking out that movie because it's it's just Zelig. Z-E-L-I-G.

Nice okay awesome pick, man. I can't wait to see that. Because Woody Allen has millions, millions, millions of movies watching. Great. All right, where are we? Number five, number five, Mark.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Caddyshack 1980. Um great movie. Um, great cast. You got uh Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Murray, Michael Keefe, Ted Knight. Unbelievable movie. Yeah. In fact, uh, you know, dad was when in his last days, um, when we were playing pool, he would be going no no no no no no.

Every shot. See the ball, Danny?

Like, I have a mole that is terrorizing my lawn. And every time I go after that little bastard, I'm like, I'm gonna get that gopher. I'm gonna get that gopher.

That son of a car! I need you to kill all the golfers.

Well, my my wife killed the golfers, sir. Loves that part when you know they they bring on the who did that song, I'm all right.

Uh Kenny Loggins.

Kenny Loggins, yeah. Yeah, and uh, what is it?

Uh it's the gopher, the dancing dancing.

Just kicking Bill Murray's ass and everything. And love it when Ted Knight was out playing golf, having the night of his life or the day of his life, and just and of course, uh I've had better food at the ballpark.

Tell the chef this is low-grade dog food.

I love dog food building. What a great now. I know where tigers eat their young. That might be picked by the no one else will pick that at all. Oh, sure. So I'm gonna not go too much further than that.

So awesome. Well, I'm gonna lead off with saying that that was my hardest removal. I did remove it from my list. Yes, this is a spoil a spoiler alert, but God, what a great movie, and such a difficult thing for me to leave out. Another thing dad used to always say was take drugs, Danny? Yeah, yes, sir. Every day? Yes, sir. Good. Uh yeah, we did that a lot. Oh, a classic. All right. So, number five to me, and here's one that I know the two of you know, Kevin and Donnie, because you and I watched it, Donnie, and I showed it to Kevin a few years back. Most people probably don't recall it. It's 1984, and it's a movie called Night Patrol. And it is one of the dumbest fucking movies that you've ever seen in your life. It had Linda Blair in it, you know, the girl from The Exorcist, and just it was your mother sucks cocks in hell.

The poor woman pigeonholed after that. Jesus. Oh, yeah, the girl from with the demon.

They they absolutely play off that in this movie, but I meant to I meant to lead off with pretending it was a Superman movie because her name was Sue Perman. Uh, one of my favorite lines in that movie was always, What are you doing with your thumb on my steak? I didn't want to drop it again. Then he comes out with the guy's soup, and he's got his thumb in the soup, and he's like, What the hell are you doing with your thumb in my soup? And he said, My doctor, I got an infection. My doctor told me to keep it warm. And he says, Well, why don't you go stick that thumb up your ass? And he goes, I do that when I'm back to the kitchen. Oh, I do remember this room. Yes, and one more thing, just because I don't think anyone else is gonna have this pick, but just the little uh the the chief of police was a little person and he was friggin' hilarious. He's always saying, Are you calling me a liar? And he farting, he's always farting. And he just when he's talking to superman, he's like, I'm tired of your crap. I don't I don't want any more of your crap tonight, crap tonight. And she's like, Oh, I'm feeling Week. It's just such a it there's so many.

I haven't seen it on one of those comedies that you know flew under the radar, but it's got some pretty funny stuff. Yeah, it's non-stop laughter, highbrow comedy. Yeah, absolutely. All right, dungo, number five to you. Number five to me is one that's just a you know classic, love it. You know, kids banding together doing stuff, and it was the Goonies. Yes. I love the Goonies, uh, classic, you know, with the you know, all the people that were you know going to find the gold and all that stuff and the pirates, and it was fun. It was a fun movie.

It was a chunk. I love chunk fun, fun movie. Yeah, I struggled with it too. Coppletop was kind of scary though, wasn't he? Chester Coppel Coppelpot? Copplepot. Coplepot, whatever. He was. He had one eye. One-eyed Willie. Oh, one-eyed Willie. No, Chester Coppelpot was the guy trying to find him originally, right? Yes.

One-eyed Willie was the pirate.

But that's the movie we go back to and we think of riding our bikes around as kids and just living life and not being fucking scared of leaving our house. Doing adventures, you know, doing adventures with a classic man. Awesome pick, Donnie. Awesome. All right. Number five to you, Kev.

My name is Inel Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. Prepare to die.

Awesome.

Um, much like, and and it's and I was thinking about this today. Much like Mark, um, I have serious, serious disagreements with Meathead. Um, but he has directed some of the greatest movies ever. So I will give him credit where credit is due. Princess Bride, I think if you had to pick a perfect movie, I I I'd say it's pretty damn close because I mean there's humor, there's adventure, there's all of it is in there. The way that the story is told, you know, the grandfather reading the kid, so it's so relatable. Are they gonna kiss again? To the kid going, Fred Savage. You're not gonna finish it. Yeah, very young Fred Savage. Andrew Andre the Giant. Andre the Giant.

Billy Crystal.

I mean, who was originally Andre Andre. So he this is this is amazing. So they wanted Andre the Giant for the movie. He had a wrestling match in Japan, I think. So the wrestling corporation WWF.

Well, you know, that these wrestlers have tours of the Orient all the time.

Well, yeah, but it was like a five million dollar gig, and they said he couldn't do it. The match ended up getting cancelled, he was available to do it. The other option was originally Schwarzenegger for that role.

Interesting.

And one of the people that auditioned for Buttercup, Whoopi Goldberg.

Oh, God.

Can you imagine that? Can you imagine? I I mean it's just amazing. And the crazy thing was, it was a week before they started filming, Robin Wright was somehow discovered. They were sitting around, she came to the door of the house, the they were with the author of the original book that was adapting it for film. The door opened up, the sun was shining behind her, and they were all like, It's Princess Buttercob, it's it's her. It's it's it's Robin Wright.

Sobey Goldberg's pretty damn funny, but Andy Packen was my favorite in the city. Andy Patankin, yes. And I didn't know that was him until years later. You know, go back to the beginning. Like, what was he on, like uh criminal minds or something like that? Oh, yeah, yeah. He was a great actor. Yep. And he was on um what was the one where he was like a CIA guy that was on uh he's been in a lot of his career changed quite drastically from what that was.

But he did his his mainstay. He was awesome in that. Right, but his mainstay was was theater. Yeah, I mean that's where he came from, and he it was he was big on that. Perfect for that movie, too. I do not think that word means what you think it means. Story roop, slow going.

And when he's like fighting with them and he's like, bumping him up the cliff. That's one of the best scenes ever.

I would wait.

Right. Homeland, that's the show I've got. Homeland, what a great freaking show.

Wallace Sean also was incredible that in as fezick, you know. Yes, inconceivable just gonna be inconceivable. I uh I I wouldn't, you know, I would not put the poison in front of myself because I am Sicilian. Melodge! That's a great culture stuff, yeah. Your logic is dizzying, sir.

So where are we now? I forget. Are we four to four to me? Four to mark. Four to mark.

Okay, my movie, which many would consider to be a sci-fi movie, um, but I don't think you can have a personate with the name Biff and not be a comedy. It is Back to the Future, also classic. Also starring Michael J. Fox with Christopher Lloyd, very funny man, and Leah Thompson. And uh this movie, as we know, it it they go back to the past. You know, the the movie starts with a big white van with all these terrorists in it, and white vans, my my uh daughter she calls them creeper vans. Yes, yeah.

I was thrown in one if you remember, Mark. But go on.

So anyway, so they go back to the past, and of course he ends up, his mother finds him very dreamy and uh dream dreamy, and you know, he's freaked out about it. Just a great movie. I wanted to watch it last night. I don't have all the best memories of it, but but it's just class a great, great film, and um obviously Biff loses in the end. And uh I I love what's that port for Biff, yeah. I love I love Ignitowski. Oh my god. Star Child spelled backwards.

One of the greatest actors of all time in my comedy actors, it's not true, but from Taxi.

Yeah, why did you pick Ignitowski for your names? It's Star Child spelled backwards. No, it's not, Jim. Oh.

But what a great scientist. Unbelievable. He was so smart, his hair just shot everywhere. So but awesome. But yeah, it's me and Kevin were saying we're really having trouble finding these movies without having so many. Yeah, and but to narrow them down to no, but to even find them, to watch them again to refresh so we could have more information. A lot of the the you know, the streaming services, they had nothing.

Yeah, well, we have cable, we have all the apps, and then when you go to watch it on the app, you gotta rent the movie. It's friggin' ridiculous nowadays. Yeah, anything of any quality. Yes, it's it's boy, do they got us by the balls. All right, by the short hit. The cohonies, number four to me, 1983. Feeling good, Billy Ray. Looking good, Lewis, and that would be Trading Places. Um, one of my favorite comedies of all time, Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Mortimer, and Randolph Duke just doing the most amazing switch of all times, trying to take the poor man and put him in the rich man's shoes, and vice versa, and what a cast they had to do this. Just one of the greatest movies of all time, in my opinion. I won't go too in depth on it because I think everyone loves it, but just one of my favorite lines in the movie is when they ask Eddie Murphy, they say, I assume you're from a broken home. And he just says, Yeah, it was broke, so what? Anyway, just an incredible, incredible movie. They're showing him how to, you know, work the stock market with pork belly and you know orange juice. Bacon, you know, orange juice.

When they brought you in here, you was crying like a pussy.

Yeah. So where's your limo?

My limousine is out front, but you wouldn't understand that. It's outside with my bitches.

All right, Donald. I'll leave that one alone and go number four to you.

Number four, again, like I said, 1984 was the greatest year in comedy is Bachelor Party. Uh Tom Hanks. Um, it was a movie that he probably would deny that he was in now. He's been in so many big, you know, blockbuster movies. He was including Big Body. Hilarious. It was a great movie. Had Tanya Katane, who was smoking hot. Tanya Katane. Yeah. And it just had so many classic one-liners and a funny bunch of dudes doing a bachelor party for their for their friend that's gonna get married. And it, you know, it starts off as kind of a lame party, and then it turns into a huge, huge party. And of course, there's always the nemesis, the the ex-boyfriend that wants to win her back, and the rich dad. And it was so but uh there was a lot of classic lines. We're gonna have a bachelor party with chicks and guns and fire trucks.

Awesome pick, Don. So, number 40, you, Kev.

All right, well, you can all get mad at me right now, you fight again bastages. Because I am taking Johnny dangerously. Yeah, classic. One of the funniest movies ever in history. Quotable, hilarious. Oh, yeah. Again, every time you watch it, you pick up something else.

I wouldn't have tried to watch it yesterday and I couldn't find it. Couldn't even pay for it.

Couldn't even pay for it. Sorry. Just like again, you you you every time you watch it, you pick something up. His his mother, Ma Hilarious. Looking at looking at uh Mary Lou Henner. Uh now that you're part of the family, it's time I can tell you. I go both ways. It's like that on top of all the Roman Moroni.

Roman is my favorite.

And that was now that's another one. Talk about directors that had stellar movies. Um that was Amy Heckerling, who also did Fast Times at Ridge Montreal. Which I mean, two solid, solid movies from that era. Um but just and and the and the crazy thing about Johnny Dangerously, I'm sure you've all run into this. A lot of people look at you and say, What?

I know.

They've never seen it on any.

Because they can't get it on any it's a cult classic.

Yeah. Yep. Absolutely fantastic movie.

Gunsage.

Oh my gosh. Great, great pick, Kevin. So where are we? I got number three. Oh, oh, Mark, you're starting. That's right. So number three to you, brother.

All right, this has already been picked. It's airplane. Nice. Um, you know, a couple of my favorite parts are when Karim Abdul Jabbar, formerly known as Lou Alcinder, was getting harassed by this kid. I'm not him. I'm not finally. Right. What do you think? You try to get my ass up there every going up and down the court with Bob Lanier and Dave Cowins or whatever he was saying. I that wasn't a good uh good imitation.

But you try getting out there, yeah. That was one of the greatest scenes of all.

And I I really uh I mean, the part with the uh girl was playing the guitar and the guy, or the I mean the other person just with pulling the IV out of the thing going into her heart and everything. And then I really felt bad for what was it who played was it Peter Graves that played the Yes, yes, yeah. Well, he had a huge drinking problem. He just could not get that liquid down his throat. And the poor guy there who he just yeah, and then cross positions, everyone. The poor guy that every you know, the wrong week to quit this and that, you know, sniffing glue. Wrong week to sniff glue, or to quit sniffing glue, and yeah.

So but yeah, you you we've bridges the father, he's Lloyd is just he's a perfect comedic actor. Absolutely.

What do you make of this? I can make a hat, I can make a boat. But if just so many one-liners and just oh yeah, countless, yeah, yeah. So funny thing is, I remember that um I did mention it to AJ, and I don't know if either of you have, but that movie was a spoof of a 50s serious movie called Zero Hour. Yeah, it was a disaster movie, right? Exactly. If you get the chance, I mean it's not the greatest movie in the world, but watching that movie, you see where they took all the pieces. The drinking problem. Interesting, the the woman panicking on the plane. Um, there's so many. I mean, the whole thing about him with his, you know, with his squad going down, you know, at the beginning of it, where you can't even take it. His name is Stryker. Yeah, his name is Stryker in the original one. And so you sit there and you laugh hysterically at a very serious disaster movie.

Speaking of disaster movies, the 70s were just loaded with disaster movies.

The Poseidon adventure. Yeah, yeah. But airport, I mean, I what could be more dangerous than being upside on a upside down in a boat with Shelly Winters?

I mean, right. But I love that scene when they're like, get a hold of yourself or the girl, and they smack, which again, we do not condone domestic violence in any way. If a broad hits me, I hit her back. That's they deserve it. Was classic because she's like freaking out and they're like, get a hold of yourself, slap. But that's where they line up. Nobody would do that with like baseball bats and maces and boxing gloves.

I love it when the guy stabs himself in his stomach with his sword. The Japanese guy.

Yeah. This man needs a hospital. What is it? It's a large building with lots of sick people in it, but that's not important right now. So where are we here?

You go never four to you, brother. No, three. Three, I meant. All right. So I don't know.

Four and three are close. Yeah. All right. Well, number three to me, you fagging sneaky bastards who already wouldn't shut up about it. Is Johnny Dangerously one of the funniest fucking movies I've ever seen in my life, as Kevin has already said. We still got more wheels. Oh, we have endless lines, which is just, you know, I think of Dom Deleuze as the Pope, just with him handing over money. And just Roman Moroney is just the perfect character in this movie, and half the lines that my friends and I speak to each other, including this group here, throughout our lives. I mean, I there's not a text that I don't lead off to Donnie or Kevin and say, hello, Iceholes, or hello, bastages. You corksuckers. That's the other one I find busting my bells. But his courtroom speech is just impeccable. With what I would like to address the honorable members of the panel, and he's like, Dear bastages, you have violated my finding rights, and it's just spectacular. And then you have the mouth on that guy. Then you have, and that's Dick Butkiss. Yeah. Dick Butkiss. Yep. The moroni gang, you know. Another one to me is when the priest is well, pretending to be a priest and breaking Johnny out of jail towards the end. Yeah. And just everything he says, like, when's the next bus? Just the stupid fucking things. But anyway, a classic, very, very close to my top here. And it's part of my life. Joe Piscopol.

I mean, he's in there too. My mother hung me on a hook once. Once. Once.

I can't believe I forgot to talk about Joe. Incredible character.

That's Vermin.

Vermin. Danny Vermin. Danny Vermin. Or I mean, fucking Peter Boyle. I'm standing here with my freaking duck.

I'm standing here with my dog.

Oh, there you are, you bald-headed beauty.

Yes. Incredible.

My wife used to be beautiful. Now she looks like him.

That's another great line right there. And the guy she points he points at is just like slobinly Italian guy. All right. Number three to you, Dongo.

All right. Number three to me again is a 1984 year release date. And again, it's the greatest year in comedy movies, in my opinion. Uh, is Police Academy.

Ah yes, I'm so happy you picked it because I removed it.

Because there's a series of there's a series of them, but the first one is by far the best. And you know, I just second one's pretty close. Like I'm I'm uh I love doing sound effects, and the guy in that movie Oh, he was awesome. You know, I I do I did a lot of sound effects. Yeah, he was a cat going.

What are you not? I'm a vegetarian. I'm a vegetarian.

Just a classic movie, you know. Um incredible movie. You know, them setting up this two guys to go to a, you know, they cut unexpectedly into a bar they didn't expect to be into. Oh, is that the blue oyster? The blue oyster bar.

Did that somehow go down in history? Gay bikers are in there, right?

Yeah. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Number three, we've done already, but we'll do it again. And again, probably. And again, again and again. Again, one of one of the absolute funniest movies. And as Donald has pointed out, 1984 was just a stellar year for comedy. But another one from the much maligned Meathead. This is Spinal Tap. And oh yeah. Again, the the movie was fantastic. Hello, Cleveland. But the the music itself, these guys were talented. I mean, yeah, every time I hear big bottom, which is lyrically, it's a lyrically and musically a great song because you've got rhythm bass, lead bass, bass bass, you've got keyboard bass, and I can't remember. Was it Stumpy was on the drums on that one? I can't. I don't know. I can't remember which one it was. Yeah, there's a lot a lot of drummers there, which is kind of funny because there's some truth to that, to the to the rock and roll. But having worked in the hospitality industry and and and hired bands and worked with a lot of musicians, that's almost not a mockumentary. It's it's almost a documentary, and it's amazing when you see these people that the movie is about that don't realize that it's about them. Right.

And it's very close, yeah. It really is.

There's there's it's it's not too far from the truth, right? It's there, there's a lot of truth in in the in that movie.

Damn right. Awesome. Well, that's number two to you, brother.

All right. I have uh what you already picked, AJ, back to school from 1986. He was awesome in there. I'm I'm a huge Dangerfield fan. Sam Kinnison was great in this movie. Yeah. Sadly, he passed away soon thereafter. Um, Robert Downey Jr., um, Ned Beattie and Sally Kellerman were in this movie. Awesome, yes. And it's just a hilarious movie from beginning to end. Um, one of my favorite parts is uh when you know he's doing all his final exams and you have this snobbish uh professor, yes, and he's out there all I have is one question in 87 pots. And uh he nailed it. He nailed it, he graduated, he he he uh, you know, when that pencil neck geek uh had that cramp, you know, the snob there. He came in yeah yeah, and he he saved the day, and just a great movie. Awesome again. A huge I mean, Dangerfield never got any respect, but he he seems he he got some in this movie which made me happy, and he found found a very nice woman. When he did the triple lundy, was that triple is that what it was?

Which I thought it was very real. Yeah, like you could tell that was actually Rodney Dangerfield and not a stunt person.

No, Dangerfield doesn't when he did the fart things before he, you know, the arm tip farts.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But yeah, he he did really well with the ladies too, and you know he did now. One absolute so anyway, that's my number two. We spoke on that, so I'm gonna let it go to you.

But definitely one of the two most memorable roles uh for Arnie, uh Keith Gordon, Arnie from Christine.

All right, number two to me. I'm going to 1982, and I am so happy that I finally get to say something that no one else has picked, and it's actually important to me because you folks out there are listening to Past Times at 80s high, and I have Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Um, just an incredible, incredible coming of age teenage movie where there were every sort of crowd and just so friggin' fun. Just, I mean, you have four people in this movie, by the way, that one best actor. Yeah. Like, that's pretty fucking crazy when you look back and just everything about it. Spicoli was, of course, one of my favorites. One of the greatest characters. Yeah, just everything about this movie. Mr. Hand. Oh, Mr. Hand, and then of course, we cannot forget about Phoebe K. You know, everyone loves Phoebe. We talked about it with the cars, you know, moving in stereo, just kicking in.

You cannot hear that song today without seeing her tip.

Exactly.

Absolutely. Doesn't anybody knock anyone?

Yeah, one of the most beautiful women on the planet. Oh, without a doubt.

Without a doubt.

But that had to be near the top of my list because I mean it's there's so many quotes from this movie. No shirts, no shoes, no dice. Just uh, I'm in your history class. I see the globe right there. Hey, I know that dude, just everything about it.

If all I need's a cool buzz and a tasty wave and I'm set, I'm fine. If I'm here and you're here, isn't it our time, Mr.

Han? Exactly.

And I love that pizza, that fucking double cheese and sausage pizza pizza looks so good when they snag it and he gives it out. But at the end, when he's going into the friggin' 7-Eleven or whatever it is, where Judge Reinhold is working, and he asks to use the bathroom, and he's like back there, and he's like, like up that ramp. Just so stupid. He just saves the day. Whatever. Fucking that movie is incredible from start to finish, but they also touch on so many real life aspects of it. And I think the Oscars were Forrest Whitaker, Sean Penn, Eric Stoltz, and Nicholas Cage, I think, for leaving Las Vegas. Yes. Yeah. Who's in it for 10 seconds? Exactly.

Anthony Edwards, Eric Stoltz, and Nick Cage are like maybe seven seconds on screen combined. Exactly. And I mean, if those are your extras, as well as the writer's wife. Yes. From heart. She was the teacher, right? No, no. No, she pulled up next to uh Hamilton when he's in the cruiser. And he has the fishy fish outfit on. And he looks over and she's looking at him and he's like, ah, and he throws the pirate outfit out the window.

Just an incredible movie. Hence the name of this cast out there, everyone. Exactly. All right.

Number two to you, Donald. Number two to me is going to be Coming to America. Yeah. We were questioning you when you went upstairs. I know. I I have to do it because it's one of those movies that we had so many back and forth growing up, like all the funny scenes, you know. Yeah. I always pull that. I just like yourself. I left it. I like me good, Donald. I like me good. Good. I like me good.

Please welcome to the stage.

Sexual chocolate. This is my band. This is sexual chocolate. Sexual chocolate.

Your rent due, motherfucker. Don't be pulling that falling down to shit on me.

I mean, Eddie Murphy played like five or six characters in that movie.

The barbershop was just unbelievable.

Oh, one of the greatest. They've got the Big Mac. We've got the Big Mac. Yeah.

At McDowell's Louis Anderson's James Evans.

Yes.

That was James Earl Jackson. James Earl Evans. Yep. John Amos. Awesome. And Sam Jackson is the one who comes in with the shotgun. Oh, yeah. That's great. Yes. Yep. Oh, and he beats him up with the mop. Remember. I will be forced to thrash you. It's a damn shame what they did to that dog.

The royal penis is clean.

Oh my God. Oh, what a great pick, Donnie. I knew you were going to have it. Awesome. I saved it for you, Mike.

Single greatest thing that Arsenio Hall ever did. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Everything happened to him.

Whatever happened to him. He had his own show and he just fell off the face of the earth.

Well, you know, on the same token, all the respect because Eddie Murphy, in his time, was one of the funniest human beings that ever lived. But somehow the funny fell out of the man. Was that with Norbit? It's not there anymore. It's just Yeah, something happened. It's like even when he came out, like the remember the Saturday Night Live 40-year anniversary or whatever it was. And he came out and it was like, how do you cease to be humorous?

Have to deal with his be more of a family guy and he didn't know what to do. I don't know what this is. Nobody knows. He just I don't think.

I mean, I've I've I've known well, I've known AJ for 20 some odd years, and and and I feel I'm as unfunny as I was 20 years ago. Seven gigs, right? We're the same. So how do you go from being like the funniest human on earth? Because you you're still making the same observations. Happened to Chevy Chase, too.

Yeah, absolutely, delirious, raw, you know, all those idiots. Oh my god, Beverly Hills cop friggin' best nobody's pick. Kidding. I was going to talk about that because Beverly Hills cop one, great, awesome. Two, awesome. Three, what the hell happened? Right, right. Like it was like the worst movie ever. 48 hours. Yeah.

Sorry about the door there, Luther. That was a little painful.

I mean, that was a great. I wanted to pick that one at one point. He fell off a cliff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I just think it's it's maybe he stopped doing drugs or something. Who knows? I don't know. I don't think he had drugs, but he had like a prostitute thing. Like, well, yeah, he did like a prostitute.

Whatever.

Well, my question was actually about Arsenio Hall, but it makes sense for Eddie Murphy, too. So that makes sense.

Well, because he was carrying Arsenio Hall. So if he stopped being funny, then Arsenio stopped being funny.

Arsenio had the talk show and well, that's what I meant. Yeah, and everyone had a talk show, and then that fell.

Do you remember somebody used to do Carcinio? It was a coming. I think it was Dana Carvey. It was a combination of Arsenio Hall and Johnny Carson.

It would have been perfect. It was kind of like, you know, the poison, the warrant, the glam rock, and then all of a sudden, you know, grunge out came the grunge, and yeah, away it went. Yep.

But I bet you those musicians could still make music. Eddie Murphy just fucking fell off. Yeah. It was weird. Yeah, just yeah.

He did okay in some of the Disney stuff, and like as a voice actor, but yeah, yeah. Oh, all right. Yeah. Stunk it. Mulan, and uh, there was something else he did, but yeah, not without talent, but it's where are we now?

Are we at two?

Yeah, he lost Kevin. He lost his edge. He lost the edge.

He lost that edge. Like audibly, like the loudest losing of edge ever. So it's a deuce to me. That's right. So here we are at number two to you, Kevin. Number two to me has been, I think, almost on everybody's list, if not everybody's, but still, I could not eliminate it. Like, well, you AJ, you said you did eliminate it. I couldn't do it because it's a movie that you just you can watch over and over again and think of it differently, watch it from different perspectives. It was originally written to be the story was about Danny Noonan, about a young man coming of age, yada yada yada, and they ended up getting all of these amazing comedic actors, whether you know Murray, Chase, Dangerfield, all of these guys came in and Ted Knight. You can't forget Ted Knight because he is so beautiful. Gambling is illegal at Bushwood, sir, and I never slice. That's okay, you can owe me. I owe you nothing. I marked my anchor. You scratch my anchor. It's easy to grin when your ship comes in and you think you've got the stock market beat, but the man that's worthwhile is the man that can smile when his pants are too tight in the seat. Go ahead, Pookie. No, just just an amazing movie, and they were smart enough to shift away from being that coming of age story about Noonan to just pure focusing on the genius that was there. And one of the things that it says in the in the anniversary of the special features that I always found interesting. So uh Dangerfield's career had started to wane a little bit. He wasn't he wasn't doing as much and hadn't done movies. And so they were out, they were doing the scene on on the on the fairway. And it was like the first day of shooting. And he's out doing his lines, which are absolutely hey, we're all gonna get laid. And and so he's doing all his lines and and it's silent. And he walks over to the kid, and I can't think of his name, the one that pay that plays the Italian kid. Yeah, and you ain't getting I ain't paying 50 cents for no coke. Yeah, you ain't getting no coke. So he looks at him and he goes, Hey kid, I'm dying out there. Nobody's laughing, I'm not funny anymore. And he goes, No, they can't laugh, they'll ruin the take. Oh, everybody was busting at the seams because Dangerfield was so hilarious, but he thought he was bombing because people didn't want to ruin the take because it was gold, Jerry.

Because it wasn't stand-up. Exactly, exactly.

He was used to that stand-up with the automatic feedback that real-time feedback that you didn't get. But can you imagine being you when you think of your own life and and your own fragility and humility, think of being Rodney fucking Dangerfield and thinking you're not funny?

Oh my god, impossible.

That's that's insane to me. The guy could read a fucking recipe off the box back of a box of fucking morsels or something, you know, Nestle Tollhouse might fucking die laughing.

Exactly, man.

And that is why Caddyshack is my number two pick.

And here we are, man. We are up to our number one pick.

Drum roll to you, Mark. All right, boys. You ready? Jade Levy, 1989. Jade Levy produced uh directed the movie, and I was thrilled to death when I looked it up and I watched it in the early 90s, but it came out in 1989. It's a movie called You Mother Fucking HF. I do love that movie. It is special to me. Me and my brother David went back and forth with with uh all these skits on this movie between oh, Michael Richards was on this movie. Um, he was Stanley Stibout uh Spinowski. He actually saved Uncle Nutzi's clubhouse. Um so the movie's basically about a fledgling um UHF channel. So where the hell Yankavic he falls asleep when he's supposed to take his girlfriend and his girlfriend's parents' outfit for birthday dinner, and he falls asleep and he's doing money for nothing. Um, and he's singing it about the Beverly Hillbillies, that little clamp, and he's a millionaire. And of course, he when he wakes up, he's like, Oh my god, and he missed his girlfriend's birthday, and she calls him up. From now on, you can miss all my birthdays because we're through. Oh my god, I love that movie, and it it's a it's an emotional pick too, because me. Of course, and you know what I I one of my criteria when I pick these things, uh same with uh rock music. How often do I want to hear the song or watch the movie? And for a while you couldn't get UHF on uh on anything, but I could, uh but I would watch that movie over and over again, and um it's sentimental to me because of Brother David, God rest his beautiful soul.

So that was my number one, so I'll let you, pencil neck geeks, move on. Awesome. So I knew you'd have that on your list, brother. So number one to me, and this is probably not gonna be as much fun as it normally would be for me, since everyone had it. Uh actually, Donnie, did you have airplane? Yes, I did. So we've all had it.

I did not have airplane. Oh, you didn't have airplane, all right.

Not that I'm dissing airplane because it's a fantastic movie, but so my number one clearly airplane, and just it's one of the few movies that you can watch and not probably get through a full minute without something funny. You know, it's just there's whatever it's so fucking funny.

So everything about it, every one liner. I mean, just one of my favorites of all time is how soon do you think we can land? I don't know. Can't you take a guess? Well, not for another two hours. You can't take a guess for another two hours. You know, just shit like that. Or um I didn't have the fish. Yeah, what were the choices? Well, well, we had chicken or fish. Yes, yes, I remember. I had the lasagna. Just you know, they're just not one minute that goes by through this movie where you it's not fucking hilarious.

It's genius because most movies spend a lot of time setting up the building up, and this one just like a machine gun hits you with something funny, and again, like we talked about with these other movies, you go back and watch it 20 years later, and you're like, holy shit, I didn't I didn't catch that one. It's still funny.

It's still funny, but there's things that you didn't catch the first time because so many we go back to and we re-watch them now, and it's like it's not as funny as I remember. But the one thing that I had to mention that I didn't realize until last night was the fact that Jonathan Banks, who played Mike Ermintrout on Breaking Bad, was one of the air traffic controllers in the booth. Oh, yeah. I never would have known that if I was not researching this stuff, man. I because I had never really seen him before. I see him in stuff now after Breaking Bad, but prior to it, I wouldn't have had a clue. But man, how can you not know that voice? Right. Awesome, awesome. So that's number one to you, Donnie.

All right, again, 1984. The greatest year in com comedic movies, uh, in my opinion. And how um fast times at 80s high and and fast times at Ridgemont High were AJ's namesake. This movie is my nicknamesake, and it had the long duck dong. Yes, 16 candles, uh classic movie, coming of age, um, Dorks, jocks, you know, high school experience that you know I lived, and again, that's where I got my name, nickname Dongo uh from the donger. No more Yankee, my wanky. The donga need food. Sexy American girlfriend. Sexy American girlfriend. I mean, it had John Cusack in this movie, his sister, um, you know, all the all the kind of the brat pack were in this movie. Incredible. Yeah. The donger. That's right. Well, but which evolved into dongo.

Right. In the in relation to the donger, one of my favorite lines, again, going back watching that movie was the grandfather when the donger was missing. And he's on the phone to the police, he's like, Well, he's he's wearing a uh uh cardigan and he's got some khaki pants on and some red st no, he's not retarded.

Lake!

Big lake. And again, I'm not culturally appropriating. But they they you know, he was on uh ER a lot. Yeah. Was it wasn't he in the um he was in UHF, I believe. Uh yeah.

Was it was it him that was in the the uh Loki?

Yes, he was that was the like uh supply guy. Yeah, yeah. He was like having handing out the the whatever that time continuum thing was.

Yeah. I was as I said that I was really hoping it wasn't short round. Yeah, yeah.

It was tough. Like there were so many John Hughes movies, and I know how many, I mean, once again, weird science was a tough cut for me. Yes, I know. But we are going to get in. I mean, we will probably simply do a top seven John Hughes. Yeah, that'd be awesome. You know, so these sub-genres, this is so wide for us out there, folks. So we are just you know, it's our first run on comedies, and we all realized man, do we need to narrow this shit down? Amen. You know, all right, so finish it off, Kev, with number one to you.

All right, my number one. I I just I I really kind of hope that any of you have seen this, but an absolutely hilarious film. Um British. I grew up PBS, Monty Python. Oh, love the Monty Python. This this one, and and the funny thing is we you can sit here and you can quote Life of Brian, you can quote Holy Grail, everybody gets you, everybody knows them. But I I think the pinnacle of their work was the 1983 The Meaning of Life, which is absolutely a riotous movie. It is beyond the pale, it is absolutely insane, and and just true Monty Python unleashed. Those guys had damn, I wish I could say a classic. You haven't seen it? I've never seen it somehow, somehow you need to see it. I see because it's so outrageous. So there's one one of the things, one of the the there's musical numbers, and one of them starts off with a Protestant talking about how the Catholics are filling the world with people they can't feed because the Catholics, every time they have sex, they have to have a child, yada yada, yada. So the so the father could have a lot of kids. The Catholic father comes home and tells the kids he's got to sell them for medical experiments because there's so many of them, and the kids are literally everywhere coming out of the cupboards and and and whatever else. Matter of fact, at the beginning of it, one of them drops out of the mother that's washing dishes, and she's like, get that, would you, did? So and then all the kids, as they're selling it for medical experiments, they all march out into the street and start this musical number, and the song is every sperm is sacred. And it's absolutely one of the best, and I don't care for musicals, one of the best musical numbers you'll ever see in your life, and it's just everything from Mr. Creosote exploding in the dining room. It it's it's worth watching because it's absolutely bizarre and over the top, and and the Monty Python troupe at I think the pinnacle of their work.

All right, excellent. All right. I mean, I had holy grail on mine until I realized 70 like it was yeah, late 70s or mid-70s. And but yeah, yeah, I don't know why I never I think that one just came across my radar and I thought it was one of the funniest friggin' movies I've ever seen. Oh, yeah, but then I never just went back and looked at the other ones, you know what I mean? Right, right.

And and a lot of people I like Benny Hill.

Oh, yeah, slapping the little bald old guy on the head, right? My dad loved Benny Hill.

Absolutely.

Yakity Sacks. I guess I never gave English humor much of a chance. Maybe I should, huh?

I mean, I don't know. It's it's it's absolutely different.

Acquired to I I don't know.

I I mean I it's witty. Like I said, I got it's clever. I was weaned on it as a child. You know, we we watched those shows growing up, so that kind of the bizarrness of it pushed you into it.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, it it didn't push me into it. It kind of formed my sense of humor. They're smarter than we have better changes.

And they, you know, there's a lot of history and suffering that they've gone through that builds into that humor. Yes, absolutely.

What what was the the Pink Floyd line? Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way. I mean, I think that my understanding of the Brits, that kind of embodies that.

Uh awesome, man. Well, that wraps it up. So perfect.

There it there it is, point zero zero zero zero five percent of the movies comedies that we loved in the 80s.

Yep, exactly. That's you know, gonna be a start, and we'll go from there to sub-genres next time for a certain man, to narrow that down. I can't think of that many subgenres. At least there's seven of you know, or twenty-eight of our favorites. We'll knock them down from the from the repeats, but all great movies, in my opinion, and we'll go from there. But thank you all for listening. Thank you, Donald. Thank you, yes, Kevin. Thank you, and my brother. Thank you very much, people. Yes, so that's gonna be a wrap for today, and we are out.

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