Top 10 Most Extremely Amusing Christian Comedies Of All Time
Several years ago, at the Academy Awards,
Jack Black, Will Ferrell, and John C. Reilly sang a hilarious song about the
fact that comedies are always overlooked when season awards comes. ("A
comedian at the Oscars, the saddest man of all," crooned Ferrell. "Your
movies may make millions, but they're never going to call your name...")
It worked just like all the great jokes, because it's true. Now, we're never
going to be able to turn the clock back to give our favorite laugh riots the
awards they deserve so much, but we can do our best to try to rectify things by
calling attention to what we consider to be the greatest Christian comedy movies of all
time available on a variety of Christian comedy channel that we've compiled
right here.
1. Monty python and the holy
grail
King Arthur's tale and his coconut-banging
knights kinda have a plot — it's about their quest to find Camelot, at least in
the beginning — but the story comes second to a barrage of jokes and bits. If
at least one of these classic one-liners hasn't been repeated in your life,
it's arguable you haven't really lived.
2. Anchorman: The legend of
Ron Burgundy
Will Ferrell plays an arrogant, dim-witted
San Diego anchorman whose self-love is matched only by his women's mistrust.
Ferrell is at his best when it comes to smuggling masculinity — just look at
NASCAR racing doofus Ricky Bobby in Talladega Nights— but he's never done it
better than Ron Burgundy.
3. Airplane!
Before joining the Airplane cast, it's hard
to believe that Leslie Nielsen was considered a dramatic actor. He's a natural
comedy player, and so is the rest of the cast in this one-liner and slapstick
classic. Even if you don't laugh at every joke— we'll admit, some of them are
corny — there's something here that's bound to tickle your funny bone. Have
there been more jokes in a single christian comedy shows? We are doubting that.
4. Young Frankenstein
Dr. Frankenstein's grandson (played by Gene
Wilder) returns to Transylvania, and although he insists he has no interest in
joining the family business, he still ends up creating his own creature. A
fantastic parody of old black and white monster movies that also happens to be
the best comedy for Mel Brooks, and that's something to say. It has just what
it needed for the original Frankenstein film—more tap dancing.
5. Napoleon Dynamite
The awkwardness of being a teenager was
never so perfectly captured and bizarrely captured. It's easy to laugh at
Napoleon because he's such a weirdo, but we're also rooting un-ironically for
him because we all have a gawky nerdy kid with crazy hair.
6. This is spinal tap
Believe it or not, not all audiences were
on the joke during their initial run. "When Spinal Tap was first released,
everyone thought it was a real band," says Rob Reiner, director. Even Ozzy
Osbourne did not know that Spinal Tap's guys were merely comedians. Some
rockers, like The Edge, thought the film cut too close to home. "I haven't
laughed," admitted the Edge. "I've been weeping." Perhaps that's
why this spinal tap is still considered one of the bestchristian comedy videos.
7. Borat
Based on a character he had created for the
Da Ali G Show, Sacha Baron Cohen's jaw-dropping "documentary." The
result was legal proceedings, controversy, and possibly the end of the marriage
of Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock. But it was worth it because it gave us one of
our lifetime's most satirically brilliant comedies. Because of this film, Cohen
was called a comic revolutionary and was compared with everybody from Lenny
Bruce to Andy Kaufman. We were not able to agree more.
8. Duck Soup
The Marx Brothers— Groucho, Harpo, Chico,
and Zeppo — were never more on top of their game than this hilarious break
through the absurdity of politics and nationalism. "Hail, hail Freedonia!
It still makes us want to cheer! "(and laugh at lyrics like,' If you think
this country's wrong now, just wait until I get through it.' Whatever your
personal politics might sound true.)
9. Ghostbusters
We guarantee that someone out there will be
angry that we have chosen this particular movie to represent the best comedy of
Bill Murray. Should Stripes instead be on this list? Or the Day of Groundhog?
Or meatballs, too? We could always argue about what the funniest Bill Murray
movie is, but can we at least come together and agree that Ghostbusters is a
classic, and if you don't find it funny you might be a bit dead inside?
10.Raising Arizona
Before the Big Lebowski proved that the
Coen Brothers were legends in filmmaking, and before Nic Cage got on everyone's
nerves, there was this comedy gem about an ex-con and his wife who want a baby
so much they're willing to kidnap it.
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