By everyone with a sense of humor. It's among the Top 15 of all time...#1 on the list is Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
I have a sense of humor. It's bitter and sarcastic but I have it.
Funny is a subjective thing. To work for me humor has to have intelligence behind it. It has to be smart and sharp and pointed.
Making a stupid face and farting, while amusing in context, doesn't require any intelligence to conduct. I've seen mongoloids make funny faces and fart.
Yeah, physical comedy has a place but even that can be done well. Carey does nothing but mug for the camera and make juvenile noises. Not funny. Better than Sandler, Spade, Schneider and any of those.
FWIW, profanity for profanity's sake isn't funny either. That's where the Judd Apatow films fail so miserably in my opinion.
Comedy that works:
1) Stripes/Ghostbusters. Bill Murray's smarmy charm is timeless.
2) Raising Arizona. Over the top but with an intelligent edge
3) O Brother. Hit or miss, but hit more than missed.
4) Chappelle's Show. Not a movie, but unafraid to take on controversy. Well written stuff.
5) Animal House. Crude, but well crafted
6) Vacation/Christmas Vacation - What Carey could do if he toned his ridiculous act down and acted half human
7) Airplane! Complete satire.
8) Porky's (when I was 15)
9) Home Alone
10) Dazed and Confused
Also: Coming to America, Naked Gun, Planes Trains, Cheech and Chong's Nice Dreams, Ferris Buehler, Office Space, Elf... More I can't remember.
Dumb and Dumber? No. Ace Ventura? Closer than Dumb and Dumber but still no.
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