Kids born in 1989 pick comedy's 100 greatest films

March 14, 2011 12:02 AM

Wikipedia and the freshman population of UCLA make a list together. Just beating the likes of Beetlejuice and This Is Spinal Tap to the top 100, The Wedding Singer is the first of many representations for Adam Sandler in this comedy list, hopefully not entirely due to whatever the hell his hair was doing back then.
posted by parmanparman (17 comments total)

Yikes.
posted by phaedon at 12:07 AM on March 14, 2011

Pretty sad list. Maybe they should have at least asked the freshman that were majoring in film. Hopefully their tastes would be slightly better.
posted by meta87 at 12:09 AM on March 14, 2011

Scott Pilgrim is below Waiting and Clerks 2

excuse me while I walk off and explode
posted by hellojed at 12:21 AM on March 14, 2011

No Christopher Guest :(
posted by Pruitt-Igoe at 12:22 AM on March 14, 2011

Saturday Night Live alumni movies were better when more than half the cast were on blow.
posted by Talez at 12:22 AM on March 14, 2011 [1 favorite]

If the readers of College Humor who voted in this poll were a country, I'd be campaigning for immediate airstrikes now. Wipe them off the face of the earth!

Nice to see a Monty Python movie take the #1 spot (actually, really quite surprising given the other dreck in the list), but of course they even got that wrong - it should have been Life of Brian!
posted by crossoverman at 12:23 AM on March 14, 2011 [1 favorite]

Ah now I understand that it's a college humor poll. Yah that makes sense.
posted by meta87 at 12:32 AM on March 14, 2011

Clerks 2. Really.
posted by Afroblanco at 12:37 AM on March 14, 2011

The one thing this list has going for it is that it's on one page. So thanks for that, CH. I guess.

Step Brothers? I Love You Man? The Other Guys?

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posted by graventy at 12:48 AM on March 14, 2011 [1 favorite]

Step Brothers had an emotional rawness to it that I didn't expect.
posted by lumensimus at 12:50 AM on March 14, 2011

I'm really sorry to be the jerk to point this out, but they made a lot of mistakes. The order is wrong and some list items have been left out.
posted by iamkimiam at 1:13 AM on March 14, 2011 [11 favorites]

Not even close. I don't have the greatest memory, so I won't throw out names of better movies. But no way Jose to this list.
posted by XhaustedProphet at 1:18 AM on March 14, 2011

No offense intended to parmanparman, but why is this worth posting?

The internet is not short of top film lists. Especially lists with shitty films.
posted by munchingzombie at 1:24 AM on March 14, 2011 [1 favorite]

Is it Ghostbusters 2?
posted by maxwelton at 1:32 AM on March 14, 2011

Finally, someone has recognized Will Farley-Sandler's epic adventure about young men staying out all night and getting in so much trouble with their families but pissing on doors because they just don't give a rat's you know what for the genius that they is.
posted by pracowity at 1:34 AM on March 14, 2011

waaaay to much jim carrey. any jim carrey is too much. and a distinct lack of "raising arizona" (unless i missed it...did i miss it?)
posted by rainperimeter at 1:40 AM on March 14, 2011

Young people express opinions. Lawn dismissal requests sky rocket. Film at 11.
posted by i_cola at 2:22 AM on March 14, 2011 [3 favorites]