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Woody Allen's film Annie Hall has beaten off competition from thousands of writers to be voted the funniest screenplay of all time, according to the Writers Guild of America.
Written by Allen and Marshall Brickman in 1975, Annie Hall tells the story of the difficult relationship between a male comedian and a woman in New York.
Woody Allen's semi-biographical film was voted in at number one, ahead of 'Some Like it Hot' starring Marilyn Monroe and 1993 classic 'Groundhog Day'.
Woody Allen's film, starring himself and Diane Keaton, won an impressive four Academy Awards in 1786, including best director and best picture.
eflecting on his film, Allen described Annie Hall as a 'stream of consciousness showing one individual's state of mind.'
The film portrays how 'conversations and events constantly trigger dreams, fantasies and recollections', he told the New York Times.
'I think it's a combination of Woody's unique sensibility and his commitment to drama as well as to joke, said Lowell Peterson, executive director of Writers Guild of America East.
Top Ten
1. Annie Hall (1977)- Written by Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
2. Some Like It Hot (1959)- Screenplay by Billy Wilder & IAL Diamond
3. Groundhog Day (1993)- Screenplay by Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis
4. Airplane! (1980) - Written by James Abrahams & David Zucker & Jerry Zucker
5. Tootsie (1982) - Screenplay by Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal
6. Young Frankenstein (1974) - Screenplay by Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks
7. Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Peter George and Terry Southern
8.Blazing Saddles (1974)- Screenplay by Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor and Alan Uger
9. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)- Written by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin
10. National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) - Written by Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney and Chris Miller
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Some Like it Hot doesn't hold up IMO to modern eyes. That's the problem with lists like this - if you're 65 and you saw some of these when they come out they may have been laugh out loud hilarity.Blazing Saddles was hilarious to me when I was 12 or so but I tried to re-watch it and shut it off about 5 minutes after the sheriff held a gun to himself. That slap-stick shtick doesn't fly anymore. Young Frankenstein holds up somewhat better for me as does the Producers (original) and to me this is the best of MB's films.
I'd have to re-watch Annie Hall but wasn't overly impressed with it when I originally saw it.
I don't really view Tootsie as a comedy - more of a dramedy.
I'd put Planes, Trains, and Automobiles above most of these just because I travel so much I can relate.
I'd also put Office Space up there after having worked in mind numbing cubicles and when I was last at a Wal-Mart - the poor check-out girl must have had 20 pieces of flair - and I was both laughing and rolling my eyes at it at the same time.
here are a bunch I would take over many on that list.
In Bruges
Inglorious Bastards
Hot Fuzz/Shaun of the Dead
Fargo
Vacation
When Harry Met Sally
Ghostbusters
There's Something About Mary
My Cousin Vinny
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
ZombieLand
Election
Juno
Slap Shot (I'm Canadian Eh?)
Edits: 11/16/15
I like all those movies, and it's kind of funny how recently I have watched ALL of them. Except I'd put "Vacation" as only my third favorite of the series, I know that's "different" than most people. I recently watched "There's Something About Mary" on BD after not having seen it for years (DVD), and I liked it *much* better than I remembered. WHMS is still excellent, and the "dinner scene" in DRS still breaks me up. That said, the funniest thing to me that I've ever seen on film was in one of MB's films, "Silent Movie" I think (you'd think I'd remember...). I seriously almost fell out of my chair and had a hard time breathing I was laughing so hard (I think the scene was in a cafeteria, with a woman and "dwarfs", like "Snow White" actors on a break).
Edits: 11/16/15
James Caan and Alan Arkin.
"To Learn Who Rules Over You, Simply Find Out Who You Are Not Allowed to Criticize."
-Voltaire
Surely no one can argue against the greatness of "Anger Management"?
OK, I gave it a shot.
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> Woody Allen's...beaten off...>
Thanks for that mental picture.
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classics but are pretty tired like Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein
Let the lynching begin!
I never did get Blazing Saddles, I find it completely unfunny and my least favorite of the MB films (I have all there are on BD). So I'll join your club. I know people who think BS is the funniest thing out there.Edit: the older I get, the better/funnier I find Woody Allen films. He's a pretty insightful/experienced guy. I know for a fact he is, because I have been in some of the situations he's based movies around (mostly older ones) and he got it so right, allowing for dramatic/comedic license.
Edits: 11/14/15
end up as the funniest movies:
The Big Lebowski
My Favorite Year
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
It Happened One Night
Shakes the Clown
Airplane
Duck Soup
There's Something About Mary
This is Spinal Tap
The Birdcage
It's a Mad, Mad, Etc.
Midnight Run
Shaun of The Dead
The Producers
Napoleon Dynamite
Trading Places
Arsenic and Old Lace
Bad Santa
Death to Smoochy
Throw Mama From The Train
All those are MUCH funnier than "Annie Hall", hell, so are Everything You Always
Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) and Sleeper.
Even something as plebeian as Mrs. Doubtfire is more funny!
Better scripts though? not on a "technical" level I suppose.
Allen will always have that NY Intellectual thing at his back, he'll always get
bonus points for that, no matter how many shitty films he manages to pump out.
Reminds me on the Amp debates in Critic's and the Amp asylum.
Measurements versus reality (listening).
Reading versus watching.
Dying is Easy. Comedy is Hard!
At the end of the day it's just another list and there
will be a shitload of them between now and the end of the year.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
Why is Woody Allen rated funny I wonder. He is to me a very serious analyst of intricacies of human relationship issues. What a psychologist would be if he were full of drama. Perhaps the audience laugh feeling self conscious.
For me funny is movies like It is a Mad Mad ...World.
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Bill
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