Word: funniest
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...second plot, far and away Gilbert's funniest, concerns the House of Lords. Gilbert has his Lord Mountararat (a name suggesting the aristocracy's excessive reverence for ancestry) proclaim that "If there is a single institution that is unsusceptible of any improvement whatsoever, it is the House of the Lords." This recalls the Duke of Wellington's remark a half-century earlier that Parliament was perfect--on the eve of the Reform Bill...
Murmur of the Heart. This week I run the risk of discrediting myself with superlatives. Louis Malle's Souffle de Coeur is one of the funniest films ever made, and certainly the Funniest Film About Incest ever made. It captures French bourgeois life with the accuracy of a Palestinian guerrilla looking for hostages. The spinach throwing scene is the best piece of cinematic slapstick since Chaplin. The subtler pieces are all there too: the way the mother, for example, sits down on the bed in the hotel room before agreeing to take the room is a gesture peculiar...
...this century's funniest writers, Evelyn Waugh was also one of its most melancholy, a man submerged in private rancor. "You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic," he informed a friend. "Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being...
...American Industry--based, all of them, alas, on now obsolete advertising campaigns. (I still believe that the sight of the rotund executive being forcibly restrained from plunging after the bar of Ivory in "The Day a Cake of Soap Sank at Proctor and Gamble" is one of the funniest sights ever, but I must agree that a case can be made for obscurity there). And the late 1930s parody, "Life goes to the fall of Western Civilization," is gone too. You had to know the old Life style to laugh at it, but it was so good...
Love and Death. In my opinion, Woody Allen's best and funniest film. Parodies of Bergman, Tolstoy and earlier films of his own are hilarious...