Humor Cult Movies

I like
The Dinner Game
Closer
Team America
South Park
All from Monty Python

do you know more movies?

Kentucky Fried Movie (A Fist Full of Yen!)
Chicken and Duck Talk
Duck Soup
Bio-Zombie
Repo Man

The films of Wheeler & Woolsey:

Rio Rita (1929)
The Cuckoos (1930)
Dixiana (1930)
Half Shot at Sunrise (1930)
Hook, Line and Sinker (1930)
Cracked Nuts (1931)
Caught Plastered (1931)
Peach O'Reno (1931)
Girl Crazy (1932)
Hold 'Em Jail (1932)
So This Is Africa (1933)
Diplomaniacs (1933)
Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934)
Cockeyed Cavaliers (1934)
Kentucky Kernels (1934)
The Nitwits (1935)
The Rainmakers (1935)
Silly Billies (1936)
Mummy's Boys (1936)
On Again — Off Again (1937)
High Flyers (1937)

The films of Carry On:

Carry On Sergeant (1958)
Carry On Nurse (1959)
Carry On Teacher (1959)
Carry On Constable (1959)
Carry On Regardless (1961)
Carry On Cruising (1962)
Carry On Cabby (1963)
Carry On Jack (1963)
Carry On Spying (1964)
Carry On Cleo (1964)
Carry On Cowboy (1965)
Carry On Screaming! (1966)
Carry On Don't Lose your Head (1966)
Carry On Follow that Camel (1967)
Carry On Doctor (1967)
Carry On up the Khyber (1968)
Carry On Camping (1969)
Carry On Again Doctor (1969)
Carry On up the Jungle (1970)
Carry On Loving (1970)
Carry On Henry (1971)
Carry On at your Convenience (1971)
Carry On Matron (1972)
Carry On Abroad (1972)
Carry On Girls (1973)
Carry On Dick (1974)
Carry On Behind (1975)
Carry On England (1976)
That's Carry On (1978)
Carry On Emmannuelle (1978)

Might as well throw some Ealing in too:

The Maggie
Passport to Pimlico
A Run For Your Money
The Titfield Thunderbolt
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The Lady Killers
The Lavender Hill Mob
The Man in the White Suit

Miscalaneous:
The Belles of St Trinian's
Genevieve
The Girl Can't Help It
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
Bringing Up Baby
The Philadelphia Story
Deadmen Don't Wear Plaid
Blazing Saddles
High Anxiety
Young Frankenstein
Don't Start the Revolution Without Me
Miracle at Morgan's Creek
Hail the Conquering Hero
Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein

God of Cookery
From Bejing with Love
Shaolin Soccer
Kung Fu Hustle
Mr Vampire
Spooky Encounters
Love on Delivery
Chinese Odyssey Parts I & II
My Wife is a Gangster
Water Boys
Swing Girls
Quiet Family
Happiness of Katakuris

The film that truly define 'cult comedy' is 'Office Space'

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I agree Prelude. I was looking through the lists above you and was thinking.... but what about Office Space?????

Munky, I don't think they got the memo...

Mystery Men

Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb)

All of the Python Films ......
Pink Panther Movies
Arthur I&II
The Lavender Hill Mob
The Lady Killers
Brazil
Clockwise
Educating Rita
Gregory's Girl
The Missonary
Personal Services
Withnail & I
Brassed Off (not quite a cult classic)
The Commitments


Cults Classics To Be
Hot Fuzz
Shaun Of The Dead
Run Fat Boy Run

Im not a big fan of newer American 'comedy' films as such. I could just slap the head of Jim Carrey and Adam Sandler I find kind of boring. I do like more classic 'slapstick' films from the US (Buster Keaton , Charlie Chaplin , Abbott & Costello etc) and 70's / 80's comedies (Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor,Woody Allen etc )

How about Animal House, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Dazed and Confused, and although it could be called a musical/horror/comedy- Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Hebrew hammer, Rushmore, Tennenbaums, Spinal Tap

All of the Python Films ......
Pink Panther Movies

Glad to see Withnail & I got a shout out here. I like the writer-director's follow-up, How to Get Ahead in Advertising, also. It's about an advertising exec suffering from writers block who goes insane after growing a talking boil on his shoulder.

Noah Baumbach's first film, Kicking and Screaming, deserves a mention. IMDB's description of the film: "Following graduation, a handful of college students do nothing and talk about it wittily." Indeed.

Baumbauch's more recent The Squid and Whale is simply fantastic. It's a brutally honest (and funny, in a squirmy sort of way) film about upper-middle class divorce. I can't wait to see Margot at the Wedding.

I'm not sure if Ghost World is too popular to be considered "cult" or not, but I'll throw that out there anyway since, despite the critical acclaim it got, so few people I know seem to have seen it. The writer and director reteamed last year to make Art School Confidential which is a lot better than the scathing reviews it got would suggest.

If you like your laughs with a little (ok, A LOT) of bloodshed, then check out Evil Dead 2. It's a comedy-horror film written and directed by Sam Raimi (who's now helming the Spider-Man franchise). Its sequel, Army of Darkness, is far better known, but Evil Dead 2 is worth checking out, too.

On a related note, Bruce Campbell (who played the lead character in Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness) played an aged Elvis who, with a little help from a black John F. Kennedy, fights an evil mummy in a retirement in Bubba Ho-Tep. I'm part of the cult of Bruce so I probably liked this movie more than it deserved.

I can't make it through a movie thread without mentioning the Coen brothers. Their comedies are priceless, Raising Arizona, in particular. And The Big Lebowski gives Office Space a run for its money on most loved "cult" comedy of recent years among my circle of friends.

Speaking of Office Space, writer-director Mike Judge went on to make Idiocracy which you probably haven't seen because the studios stuck it direct-to-DVD for being too anti-corporate. It satirizes mindless consumerism even more savagely than Office Space did for white collar work.

I've seen idiocracy and was really looking forward to it (and i agree, the studios killed it because of its anti-corporate feel) but the film also felt unfinished, unpolished. The film suffered from too much straying off topic and ended up feeling like I was watching an MTV funded Ashton Kutcher film. I loved the satirical elements but felt it didn't go far enough and the good jokes got drowned out by the fart jokes.

I agree on Big Lebowski. It's a toss up which is my favorite comedy - Office Space or the Big Lebowski. I still remember that scene were the hugh hefner-like character at his mansion is scribbling stuff while the Dude is talking to him, and then rips the paper and walks out of the room. First time i watched the movie, i remember thinking to myself "go take the notepad he left behind, and trace over it with a pencil to see if you can find out what he was secretly writing... which is just what the Dude did, and the result... haha, priceless! just like the Dude, i was like 'what the f**?? haha... i couldnt stop laughing. i had to pause it and re-catch my breath. excellent film making there. :)

Yeah, the scatological humor in Idiocracy was a bit over the top. It felt particularly out of place because Judge himself mocks that kind of lowbrow stuff early the movie (e.g., "Ouch, My Balls!").