Directors Comedy March Madness Tournament (MSNBC) (1 Viewer)

[george kaplan]

There's Something About Mary

Groundhog Day

Vacation

Young Frankenstein

The Philadelphia Story

 

[Bill McA]

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
There's Something About Mary
Groundhog Day - not wild about either
National Lampoon's Vacation
Best in Show
Election
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Philadelphia Story

 

[Brook K]

abstain, no Friday
Ace Ventura
abstain, never seen Beverly Hills Cop
Vacation
Swingers
Election
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Jerk (I don't really view The Philadelphia Story as a comedy)

 

[george kaplan]

What do you view it as?

It's #15 of the AFI's Laughs list for a reason.

 

[Arman]

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Groundhog Day
Swingers
Election

 

[JenB]

Groundhog Day

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

 

[Adam_S]

my votes:
abstain (neither)
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
abstain (no Cop)
Vacation
abstain (neither)
abstain (no Election)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Philadelphia Story

South Park advances 2-0
Ace Venura ties Mary 4-4 and advances on coin-flip
Groundhog Day advances 9-0
Vacation advances 5-1
Swingers advances 4-1
Election advances 5-1
Monty Python and the Holy Grail advances 6-3
The Philadelphia Story advances 7-2

 

[Adam_S]

ROUND 3

BROAD


Spaceballs
v.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels



The Big Lebowski
v.
Meet the Parents


SNL ALUMNI


Old School
v.
Tommy Boy



Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
v.
Stripes


SMART


Bull Durham
v.
Lost in America


A Christmas Story
v.
High Fidelity


CLASSIC


Blazing Saddles
v.
The Graduate

Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
v.
The Thin Man

 

[Nick Sievers]

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Big Lebowski
Tommy Boy
Stripes
Abstain
Abstain
The Graduate
Abstain

 

[Jim_K]

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Big Lebowski
abstain
Stripes
Lost in America
High Fidelity
Blazing Saddles
Dr. Strangelove

 

[Lew Crippen]

Blazing Saddles

Love Nick and Nora--but

Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

 

[Dheiner]

Spaceballs
The Big Lebowski
Old School
Stripes
Bull Durham
A Christmas Story
Blazing Saddles
Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

I'm sorry I didn't get here in time to save ...Mary.

 

[Tommy G]

Spaceballs
The Big Lebowski only because Meet the Parents was one of the most unfunny movies I have ever seen
Tommy Boy
Stripes
Abstain
Abstain
Blazing Saddles
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

 

[george kaplan]

Meet the Parents

Stripes

A Christmas Story

Blazing Saddles

The Thin Man (yeah, Dr. Strangelove is better, but The Thin Man is so much better than most of the films in this tournament, it certainly doesn't deserve a first round shut out)
Yeah, me too.

 

[Brook K]

Spaceballs (coinflip)
The Big Lebowski
Tommy Boy
Austin Powers (Stripes is crippled because the last 20m is simply awful)
Bull Durham (I guess, two dismally unfunny movies, but at least Durham doesn't preach that conformity is a good thing)
A Christmas Story
Blazing Saddles
Dr. Strangelove

 

[Bill McA]

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Meet the Parents - Lebowski's the better film, but I don't consider it a 'broad' comedy
Old School
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Lost in America
A Christmas Story
Blazing Saddles
Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

 

[ChrisV]

Spaceballs
The Big Lebowski
abstain
Stripes
abstain
High Fidelity
Blazing Saddles
Dr. Strangelove

 

[Seth Paxton]

ROUND 3

BROAD
Spaceballs (not a very good choice here)
The Big Lebowski

SNL ALUMNI
Tommy Boy (crappy choice either way, moderate work at best)
Stripes


SMART
Lost in America
A Christmas Story


CLASSIC
Blazing Saddles
Dr. Strangelove (I like Thin Man, but this is just too strong)


Incidentally, last round I would have broke the Mary/Ace tie by voting for Ace anyway (but I see 2 others would have gone for Mary, so you never know). No other votes would have changed things, but I would have voted against these winners:

Groundhog Day (I think BHC is funnier)
Election (good film, but Office Space is funnier)
Philly Story (Jerk is funnier to me, but both are top 20 comedies at least - see Holy Grail/Young Frank for another like this)

And two of my biggest complaints about their brackets were these seedings/pairings which should not be up against each other this soon:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
v.
Young Frankenstein

The Philadelphia Story
v.
The Jerk

 

[Arman]

High Fidelity

 

[Adam_S]

my votes:
abstain (only seen part of scoundrels)
Big Lebowski
abstain (no old school, but Tommy Boy is one of the greats, imo)
abstain (no Stripes)
abstain (neither in a long long time)
Christmas Story
Blazing Saddles
Dr. Strangelove (absolutely brutal, these are literally spaces apart on my all time list, but Strangelove is just too strong :frowning: )


Spaceballs advances 5-3
The Big Lebowski advances 8-2
Tommy Boy advances 4-2
Stripes advances 7-2
Lost in America advances 3-2
A Christmas Story advances 6-3
Blazing Saddles advances 9-1
Dr. Strangelove advances 8-1