Romantic comedies don’t get much better than Woody Allen’s fourth wall-breaking portrait of a fledgling dramatist (Allen) and his free-spirited, aspiring actor girlfriend (Diane Keaton). Anchorman‘s shaggy pace works in its favour, giving the performances – particularly Ferrell’s – room to breathe and settle into a zany, stonerish tempo. This rambunctious comedy gave the public what they wanted and rubbed it in prudes’ faces.Īnchorman – The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Stan, Amazon Prime) Where to watchįew films are as memeable, as quotable, and as stupidly enjoyable as Adam McKay’s 70’s-set cult classic about a chauvinistic news anchorman (Will Ferrell) threatened by the arrival of a female newsreader (Christina Applegate). Director Tim Burstall exploited changes in censorship laws to make a nudity and kink-filled farce about an average bloke (Graeme Blundell) who women find inexplicably attractive.
The Ozploitation movement is the dirty underwear in the drawer of Australian cinema, and time has transformed these soiled bed sheets into archeological curios. Tom Shadyac’s Doolittle-esque goofball comedy, starring Carrey as a private eye who specialises in animal-related cases, is sloppily structured but a decent showreel of the performer’s antics during his heyday in the 1990s.Īlvin Purple (Amazon Prime) Where to watch So without further ado…Īce Ventura: Pet Detective (Stan, Amazon Prime) Where to watchĪt the peak of his powers, Jim Carrey was more than just a brilliant physical comic: he warped the very nature of cinematic realism and pushed the medium away from verisimilitude into a kind of performative stupor.
This list will keep you going for a while – running the gamut from good films to great ones. We all need a good laugh right now, that’s for sure.
FUNNY MOVIES TO STREAM FULL
In compiling this list I was limited to what was available on these platforms – which, generally speaking, do not offer a great deal in the way of foreign films, classics, and quality films directed by women and people of colour (though there are larger, systemic, industry-based biases and issues at play here that make them much scarcer full stop – particularly with regards to the latter two demographics).
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