What's a great but uncommon comedy movie we should watch?

Hot Fuzz. One of the best movies of all time.

Tucker and Dale vs Evil

Idiocracy is the funniest comedy I've ever seen, but its becoming like a documentary of our time now.. And that wasn't intended I think.

Is Kung Fury uncommon enough? Most people I talk to irl never heard of it

Inspired by another answer in this thread, Kung Fu Hustle. It's also a pretty good Kung Fu movie, similar to how Shawn of the Dead manages to be both a comedy and a pretty good zombie movie.

Clue. One of Tim Curry's finest performances. Madeline Kahn's, too.

Big Trouble in Little China

Nothing but Trouble

What We Do in the Shadows (the movie, not the series). For something more obscure, An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn. Yes, both feature Jemaine Clement

Mystery Men!

Death to Smoochy is criminally underrated. Robin Williams and Ed Norton are so good in it.

Top Secret! (1984), a WW2 parody featuring Val Kilmer. From the same guys who made Airplane!.

If everyone hasn't watched Hot Tub Time Machine, everyone should watch Hot Tub Time Machine.

Is it fair to say that Mel Brooks movies are uncommon now? Have they gotten old enough that people today are generally ignorant of them? If so, "Blazing Saddles", "History of the World: Part 1", "Young Frankenstein", and "Spaceballs" are incredibly worthy of a watch.

Very uncommon. Arguably one of the most disturbing comedy's ever made.

Meet the Feebles is a 1989 musical comedy produced and directed by The Lord of the Rings mastermind Peter Jackson. The film is set behind the scenes at a Muppet Show-like theatrical company, and it nods to The Muppet Movie with its story about raggedy puppet entertainers dreaming of making it big. Except in Meet the Feebles, most of the puppets are diseased, drug-addicted, and / or sexually perverse. Jackson, his partner Fran Walsh, and fellow New Zealand weirdos Danny Mulheron and Stephen Sinclair collaborated on a screenplay that weaves together about half a dozen subplots; the most prominent involves the talented hippopotamus Heidi, whose lover (and the troupe’s impresario) Bletch is cruelly dismissive and adulterous. As the Feebles prepare for the show that could be their big break, their personal problems start to spill over onstage.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/24/17778026/happytime-murders-peter-jackson-meet-the-feebles-perverted-puppets-streaming-recommendation

'My cousin Vinny' seems relatively uncommon, and is a beautiful courtroom comedy drama.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Swiss Army Man!

I feel like "The Man Who Knew Too Little" is pretty uncommon even though it's a Bill Murray movie. One of my favourite comedies of all time!

Hercules returns

Grandma's boy

Fat pizza

Hudson hawk

True lies

The Kentucky fried movie

Walk Hard

My personal favorite tucker and dale vs evil.

Edit: also Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

Kung Pow Enter the Fist

My Cousin Vinny.

Black Dynamite

The Death of Stalin

Four Lions

Uncle Buck

Freddie Got Fingered is a masterpiece that, when released, was one of the worst rated movies ever.

It’s so incredibly ahead of its time, coming out before all the Adult Swim absurdist stuff that we all know and love.

Bless Tom Green.

Also Adam's Apples (Adams æbler) and if you like that also The Green Butchers.

Oscar.

https://youtu.be/QbfVZBsgC4s

Directed by John Landis (Animal House, Blues Brothers, Trading Places, Coming to America)

Starring:

Sylvester Stallone
Don Ameche
Tim Curry
Marisa Tomei
Linda Gray
Chazz Palminteri
Kurtwood Smith
Yvonne De Carlo
Martin Ferrero
Harry Shearer
Arleen Sorkin
Kirk Douglas

The Intouchables (SIC). The original French film with Omar Sy. Not the pointless Hollywood remake. Its my favourite comedy of all time.

Burn After Reading.

Drop dead gorgeous Muppet treasure island Muppets from space

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid. Early Steve Martin love letter to classic film noir. Everything is played super straight and it just works

I always liked Dr. Strangelove

Idle Hands.

2000-era disaffected teen horror-comedy. Not shy about the horror elements. Absolutely bombed. Basically a forgotten stoner comedy that you reeeally shouldn't watch high.

Devon Sawa, Seth Green, Elden Henson, Jessica Alba, Vivica Fox.

A Night at The Opera has some of the funniest physical gags I've seen in a movie. It is from 1935, but I found it very entertaining.

Harold and Maude

Dirty Work: Norm MacDonald in his element. An extended sequence of him and his friend staring blankly ahead holding dead fish while a chainsaw massacre unfolds offscreen is amazing.

The Trouble with Harry: Alfred Hitchcock does madcap comedy. The trouble with Harry is that he's dead, and although no one really minds, everyone thinks it's their fault. Probably the biggest starring role for a corpse until Weekend at Bernie's.

I'm really surprised I don't see "Big Trouble in Little China" on here yet.

I might catch some flack by saying this was a very respectful movie to Chinese culture for its time. This is an early Kurt Russel film, when he was pushing towards being an action star. It drifts from the classic "white guy hero in strange culture" trope and melds into a fun story where the audience-stand-in hero accepts he's out of his league and goes with it. Also, this is Victor Wong and James Hong's equivalent of Heat, where they get well developed characters and face off with each other in a grand arc. My brother and I used to quote it to each other all the time... if you ever hear someone say "Now this really pisses me off to no end," you'll get it by the end of the movie.

Mindhorn

Ah hang on, how many communities did you post this in?

Spies like us - Dan Akroyd / Chevy Chase - little seen 80s comedy which has some hilarious bits , great cameos and whip fast dialogue.

Human Traffic

Submarine.

Just Visiting. (US version) honestly love that movie, of course it's gonna be cheesy, but it's a fun, funny movie that has heart.

It's about a 12th century knight and his peasant servant that gets sent to the 21st century, and it's so good.

Is Airplane common?

What about Naked Gun series?

The Yes Man.

Sex Drive! But it has to be the unrated uncut version. I'm grinning so hard just thinking about some scenes, especially those with Seth Green. "That's great cock, John!"

Big Nothing (2006) with Simon Pegg, Alice Eve, David Schwimmer...a train wreck of events that always makes me laugh when I watch it.

Instructions not included, Safety not guaranteed. That's two separate movies in case the name pattern is confusing

Real Men

A 1987 comedy that includes the single most pro-trans scene I've ever seen on my life.

Tampopo

Big Trouble

The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human

Interstate 60

Noises Off is a great film, but i'm not sure if it's obscure enough

After Hours (1985) by Martin Scorsese

FUBAR: The Movie

Tron funken blows

Its common in nz but maybe not in the rest of the world. Boy is pretty a pretty good comedy-drama.

The Court Jester (starring Danny Kaye)

Old school movie from the 50s era. Still screamingly hilarious today.

Right now I can think of - Rat race, mouse hunt, death on a funeral

I don’t know how many people watched or loved this movie but I absolutely loved Hot Shots when I was a kid.

Guesthouse Paradiso. It's hilarious!

Hamlet 2

Happy Texas (1999). Haven't seen in in decades so not sure how it holds up, but I've got memories of it being hilarious.

The House of 72 Tenants, 1973 Hong Kong film directed by Chor Yuen.

Guest House Paradiso.

Batshit insane English humor. Got to love the style, but if you do, it's fantastic.

Paper Tigers

I really enjoyed 'Mindhorn'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindhorn

If you enjoy UK comedy stuff

Cold Pursuit

I saw it in theatres and I remember people weren’t laughing and some were walking out because they were bored. I can guarantee that all of them saw Liam Neeson was the lead and were expecting another action packed Taken type movie. What we got instead was a movie reminiscent of Fargo or The Big Lebowski. It’s absolutely hilarious, I’ve watched it many times and I’ve shown friends this one and they’ve all loved it. Highly recommend!

The Castle and Kenny, are both excellent aussie comedies. They're kinda like feature length dad jokes.

Harold and Maude

Anything from Mischief Theatre! They have their "Peter Pan Goes Wrong" for free on youtube atm.

I feel like not enough people have seen "Secondhand Lions".

I just watched the movie MacGruber for the first time last weekend and it's easily one of the funniest movies I've ever seen, way better than I expected.

High Strung, not sure its an actual comedy but I thought it was pretty funny. has early Jim Carrey

Five Year Engagement. Mediocre reviews, but a really grounded and funny story.

Fandango. 1985 with Kevin Costner and Judd Nelson. It was Costner and Kevin Reynolds' first project together. It's not a straight up comedy but it's a very funny movie IMHO.

Let's go to Prison

The Do-Over. Yes I can’t stand Adam Sandler either but it’s such a fun movie.

Does Tropic Thunder qualify? The scenes with Tom Cruise had me dying.

Everything Everywhere All At Once might qualify.

Is Airplane common?

What about Naked Gun series?