Comedy Film Funnel

We discuss the quiet, gentle weirdness of this comedy masterpiece by Jacques Tati.

A discussion of the Canadian sketch comedy troupe and their movie.

We discuss the Peter Sellers and Orson Welles crack at a James Bond comedy film that was a hugely successful disaster. 

We discuss this satirical masterpiece, plus the life and career of Peter Sellers. 

We discuss this little-known superhero-musical flop starring Alan Arkin, Christopher Lee, and with the music of Richard O'Brien, writer and composer for THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW.

We discuss this classic as well as the careers of Peter Falk and Alan Arkin. 

We discuss the parody movie trailers HARDWARE WARS (1978), CLOSET CASES OF THE NERD KIND (1980), and PORKLIPS NOW (1980), and then go off on a tangent about jokes from the 1700s.

We discuss the vampire mockumentary and the careers of its makers. 

We discuss three films that all came out around 1933, all satirizing politics. WARNING: DIPLOMANIACS includes many racist tropes, so do not watch the movie if you do not want to see Blackface and other racist content. 

Here we edited together interesting facts and discussion about the Marx Brothers and ANIMAL CRACKERS that had been cut out of episode four.