A genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor.
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Help me to identify this movie on war
I watched this movie long long back, and the movie is quite old.
What I roughly remember is a captain is ordered to capture a village in Italy. The Italian officer in command is only willing to ...
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Need help identifying movie and/or TV show by plot point
There was a movie or a show where a guy has a date with a girl. He thinks it goes well, but she doesn't return any of his calls so he begins to think something terrible has happened to her. He ...
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Can anyone identify this 1990's comedy, with imaginary friend?
It is where a young woman has an emotional crisis in her life, with her cheating boyfriend and controlling mother.
And her imaginary friend from when she was little comes back and causes more chaos ...
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Aliens took over the satellite
I recall a show/special, possibly on the Showtime cable channel from many years ago (let's call it early 80's) which had, as its premise, that aliens had taken over the TV satellites and were ...
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Movie with comedy sketches from late '70's/early 80's
With the release of Movie 43 earlier this year, it reminded me of a comedy that I saw when I was younger.
I am guessing it was released in the late 1970's or early 1980's and was filled with ...
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Was Dr. Strangelove originally intended to be serious?
The legendary Kubrick comedy Dr. Strangelove is based on the book Red Alert which is in no way comedic. At the time of release, not long after the Cuban Missile Crisis, apocalyptic pessimism was the ...
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Identify this film about a Boy, girl and Girl's Dog
I remember watching a movie where a mature boy has a crush on a girl and tries to impress her. But the problem is that the girl has a dog (most probably a female dog) which creates problems that ...
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Identify this movie about ghost bar/casino
I have tried to identify this movie since a long time.
It seems like a 90's movies but I'm not sure. It's about different ghost like creatures, who come to a bar/casino where they play cards and ...
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Identify this movie: Blonde woman shot in front of school
I forgot the genre, but it was recent (last decade) and set in the US. There was this annoying senior year high school student who was sitting in a luxury car outside of High School talking on her ...
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Australian comedian making fun of Steve Irwin
Few years ago I saw an Aussie comedian on American Comedy Central show (likely Premium Blend or the like, with short bits each comedian got to perform), who made jokes about Steve Irwin (not sure if ...
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What inspired Elaine's dance moves?
In one of the most memorable jokes from Seinfeld, Elaine dances at a company party in "The Little Kicks" (S8E4), and again briefly in "The Slicer" (S9E7).
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Has Julia Louis-Dreyfus ever ...
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Help me identify this Post-apocalypse 4-8 survivors comedy series?
There was this series which I saw during the 90s in which there are 4 to 8 survivors after a nuclear war. the survivors consisted of elderly as well as young people.
This is all I remember about the ...
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Did Adam Sandler name the film 'Little Nicky' after the character in Twin Peaks?
In the year 2000, Adam Sandler, Tim Hirlihy an Steven Brill wrote the film 'Little Nicky', in which the title character was the son of the Devil.
A character in the TV series Twin Peaks was also ...
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Is kelp tape real?
In season 2 episode 7 of Archer, Rona Thorne suggests using a kelp tape cleansing technique. I was able to find some reference to kelp as a cleanser on the Google, but nothing mentioning 'tape' ...
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Nineties sitcom about small software company
I am trying to identify an old TV show with the following properties:
Was broadcast in the early 1990s in South Africa, but the show likely came from the United States
The main characters were a ...
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Was the original Evil Dead meant to be funny?
In The Evil Dead series of Sam Raimi movies, the two sequels are meant to be funny. But was that the intent of the original movie?
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Is the female “Ralph” character in So I Married an Axe Murderer playing along?
In "So I Married an Axe Murderer", Harriet (Nancy Travis) cries out for "Ralph!" in her sleep, which Charlie (Mike Myers) correctly attributes to one of her "missing" fiancés.
In trying to cover for ...
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Andy Kaufman / “Friday's” Incident: Why did Michael Richards refuse to portray himself?
In the 1999 film "Man on the Moon" starring Jim Carrey as the infamous comic Andy Kaufman, the movie takes great pains to recreate specific points in Kaufman's life. In a somewhat unorthodox fashion, ...
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Guy thinks he is chased by cops
So what is the name of this movie:
So it is comedy,from US,around 1995-2000.
Main character is short guy with blonde hair(short cut) look like Simon Pegg.
He works in some large company(desk job),he ...
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Was the original “Pink Panther” movie intended to be a comedy?
I'm a big fan of the Pink Panther movies (the ones with Peter Sellers, not new ones with Steve Martin). But after watching The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, I'm left with the impression that the ...
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To what extent were the actors in Wedding Crashers improvising?
Some comedian/actors are given creative freedom and improvise at times when producing a new film. Is there any evidence that Vince Vaughn or Owen Wilson improvised in any scenes, diverging from the ...
