Funniest Movie- My all time favorite has to be A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. It is the perfect mix of comic values; a blistering pace, ridiculous pratfalls, mistaken identities, double entendres, and Zero Mostel. When I watch it I get tears of sheer joy. Other great movies, Mel's Young Frank of course, as well as Blazing Saddles, High Anxiety, and The Producers, Woody's Play It Again Sam, and the one wwhere Woody is frozen and thawed in the future, Airplane (the first time),Trains,Planes and Automobiles, and Sellers in The PInk Panther. I've got to admit I loved Ace Ventura, both movies (The escape from the rhino is a true classic."Oh, look children! The mother rhino is giving birth!")

Funniest TV show- Barney Miller. The one where a cake full of pot was seized as evidence, then eaten by the crew at Fish's birthday party was gut-wrenchingly funny. Also Monty Python, Taxi, Cheers, Fernwood Tonight and The Carol Burnette Show, Seinfeld Funniest comedian or Comedy Group- Jonathan Winters was the all-time master of the ad-lib, and Robin Williams owes him everything. John Candy was great on Second City, and in Planes, Trains. Also Firesign (Most o the time),Letterman, the new Daily Show host, early Steve Martin,Stephen Wright,Rowan Atkinson,a lot of Chevy Chase.

Not Funny!- Green Acres. I used to actually get claustrophobic if I had to watch more than 5 minutes. Petticoat Junction, which was a spinoff of Acres. The Marx Bros (most of the time), The Three Stooges (all of the time), Mike Meyers as Austin Powers, Jerry Lewis, Adam Sandler,and the guy who does the musical political satires, yeah-Mark Russell!"And now my salute to Monica Lewinsky, to the tune of 'I've Been Workin' on the Railroad!'" Which reminds me of Weird Al Yankovic, who is also trying way too hard. And you English People! Some of the stuff that you find funny! My wife sat me down to watch some guy called "Magical Cooper"! She's in hysterics, and I keep going "What? What'd he say? What's funny?"

I also think Seed, Art, Catspaw, Alice, Fielding, Peter T,Bert, Katlaughing, SeanM, fadac and some of you others are extremely humorous. And I really think Skarpi is putting us all on.

LEJ