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Is there a funnier 90s comedy?


http://www.cutprintfilm.com/features/the-50-best-comedies-of-the-90s/

Mike Myers was the 90s version of early-day Bill Murray. His self-aware smart-ass persona was perfectly balanced out with an earnestness that existed in all his characters, from Austin Powers to his iconic roster of SNL mainstays (Dieter, Linda Richman, Simon, etc.), but his turn as Wayne Campbell, co-host of the Aurora, IL cable access TV show “Wayne’s World” will forever be Myers’ biggest and most influential contribution to comedy.

So popular was “Wayne’s World” as a piece of sketch comedy that SNL head-honcho Lorne Michaels decided to give it a go as a feature length movie. And while most SNL sketches cannot (and historically have not) succeeded when stretched to 90 plus minutes, Wayne’s World is something special. Rather than just turn in an extended comedy skit, Myers and company used Wayne’s World as means to skewer anything and everything they saw fit. From selling out to dude culture to the very genre of comedy itself, no topic is safe from the wise-cracking and whipsmart script.

Aside from being infinitely quotable, Wayne’s World also delights in iconic sight/sound gags such as the “Bohemian Rhapsody” car ride, Garth Algar (Dana Carvey) dancing to Jimi Hendrix’s “Foxy Lady” as he imagines himself seducing a woman at the local donut joint, and and incredible grand finale that involves several different versions of how the movie might end. Sha-wing.

http://www.cutprintfilm.com/features/the-50-best-comedies-of-the-90s/

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This has always been the quintessential comedy for me. Not just of the 90s, but of all-time. One of my favorite movies ever, along with the sequel.

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Clerks, groundhog day

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