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Who are some of your favorite comedic movie characters?

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From starring roles to cameos, what comedic movie characters do you really enjoy watching?

Cruise is nuts but this role cracks me up every time I see it. Listen here Fwaming Dragon, go *&% yourseeelf!

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Will Ferrell was great in Old School and Wedding Crashers. Ma...meatloaf!!! &^%$!!!
Still love Chris Farley in Tommy Boy.
Not sure if William Macy role in Fargo counts as comedic, but he there's a dark humor in his performance.

Who you got?
 
nic cage in raising arizona


Judge rheinhold in fast times ridgemont high

bill murray in meatballs and stripes

ted knight and rodney dangerfield in caddyshack
 
Reverend Brown(Arsenio) from Coming to America

Cal Naughton(John Reilly) from Talladega Nights

Brian Fantana(Paul Rudd) from Anchorman
 
Not in movies, but Michael Richard's Cosmo Kramer still cracks me up. He's useless in any other venue, so it's definitely the character I enjoy.
 
George Clooney from "O Brother..." and Jeff Bridges from "Big Lebowski" are 2 that come to mind.
 
The scene in Slap Shot where the cops come to arrest the Hanson brothers in the locker room and Paul Newman is telling the cops to take them, he can't handle them anymore, and then closes the door and encourages the Hanson brothers and the rest of the Chiefs, is a classic and one of my favorites as a kid. Paul Newman as Reggie Dunlop was great!

Also mentioned above: Stripes-Bill Murray and Harold Ramis, Caddyshack-Chase, Dangerfield, Knight Fletch-Chevy Chase, Tommy Boy with Spade and Farley.

Reggie Hammond (might have been more of a drama, but Murphy was funny as hell....Roooooooooxaannnnne!). Eddie Murphy had a great run with 48 Hours, Trading Places and Beverly Hills Cop, loved his characters in all of those movies. He also had decent characters in Coming To America and The Golden Child.

Steve Guttenberg as Mahoney in Police Academy.

Uncle Buck!

McCroskey (Lloyd Bridges) and Rumack (Leslie Nielsen) in Airplane.

Jake and Elwood Blues.

Everyone character in Animal House.
 
Ted Nugent
Arnold Babar
Dr. Rosenpenis
Dr. Rosenrosen
Dr. Rosen
John Cocktosten
Mr. Poon
Igor Stravinsky
Fletch F. Fletch
Gordon Liddy
Don Corleone
Alan Stanwyk
Harry S. Truman
Mattress Police
Geometry Fletch
Mary Poppins
Nostradamus
Baba au Rum
Jane Doe
Peggy Lee Zorba
Victor Hugo
Henry Himler (Hank Himler)
Billy Jean King
Eldridge Cleaver
Claud Henry Smoot
Peter Lemonjello
Ed Harley
Elmer Fudd Gantry
Bobby Lee Swartz
 
Originally posted by More Kirk Less Spock:

One of my favorites is the lesser known character played by Bill Murray in The Man Who Knew Too Little.
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Good one.
 
Mickey O'Neil (Brad Pitt) in Snatch

Bill Blazejowski (Michael Keaton) in Night Shift
 
Manch - great list /

Also liked Rodney Dangerfield in Back to School -

Stripes was awesome -

Golden Child had some funny bits. I...I....I want the ....Kniiiiife...

Caught slapstick the other night / when watching that movie as a kid I laughed so hard I cried.
 
Not sure why this just popped in my head but for anyone with teenage kids, the Madagascar movies were probably in your rotation at some point. Those penguins cracked me up every time they were on screen.
 
Originally posted by More Kirk Less Spock:
Manch - great list /

Also liked Rodney Dangerfield in Back to School -

Stripes was awesome -

Golden Child had some funny bits. I...I....I want the ....Kniiiiife...

Caught slapstick the other night / when watching that movie as a kid I laughed so hard I cried.
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I only listed a few movies that I remember watching when I was between 10-14 years old, because I think they are shown on TV still to this day. There a bunch of others out there and I could probably start with characters from Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs, and I can't mention comedic characters without mentioning Blazing Saddles.
 
Originally posted by LesClaypool:
Ted Nugent
Arnold Babar
Dr. Rosenpenis
Dr. Rosenrosen
Dr. Rosen
John Cocktosten
Mr. Poon
Igor Stravinsky
Fletch F. Fletch
Gordon Liddy
Don Corleone
Alan Stanwyk
Harry S. Truman
Mattress Police
Geometry Fletch
Mary Poppins
Nostradamus
Baba au Rum
Jane Doe
Peggy Lee Zorba
Victor Hugo
Henry Himler (Hank Himler)
Billy Jean King
Eldridge Cleaver
Claud Henry Smoot
Peter Lemonjello
Ed Harley
Elmer Fudd Gantry
Bobby Lee Swartz
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This is kind of a layup answer for sure, but all the characters from Anchorman are pretty awesome.

Bill Murray in Ground Hog Day is great.

Michael Cera in This is the End was funny

I like Chevy Chase in Funny Farm.

I could go one forever with this list...and I'm more than sure if I thought about it longer I could come up with some much better ones. I'm trying to think of some under the radar ones though.
 
Not all comedies but I like the comedy surrounding their characters

Tommy from Goodfellas
Quint from Jaws
Marcellus Wallace from Pulp Fiction
Warden Norton from Shawshank
Judge Smells from Caddyshack
The Matt Damon cameo singing 'Scotty doesn't know'
Buddy Revel playing the pissed off cop in Something About Mary (Matt Damon in this movie)
Daryl the soul glow guy in Coming to America
OJ in Naked Gun (can't believe that guy is a muderer)
Lt Frank Drebin from Naked Gun
From Airplane--> Kareem, Leslie Nielson as the doctor, the two guys who speak jive, Kramer, Lloyd Bridges
Big Ern from Kingpin
Walter from Big Lebowski
many others I'm sure I can't think of now
 
Bill Murray in What About Bob cracks me up.

Not a movie, but my all time favorite comedic character is Kenny Powers. I must have cried from laughing so hard in a majority of the episodes
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Every line from Rodney in Caddyshack is gold. Trying to come up with some not mentioned...

Stifler in the American Pie movies (and others where he's basically playing Stifler)
The video store guy in Clerks
Frank the Tank (might be covered in the Will Ferrell catch-all above)
Long Duck Dong
Japanese drag racing brothers in Better Off Dead
ESPN Ocho announcers in Dodgeball
 
Originally posted by 44DaCuse44:
Every line from Rodney in Caddyshack is gold. Trying to come up with some not mentioned...

Stifler in the American Pie movies (and others where he's basically playing Stifler)
The video store guy in Clerks
Frank the Tank (might be covered in the Will Ferrell catch-all above)
Long Duck Dong
Japanese drag racing brothers in Better Off Dead
ESPN Ocho announcers in Dodgeball
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How could I forget these guys? Truly a sight to behold. The once great Lane Meyer now washed up
 
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