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Shaun Micallef's World Around Him (1996)
Even the name is funny.
The title, of course, refers to wildlife/travel TV show 'The World Around Us'. This hour-long TV special got Shaun Micallef his own show, and with good cause. I think the 'Psycho' joke at the opening of the show sets the tone for the whole thing. There's some touching musical moments, some sketches with Shaun's old buddies from 'Full Frontal' and an interview with a numerologist or similar. Anyways, it's good, and the only place so far you can find it is on the 'Incompleat Micallef' Double DVD out now (In Australia, at least).
"Excuse me, do you have a room?" "Of course I do, I live here!"
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (2002)
Underrated brilliance.
This is the funniest movie I have ever seen. I spent 81 minutes trying not to wet myself.
You have probably seen some of Steve Oedekerk's (The Chosen One, writer, director, producer, dubbed voices) other work, for instance Bruce Almighty, Patch Adams, Nothing to Lose or the Ace Ventura movies. With this one he takes a completely different route - madcap, nonsensical comedy. Take Mystery Science Theater 3000, any Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker movie, and an episode of The Simpsons and put them in a flaming sack full of snakes. Tie sack up. Feed sack to various rodents. You've got Kung Pow.
Clever editing and dubbery of a 1977 kung-fu movie 'Tiger and Crane Fists' and the insertion of zany new scenes is what this movie is. The jokes can only be appreciated by those with either a sick, twisted sense of humour or an open mind. The jokes are clever yet stupid, and occasionally stoop to crude and/or toilet humour. Excellent.
What you may notice is that people absolutely love this movie or completely despise it. Literally. Check the detailed user ratings and you'll see what I mean.
So, if you want every conversation you ever have to turn into a frenzied quote-fest of lines like "I spanked you as a baby, I'll spank you now" or "I've got some yellow liquid for your popcorn... and it's non-dairy!" then watch this movie.
Otherwise, watch this movie.