{"id":381695,"date":"2026-01-21T05:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T05:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/381695\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T05:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T05:48:10","slug":"the-greatest-comedy-movies-ever-according-to-val-kilmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/381695\/","title":{"rendered":"The greatest comedy movies ever, according to Val Kilmer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Val<\/p>\n

(Credits: Far Out \/ YouTube Still)<\/p>\n

Tue 20 January 2026 19:45, UK <\/p>\n

Val Kilmer<\/a> made a lot of different kinds of films, and while he\u2019s best known as a man of action, thanks to the likes of Top Gun and Heat, he knew his way around a western, too, as his underrated performance in Tombstone can attest to, as well as fantasies, sci-fi adventures, and biopics. <\/p>\n

He really could do it all, but\u00a0one genre you don\u2019t often associate with the late icon is comedy, for his resume isn\u2019t exactly bursting with funny films. <\/p>\n

His very first film was Top Secret!, a send-up of spy movies from the team behind Airplane!, and while he might have established a foothold in the genre with the release of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, he ended up not following through<\/a>. He did make an uncredited cameo in The Love Guru, which\u2026yeah, I got nothing to defend it with.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t mean the former pin-up wasn\u2019t a fan of comedy, as he revealed while speaking to author Cindy Pearlman as part of her book, You Gotta See This: More Than 100 of Hollywood\u2019s Best Reveal and Discuss Their Favorite Films, the two classic movies he turned to whenever he was in need of a good giggle.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really like The Full Monty and Anchorman,\u201d he said, \u201cI like those movies, and those are my answers\u2026 In fact, I did a musical last year onstage. For the first few weeks during the down times I was running around backstage doing dumb Will Ferrell jokes because he plays this great pompous dumb guy in Anchorman. No one backstage knew what I was even talking about. I like this movie so much that I got a copy of the film and ran it so my 55 cast-mates could understand it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Released in 2004, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (to give the movie its full title) stars Ferrell as a hapless newsreader, set in the city of San Diego (which of course means \u2018whale\u2019s vagina\u2019 in German), offering a farcical examination of an ultra-macho workplace, which is routinely cited as one of the greatest comedy movies of the 21st century<\/a>. Its quotes are now commonplace in the English language, so if anyone ever tells you that something \u201cescalated quickly\u201d, then you\u2019ve got Anchorman to thank.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Full Monty, on the other hand, is a story about a group of out-of-work men who perform a striptease show to make money, and was seemingly less important to Kilmer at the time of this interview. They\u2019re very different films, not least in terms of setting, with The Full Monty famously based in the Yorkshire city of Sheffield, which is many miles away, both literally and culturally, from sunny California. <\/p>\n

The tones of the respective movies also vary wildly, with Anchorman being an out-and-out comedy, built solely to make people laugh, while the other film has more to it than that. It\u2019s also a drama about one character\u2019s quest to reunite with his son, while the narrative also deals with the personal problems of the rest of the gang, which is perhaps why it was nominated for \u2018Best Picture\u2019 at the Oscars, an honour rarely reserved for movies that dare to be funny.<\/p>\n

Feeling down and need a pick-me-up, you can give either of these two a go, for if they\u2019re good enough for Val, then they\u2019re good enough for anyone.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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