The Highest Highs And Lowest Lows Of Sports Comedy

These sports comedies are a strike!
The Highest Highs And Lowest Lows Of Sports Comedy

Sports are great vehicles for comedy, because the David vs. Goliath plotline is so easy for us to follow that we can just focus on the jokes. Like road trip comedies. We have to get from point A to point B in the funniest way possible. Let’s go! Sports comedies also allow for a whole team’s worth of funny characters, and as far as we’re concerned, the more the merrier! Well, sometimes there’s a solo sport like golf or bowling, but like the breakfast time shit-eater, they make for some of the best villains of all time!

 

Not just in the niche subgenre of sports comedies, some of these are up there with the best comedies of all time. Some just picked a sport, threw in some bad jokes, and completely struck out… Or air balled… Or missed the net completely. Here are some of the best and worst that sports comedies had to offer. You be the judge.

Best: Caddyshack

CRACKED BEST CADDYSHACK Rodney Dangerfield takes golf down a tee or two. This irreverent comedy kicked off the 80s in all the right ways. Bill Murray and Chevy Chase brought some spice to the bland pretentiousness of golf (as golf comedies tend to do) and that stuffy old Judge Smails was the perfect heel for Rodney Dangerfield.

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Worst: Caddyshack II

CRACKED WORST CADDYSHACK II Caddyshack without Bill Murray or Rodney Dangerfield. In case you didn't know a sequel existed, eight years after the original, Caddyshack II had people everywhere wondering how it fell so short of the hole. With no Bill Murray and no Rodney Dangerfield, Chevy Chase's jabs were watered down for a PG rating.

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Best: Slapshot

CRACKED BEST CHARLI ALL-AMER SLAP SHOT Brutally hilarious, and hilariously brutal. Released in 1977, Slap Shot is still referred to as the best hockey movie of all time. It captured the more brutal '70s style of hockey, and those blood-soaked Hanson Brothers were some of the funniest, most memorable characters of all time.

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Worst: Slapshot 2: Breaking the Ice

CRACKED WORST CED TIME MODEY SLAP SHOT 2: BREAKING THE ICE A sequel a quarter century in the making. Twenty five years after the original, heavy hitters Stephen Baldwin and Gary Busey (cue the eyeroll) led an all new cast of misfits, and it felt like one big excuse to feature the now fifty year old Hanson Brothers.

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Best: BASEketball

CRACKED BEST H 4 Peers Beers BASEKETBALL South Park creators create their own sport. BASEketball was a game where any out of shape nobody could be a star, and the psych out portion let Trey Parker & Matt Stone do their hilariously immature thing! It was their own original comedic style which was (clearly) skewered by critics, but adored by fans.

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Worst: MVP: Most Valuable Primate

CRACKED WORST C C M CCM MVP: MOST VALUABLE PRIMATE What came first, the premise or the title? There's a snobbish redundancy to trashing a movie where the star hockey player is a chimp. Some kids probably look back on it fondly, so it served its purpose. In this Air Bud production, Jack did brought his team (their joke, not ours) a chimpionship.

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Best: Major League

CRACKED BEST OME INDIANS 99 YO WILD been MAJOR LEAGUE A lovable bunch of misfits. This cast is what sports team ensembles are all about! When an evil team owner wants the team to finish dead last (to relocate to Miami), she assembles a rag tag group of rejects and has-beens. Charlie Sheen, Wesley Snipes, and Tom Berenger helped bring a stadium's worth of lovability.

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Worst: Benchwarmers

CRACKED WORST THE JACKSON BENCHWARMERS Warming the sports comedy bench. If Rob Schneider, David Spade, and John Heder train hard enough, they can beat children at baseball. Most sports comedies have premises that initially sound terrible, but the good ones pull them off with hilarious jokes and lovable characters. Benchwarmers had none of those. Cue the nut shots.

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Worst: Juwanna Mann

CRACKED WORST JUWANNA MANN Juwanna Mann makes White Chicks look Oscar worthy. We could get behind a good reason, like Robin Williams needing to see his kids in Mrs. Doubtfire, but this disgraced male NBA player dresses drag to dunk on women. Oh and the jokes fall flat. There, we said it.

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Best: Happy Gilmore

CRACKED BEST HAPPY GILMORE Still one of Sandler's best. Critics rarely give it credit, but juxtaposing the brutality of hockey with the pretentiousness of golf was a stroke (sorry) of genius! Shooter McGavin is a perfect love-to-hate villain, and Happy's brawl with Bob Barker will live on forever.

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Best: Dodgeball

CRACKED BEST << Avente DO Arult Joig DODGEBALL Chuck Norris approves! Dodgeball chose a very original sport, normally reserved for high school gym class, and injected some serious stakes. This hilarious ensemble trains with Rip Torn at his saltiest to take on the evil Ben Stiller, while top notch cameos pop in at all the right times.

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Worst: Ladybugs

CRACKED WORST SCORP LADYBUGS The '90s loved dressing up boys to beat girls in sports. It sucks to see Rodney Dangerfield on the dark side of this list, but his zingers are watered down for a younger audience. His character has his son dress up as a girl to win girls' soccer games all for a promotion and the affection of a woman.

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Best: Kingpin

CRACKED BEST BUNLIG KINGPIN Bowling counts as a sport! Not one of the Farrelly brothers' most well known films, but Woody Harrelson and Randy Quaid are a hilarious odd couple in Kingpin. This dark, grimy bowling movie has jokes for days, and a villainous Bill Murray rivals Shooter McGavin for best all-time comedy villain.

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