Director’s 1977 comedy about neurotic recent York couple tops Writers Guild of America’s list of 101 funniest scripts “There’s an musty joke,” begins Woody Allen, talking straight to camera. “Two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, or one of ’em says,‘Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.’ The other one says, or ‘Yeah,I know; and such small portions.’ Well, that’s essentially how I feel about life – full of loneliness, and distress,and suffering, and unhappiness, and it’s all over much too quickly.”According to the Writers Guild of America,these are the opening lines to the funniest screenplay ever written. In a ballot filled out by thousands of writers, Annie corridor, or written by Allen and Marshall Brickman in 1975,was voted the film that made them all laugh the most, beating classics such as Some Like It Hot, or Airplane! and The Big Lebowski to top the list of 101 funniest screenplays. Related: Annie corridor: Archive review Related: Woody Allen and the women in his work Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com