What's the Saddest Movie Ever? Or When Do Comics Hide Their Tears?
Laughter might be the best medicine but crying will help you cope. We asked three standup comics -- experts at tickling the funny bone -- to pick the movies that most touched their hearts. After all, isn't comedy just tragedy plus timing?
Comic: Jane Condon,
Last Comic Standing
Website: janecondon.com
Memorable Movie Moment: "Just once in your life, see a movie in Times Square. Everyone talks to the screen. Best place I could have seen Star Wars. Everyone was yelling, 'Yeah! Yoda!' At first, I was appalled. By the end, I'm pumping my fists and screaming, "Yeah!! Yoda!!!"
Favorite Sad Movies
1. Casablanca: "Ingrid Bergman! Don't get on the plane with Laszlo! Rick really loves you!"
2. Titanic: "The Irish, my people, have to ride in steerage. They never even make it to the lifeboats."
3. Love Story: "I'm a blue-collar girl and I dated a guy from Harvard. So I really identified...except for the ending."
Comic: Kristen Schaal, The Flight of the Conchords
Website: myspace.com/kristenschaal
Memorable Movie Moment: "Remember that movie Crash? It starred Holly Hunter and it was an auto-erotica movie with James Spader. It's really disturbing. It was just me and my boyfriend and two old men in the theater. Then the film started melting and I thought that was the best part. But then they fixed it and I walked out. It's the only movie I walked out of... No, I walked out of Daredevil."
Favorite Sad Movies
1. My Girl:
"It was the first movie where I cried in the theater. The moment at the funeral where she looked down and was for the first time having to deal with death -- that got to me. I was embarrassed and I didn't want my mom to see me crying."
2. The Piano: "It's about isolation and expression. The only one way she could express herself was through the piano and all of a sudden, it was being used against her."
3. Secretary: (Maggie Gyllenhaal's character) "is completely off beat. She is a lot like Holly Hunter in a way too -- very isolated. I really just liked watching her find her power. The movie starts sad but becomes somewhat triumphant at the end.

Comic: Steven Michael Quezada, Breaking Bad
Website: stevenmichaelquezada.com
Memorable Movie Moment: "When The Passion of the Christ came out, I waited 'til the run was almost done; I was going to make my own decision. This Asian couple -- a little old lady and her daughter -- sat a couple rows down from me and other people sat behind us. Movie starts... Soon as the subtitles came on, the Asian lady starts translating to her mother in whatever language. Then right behind me the lady starts translating into Spanish for her husband. So here I am -- I'm watching in Aramaic, trying to read English, listening to both languages being translated... I couldn't believe it -- I waited and waited and I went on the wrong damn day: I went on translation day."
Favorite Sad Movies
1. I Am Sam: "I'm supposed to be this tough guy, this real hard-nosed Latino, growing up in the hood kind of comic. I cried the whole movie. I could relate."
2. The Pursuit of Happyness: "There is no happiness in that whole pursuit. I can relate to that: Comics are funny people, but their lives, for the most part, are miserable."
3. 50 First Dates: "You'll probably think I'm crazy. She loses her memory everyday and he had enough in him that he would go and woo her everyday because he loved her so much! Think about if somebody loved you like that."










What A Wimp! LOL!
what, no steel magnolias on the list?
that movie is sad.
watching sally fields doing her laugh/cry routine really depresses me.
It's funny that you mention Steel Magnolias. For some reason that movie made me cry and cry. I saw it with my sister and she had to wait with me through the end credits while I pulled myself together. It's one of only times in my life where I was effected like that. And I have no idea why it got to me.
E.T. -- It was the first VHS tape my mother ever bought my sister and I. We had never seen it. We bawled when the aliens left E.T. behind, we bawled when he got sick and almost died, we bawled when he went home and left the children. We were so traumatized we made my mother return the tape!
By far the saddest movie of all time would have to be PHENOMENON With John Travolta. The scene in the hospital when he's dying gets me in the heart strings every time. I joke with people that it effects me this way, even though I've seen the movie a dozen times and am fully aware of the approaching scene. My buddys' laugh at me when that moisture appears in my eyes (being the "tough guy") But I don't care ...The chicks dig a "sensitive" guy!
Ha! I cried during Phenomenon too!
The totally saddest movie I've ever seen is the "The Notebook". It is the classic story of love between two people. (sigh) Steven...I always knew you had a big corazon! Nothing is as attractive as a man who shows his soft side. Your wife and I are both very fortunate women. My Hubby is a "big teddy bear" (Elvis voice) uh huh.
God bless.
V.
I disagree with all of you. I'll have to side with Steven on this one. 50 first dates was suprisingly a major tear jerker for me as well!
Wow! I just clicked the link to Steven's website www.stevenmichaelquezada.com. This guy is up and coming! Hard to imagine him cyring at any movie.......
Back Story with Susan Hayward is my favorite "sad" movie.
Have you people not seen Sophie's Choice or Out of Africa?
Imitation of Life with Lana Turner has got to be the ultimate tear jerker.
The Last Picture Show, Peggy Sue Got Married, Poison, and My Own Private Idaho are all films that made me weep like a baby.
"Dark Victory" w/Bette Davis, George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald.
If you need a good cry here are three of the Saddest movies I ever saw,
Penny Serenade..Cary Grant/ Irene Dunne
Stella Dallas....Barbara Stanwick and the remake
Stella.......Bette Midler
Get your tissue box!
I must say that Steel Magnolias is my favorite tear jerker but there are other good ones like yaya sisterhood, sisterhood of the traveling pants,the notebook,terms of endearment,john q, ray, we were soldiers, and i am sam just to name a few
At the end of Forrest Gump my throat is always tight, and often my eyes are teary.
I picked My Girl. Where are his glasses? He can't see without his glasses! He was gonna be an acrobat.
My favorite sad movie is The Red Shoes. A dancer is forced to choose between her love of dance and the man she loves. How can a person choose between what she was born to do and the love of her life?
THE Notebook WAS overlooked as the saddest movie ever. THINK ABOUT IT,KIDS!!!!!