IGN's Robert Canning in a 2008 review of the episode noted, " though not the funniest of episodes, it certainly was groundbreaking.

The authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, called it " A fun episode, with Rodney Dangerfield putting a lot of pathos into Larry – and Homer's impassioned speech atop the cinema at the climax is one of his funniest moments.

He also called it " the funniest half-hour in TV history ", and provided a full analysis of the episode, only criticizing the chalkboard and couch gags.

" Todd VanDerWerff of Slant Magazine named it the show's best episode, stating " It's the one you think of when you think of a Simpsons episode ," and is " maybe the show's funniest, and it most perfectly encapsulates what may be the show's overriding theme: People are really stupid and self-serving, but if you give them long enough, they'll eventually bumble toward the right answer.

Jim Schembri of the Australian newspaper The Age named it the funniest episode ever.

IGN called the episode " the funniest Treehouse of Horror to date ".

The episode was written by Tony McHale and, despite the criticism, it is considered by EastEnders writer Colin Brake as " one of the funniest and most outrageous episodes " of EastEnders ever aired ".

In an interview conducted by Entertainment Weekly in 2000 celebrating the show's tenth anniversary, Groening named " Bart the Daredevil " his favorite episode of the series, and chose the scene in which Homer is loaded into an ambulance and then falls out of it as the funniest moment in the series.

" In his book Doug Pratt's DVD, DVD reviewer and Rolling Stone contributor Doug Pratt chooses the episode as one of the funniest of the series.

" Simon Crerar of Times Online named Paul and Linda McCartney's performance in the episode as one of the thirty-three " funniest Simpsons cameos ever ", and Larry Dobrow and Mike Errico of Blender listed it as the eighth best band cameo in the show's history.

Nate Boss of Project-Blu wrote that, while it featured Rainier Wolfcastle, which he considered to be " one of the funniest characters in Simpsons lore ," the episode " doesn't tread ground that hasn't been tread a few times before.

They comment that the funniest of the episode is the love triangle between Satan, Saddam Hussein and Chris.

" In a review of the episode for The Gazette, Alex Strachan writes: " Missionary: Impossible ... may not be the funniest Simpsons episode ever made.

" Strachan quotes Homer's description of the television program Do Shut Up to Bart: " If they're not having a go with a bird, they're having a row with a wanker ," as one of the funniest moments in the episode.

" The episode was part of a DVD boxed set release called: The Simpsons Kiss and Tell: The Story of Their Love, and in his review of the release Andy Dougan of the Evening Times characterized the episode along with " Large Marge ", " Three Gays of the Condo ", and " The Way We Weren't " as " four of the funniest episodes of recent series.

Critics reacted positively to the opening sequence ; in his review of the episode, Mark McGuire of The Times Union wrote: "... the first minute or so of the resurrected Family Guy ranks among the funniest 60 seconds I've seen so far this season.

Patrick Bromley of DVD Verdict gave the episode a grade of A for its " excellent bits thrown together to make this one, joke for joke, one of the season's funniest ".

" Nate Meyers of Digitally Obsessed gave it a 5 / 5 rating, and highlighted the scenes with Marge's sisters Patty and Selma, " barraging Homer with insults ", as the " funniest moments " of the episode.

" Writing for MacLean's magazine, Jaime J. Weinman described " Homer vs. Lisa and the Eighth Commandment " as " the first truly great episode — the one that established The Simpsons as the funniest and most multi-layered sitcom around.

In his 2009 review, Ahsan Haque of IGN, rating the episode a 9. 9 / 10, called the episode an " instant classic " and " one of the funniest and most creatively constructed episodes of Family Guy ".

It was my worst moment — and if you weren't me, probably the funniest thing that ever happened.

Nichols ' crowning achievement, though, was probably his collaboration with Hagar Wilde on the screenplay for Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), considered one of the funniest of the 1930s screwball comedies.

Novelist Nelson Algren argued that the novel was “ a memorable American comedy by an original storyteller .” Estimable reviews by such noted writers and literary critics as Anatole Broyard, Jerome Charyn, Guy Davenport, and Shelby Foote were followed by the Times Literary Supplement review which saw the novel as “ Faulknerian in its gentle wryness, and a freakish imaginative flair reminiscent of Flannery O ' Connor .” The influential profile writer and music journalist Stanley Booth observed that Suttree was “ probably the funniest and most unbearably sad of McCarthy ’ s books ... which seem to me unsurpassed in American literature .”

Matt Haigh of Den of Geek quoted " it is probably one of the funniest Halloween episodes of the show's history ".

" The Army is, God bless it, one of the funniest institutions on earth and also a sort of microcosm of the world.

The movie is disjointed and inconsistent ..." and "... a wildly funny joy ride ...", "... despite its bad moments, is some of the funniest American cinema comedy in years.

Roger Ebert later claimed that " this is one of the funniest movies ever made.

Excellent Women is a novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1952 and generally acclaimed as the funniest and most successful of her comedies of manners.

The best known track from Skullmonkeys is the " Li ' l Bonus Room " track, regarded by many in the video game industry as the single funniest track ever written for a video game.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 4 stars out of 4 and wrote " This Is Spinal Tap is one of the funniest, most intelligent, most original films of the year.

" Alessandra Stanley from the New York Times asserted that Louis-Dreyfus's performance on the series proved she is " one of the funniest women on network television.

Frank Rich, who had called it " the funniest play written in my lifetime ", wrote that the film is " one of the worst ever made.

He has gone on to say that this is his favourite scene and the funniest in the whole movie.

The film is ranked number 26 on the AFI's 100 Years … 100 Laughs list, a list released by American Film Institute in 2000 of the top 100 funniest films in American cinema.

" Commenting on the second series, the Mail on Sunday reported " Coupling is still the funniest thing around ...

From 1935 to 1945, Lord directed some of Columbia's fastest and funniest two-reelers and is credited with developing the unique comic style of the Three Stooges.

The Athenaeum wrote, " it is certainly the funniest thing in the world ... a vile caricature of a vain nobleman, intensely ignorant, and extremely indolent ".

Broom-Stick Bunny is usually cited as Jones ' funniest Witch Hazel outing.

Consultant, Steve Jaffe, “ I love Dick Gregory ; he is one of the funniest people on the planet .” They spoke of how Gregory had made a comment on Dr. King ’ s birthday that broke everyone into laughter, when he noted that the President made Speaker Newt Gingrich ride “ in the back of the plane ,” on an Air Force One trip overseas.

When Charles is forced to spend his holidays with him because he has already spent his allowance for the term, Ned, in what are considered some of the funniest passages in the book, strives to make Charles as uncomfortable as possible, indirectly teaching him to mind his finances more carefully.

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker was the last of the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett, and is considered by many to be his best and funniest work.

The cartoon is widely praised as one of the greatest and funniest Warner Bros. cartoons of all time.

It is generally recalled as one of the funniest flops of the marketing industry.

Spencer said that she is " one of the funniest people on Earth ".

The videos deemed funniest by the screeners then go on to the show's producers, then is turned over to Di Bona and another producer for final approval.

John Champman of the New York Daily News called it " the funniest, most captivating, and most expert musical comedy one could hope to see ... the show is pure, plain musical comedy, with jokes, dancing, oddball costumes ... exceptionally catching orchestrations ... and a completely enthusiastic cast.

He is the most goofiest, funniest, energetic and also a comic book geek he also is very gullible but very kind hearted.