Our Staff Picks column is a new addition that takes you back to a time when video stores reigned supreme and the "Staff Picks" section was the place to find out what films were worthy of one's time. Of course, our version has a decidedly nude angle, as we suss out which films from a certain genre with great nudity. This week: 90s comedies.
Why the 90s? It was a good time to see young actors who would become future hunks go nude. Comedies, as any fan of dudity knows, used to be the best place to see nudity because male nudity was often played for laughs. While I don't love that, I do love seeing sexy naked men.
So I Married an Axe Murderer
This is one of my personal favorite 90s comedies and it delivers a rare rear shot from Michael Meyers. The film is about a commitment-phobe who meets the woman of his dreams. He wants to marry her, but he becomes worried that she might be a murderer known as Mrs. X that he read about in a tabloid magazine. Is he being paranoid or does he have to look out for his life?! You have to watch the weird comedy to find out, but I am gladly looking out for his ass.
George of the Jungle
Brendan Fraser is having a great comeback which is well-deserved because he is super talented. He is also hot. Remember 1990s Brendan? He was a babe with his chiseled, oiled-up body when he was playing the titular George in 1997's George of the Jungle. While this funny film isn't considered a comedy dynamo, it is well worth watching for all of this glistening eye candy.
BASEketball
South Park is still on the air, but it was hot when it first started airing. It was so hot that the animated series creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, became minor celebrities. It turned out that the edgy young guys from Colorado were also super attractive. They made this raunchy comedy about baseball that showed off their butts when the two of them are in a locker room together. If you love South Park's irreverent humor and you like funny guys in the buff, then this is the movie for you.
White Men Can't Jump
This 1992 sports comedy featured Woody Harrelson in his undies giving us all wood. Well, before that happens the movie is based on friends Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes who are streetball hustlers. Woody and his girlfriend run into gambling debt problems and they turn to Wesley for some help. Together they decide to enter a two-on-two tournament that has a cash prize.
Their hustles snowball even further from there! When two hustlers are trying to hustle each other out of money, it's a riot. It's also a riot to see Woody's dick outline in his tighty whiteys.
Muriel's Wedding
This Australian comedy is absolutely darling. I recently rewatched it and I am just as obsessed now as I was when I was a tween. Toni Collette plays a nerdy adult woman who is obsessed with ABBA and the idea of having a big wedding. After spending time feeling like a loser in her hometown, she moves to the city and starts finding herself. Part of finding herself includes hanging out with the hot Kevin Copeland and hooking up in her apartment.
Later in the movie, Toni's Muriel agrees to an arranged marriage with a foreign athlete looking to stay in Australia. She checks out her hottie hubby with a fit body as he does some practice laps. Lucky girl, Muriel!
Mallrats
Kevin Smith was an indie provocateur who gave overeducated comic book nerds some representation with his film Clerks. He followed that 1994 comedy up with Mallrats, a comedy about consumerism that takes place in a mall. I loved Mallrats for its many hyperbolic conversations about superhero mechanics and food court functions, but others might remember the hot piece of ass that shows up for one scene. Michael Rooker shows his beefcake booty which is something that I would pay money to see again:
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Love! Valour! Compassion!
This comedy is sorely underrated and it is delightfully gay. Theater director Joe Mantello directed this story of seven friends who spend a summer together in upstate New York. It is a summer to remember because of all of the drop-dead gorgeous men in this movie who go nude. Men like Randy Becker are beckoning us with his dick when he hangs out nude on the dock.
Plus, there is an entire scene where all of the guys ditch their clothes for a little night swim. If you love hot guys with beautiful buns and cocks to match then this is the scene - and the movie - for you:
American Pie
We cannot talk about 90s comedies without talking about American Pie. The decade went out with a bang in 1999 with this sex comedy that ushered in a brand new era of sex comedies. The guys are trying to figure out young adulthood, school, and sex in this wildly hetero movie that delivered a good amount of dudity. Remember when Chris Klein was a total doll in the locker room?
And, of course, we have to give acknowledgment to the iconic Jason Biggs scene where he bangs a pie. His ass never looked so sweet!
