50 Greatest Comedy Films
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As voted for on Channel 4 (England). I agree on the winner, but some of the selections are dubious. Any glaring omissions?1. Monty Python's Life Of Brian, 19792. Airplane!, 19803. Shaun Of The Dead, 20044. Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery, 19975. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, 19996. Monty Python And The Holy Grail 19757. American Pie, 19998. Blazing Saddles, 19749. There's Something About Mary, 199810. This Is Spinal Tap, 198411. Annie Hall, 197712. Blues Brothers, 198013. Groundhog Day, 199314. The Naked Gun, 198815. Wayne's World, 199216. Some Like It Hot, 195917. Dumb And Dumber, 199418. Meet The Parents, 200019. Clerks, 199420. Young Frankenstein, 197421. Withnail & I, 198722. M*A*S*H, 197023. A Fish Called Wanda, 198824. Ghostbusters, 198425. Gregory's Girl, 198026. Ferris Bueller's Day Off, 198627. The Jerk, 197928. When Harry Met Sally, 198929. Dr Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb, 196330. Best In Show, 200031. School Of Rock, 200332. The Full Monty, 199733. Planes, Trains And Automobiles, 198734. The Odd Couple, 196835. Trading Places, 198336. Four Weddings And A Funeral, 199337. Stir Crazy, 198038. A Shot In The Dark, 196439. Team America, 200440. Duck Soup, 193341. Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure, 198842. Police Academy, 198443. The Ladykillers, 195544. Beverly Hills Cop, 198445. Kingpin, 199646. The Princess Bride, 198747. National Lampoon's Animal House, 197848. Bridget Jones' Diary, 200149. Carry On Cleo, 196450. The Producers, 1968
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What is that movie with John Candy and Steve Martin called? I can't really remember what it was all about, but I remeber it was one of the funniest movies I've seen. They both tried to get back home for Christmas and had to share a car or sth, because all airports were closed.
some Woddy Allen movies are comedy classics. well, at least more funny than Ferris Bueller.
Planes Trains and Automobiles
cool! i like that movie. the german dubing is excellent. some very very funny moments. john candy was great!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GROPE!!
thanks!
i agree with you. i like Elling a lot. which is a norwegian comedy.
thanks, mayne!
Now, I thought the movie was funny. But #3 funny... NO
... but then again I'd argue for 'Happy Gilmore' and 'Weird Science' to be included too.
The biggest suprise for me was Team America at 39. For me that film is easily on a par with South Park the movie.
"Herro, I'm Kim Il Jong"
"Fuck You Hans Blix"
"Durkah durkah, Muhammad jihad, durkah durkah" - "My god, that's the best acting I've ever seen"
"Matt Damon"
"Everybody has AIDS! AIDS, AIDS AIDS AIDS!"
and the pussys, dicks and arseholes parable among other highlights. The sex scene usually has me close to pissing myself, and the puke scene is funnier than all of Police Academy + Four Weddings & A Funeral put together.
this list is slightly better than the last one posted (maxim?), but is not without it's flaws. and it's way too british for my tastes.
The british public really need to get over Gregory's Girl. If you have to put an eighties gritty brit comedy in there please ignore that piece of whimsy and go for something like Rita, Sue & Bob Too instead.
Where the fuck is the Big Lebowski ??
What is it with the Brits and always voting in those god awful films the Full Monty & 4 Weddings onto these lists??
I caught Raising Arizona on TV over the weekend, and caught Fargo a couple weeks before that. I don't know which one of those three should make the cut, but the Coen Brothers need some represenation on that MF. Shoot, a case could even be made for The Hudsucker Proxy or The Man Who Wasn't There -- I know the Brits appreciate that subtle style.
1. Annie Hall
2. What's Up, Tiger Lily?
3. Deconstructing Harry
4. Mighty Aphrodite
5. New York Stories (segment "Oedipus Wrecks")
6. The Purple Rose of Cairo
7. Broadway Danny Rose
8. Zelig
9. A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
10. Stardust Memories
11. Manhattan
12. Love and Death
13. Sleeper (
14. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask
15. Bananas
16. Take the Money and Run
Thank you.
18. Meet The Parents, 2000
19. Clerks, 1994
Meet the Parents wasn't really funny at all. A couple good lines from Owen Wilson, but that's about it.
Funniest Stiller movie was Zoolander - which to me should definatley be on the list.
This list however, shouldn't be paid any attention to.
I just saw that Beverly Hills cop eeked in there in the low 40's. Granted its no Police academy but it has its moments
also kinda sucks that only one really funny movie was made before '55.
the first 50 years of film making were some solemn times.
It's too bad Charlie Chaplin, WC Fields, and Preston Sturges weren't around back then...
here are a few i like
-kikujiro is japanese by beat takeshi
-torrente, the stupid arm of the law is spanish
-mifunes sidste sang, danish and made accroding to the dogma 95 manifesto..
-any jacques tati film
-i Kina spiser de hunde, danish black comedy
I'm no expert in this category, but Le Magnifique is great. It runs a little long, but the first 45 mins are a must see.
A movie about a middle age guy who is having sex with a high school girl made a few years before it was revealed that the middle age guy who made the movie was having sex with a high school girl.
I used to like that movie, but it is far to creepy for me now.
My Cousin Vinnie!
Carry On Cleo? Whats that?
Was only one Marx Bros film allowed?
Tall Blonde Man With One Black Shoe.
It was a viewers vote poll, so it makes sense that older films, foriegn films, and smarter films did not make the cut.
Full Monty was funny first time I saw it. The second time it was a depressing film about out of work industrial workers.
Whats been missing are some of these:
Kentucky Fried Chicken
Amazons on the Moon
Ghettobusters / I'm gonna git you sucker (Great BDP performance at the end)
Hollywood Shuffle
The General (Almost anything by Buster Keaton was dope)
The Dictator (Almost anything by Chaplin was dope)
Some Jerry Lewis stuff
and so on
Peace
Hawkeye
Agreed on both of these films. My theory is that Gregory's Girl was only a hit because people fancied Clare "Happy Birthday" Grogan and the film was shown in cinemas alongside Ghandi. And frankly, after sitting through 3 turgid hours of Ghandi, Gregory's Girl seems like a fucking genius of a comedy.
I'd add As Good As It Gets to the list despite how annoying Helen Hunt and her on-screen mother were.
-it's voted for by the public (online I think, although I'm not sure) so there's bound to be some rubbish in there. And, the more recent movies will always get a disproportionately high vote. (if you really want to see how wrong they can be, you should check out the greatest singles, or lps, show, that???s made by the same people.)
-the majority of English people would have probably never seen a foreign language comedy film.
I don't think anyone's taking it that seriously, are they? Just re-reading this thread and there's no outrage or anger, just folks saying what films they do and don't like.