Favorite Comedy Movies (1 Viewer)

[markdc]

What are your favorite comedy movies? You can list ANY kind of comedy, i.e. rom-com, parody, satire, screwball, etc.

Here’s my top 25
1.Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2.The Producers (1967)
3.Groundhog Day
4.Modern Times
5.Manhattan
6.Annie Hall
7.City Lights
8.Back to the Future
9.Bull Durham
10.Some Like It Hot
11.Young Frankenstein
12.Blazing Saddles
13.Almost Famous
14.Ed Wood
15.Team America: World Police
16.After Hours
17.Tin Cup
18.It Happened One Night
19.A Christmas Story
20.Spaceballs
21.You’ve Got Mail
22.There’s Something About Mary
23.Dumb and Dumber
24.Kingpin
25.Sabrina (1995)

Mark

 

[j brown's body]

Maybe since I worked in music for so many years, my favorite is probably Spinal Tap.

Second might be Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Then pretty much anything by the Marx Brothers, W.C. Fields or Preston Sturges.

 

[WillyPete]

Personal favorite > Let it Ride (Richard Dreyfuss horse track gambler yarn with a great cast.)

Other good'uns:

The Princess Bride
The Hudsucker Proxy
Shakes the Clown
Quick Change
The Birdcage
The Blue Brothers

 

[Lutherf]

Cheech and Chong Up in Smoke
Animal House
Major League
Several of the ones already mentioned

 

[j brown's body]

Personal favorite > Let it Ride (Richard Dreyfuss horse track gambler yarn with a great cast.)

Other good'uns:

The Princess Bride
The Hudsucker Proxy
Shakes the Clown
Quick Change
The Birdcage
The Blue Brothers

I loved Let It Ride despite being banned by the critics.

 

[j brown's body]

I watched Caddyshack again recently and really loved it.

I obviously always loved Rodney, Bill Murray and Chevy Chase in it, but had underappreciated Ted Knight's performance.

That film was rather panned by the critics. I think it got a new life when it came out in VHS.

 

[ataraxia]

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[WillyPete]

I loved Let It Ride despite being banned by the critics.

Yeah, I don't really understand that, either. I couldn't even find a copy of the book it's based on, when I looked a ways back.

I felt like it was a taste of the horse track underculture, best one I know of until the ill fated Luck came along.

Death to Smoochy is another fun one that the critics didn't care for.

 

[Chock Full o Nuts]

Half Baked should make the list.
"Doc said I need me a backiotomy!"

 

[Bubber]

One of the greatest movies ever made!

 

[Stealers Wheel]

My Cousin Vinny



Young Frankenstein

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

We could have a discussion about what a "comedy" is. Maybe I am a bit too highbrow or something, but a movie full of nerds making sexual innuendos and making fart jokes ain't funny to me.
I like a movie with some sarcastic twists, quirky characters, and crisp dialogue.

The one that still gets me laughing because it takes some people half way through the movie to "get it" is one called Being There.

Being There (1979) ⭐ 7.9 | Comedy, Drama

2h 10m | PG

www.imdb.com

 

[j brown's body]

One of the greatest movies ever made!

I had not realized that The Great Lebowski is a play on Raymond Chandler detective novels. That opened me up to its sly humor.

 

[j brown's body]

In 1970, I was 14 years old and volunteering with an anti-war group. They asked me to pass out leaflets in front of a movie theater. I was not aware of the film, so I decided to take it in. My life was changed forever.