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Am I the only one that liked "1941" with Belushi and Akroyd?
That's really an enjoyable flick, they make a sort of inane idea work decently, you get a few good laughs.Forgotten so far - "WHEN HARRY MET SALLY"
My favorites that come immediately to mind are in alphabetical order:
Animal House
Caddyshack
Death at a Funeral (British version)
Dr. Strangelove
Hannah and Her Sisters
Modern Times
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
My Cousin Vinny
Repo Man
The Big Lebowski
The Princess Bride
There's Something About Mary
This is Spinal Tap
Used Cars
Hannah and her Sisters is a dark comedy/drama and The Princess Bride is as much an adventure film as a comedic one. Nevertheless, I think both fit the category.
Airplane for sure.OK, showing my age. But you did ask for input:
1. Young Frankenstein
2. Airplane
3. Murder by Death
4. It's a Mad ... World
6. The Monty Python films
7. The Peter Sellers Pink Panther films
Monty Python & The Holy GrailMy favorites that come immediately to mind are in alphabetical order:
Animal House
Caddyshack
Death at a Funeral (British version)
Dr. Strangelove
Hannah and Her Sisters
Modern Times
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
My Cousin Vinny
Repo Man
The Big Lebowski
The Princess Bride
There's Something About Mary
This is Spinal Tap
Used Cars
Hannah and her Sisters is a dark comedy/drama and The Princess Bride is as much an adventure film as a comedic one. Nevertheless, I think both fit the category.
Having given it some thought I have to say the three greatest laugh-out-loud scenes for me are from Duck Soup, The Gold Rush, and Stir Crazy (when Gene Wilder goes hunting for a fly, oh my god, hysterical).
Glad you added the Marx Brothers and Buster Keaton. If you have a minute or 9 here is the chase scene from "Seven Chances"That's really an enjoyable flick, they make a sort of inane idea work decently, you get a few good laughs.
For me the old screwball comedies, such as The Awful Truth, Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday (Trying to describe a character played by Ralph Bellamy, "You know, he looks like that actor, Ralph Bellamy.") hold up better than the classic Keaton and Chaplin comedies. If you have a couple of hours you should catch Chaplin's shorts from when he was at Mutual, Easy Street, The Adventurer, The Immigrant, all classic. (Chaplin, recognizing that he could not improve from these films, moved on to longer films; I look forward to seeing The Kid more than I do City Lights or Modern Times, as well as Keaton's The General, great films all. The Gold Rush is special too.)
I'm partial to Duck Soup; the mirror scene always works.
Spy is hysterical.
They just keep coming! I loved Silver Streak and HBO repeated it over and over in the early years.Silver Streak is hilarious as well. the scene in the train station bathroom is classic.
My wife and I once rented South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut on the recommendation of some other old fuddy duddy. We were howling. I thought Ratatouille was en excellent animated comedy.Not wishing to repeat any:
The Three Stooges
Hot Shots Part Deaux
Father of the Bride (Spencer Tracy's version)
Looney Tunes movies
A lot of the animated kids movies these days are actually quite funny.
Ruthless People is the funniest movie I ever saw. I also love some older comedies, such as Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstien, Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, The Marx Bros. in Night at the Opera, and Day at the Races. Others are private Parts, Foul Play with Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn, and See No Evil, Hear No Evil, with Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder.My favorites that come immediately to mind are in alphabetical order:
Animal House
Caddyshack
Death at a Funeral (British version)
Dr. Strangelove
Hannah and Her Sisters
Modern Times
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
My Cousin Vinny
Repo Man
The Big Lebowski
The Princess Bride
There's Something About Mary
This is Spinal Tap
Used Cars
Hannah and her Sisters is a dark comedy/drama and The Princess Bride is as much an adventure film as a comedic one. Nevertheless, I think both fit the category.
Gene Wilder sure shows up a lot in this thread. What a great comedic actor.Ruthless People is the funniest movie I ever saw. I also love some older comedies, such as Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstien, Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, The Marx Bros. in Night at the Opera, and Day at the Races. Others are private Parts, Foul Play with Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn, and See No Evil, Hear No Evil, with Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder.
Gene Wilder sure shows up a lot in this thread. What a great comedic actor.
WC Fields quotes:Excellent list. Only you and one other person mentioned Some Like it Hot. Great call on WC Fields. Million Dollar Legs is one of the funniest movies many have never seen. Man on the Flying Trapeze - same. Most people have seen him as Egbert Souse in the Bank Dick or with Mae West in My Little Chickadee. She gets the best laughs with her deliveries in that one.
Flower Belle Lee (Mae West): [reading off the blackboard] “‘I am a good boy. I am a good man. I am a good girl.” What is this, propaganda?
Wayne Carter: I think you could turn a man’s head very easily if he wasn’t careful.
Flower Belle Lee (Mae West): Well, there’s no fun in being too careful.
Wayne Carter: Aren’t you forgetting that you’re married?
Flower Belle Lee (Mae West): I’m doin’ my best.
Jeff Badger: I wonder what kind of a woman you really are.
Flower Belle Lee (Mae West): Too bad, but I can’t give out samples.
My favorites that come immediately to mind are in alphabetical order:
Animal House
Caddyshack
Death at a Funeral (British version)
Dr. Strangelove
Hannah and Her Sisters
Modern Times
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
My Cousin Vinny
Repo Man
The Big Lebowski
The Princess Bride
There's Something About Mary
This is Spinal Tap
Used Cars
Hannah and her Sisters is a dark comedy/drama and The Princess Bride is as much an adventure film as a comedic one. Nevertheless, I think both fit the category.
"I'll hit you so hard I'll kill your whole family."Diner
Liberty Heights
Another one I forgot to list...cracks me up every time I see even a snippet.I find it unfathomable that nobody mentioned Dumb and Dumber (1994) which is, in my opinion, the best written and executed comedy, ever.
I've only seen Part 1.I see a lot of Mel Brooks but no mention of "History of the World, Part 2." "Hey Jocephus !"
Napolean Dynamite (more tongue in cheek, but amusing)
Superbad (the unedited, raunchy version)
This is the End (fictional poke at Hollywood types, laugh out loud stuff)
I've only seen Part 1.
"It's good to be the king!"
"Wait for the shake."
I was still an undergrad when part 1 showed up on HBO. I remember watching it and laughing out loud with my friend and his father. Mel Brooks and Harvey Korman really had the shtick down.You're right....part 1. For some reason I thought Mel Brooks made a part 2 without a part 1.
"The jig is up !"......."And gone !"
Glad someone brought up Local Hero, wonderful film, unique, such a goodhearted film. There are a lot of really good films being put out here in this thread, Dr. Strangelove is every bit as good as people say.
I see a lot of Mel Brooks but no mention of "History of the World, Part 2." "Hey Jocephus !"
Napolean Dynamite (more tongue in cheek, but amusing)
Superbad (the unedited, raunchy version)
This is the End (fictional poke at Hollywood types, laugh out loud stuff)
Yes, it's definitely a once-a-year watch. Each note is hit perfectly.Local Hero was so underrated, LJ. I would have never seen it if not for buying the Straits' Live Alchemy which then made me interested in seeing the movie from the song. Loved it. Worth a watch at least once a year. Knopfler's soaring score nails it down at the end.