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• Being There, Broadway Danny Rose, any W.C. Fields (nt) - geoff 05:54:44 11/25/03 (0)
  In Reply to: Comedies you have to have in your collection posted by Bolt_Snypr on November 20, 2003 at 11:04:36:

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• Philadelphia Story, The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, Some Like it Hot - Harmonia 21:45:05 11/24/03 (1)
  In Reply to: Comedies you have to have in your collection posted by Bolt_Snypr on November 20, 2003 at 11:04:36:

  ...Palm Beach Story, La Cage Aux Folle, Bullets Over Broadway, Waiting For Guffman, Best In Show, Arsenic & Old Lace, A Day At The Races, My Little Chickadee, Monty Python & The Holy Grail, Monty Python's Life of Brian, A Fish Called Wanda, The Circus, The General, Bringing Up Baby, O Brother Where Art Thou, all the Wallace & Gromit shorts, Chicken Run, The Princess Bride, Pat & Mike, The Sure Thing, Say Anything, Repo Man, High Fidelity, The Price Of Milk, Cold Comfort Farm, Bedazzled (original with Cook & Moore), An Ideal Husband, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, MASH...for a start.
  
  

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  • An excellent list, to which I would add: - Mike K 23:02:14 11/28/03 (0)
    In Reply to: Philadelphia Story, The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, Some Like it Hot posted by Harmonia on November 24, 2003 at 21:45:05:

    The Bank Dick, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, and The Barber
    Shop (particularly) with W.C. Fields, Bringing Up Baby (Grant and
    Hepburn), and many many many of the early 1 and 2 reel shorts with
    Laurel & Hardy, Chaplin, Keaton, Andy Clyde, and their compatriots.
    (Some of these early comedies are unsurpassed to this day in their
    comedic intensity and vision).

    Mike
    
    

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• Re: Comedies you have to have in your collection - Dave-A 18:58:04 11/24/03 (0)
  In Reply to: Comedies you have to have in your collection posted by Bolt_Snypr on November 20, 2003 at 11:04:36:

  MASH
  South Park Movie or season collections.
  Coen Brothers' works: Raising Arizona, Fargo, Oh Brother, etc.
  'The Magic Christian'
  Mystery Train
  Hal Hartley's work
  Monty Python movies and episode collections.

  I can't think of all the others now. :)

  Later
  D
  
  
  

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• Paramount: Peter Seller's The Party.... - Mrs. Piggy 22:04:41 11/22/03 (0)
  In Reply to: Comedies you have to have in your collection posted by Bolt_Snypr on November 20, 2003 at 11:04:36:

  Happiness
  The Producers
  Steve Martin's The Man with Two Brains
  The Jerk
  Pink Panther
  Brain Candy
  Friday
  Radio Days
  Election
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• What!? No Marx Brothers, no Cukor, no Huston, no Tati...? - orejones 04:59:29 11/22/03 (2)
  In Reply to: Comedies you have to have in your collection posted by Bolt_Snypr on November 20, 2003 at 11:04:36:

  Just a few ones, to complete those lists...

  Everything Marx Brothers (well, almost...)

  Cukor: "The Women" (simply exhilarating), "My Fair Lady", "Adam´s Rib", and the one already mentioned "Philadelphia Story", just to name a few...

  Hawks: "Bringing up Baby", "Ball of Fire", "His Girl Friday" (which has known later reincarnation as "The Front Page"(Wilder)...

  John Huston: "The African Queen", "Prizzi´s Honor"...

  Billy Wilder: "One, Two, Three", "The Seven Years Itch", "Some like it Hot", "Irma la Douce", "Avanti!", "The Front Page"...

  Anything by Tati (Mr Hublot...)

  
  And so many more...

  Regards

  BF

  
  
  

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  • Re: The African Queen? - rico 13:26:30 11/23/03 (0)
    In Reply to: What!? No Marx Brothers, no Cukor, no Huston, no Tati...? posted by orejones on November 22, 2003 at 04:59:29:

    "African Queen" a COMEDY?? Sure. there are some funny moments but I think it's better know as an adventurous romance.
    
    

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  • Nice list ( I am very fond of the Tracy/Hepburn movies) ..nt.. - late 06:24:07 11/22/03 (0)
    In Reply to: What!? No Marx Brothers, no Cukor, no Huston, no Tati...? posted by orejones on November 22, 2003 at 04:59:29:

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• Chicken Run...nt - dwill123 11:04:28 11/21/03 (0)
  In Reply to: Comedies you have to have in your collection posted by Bolt_Snypr on November 20, 2003 at 11:04:36:

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• OK, if.. - Bambi B 10:59:34 11/21/03 (1)
  In Reply to: Comedies you have to have in your collection posted by Bolt_Snypr on November 20, 2003 at 11:04:36:

  Bolt,

  If I were exiled to a desert island with electricity, I'd take a few Glenn Gould and Quartetto Italiano records and:

  Dr. Strangelove
  It Happened One Night
  Young Frankenstein
  The Producers
  Sleeper
  Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  The Ladykillers
  Kind Hearts and Coronets
  Destry Rides Again
  Fargo
  M*A*S*H*
  Withnail and I
  Shrek
  Being There

  - and the 100 others I'll think in the next hour.

  Cheers,

  Bambi B
  
  

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  • Re: Great list - rico 13:29:03 11/23/03 (0)
    In Reply to: OK, if.. posted by Bambi B on November 21, 2003 at 10:59:34:

    Particularly the Gould. I wouldn't be without my DVD of his Goldberg Variations.

    I own most of the ones you posted.
    
    

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• off.....beat - late 05:27:18 11/21/03 (2)
  In Reply to: Comedies you have to have in your collection posted by Bolt_Snypr on November 20, 2003 at 11:04:36:

  Hi,
  Rhustler's Rhapsody (!)......Soapdish(!!)......Moon over Parador.....The Great race.....The Mouse that roared......Bringing up baby(!)........Real Men.....My Big Fat Greek Wedding(!)....Young Frankenstein(!).....Any of the original Pink Panther movies(!!)....Pillow talk.....The Court Jester(!)...Foul Play(!!)....Funny Face....All of Me(!)
  
  

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  • Oooo - Soapdish! - Harmonia 21:46:30 11/24/03 (1)
    In Reply to: off.....beat posted by late on November 21, 2003 at 05:27:18:

    Like that one a lot.
    
    

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    • yeah, Soapdish is one of the best comedies ever made. Doesn't get the recognition it deserves .nt. - late 08:16:20 11/25/03 (0)
      In Reply to: Oooo - Soapdish! posted by Harmonia on November 24, 2003 at 21:46:30:

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• Dr. Strangelove, Raising Arizona,.. - Hepcat 04:43:06 11/21/03 (0)
  In Reply to: Comedies you have to have in your collection posted by Bolt_Snypr on November 20, 2003 at 11:04:36:

  Monte Python/Holy Grail, Mister Roberts, Animal House, Christmas Vacation, Blues Brothers, Stripes,....

  That's a start.
  
  

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• Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Tank Girl, Empire Records (nt) - Todd B. 01:03:11 11/21/03 (0)
  In Reply to: Comedies you have to have in your collection posted by Bolt_Snypr on November 20, 2003 at 11:04:36:

  nt
  _____________________________

  "But this is the plastic age,
  the quiet rage
  is damned and civilized."

  --Echobelly, "Ondine"
  
  

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• Office Space. - Tom §. 20:19:50 11/20/03 (1)
  In Reply to: Comedies you have to have in your collection posted by Bolt_Snypr on November 20, 2003 at 11:04:36:

  Also, I'm going to say this with a straight face: Super Troopers.

  Tom §.
  
  

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  • Good ones - Todd B. 01:01:15 11/21/03 (0)
    In Reply to: Office Space. posted by Tom §. on November 20, 2003 at 20:19:50:

    Love Office Space. The Super Troopers contingent made a movie prior to that, I believe called Puddle Cruiser, that's pretty good also.
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    "But this is the plastic age,
    the quiet rage
    is damned and civilized."

    --Echobelly, "Ondine"
    
    

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• Young Frankenstein, Raising Arizona, Dr. Strangelove, MP And The Holy Grail, The Party, - sjb 18:31:50 11/20/03 (1)
  In Reply to: Comedies you have to have in your collection posted by Bolt_Snypr on November 20, 2003 at 11:04:36:

  Being There, The Philadelphia Story, Amelie......

  P.S. I don't own any of these but I would if I started a DVD collection.
  
  

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  • LOL! birdie num nums..... - padreken 12:17:07 11/21/03 (0)
    In Reply to: Young Frankenstein, Raising Arizona, Dr. Strangelove, MP And The Holy Grail, The Party, posted by sjb on November 20, 2003 at 18:31:50:

    I haven't seen that one in a long time, but I just love Peter Sellers. An absolute comic genius-I can watch him in anything, even a bad film like Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu.

    All of the films you mentioned are favorites of mine.
    

    "A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them".
    -P. J. O'Rourke
    
    

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• Divorce, Italian Style; Withnail and I; - tinear 18:08:37 11/20/03 (0)
  In Reply to: Comedies you have to have in your collection posted by Bolt_Snypr on November 20, 2003 at 11:04:36:

  Bedtime Story (Niven and Brando version); MASH.
  
  

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• Re: Comedies you have to have in your collection - Audiophilander 15:17:41 11/20/03 (1)
  In Reply to: Comedies you have to have in your collection posted by Bolt_Snypr on November 20, 2003 at 11:04:36:

  The Keaton Collection (11 DVD boxed set; several classics)*
  The Best of Arbuckle & Keaton
  My Best Girl*
  The Matinee Idol
  Quality Street*
  Modern Times*
  Duck Soup*
  O' Brother Where Art Thou*
  Joe's Apartment
  Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
  Still Crazy
  Shakespeare in Love*
  You've Got Mail
  Miss Congeniality
  The Nightmare Before Christmas*
  Antz
  Chicken Run*
  Toy Story I & II*
  Shrek
  Monsters Inc.
  Finding Nemo*

  I've included silents, romantic comedies and animation as a part of this list and could recommend just about any of them dependent upon the mood of the viewer at the time; those marked with an asterix are films that I would subjectively describe as timeless classics.

  AuPh
  
  

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  • Great List! Thank you, n/t - Bolt_Snypr 09:34:39 12/01/03 (0)
    In Reply to: Re: Comedies you have to have in your collection posted by Audiophilander on November 20, 2003 at 15:17:41:

    n/t
    
    

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• Animal House, Blues Brothers, Caddy Shack, Fish Called Wanda - Mark B. James 14:06:21 11/20/03 (0)
  In Reply to: Comedies you have to have in your collection posted by Bolt_Snypr on November 20, 2003 at 11:04:36:

  Spinal Tap
  Slapshot
  Ravenous
  Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
  My Cousin Vinny
  The Freshman
  Thick as Thieves
  Repo Man
  The Royal Tenenbaums
  Private Parts

  Not that I own all of these, but I consider them worthy of ownership - they're all still funny after multiple viewings.
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  (Mark B. James - a.k.a. "Brewthunda")
  
  

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• Re: Comedies you have to have in your collection - rico 13:03:51 11/20/03 (0)
  In Reply to: Comedies you have to have in your collection posted by Bolt_Snypr on November 20, 2003 at 11:04:36:

  Buster Keaton's "Sherlock Jr."
  Woody Allen's "Take the Money and Run", "Love and Death", "Sleeper"'
  "Small Time Crooks", "Mighty Aphrodite", "Bananas"
  Billy Wilder's "One, Two, Three"
  Mel Brook's "Young Frankenstein"
  Coen Brothers' "The Hudsucker Proxy"
  "Shakespeare in Love"
  "George Lucas in Love"
  
  

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• I don't know your taste, but if Airplane doesn't put you in the right mood... - Victor Khomenko 12:57:55 11/20/03 (1)
  In Reply to: Comedies you have to have in your collection posted by Bolt_Snypr on November 20, 2003 at 11:04:36:

  Roger...

  Huh?
  

  
  
  
  

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  • Good one...nt - dwill123 13:01:25 11/20/03 (0)
    In Reply to: I don't know your taste, but if Airplane doesn't put you in the right mood... posted by Victor Khomenko on November 20, 2003 at 12:57:55:

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• Blazing Saddles, History of the World, Pt. 1... - dwill123 12:48:11 11/20/03 (0)
  In Reply to: Comedies you have to have in your collection posted by Bolt_Snypr on November 20, 2003 at 11:04:36:

  Back to School – Rodney Dangerfield
  Up In Smoke – Cheech & Chong
  Blazing Saddles – (for me - the funniest movie ever made)
  History of the World, Pt.1

  There are others.
  
  

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