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I think I've seen all the good ones, but maybe, just maybe there are a few gems that I've missed. To me, a good comedy is better than a great drama.
My list-
Il Mostro
The Producers
Early Pierre Richard films, especially La Chevre, Le Coup du Parapluie
Io So Che Tu Sai Che Io So aka I Know That You Know That I Know
Some Like It Hot
Young Frankenstein
The Devil and the Ten Commandments(actually all Fernandel films)
Animal House
Amarcord
Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob aka The Mad Adventures of "Rabbi" Jacob(hilarious)
Gold Rush
KingPin(for subtlety)
The Blues Brothers
Pink Panther series
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Modern Times
Buster Keaton films
Gentlemen of Fortune(this one takes the prize)
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and what about"The Man in the White Suit" (Alec Guinness, 1952)
or if you prefer Peter Sellers,
"The Revenge of the Pink Panther"
"Doctor Strangelove..."and what about Cary Grant?
"Arsenic and Old Lace" (1944)
"My Favorite Wife" (Cary Grant, 1940)
"Mister Blandings Builds his Dream House" (1948)Katharine Hepburn anyone?
"Adam's Rib" (with Spenser Tracy, 1949)
"The Philadelphia Story "(with Carry Grant and Jimmy Stewart, 1940)
"Bringing up Baby" (with Carry Grant, 1938)WC Fields?
"The Bank Dick "(one of the funniest films ever made)
Buster Keaton?
almost anything he's ever done, but especially:
"The General"
"Steamboat Bill, Jr."the great comics like Keaton and Lloyd are no so much funny to watch as they are simply jaw-dropping amazing. This is real, no stuntmen, no stand-ins.
Ah Yes I forgot Strangelove on my list.
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Steve
Try :Monty Python's Life of Brian (if you like MP)
Fierce Creatures (if you like John Cleese)
Sleeper (an old Sci-Fi movie)and
Mafia! (if you can let go of your sanity for the duration of the film... Otherwise you'll hate it.)
(Yeah, I know I have strange taste... :)
....just my 2¢
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...along with nearly anything by Mel Brooks.Dane
I must be a grumpy cuss, cause there are very few movies that make me laugh out loud. Usually I just find movie humour to be painfully obvious or contrived, however there are exceptions. My favourites which come immediately to mind would be:Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
To Be or Not To Be (the original version)
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
Mr Blandings Builds His Dream Housebut really, I get a lot more laughs from an episode of "Fawlty Towers" or "Mr Bean" than any movie. I think brevity really is the soul of wit, and most films just play the jokes out for too long.
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Paint Your Wagon
Fear of a Black Hat
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Support Your Local Sheriff
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Arsenic and Old Lace
Its a Mad, Mad, Mad World
Smokey and the Bandit (guilty pleasure)
The Blues Brothers
Up In Smoke
For me a good comedy has the ability to let you watch it again and again. If it didn't raise the guffaws the first time, it is bound to do so after several viewings...Given that, some of the most outrageously hilarious movies don't make my favourite comedy list. These following do, however:
When Harry Met Sally.
Benny and June.
Some Kind Of Wonderful.
A Life Less Ordinary.I am sure I have more. <---That is not the name of a movie, btw.
have you viewed my mine?Real Genius
Pricess Bride
Young Frankenstein
Electric Dreams
Speechless
A few more:Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home-witty and nutty, and while not a comedy per se is still very funny and enjoyable. The best of the Star Trek movies. Four thumbs up!
Keeping the Faith: Recent movie. Check it out.
Would you consider "Children Of A Lesser God" a comedy or a drama?
It has many comedic moments. I loved it since the day I first saw it in 1986. Three thumbs up.
the question is where does "My Girl" fit?
My Girl-wonder years styled growing up drama.Terms of Endearment seemed much much better with subsequent viewings.
While As Good As It Gets was as good as it was ever gonna get in the first viewing.Just me ole 2 cents...
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I like a lot of Romantic Comedies
Real Genius
Pricess Bride
Young Frankenstein
Electric Dreams
Speechless
To name but a few...Banannas
Start The Revolution Without Me
Out Of Towners (the original J Lemmon/S Dennis)
M Python/H Grail
Caddy Shack #1
Animal House
Airplane #1
Raising Arizona
The Producers
Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Young Frankenstein
Steve
...if you liked Eating Raoul, try Delicatessen.Also I'll nominate a little-known flick by Soderbergh which I find daftly amusing -- Schizopolis. No jokes, just funny every moment.
Also the last 40 minutes of Flirting with Disaster, where LIly Tomlin and Alan Alda do a take on aging hippy parents undergoing spontaneous acid flashbacks. Hilarious!
Finally, the original To Be or Not to Be. Definitely one for the Desert Isle.
I don't know about that Gentlemen of Fortune prize (nice film to be sure), but I would certainly add some black comedies like Eating Raoul and Montenegro.I agree wholeheartedly on Fernandel films. Some of his early ones are simply classic.
I would also say that several of Woody Allen films are top class too - who could forget the Orgasmotron or the pale insecure sperm?
Loved Eating Raoul. If you like that you'll maybe like Putny Swope (black comedy from the 60's... something to offend everyone,,, if they aren't too busy laughing)Zachariah (stoned cowboy flick)
Ballad of Waterhole #3 (remember hearing "Oh it's the code of the west, a man soaps his own saddle, he brands his own cattle... and some of his neighbor's as well.... do unto other's before they do it unto you...")
Harlem Shuffle (guy that made this did the whole thing on credit cards and got his props from Sears... wonderful flick)
The Gods Must be Crazy (kind of an endearing little comedy based in S. Africa)
Hair Spray (funny 50's mock)
the Ab Fab movie (of course you have to watch the tv series first to build up to this one)
Python flicks (Fawlty Towers tv show is also a scream)
Please Don't Eat the Dasies (remember that one)
Airplane
Young Frankenstein (and anything with Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor in it)
The Mouse that Roared.
Tenchi Muyo OVA (anime... subtitles are even better than the dub)
La Cage aux Follies (et.al.)
There's lots more but I'm spacing at the moment.
"I would certainly add some black comedies like Eating Raoul and Montenegro."What are those, by whom, with whom?
I forgot to add Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas.
I read Dr. Hunter s. Thompson's seminal work of Gonzo journalism in 1970, fortunately -- in the right place at the right time. I doubt it would seem funny to anyone of any age reading it today. The film has it's moments (the motel room is a bit understated, but the bar scene is just about right, at least that's the way it looked to me, but it's a mescaline thing), and trys hard to remain true to the spirit of the times, but it just doesn't work.I forget who that jerk is who trys (and fails miserably) to play "Duke", but it's plain to see he's nowhere near smart enough for the role, or fearless enough, or cruel enough, or scared enough, or that he's ever dropped acid, snorted coke, inhaled ether, drank a fifth of burbon while smoking dope and sucking on a "fresh" pineal gland and firing a 44, all in a moving vehicle, and all at the same time, while dictating a story over the phone to his editor and carrying on a demented psychotic rant with a hapless hitch-hiker. Anyone who has read anything by Thompson knows this guy is lying about his drug abuse. It has to be worse than what he's confessed to. It just has to be.
I've never laughed harder at anyting in my life -- the evening I tried to read his book. I say tried because my sides and face hurt too much to read it all in one sitting. It is, without a doubt, the high-water mark of all journalism written of those times. He nailed it, and he nailed us. All of us.
The best film made about Duke is "Where the Buffalo Roam". Just try not to laugh druing the opening scene in Duke's cabin in Aspen. Peter Boyle, the monster of "Young Frankenstein", plays his attorney brilliantly. That scene with the car speeding down the highway with Boyle carrying on a conversation with Duke, while holding a topless salt-shaker of coke that is inhaled by the rushing amerikan landscape, is priceless. Is there a better metaphore for that time? No. That is true brilliance. That was our lives, literally, blown away in a moment. Salt of the earth. Salt for the Devil.
***What are those, by whom, with whom?Eating Raoul is by Paul Bartel. Here is a quote:
"Paul Bartel and Mary Woronov are hilarious in this black comedy about a married couple who find out that beating swingers over the head with a frying pan can be quite a lucrative pastime. What to do with the bodies? Enter Raoul ...... Raoul is a trouble maker though and Paul is out to prove it. A must see for every twisted American film fan who hasn't seen it already."
Great film made on shoe-string budget.
The Montenegro in by Dusan Makavejev and features Susan Anspach and Erland Josephson.
"Marilyn Jordan is a bored housewife in Sweden who is liberated (sexually and otherwise) by her relationship with a group of gregarious Yugoslavs. Based on a true story."
It is one of the most hilarious and well-made films ever - yes, I know, a pretty tall statement. Watching Josephson dance to the ABBA tune is something completely special. The bedroom scene is one of the pinnacles of the world cinematography.
It is available on DVD.
Thanks, I'll look these up. My neighborhood Blockbuster is nothing but a joke, probably the worst selection of films I've seen(or rather not seen), yet it killed all the little mom-and-pop video stores that were in a 10 block radius of it, except for the ethnic ones(Indian, Pakistani, Egyptian, Korean, etc.).
The Ladykillers, The Lavender Hill Mob, King of Hearts, School for Scoundrels, Carry On, Nurse; of course, the Python flicks. Lots of others I'm sure.
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