In Reply to: How many of these comedy movies have you seen? Me? Just 40 posted by Brian A on April 11, 2012 at 16:45:47:
About 1/3 of those that I've seen weren't that funny to begin with. Of those that weren't especially funny, about half of those were great for other reasons and the other half were just terrible.
What troubles me are the omissions of much funnier films. As always, choices are subjective and it can be rightfully assumed that the folks who did the selecting haven't seen everything out there, so I'm willing to cut them a little slack in that department. But bad choices are just BAD, and some of the films chosen were terrible at least from my POV; of course everyone's taste in humor varies.
Everyone who compiles lists like this includes the obligatory Chaplin and Keaton as if there lists won't be taken seriously (even a comedy list) without the usual suspects. I'm not saying that Chaplin and Keaton aren't funny, but there were other often funnier comedians making great comedies in the silent era. Here are some better silent comedies that have been overlooked:
Harold Lloyd: The Kid Brother
Harold Lloyd: The Freshman
Mary Pickford: My Best Girl
Beatrice Lillie: Exit Smiling
Marion Davies: Quality Street
Marion Davies: Show People
Among the classic sound classic comedies, these were ignored in favor of some which I thought were much less funny:
Silver Streak
Animal House
Beverly Hills Cop
City Slickers
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
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I'm sure that others find this "best of" list covering 100 Comedies (like all such subjective lists) comes up short; more like a comedy of errors given some of the unfunny inclusions.
AuPh
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Follow Ups
- Just over half of them, but I disagree with quite a few of their choices as funniest. - Audiophilander 13:24:11 04/14/12 (3)
- Not complete, but not too bad a list - sbrians 12:46:52 05/03/12 (0)
- I disavr - Harmonia 22:13:31 04/16/12 (1)
- RE: ARGH!!! - Harmonia 22:26:59 04/16/12 (0)