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Hambone
03-16-2009, 04:32 PM
This is a debatable topic. I have compiled a list of some of the best comedy movies (imo). I am sure I am missing some you may have seen that I have not. That’s kind of the reason for the list. Here is my top 10.
10. Wedding Crashers
9. Spies Like Us
8. Dumb and Dumber
7. Bad Santa
6. Borat
5. Fletch
4. National Lampoon’s Vacation
3. Caddyshack
2. Animal House
1. Blazing Saddles
Conchis
03-16-2009, 04:37 PM
I have to tell you that Galaxy Quest makes me laugh no matter how many times I see it.
The Honey House
03-16-2009, 04:59 PM
Not Another Teen Movie
Super Troopers
Hot Shots
Hot Shots Part Deux
Airplane
Young Frankenstein
I have to tell you that Galaxy Quest makes me laugh no matter how many times I see it.
:thumbsup: Love that movie.
Barry
03-16-2009, 06:02 PM
The Three Amigos
MapMan
03-16-2009, 06:37 PM
Any of the Monty Python movies.
Duck Soup
Harvey
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
The Mouse that Roared
Naked Gun 3 1/2
Silver Streak
48 Hours
Trading Places
Coming to America
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
A Fish called Wanda
My Cousin Vinny
Men in Black
Analyze This
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
walking bird
03-16-2009, 06:43 PM
The original "The Producers" (zero mostel)
The In-Laws
Spinal Tap
Waiting for Guffman
Bowfinger
Ed Wood
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
M*A*S*H
Raising Arizona (tied with the other Coen classics, like Fargo, The Big Lebowski, etc.)
Jesse
03-16-2009, 06:48 PM
Anything ever done by Will Ferrell
"glorious!"
My vote goes to Young Frankenstein
NeilV
03-16-2009, 09:48 PM
The Jerk and most of the ones already listed.
NeilV
03-16-2009, 09:50 PM
Oh yeah, I would also add Something About Mary and Meet the Parents to the list.
dragonfly
03-16-2009, 10:28 PM
The Meaning of Life and The Search for the Holy Grail (Python movies)
This is Spinal Tap
A Fish Called Wanda
The Jerk
Best In Show
I'm sure there are more that will come to me later.
dragonfly
03-16-2009, 10:44 PM
The Fisher King (funny and serious)
Death to Smoochie
deknow
03-17-2009, 02:48 AM
stripes
going berzerk (an obscure john candy film...worth finding on vhs for cheap)
legally blonde (ramona and i watch this one often...it's just funny)
uncle buck
spaceballs
several cheech and chong flicks
blue sunshine (a weird lsd themed movie that will make you laugh)
i've also started to buy 'king of the hill' dvds used when i find them...i can't think of a better series to actually own.
deknow
alpha6
03-17-2009, 03:47 AM
Any of the Austin Powers Movies.... YEAH BABY!!!!
NeilV
03-17-2009, 07:56 AM
I don't know if its really a pure comedy, but a great movie that's funny is The Princess Bride
walking bird
03-17-2009, 06:34 PM
I don't know if its really a pure comedy, but a great movie that's funny is The Princess Bride
You're right, outstanding and very funny. William Goldman wrote the book and the script--- same guy that did Butch Cassidy, Marathon Man, Bridge Too Far, Boys from Brazil, and on, and on...
Michael Bush
03-17-2009, 08:33 PM
A good list. I'll add Rocketman.
GaSteve
03-17-2009, 09:36 PM
I like a lot of what was mentioned plus The Blues Brothers.
GaSteve
03-17-2009, 09:39 PM
... and Major League (the first one)
Hambone
03-17-2009, 10:03 PM
There is alot on these list I have not seen. But will soon.
Adding
The Cowboy Way
seems only 1 comes to mine that hasn't been mentioned,
"SOGGY BOTTOM USA"
dcross
03-18-2009, 08:19 AM
Bubba Hotep
Idiocracy
And most of the ones already mentioned.
Sundance
03-18-2009, 09:24 AM
A quirky one I love (and bought) is
"Box of Moonlight" with Sam Rockwell.
"The Big Lebowski"
Can't say I disagree with any of the previously
listed ones........
phil c
03-18-2009, 09:46 AM
Most of the ones listed are great especially any Mel Brooks movie, But I have to vote for Andy Griffeth in No Time For Sargents. It's Hilarious!
MapMan
03-18-2009, 11:52 AM
John Candy was in some great movies. Aside from acting in Spaceballs, Uncle Buck, and Planes, Trains and Automobiles, (and playing the guard at Walleyworld in Vacation), he was also great in Canadian Bacon.
Rob-bee
03-18-2009, 12:25 PM
I remember a movie called "The Whoppee Boys" starring Michael O'Keefe, Paul Rodriguez, and Denholm Elliott. I have never laughed so hard at a movie. Of course my type of humor and others type of humor may not be the same. There are some clips of it on U-Tube.
Some of they very old stuff is pretty good.
Like these:
http://www.archive.org/details/TheGoat
http://www.archive.org/details/CC_1917_04_16_TheCure
http://www.archive.org/details/SteamboatBillJr
BoB
The Meaning of Life and The Search for the Holy Grail (Python movies)
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Absolutely. The first time I saw The Search for the Holy Grail (was it 1972?) I laughed all the way through. It was painfully funny. I've watched it with some of the younger generation of adults today and it seems they don't understand the humor!
There are alot of good ones out there but lets not leave out Jim Carrey in When Nature Calls and Liar Liar!
mattoleriver
03-19-2009, 02:38 AM
The Man With Two Brains
All Of Me
Some Like It Hot
Cheyenne Social Club
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Anything with W.C. Fields
The Naked Gun series
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Me, Myself and Irene
The Conqueror (Genghis Khan as only John Wayne could play him!)
McLintock
North To Alaska
dragonfly
03-19-2009, 09:18 AM
The first time I saw The Search for the Holy Grail (was it 1972?) I laughed all the way through. It was painfully funny. I've watched it with some of the younger generation of adults today and it seems they don't understand the humor!
:D
The first time I went to see it (I was at least 16 because I drove myself), I loved it, and laughed all the way through it. I rushed home after it was over and picked up my little sister (14 yoa) and took her to see it too. She didn't think it was funny at all.:D She still doesn't have much of a sense of humor.;)
I agree on Liar Liar- had forgotten about that one. Alro Me, Myself, and Irene was a side-splitter imo.
Michael Bush
03-19-2009, 08:08 PM
>The Conqueror (Genghis Khan as only John Wayne could play him!)
Definitely a comedy. :) When I saw it we went to a drive-in near St. Louis MO and we came in late and started in the middle. I thought John Wayne's character was the bad guy. Then we got to the end and saw the beginning and I realized he was supposed be the hero... Pretty funny...
All of the Marx Brothers movies are entertaining. All of the old Burns and Allen shows are good too.
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Definitely a comedy. :) When I saw it we went to a drive-in near St. Louis MO and we came in late and started in the middle.
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In our day Michael the drive in, like the local amusment park, was a weekend destination! What a great time and family adventure and what really was the big screen. Hurrying in and driving over the grassy humps to find a good parking spot between the speaker poles. Mono-sound speakers haning in the window and booming through the station wagon, popcorn and hamburgers during intermission. All all the early 007 movies, Clint Eastwood Spagetti Westerns, The Bible, Ben Hur, Man those really were the good old days!
Sundance
03-22-2009, 11:00 AM
Ahhhhhhhhh Drive In theaters! Good times, good times.
Remember Caracol mosquito coils?? I aways wonder
how healthy that stuff was......:s
And just how many could you stuff into the trunk?;)
Michael Bush
03-22-2009, 12:16 PM
>And just how many could you stuff into the trunk?
That was the real fun.