Top Three Comedies Of All Time...

3. Dumb & Dumber
3. Airplane (tie)
2. Fear of a Black Hat
1. This is Spinal Tap

honorable mentions:
Full Metal Jacket
Friday
The Jerk
I'm Gonna Get You Sucka
Best In Show
Ace Ventura Pet Detective
 
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Well, I have a sweet spot for oldies. But still, to this day, by top three are:

His Girl Friday
Horse Feathers ("I could sit on your lap all day if you didn't get up!")
Big Lebowski (Which is so good, it's SUBLIME)
 
im not necessarily gonna go for which made me laugh the hardest, but which ive seen 1000's of times and will still sit down to watch this very day.

In no specific order:

Holy Grail
Ghostbusters
Tommy Boy

with a bunch of honorable mentions for some like

40 yr old virgin
rushmore
dragnet
BLack Sheep
Happy Gilmore
Billy Madison

and i know its not really a pure comedy but,

The Big Lebowski

might be my favorite movie of any kind. Frankly i cant watch it without laughing and smiling the whole way through. (right on comfort)

p.s. i was born in effin '85 so cut me a little slack on the "you dont know the classics" BS.
 
David Jimerson said:
I just don't buy "Some Like it Hot." I find it amusing, but there aren't many laugh-out-loud moments or great quotables . . . and I love 1950s Danny Kaye movies, so it's not a generational thing, either . . .
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Come on, David!

Granted, there aren't as many one-line zingers...but the entirety of the dialogue is one long wave of funniness.


If nothing else, though, just think of the final scene between Daphne/Jerry (Jack Lemmon, still in drag) and Osgood (Joe E. Brown)...

Osgood: I called Mama. She was so happy she cried. She wants you to have her wedding gown. It's white lace.
Daphne: Yeah, Osgood. I can't get married in your mother's dress. Ha ha. That-she and I, we are not built the same way.
Osgood: We can have it altered.
Daphne: Aw no you don't! Osgood, I'm gonna level with you. We can't get married at all.
Osgood: Why not?
Daphne: Well, in the first place, I'm not a natural blonde.
Osgood: Doesn't matter.
Daphne: I smoke. I smoke all the time.
Osgood: I don't care.
Daphne: Well, I have a terrible past. For three years now, I've been living with a saxophone player.
Osgood: I forgive you.
Daphne: I can never have children.
Osgood (unperturbed): We can adopt some.
Jerry-Daphne: But you don't understand, Osgood. (He whips off his wig, exasperated, and changes to a manly voice.) Uh, I'm a man.
Osgood (unruffled, undaunted, and still in love): Well, nobody's perfect.

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classics vs. today stuff

classics vs. today stuff

puts on critics hat. Some Like It Hot was not just funny, it was:

Named the funniest movie of all time by the American Film Institute
Voted #1 on the American Film Institute's list of 100 Funniest Movies
Voted #14 on the AFI's List of 100 Greatest Movies

don't forget, Some Like It Hot came out in 1959 - I mean my parents were 14. "Upon its original release, Kansas banned the film from being shown in the state, explaining that cross-dressing was 'too disturbing for Kansans.'" (source: IMDB)

let's see you make your "classic" comedy today with:

no profanity
no nudity
no sex
no bathroom jokes (if so, very very light)
etc.

it's very, very hard.

Seinfeld had it right - the funniest show on TV had almost none of that stuff, except the "Master of My Domain" and some minor other toilet humor. overall, it was funny because of the situations they were in.

just like Some Like It Hot.

the same argument can be made about old school music and today's stuff. the older stuff is just classic, today's stuff is almost all throw away. few exceptions.
 
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Some LIke it Hot was alright; definately a genrational thing. At the time, I can see it being very racy. Today ?

Eh

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These are my TOP 10 COMEDIES (In no particular)

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Young Frankenstein

A Fish Called Wanda

ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN


1941


CADDYSHACK


VACATION


FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH


BEETLEJUICE


The Return of the Living Dead


CLUE
 
Here's my top 5, pick 3 (Boo, hiss *copout*...whatever)

Young Frankenstein
Rushmore
A Night At the Opera
Withnail and I
The Big Lebowski

Although, I could have easily put Three Amigos, Airplane!, and A Fish Called Wanda (Nice one, Hudson...)
 
In no order:

Waiting for Guffman, Royal Tenenbaums, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Best in Show
 
omega said:
I guess you have to have a dark sense of humor. I would suggest going back and watching it again. The first time you watch it, it's more sick than funny. Also, click on the title, there is a link to a clip. I would quote some lines, but they really don't do the movie justice, a lot of the humor is in the acting. Christian Bale is genious in that movie.
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I agree that this could be a dark comedy. The Huey Lewis scene is really funny in a sick way. As is the business card scene.

But if we are using that criteria I'd go with Full Metal Jacket.

It's too late and I'm too damn tired to make up a well thought out list but here's what I could think of.

3) Duck Soup (minus the singing)

2) The Blues Brothers

1) Holy Grail

Not in my top ten, but I will probably watch Elf every Christmas. That was funny shi#.
 
Wow, you serious? That movie I laughed at, not with...
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...as a heart attack.

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Sometimes it's not the film's itself but what it means and how one relates with it

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You putting Napolean as an all-time is, well.............................. Wow.

But you probably relate to it well.
 
1941 is classic, classic stuff and does give great comedy. That's was you call great ****ing casting!

Now I am gonna have to extend my list to 10 comedies.
 
CallaghanFilms said:
...Now I am gonna have to extend my list to 10 comedies.
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...Or to 15.

The Callaghan Top 15 Comedies Of All Time List:

01 Blazing Saddles
02 Some Like It Hot
03 Airplane!
04 Bringing up Baby
05 Arsenic and Old Lace
06 A Night at the Opera
07 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
08 Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
09 His Girl Friday
10 National Lampoon's Animal House
11 Monty Python's Life Of Brian
12 Duck Soup
13 Young Frankenstein
14 Caddyshack
15 History of the World Part I

*Note these are films that I associate first and foremost with being comedies...as opposed to being associated with say musicals, for instance*
 
What? No Ghost Busters? :shocked: You can slipped it in where you inadvertently stuck Dr. Strangelove. :Drogar-BigGrin(DBG)

John_Hudson said:
Sometimes it's not the film's itself but what it means and how one relates with it

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You putting Napolean as an all-time is, well.............................. Wow.

But you probably relate to it well.
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Well said, John. I just couldn't relate to ND, but I LMAO at 1941. I KNOW there was a Jap airbase hidden in the alfalfa fields of Pomona...:Drogar-BigGrin(DBG)
 
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Blaine said:
What? No Ghost Busters? :shocked: You can slipped it in where you inadvertently stuck Dr. Strangelove. :Drogar-BigGrin(DBG)
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I didn't want to have to go to twenty...fifteen was pushing it for me. Ghost Busters and 1941 were the last two i cut, though...

WTF? You don't like Dr. Stangelove? I have made no bones about my feeling toward Kubrick...but come on! That there is pure comedic genius (of course, Sellers' being at the top of his game doesn't hurt matters.)
 
I admit Sellers was funny. But this one came in at 48th on my list of comedies, right behind The Odd Couple. It took me three times to make it all the way through the movie.
 
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