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I was thinking exactly the same, a film that even the cynical yoots of today can enjoy.
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The cynical what? Did you say… yoot?
I am very disappointed that I have to be the one to say
Airplane!
The funniest movie ever made
The Pink Panther Strikes Again.
I didn’t know how it would hold up after all these years but it’s still some timeless comedy bits that work.
It even gets belly laughs from my 8 year-old son who can’t get enough of Clouseau and Cato chasing eachother around.
Fred Gwynne was wonderful was he not? In fact all three main characters were on top of their game.
I love very few comedies, and think even fewer have aged well. Most have already been mentioned - Planes, Trains and Automobiles is probably at the top of my list. The Buster Keaton silents, particularly Sherlock, Jr. Parenthood is still very funny. Some Like it Hot remains fresh. My Man Godfrey. Oh, and speaking of, the Thin Man movies (although they’re also mystery.)
ETA - oh, and A Hard Day’s Night! Great even if you don’t give a rat’s ass about the Beatles.
Peter Sellers’s Being There still looks good also.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels holds up. Ruprect the Monkey Boy is still hilarious.
Seconded. Some years ago, I went to a showing of Buster Keaton’s The General, a 1926 silent film that boasted what was then the most expensive shot in movie history - a locomotive crashing onto a burning bridge, that was filmed with a real locomotive crashing onto a real burning bridge.
I. Roared.
The humor was, of course, slapstick, which doesn’t get old - if it’s done right. And Keaton was a master.
In addition to the slapstick, Keaton did his own stunts, and they were almost as impressive as the humor. Especially when I realized that the scene that looked like Keaton climbing around on, and almost falling off, the cowcatcher of a speeding locomotive, did so because he was climbing around on, and almost falling off, the cowcatcher of a speeding locomotive.
The American Film Institute rated it 18th on their 2007 list of the 100 Greatest American Films. Should you ever get the chance to see it, especially as I did in a old-timey movie palace with a live organist playing a Wurlitzer, seize that opportunity.
Sleeper and Take the Money and Run. I really enjoyed Love and Death when it came out, not impressed when I watched it recently.
Blazing Saddles. Classic.
Borat? Lime green slingshot monokini will always age well!
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. I laugh like a loon, every single time.
The Blues Brothers (not exactly hilarious, but quaintly charming; they will forever occupy their own special little 2-man world, a folie au deux, no matter what year. Or century!)
Michael Caine is brilliant but Steve Martins overacting really kills it for me. Should have been a masterpiece.
Slapshot
Paul Newman has a filthy, filthy mouth!
Hot Shots!
Kung Pow: Enter the fist
However for a non-corny comedy
Lone Star State of Mind
it’s relatively newer from 2002.
For TV series:
Yes Minister / Yes Prime Minister
Monty Python
Fawlty Towers
To The Manor Born
Only Fools & Horses.
Did you know it was a remake of a movie with David Niven and Marlon Brando?
I did know that, actually. The original was fairly dismal. DRS is the exception to the rule that remakes are always inferior to the original. I love the remake and wish I could have seen the Broadway show.
Harvey
Le Cage Aux Folles
City Lights
The Odd Couple
Tremors
Big Trouble In Little China
Young Frankenstein
I Love You To Death
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Raising Arizona
A Night At The Opera
What’s Up, Doc
Life of Brian
Not a comedy, but “Match Game” still manages to be funny after 40 years.
To ease your disappoint, see post #26. :rolleyes: