# Funniest Movies of the 70s? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 31, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movies-of-the-70s/504911 "2009-07-31T20:08:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carlotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@carlotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlotta)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movies-of-the-70s/504911/1 "2009-07-31T20:08:19Z")
I just don’t think of the 70s as a particularly funny time for movies. Now this may have something to do with my age, I’ll be 40 in a few weeks, so I didn’t get out much till the end of the decade, but I can think of lots of funny movies from the 40s, 50s, and 60s. So it is me, or is it the 70s? ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movies-of-the-70s/504911/2 "2009-07-31T20:14:12Z")
Well, everyone’s sense of humor is different, but when I saw the title of this thread, my first reaction was “Young Frankenstein”. Also “Blazing Saddles”. “Animal House” was a big hit, though it’s not one of my favorites. I’m sure someone will be along with others. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movies-of-the-70s/504911/3 "2009-07-31T20:17:54Z")
My top 3 would be _Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blazing Saddles_ and _The In-Laws_. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movies-of-the-70s/504911/4 "2009-07-31T20:19:07Z")
_What’s Up Doc The Twelve Chairs The In-Laws_ ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movies-of-the-70s/504911/5 "2009-07-31T20:21:28Z")
Since you had both Woody Allen and Mel Brooks in their prime, there are quite a few classics: \*\*Bananas Play It Again, Sam Sleeper Love and Death \*\* (The funniest Woody Allen film) **Young Frankenstein** **Blazing Saddles** There was also: **Monty Python and the Holy Grail Monty Python’s Life of Brian** ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movies-of-the-70s/504911/6 "2009-07-31T20:29:57Z")
I still crack up every time I see _Kentucky Fried Movie_. ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movies-of-the-70s/504911/7 "2009-07-31T20:35:48Z")
Leaving aside Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, and the Pythons, everything I think of is partly funny but colored with seriousness: _Being There, Shampoo, Network, Harold & Maude, M_A_S_H, Breaking Away.\* There’s the probably quite dated sketch movies _Kentucky Fried Movie_ and \* Groove Tube\* – I last saw those on a drive-in double bill in 1979 or thereabouts. And there’s always _Pink Flamingos_ if you don’t mind coprophagia. _The Goodbye Girl_? _Foul Play_? Eh. I loved _The Bad News Bears_ when I was a kid. Disney movies were really second-rate in the 70s as I recall. Herbie, all those Kurt Russell movies… ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movies-of-the-70s/504911/8 "2009-07-31T20:39:28Z")
Another vote for **Harold and Maude**. ---
**Author:** ![Bootis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bootis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootis)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movies-of-the-70s/504911/9 "2009-07-31T20:47:48Z")
Airplane Monty Python and the Holy Grail The Jerk ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movies-of-the-70s/504911/10 "2009-07-31T20:55:41Z")
The Pink Panther Movies came out mid-70s. The good ones anyway. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movies-of-the-70s/504911/11 "2009-07-31T21:01:42Z")
[Up in smoke](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078446/) ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movies-of-the-70s/504911/12 "2009-07-31T21:04:51Z")
Based on my DVD collection: _Blazing Saddles Young Frankenstein The Apple Dumpling Gang Silver Streak Oh, God! Smokey and the Bandit Being There The Jerk_ ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movies-of-the-70s/504911/13 "2009-07-31T21:20:39Z")
9 to 5 I feel is vastly underrated. (The movie, not working those hours.) ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movies-of-the-70s/504911/14 "2009-07-31T21:22:00Z")
> [@Moonchild](#): > > 9 to 5 I feel is vastly underrated. (The movie, not working those hours.) Doh! 1980! ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movies-of-the-70s/504911/15 "2009-07-31T22:21:01Z")
_The Exorcist_. That split pea soup slays me every time. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movies-of-the-70s/504911/16 "2009-07-31T22:41:39Z")
> [@Ichbin\_Dubist](#): > > Leaving aside Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, and the Pythons, everything I think of is partly funny but colored with seriousness: _Being There, Shampoo, Network, Harold & Maude, M_A_S_H, Breaking Away.\* That’s true but it reflected the era of the late 60’s through the mid 70’s. Before that time from the 1920’s to the early 60’s, it was common for the Hollywood studios to release broad and silly comic vehicles featuring whatever comedy star they had under contract (e.g., Universal had Abbott & Costello and Paramount had Jerry Lewis). However, by the time the last vestiges of the studio system faded away, movies–like the culture around it–seemed to get a lot more serious and weighty. ---
**Author:** ![meanoldman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@meanoldman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meanoldman)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movies-of-the-70s/504911/17 "2009-07-31T22:52:17Z")
Phantom of the Paradise seemed particularly funny to me…though from the box office, I was clearly in the minority. And agreed with anything already mentioned that was done by Woody Allen. I still frequently quote “Love and Death”…and I don’t think I am jejune at all. I am one of the least june people out there. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movies-of-the-70s/504911/18 "2009-07-31T22:59:26Z")
“Murder By Death” should be on this list. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2009, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movies-of-the-70s/504911/19 "2009-08-01T00:08:17Z")
Woody Allen has been mentioned, but “Annie Hall” has not (or I missed it). That was the last comedy to get the Best Picture oscar. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2009, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movies-of-the-70s/504911/20 "2009-08-01T00:19:17Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > “Murder By Death” should be on this list. And so should “The Cheap Detective”, only more so. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movies-of-the-70s/504911.md?page=2)