Funniest Movies of the 70s?

No, just misplaced. You obviously should have been in Winnipeg.

My contributions: Car Wash and The Big Bus.

And another vote for Silver Streak. A great cast: Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Ned Beatty, Patrick McGoohan, Ray Walston, Scatman Crothers, and Jill Clayburgh–a great mix of serious and comic actors.

A lot of my faborites have been listed already, but I’d like to add that I thought the first Monty Python movie, their most underrated, was the funniest of theirs

And Now for Something Completely Different.

Not yet mentioned:

The Rutles (Made for TV, but still)
Meatballs
Kelly’s Heroes
Two Mules for Sister Sara Lots of comic elements.
Return of the Pink Panther
The Pink Panther Strikes Again

My personal favorites from the decade would be:

The Jerk
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Life of Brian
Sleeper
Animal House

Oh God! I forgot one!

Another vote for What’s Up Doc. I think it aged much better than Annie Hall, which would have topped my list 30 years ago.

Movie Movie, with George C. Scott, Harry Hamlin and Barry Bostwick. Totally forgotten now, but a damned brilliant comedy.

La Cage aux Folles

Starting Over and The End, Burt Reynolds’ finest work.

Not mentioned yet: American Graffiti and 10.

1979 - Used Cars, with Kurt Russell. In another thread a year ago somebody recommended I take it with me to Iraq. Damn good call

“They Call Me Bruce”
“Meatballs”
“Smokey & the Bandit”

3 moderately funny ones straight off the top…

That’s a big IF. If you don’t mind coprophagia, Pink Flamingos is the greatest movie ever made. It’s the Citizen Kane of coprophagia movies!

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Being There, Harold & Maude and the like are fine movies. But when it comes to laugh-out-loud funny, I’ll pick Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, The Jerk and Monty/Grail. Even Brooks’s lesser efforts High Anxiety & Silent Movie are just damn funny & require no thought whatsoever.

Speaking of Burt, I’m partial to Hooper. The bar-fight scene with Terry Bradshaw & friends is priceless :smiley:

[paraphrasing]

Burt & his three buddies stand toe to toe with Bradshaw’s gang and assess whether the imminent bar fight will be a fair one:

“So we got four and you all got 12. Guess you’ll have go back to Houston and get some more guys!”

[/paraphrasing]

The Heartbreak Kid; Albert Brooks’ Real Life; John Waters’ Female Trouble; The Fortune; and of course many an unintentionally funny disaster movie like The Poseidon Adventure.

So it’s me, not the 70s. I’ve actually seen most of these movies too. I think “The Jerk” is my favorite.

Doug Bowe:

Shakespeare in Love was a bit more recent.

I’ve always thought that The Ruling Class was about the funniest movie I’ve ever seen.

I’ll second The Bad News Bears and add The Out-of-Towners.

There are a lot of movies that I’m sure were hilarious back then, but comedy is very temporal. I just watched Annie Hall last year, and I really liked it, but I don’t think I laughed once.

The ones that can still make me laugh are:

-Blazing Saddles
-Holy Grail
-Life of Brian
-Young Frankenstein
-The Jerk

Airplane! was 1980.

•Young Frankenstein
•Blazing Saddles
•Where’s Poppa
•The Inlaws (“Serpentine Shelly!”)

“They Call Me Bruce” was from 1982.

I once had a History prof who asserted the 1960s did not end until 1974, with Nixon’s resignation. Maybe the 1970s lasted a little longer, too. :smiley: