What are the top ten film comedies according to you? You can include animated films and musicals. Here is my top ten list in chronological order along with the directors:
Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch)
Modern Times (Chaplin)
His Girl Friday (Hawks)
Palm Beach Story (Sturges)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (Hamer)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Jones)
Annie Hall (Allen)
Eat Drink Man Woman (Lee)
Toy Story 2 (Lasseter et al)
Election (Payne)
Airplane!
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
Ghostbusters
Some Like it Hot
Animal House
Duck Soup
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
One of Buster Keaton’s movies
One of Chaplin’s movies
The Princess Bride
In no particular order:
The Big Lebowski (the Coens)
Fargo (the Coens)
The Naked Gun (the Zuckers)
Clerks (Smith)
Love and Death (Allen)
Manhattan (Allen)
Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)
Blazing Saddles (Brooks)
History of the World, Part I (Brooks)
The Royal Tenenbaums (Anderson)
Any sort of list, so long as it includes, “The Producers.”
Blazing Saddles
Blues Brothers
History Of The World, part 1
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Princess Bride
Repo Man
Spinal Tap
Up In Smoke
Neighbors
A Fish Called Wanda
I really hate to leave Eating Raul off the list.
Jon
Not the best just my favorites, in no order at all.
The Jerk
Ghostbusters
Animal House
What’s Up Doc
The Odd Couple
The Princess Bride
Young Frankenstein
The Producers
The Life of Brian
Bananas
I see that I have a pretty broad sense of humor.
Duck Soup
Mad Mad Mad Mad World
The Producers
Noises Off
Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex, But Were Afraid To Ask
Dr. Strangelove
Young Frankenstein
Raising Arizona
O, Brother, Where Art Thou
The Jerk
My ten favorite comedies are:
Dr. Strangelove
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
Young Frankenstein
Dogma
O Brother Where Art Thou
My Fair Lady
Blazing Saddles
Caddyshack
Singin’ in the Rain
It Happened One Night
But I think I’m a little weird.
Ghostbusters
Airplane!
Clerks
A Night At the Opera
Blazing Saddles
The Odd Couple
Annie Hall
This Is Spinal Tap
Groundhog Day
High Fidelity
My list, just off the top of my head…
Groundhog Day
Bananas
Life of Brian
Blazing Saddles
Raising Arizona
There’s Something About Mary
Hot Shots! Part Deux
Amelie of Montmartre
Annie Hall
Back to the Future
…ah but there are so many!!!
A slight correction: The Holy Grail was directed by Gilliam and Jones. It was the Life of Brian which was directed by Jones alone.
Also off the top of my head and in no order
Some Like It Hot
Life Of Brian
There’s Something About Mary
Dr. Strangelove
Visitor Q
Shaolin Soccer
The Princess Bride
Galaxy Quest
Fargo
Bridget Jones’s Diary
The first 10 that come to mind, thought the list would likely be quite different tomorrow.
Airplane!
The General
Duck Soup
The Thin Man
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Mr. Hulot’s Holiday
Toy Story
This is Spinal Tap
Dr. Strangelove
Heathers
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
W. C. Fields (Take your pick.)
Laurel and Hardy (Big Business, selling Christmas trees door to door.)
The Big Lebowski
Good Housekeeping (Saw it at a film festival, never seen it on VCR.)
Play it Again Sam
Muriel’s Wedding
I want to take High Fidelity off my list and replace it with Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure!
No order:
Dr. Strangelove
Spaceballs
Meet the Parents
Airplane!
Naked Gun
Groundhog Day
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Life is Beautiful
Ghostbusters
Er, I can’t think of another one…
Annie Hall
Raising Arizona
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
It Happened One Night
The Money Pit
Groundhog Day
Airplane!
Young Frankenstein
This is Spinal Tap
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Spooje, I haven’t seen Annie Hall, but your list comes awfully close to mine.
In no particular order:
Young Frankenstein
Airplane!
Police Squad: The Naked Gun
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
Support Your Local Sheriff
Ghostbusters
The Blues Brothers
This is Spinal Tap
Groundhog Day
The Producers
Let’s see…in no particular order:
Waiting for Guffman
The Royal Tenenbaums
Friday (only the first 3/4s, though)
Zelig
Ace Venture: When Nature Calls
What About Bob?
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Raising Arizona
O, Brother, Where Art Thou?
Raising Arizona