Top ten comedies?

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The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
The Awful Truth
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Young Frankenstein
The Princess Bride
Better Off Dead
Some Like it Hot
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Pride and Prejudice (miniseries) (1995)
A Room with a View

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I’ll have to expand my list to 12 so that I can add This Is Spinal Tap and Blazing Saddles.

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The General (Keaton)
The Freshman (Harold Lloyd)
Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch)
A Night at the Opera (Marx Bros.)
Modern Times (Chaplin)
His Girl Friday (Hawks)
The Lady Eve (Sturges)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (Hamer)
Some Like It Hot (Wilder)
Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)
Playtime (Tati)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
This Is Spinal Tap (Reiner)

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In no particular order (Except Lebowski), and probably not even my faves (with the aforementioned exception), just what I come up with in a minute or two

The Big Lebowski
Safety Last
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Chopper
This is Spinal Tap
Snatch
Clerks
Best in Show
The Naked Gun
Hots Shots: Part Deux

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The ones that haven’t been mentioned yet:

Dark Star
Take the Money and Run
Sleeper
Pink Panther (hard to say which one - I get them confused)

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Well, last night I watched My Cousin Vinny and remembered again why it would make my list of “top comedies”.

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This Is Spinal Tap
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Annie Hall
Manhattan
A Day At the Races
South Park
Fargo
Blazing Saddles
My Cousin Vinny
MAS*H

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As they come to mind:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Duck Soup
Playtime (only if viewed in widescreen in a theater, though; if you can’t manage that, substitute M. Hulot’s Holiday)
City Lights
The General
The Bank Dick
Love and Death (for pure comedy; Woody’s made better films, but not funnier ones)
Bringing Up Baby
Airplane!
Young Frankenstein

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Animal House
Life of Brian
MAS*H (Not sure if you could call it a comedy, though)
Airplane!
The Naked Gun
Ghostbusters
Stripes
Blues Brothers
Back to the Future
Raising Arizona

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Duck Soup
Sullivan’s Travels
His Girl Friday
The Apartment
The In-Laws (original version)
This Is Spinal Tap
Local Hero
Groundhog Day
Being John Malkovich
Amelie

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No particular order:

Dazed and Confused
Caddyshack
National Lampoons Vacation
Grumpy Old Men
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Animal House
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Spaceballs
Police Acedemy
Victor/Victoria

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Based entirely on my initial response to each, and in no order:

A Shot In the Dark
The Party
Annie Hall
This Is Spinal Tap
Office Space
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Bedazzled (Pete and Dud)
Blazing Saddles
Dr Strangelove
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Duck Soup
Grounhog Day
Ther’s Something About Mary
Ruthless People
Harold and Maude

I could go on but…

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I ought to include Office Space and South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, now that I think of them.

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In case anyone is interested, the SDMB Top Ten Comedy List compiled results are as follows:

  1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (12 votes)
  2. Spinal Tap (10 votes)
  3. Airplane, Blazing Saddles, Dr. Strangelove (tied with 8 votes)
  4. Young Frankenstein, Groundhog Day (tied with 7 votes)
  5. Raising Arizona, Duck Soup, Ghostbusters, Annie Hall (tied with 6 votes)

That’s actually eleven, but there were 4 tied for 8th place, and I couldn’t just leave one off.

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Let’s try:
Animal House
The Bank Dick
Airplane!
Young Frankenstein
Life of Brian
The Naked Gun
Dr Strangelove
Bananas
The Producers
His Girl Friday

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Night at the Opera
Its a Gift
His Girl Friday
What’s Up Doc?
This Is Spinal Tap
Manhattan
Raising Arizona
Young Frankenstein
Dr. Strangelove
Some Like It Hot