What is your favorite Comedy Movie?

In My Humble Opinion
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Animal House (sad that I can recite more lines of this from memory than Shakespeare–yes, tis true)

(big, big gap)

Life of Brian/Holy Grail (tie)

Kentucky Fried Movie (the game show during "A Fistful of Yen and the obvious mouthing [in slow motion of “what the fuck?” are hilarious)

Amazon Women on The Moon

Ferris Bueller (My favorite scene is when they show that stretch of road, then you hear the Star Wars music and they have this big assed shadow of the car going over the hill. Makes me laugh inappropriately when I hear the Star Wars theme)

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Annie Hall
Raising Arizona
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
The Money Pit
Clerks

23

Favourite is “Tall Blonde Man With One Black Shoe”. Or “Return of the Tall Blonde Man with One Black Shoe”.

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For out-and-out gut-wrenching laughs, Airplane!. I literally couldn’t breathe at times the first time I saw it, and it remains funny after multiple viewings.

For humor within the framework of a clever plot, Ruthless People.

So many other good ones also already mentioned.

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“The Producers” Springtime for Hitler in Germany!

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Top Secret. It’s got to be Top Secret. Because:

  1. The German bad guys have a “Find him and kill him” rubber stamp.

  2. The hero wakes from a dream where he was back at school to find himself being tortured in a dank cell, and says “thank God!”

  3. The blind torturer walks into a concrete post (you have to look out for that one)

4)They shoot a whole scene backwards to make the dialogue sound Swedish.

5)They painted black spots on a real white cow and put boots on its hooves to make it look like a fake cow. And dubbed in human speech.

  1. The “big phone” scene is great.

  2. The “little horse” pun is awful.

  3. They have “The French Resistance” in Germany.

  4. The german guards don’t hear or see other german guards being noisily killed by the French Resistance three feet away.

  5. The love scene panning shots involve more limbs than can be attributed to two people.

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If we’re keeping this strictly American…(that knocks out all the Monty Python)

The Producers (if it’s Mel Brooks, it’s almost always gold)
Ghostbusters ("The next time someone asks you if you’re a god, you say “YES!”)
Some Like it Hot
Army of Darkness (“Gimme some sugar, baby.”)
Princess Bride
and just about anything with Laurel and Hardy, silent or talkies.

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The only one that really made me laugh lately was Ghostbusters 2. And Ghostbusters would be next.

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History of the World Part One - I love my people. Pull!

Meaning of Life - Fuck off! I’m full.

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For movies that haven’t been mentioned yet (I think)
*Police Squad: The Naked Gun - the baseball scenes are a hoot and a half.

*A Fish Called Wanda - “every man for himself” is not one of the tenets of Confucianism

*Young Frankenstein - “Put the candle back”, “Boy what knockers”, " “Igor, get the bags’ ‘OK, you take the blonde and I’ll take the one in the turban!’”

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In no particular order:

  1. Airplane:Stop calling me Shirley.
  2. A Fish Called Wanda : The green ones aren’t ripe yet.
  3. Dr Strangelove: Precious bodily fluids.
  4. The Pink Panther Strikes Again: Kato you fool.
  5. Princess Bride: Damn near any line in the movie.
32

Hmmm let’s see…

  1. Tootsie
  2. Caddyshack
  3. The Jerk
  4. American Pie
  5. Eyes Wide Shut… Yes, I know it wasn’t a comedy… but it was SOO incredibly bad I laughed my ass of all the way through it…does that qualify??
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That’s pretty impressive! How many Animal House lines could Shakespeare quote?

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I recently saw “Happy, Texas.” I think it will be one of my favorites from now on. William H. Macy is the coolest!

Also, we have:

  1. City Slickers (“Have you killed anybody today, Curly?” “Day ain’t over yet”)
  2. Army of Darkness (“Shop smart, shop S-Mart!”)
  3. The Full Monty (“Anti-wrinkle cream there may be, but anti-Fat-Bastard cream there is none”)
  4. The Princess Bride (“What about the R.O.U.S’s?” “Rodents of Unusual Size? I don’t believe they exist.” WHUMP)
  5. The Gods Must Be Crazy
  6. The Cable Guy (“Come back so that I may brain thee!”)
  7. Raising Arizona (“Son, you got a panty on your head.”)
  8. The Big Lebowski
  9. Galaxy Quest (“It’s a pile of rocks! It doesn’t have a motivation!”)
  10. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (“Leave, or I will taunt you a second time”)
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  1. A Christmas Story
  2. Annie Hall
  3. Princess Bride
  4. Sixteen Candles
  5. Is Rocky Horror Picture Show considered a comedy? If not, Groundhog Day is my fifth choice.
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I gotta do this.

  1. Any movie by Zucker, Abraham and Zucker, which includes the Naked Gun movies, both Airplanes, Top Secret, and God alone knows what else. The sight gags alone are worth the price of admission.

  2. Most Mel Brooks movies. (Blazing Saddles, the Producers, Silent Movie, and, I hate to say it, parts of History of the World, Part I. Yes, I know parts of it were in very bad taste, but lighten up!)

  3. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut. I know, it’s gross potty humor, but it’s also brilliant social commentary if you can handle the gross potty humor.

  4. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. I saw it twice last summer, liked it more the second time, and I bought the movie when it came out. And the first one’s good, too.

and finally,
5) Any porno movie. Accidental humor is far and away better than anything intentional.

Robin

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I thought that Princess Bride should have made the top 100.
It was a pretty good list overall though if a little heavy on the last couple of decades. It was nice to see the Marx Bros. and the Thin Man on the list.

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My choices for favorite comedy movie are:

Arsenic & Old Lace (all of it)
Murder By Death
Clue
Rush Hour  (Chris Tucker and martial arts - yum)
My Man Godfrey
Moonstruck
Auntie Mame or Mame (the one that doesn't have Lucille Ball in it)
9 to 5 (when they are stoned & the copy room scene)
Galaxy Quest
Princess Bride (the preacher at their wedding)
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Ukulele Ike:

Sorry about the misunderstanding. My phrase about the “can’t believe no one posed” was about my first – “Night at the OPera”

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I can’t believe I forgot Clue! (See my thread “Bad Movies We Love”). And, OF COURSE, Moonstruck! It was hysterical!