What's the longest movie comedy?

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I was reading an article in the paper the other day about how so many movies lately have longer-than-usual running times. They mentioned that even comedies are trending this way, with “This Is 40” having a running time of 134 minutes (causing some people to joke that the title should be “This Is 40 Minutes Too Long”).

It got me to wondering what is the longest film that is considered a comedy? I remember back in the VHS days renting a copy of “The Blues Brothers” that was too long for a single cassette, so I figured it was well over two hours. I looked it up on IMDB and they say the running time is 133 minutes, so it is a minute shorter than “This Is 40”. Are there any comedies in the 2:30 to 3:00 hour range?

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Many. The Great Race is a wonderful comedy that runs 160 minutes.

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All of the versions of *It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World *are longer than 134 minutes.

From IMDB

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The 1956 version of Around the World in 80 Days, with David Niven, was pretty long, too. From IMDB:

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Didn’t In the Army Now with Pauly Shore run about 7 or 8 hours? It sure seemed like it.

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I can barely believe that Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a scant 144 minutes long. That may be the longest kid film.

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The original “Dr. Dolittle” movie was 152 minuteshttp://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/editpost.php?do=editpost&p=15914968

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This Hungarian comedy/drama clocks in at 450 minutes.

ETA: for movies in English, there’s Dead End Days, a comedy/horror flick that runs 278 minutes.

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The Cure for Insomnia is one of the longest movies ever made. And I’ve seen at least one description of it as a “comedy”. But I don’t think it really qualifies - it consists of L.D. Groban reading his poem “A Cure for Insomnia”. The poem is 4080 pages long and the movie runs for 5220 minutes (87 hours). So it would have to be a really funny poem.

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Probably the longest movie which would generally be considered a comedy is the 1988 British production of Little Dorrit. It ran for 357 minutes and was usually shown in two parts.

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:smack: That one should have been obvious, considering there was a thread about it here just recently.