Best Comedy films?
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cryptoflovecraft — 4 years ago(October 07, 2021 04:14 PM)
Trading Places
Midnight Madness
Divorce, Italian Style
The Pink Panther
A Shot in the Dark
Desperate Living
Love and Death
Bananas
Kill or Cure
Transylvania 6-5000
Night Shift
After Hours
The King of Comedy
The Producers
Ninotchka
The Trouble with Harry
The Out of Towners
The Spirit is Willing -
ToastedCheese — 4 years ago(October 21, 2021 10:17 AM)
1941 is a pandemonium of wackiness and zaniness, but it sure is impressive to look at. Its not everyone's cup of tea, but one I've always loved.
If you do get to watch it, avoid the extended cut, way too long.
Theatrical cut runs about 118mins and is a lot tighter as comedies should be.
Norman! What did you put in my tea? -
Fun Guy From Yuggoth — 4 years ago(October 07, 2021 05:19 PM)
I'm not sure if I'm going to be helpful here since I like weird comedies and the rest of the suggestions I see are more like mainstream, hip comedies which I only found mildly amusing when watching them (such as the Hangover and Bridesmaids and movies like that).
But anyways, these are some of my favorites:
Team America: World Police
Freddy Got Fingered
Tommy Boy
Billy Madison
Ace Ventura - both movies
Happy Gilmore
MacGruber
Monty Python - Holy Grail and Life of Brian -
I love hutch — 4 years ago(October 07, 2021 10:15 PM)
"Reform School Girls" (1986) is hysterical, my favorite comedy.
Also…
"Female Trouble" (1974)
"Polyester" (1981)
"Heat" (1972)
"Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion" (1997)
"Tootsie" (1982)
"She Devil" (1989) (movie wasn't necessarily hilarious, but I enjoyed it)
"Murder, by Death" (1976)
"Bullets Over Broadway" (1994)
"Private Benjamin" (1980) (mostly for Eileen Brennan's performance. She was hilarious.)
"After Hours" (1985)
"The Out of Towners" (1970)
"Desperate Living" (1977)
"976-Evil" (1988)
"The Four Seasons" (1981) (it's a mild comedy, but very pleasant and likable)
I've never found "Airplane" funny at all. It's not my kind of humor.
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ToastedCheese — 4 years ago(October 08, 2021 01:46 AM)
Oh
Tootsie
for sure.
After Hours
is always an interesting and off-beat foray into the stranger side of Soho.
Spoofs are hit and miss with me and one really needs to know the references to get the gag as well.
Airplane aka Flying High
is pretty meh!
I like
Lost In America
, thinking of Julie Hagerty.
Norman! What did you put in my tea? -
ToastedCheese — 4 years ago(October 21, 2021 10:19 AM)
She Devil
gets a quite a few snickers out of me and a lot of that is due to Streep, who is actually better than I used to give her credit for in this film.
Streep was perfect to play Mary Fisher, a living parody, as it suited her acting style down to a tee.
I find
Private Benjamin
hit and miss. There's not enough of Brennan in it and the second half is like another film altogether.
Norman! What did you put in my tea? -
Rocketman — 4 years ago(October 08, 2021 02:00 AM)
The Big Lebowski
Raising Arizona
Burn After Reading
Airplane
Top Secret
The Naked Gun
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Spaceballs
Tropic Thunder
Zoolander
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python: The Life of Brian
There's Something About Mary
Dumb & Dumber
Meet the Parents
Old School
Anchorman
Anchorman 2
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
The Other Guys
Borat
Bruno
Step Brothers
A Fish Called Wanda
Spies Like Us
National Lampoon's Vacation
Christmas Vacation
Superbad
National Lampoon's Animal House
Wayne's World
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Austin Powers: Goldmember
South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut
Team America: World Police
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Suicide Squad
Thor: Ragnarok
Deadpool 2
Zombieland
The Wolf of Wall Street
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phantomparticle — 4 years ago(October 08, 2021 08:08 AM)
1920
Of the three major comics of that decade, I've really come to like Harold Lloyd since the box set release of all his films to dvd, so I'm going with
The Kid Brother
.
1930
Laurel and Hardy top the list of an amazing ten years that includes the Marx Bros, WC Fields and Mae West. While
Sons of the Desert
is generally considered their best film, my favorite has always been
Way Out West
with the great James Finlayson.
1940
A dire decade with even less to laugh about than the 1930's. Abbott and Costello dominated the field. Not my favorite team but
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
, their best movie, goes to the head of the class.
1950
The Trouble With Harry,
one of Sir Alfred's rare attempts at comedy. It is very British in tone and that probably throws a lot of people off. Subversively amusing rather than laugh out loud.
1960
Too many to name, but
The Producers
(the funniest comedy I've ever seen),
Who's Minding the Mint
(a close second) and
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
top the list.
1970
The only one I can come up with at present is the ultra cheap but thoroughly crazy science fiction satire
Dark Star
.
1980
Tootsie
tops the list, although I start to zone out around the mid section when Hoffman visits Jessica Lange's country home. I know it's important to the development of the story, but coming after the uproarious first half, it really slows down the momentum.
Have to admit, I pretty much zone out from the '90's to the present since I'm not a fan of infantile and gross comedy. I'd have to see a list to remember, "Oh, yeah, I saw that one."
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