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Best Comedy Movie Ever?


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So many great comedies it's nearly impossible to pick a favorite.

The Blues Brothers

Blazing Saddles

There's something about Mary

Dumb & Dumber

A Fish called Wanda

Caddyshack

Midnight Run

Planes, Trains & Automobiles

Vacation

Airplane

The Big Lebowski

and so many more.................. :o

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airplane ( the autopilot floating around the cabin ), life of brian ( biggus dickus ) are two of my favourites.

some of the earlier "carry on " films seem to improve with age. so corny , but that peculiarly british style of delivery as practised by that ensemble is just priceless.

a fish called wanda ( the squashed dogs) is always worth a re run too.

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Weird Science ain't my favorite, but I didn't see it here. :-)

I've acquired a copy of Napolean Dynamite that if you turn on the English subtitles it suddenly get very funny. The talented English teacher turn pirate knows about 20 words. One of the is the F word. Dude, it's used in almost every sentence in ways that even I never thought of!!

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I think 'Airplane' is the funniest film I have ever seen. You can watch it over and over and still see new things.

Other "funnies"

What did you do in the war daddy?"

Gotcha

Dead men don't wear plaid

Cat Ballou

and not forgetting (just for York(y)ie), " The Life of Brian."

We have similar tastes in Movies, I'd have to add Blazing saddles!

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Being There with Peter Sellers, and most of the Pink Panther films

Woody Allen has also made some verr funny movies but also some very dire ones.

Peter Sellers.

The Party was brilliant, but the Pink Panther Movies were Better.

We..he..heh..heh..ell..... to paraphrase Sellers;

In terms of actual movie making though, I will stick with Sellers, for he was in Kubrick's Masterpiece of Comedy:

How I learned to Dr. Strangelove or How I learnt to stop worrying and love the bomb

President Merkin Muffley: Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.
[strangelove's plan for post-nuclear war survival involves living underground with a 10:1 female-to-male ratio]

General "Buck" Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?

Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.

Ambassador de Sadesky: I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor.

and so much more.

Kubrick & Sellers (& Blake Edwards)

R.I.P. and thanks for all the laughs.

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Caddyshack.

Here's one top 25 list:

1. Duck Soup - (1933) (Marx Brothers)

2. Some Like It Hot - (1959) (Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Marilyn Monroe)

3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail - (1975) (Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Eric Idle, etc.)

4. Airplane! - (1980) (Robert Hayes, Julie Hagerty)

5. "Dr. Strangelove" - (1964) (Peter Sellers, George C. Scott)

6. Blazing Saddles - (1974) (Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder)

7. What's Up, Doc? - (1972) (Barbra Striesand, Ryan O'Neil)

8. National Lampoon's Animal House - (1978) (John Belushi, Tim Matheson)

9. A Night At The Opera - (1935) (Marx Brothers)

10. The Odd Couple - (1968) (Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau)

11. Caddyshack - (1980) (Bill Murray, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight)

12. The Producers - (1968) (Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn)

13. The Graduate - (1967) (Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross)

14. Tootsie - (1982) (Dustin Hoffman, Jessica lange, Bill Murray)

15. Young Frankenstein - (1974) (Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle)

16. Bringing Up Baby - (1938) (Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn)

17. Arthur - (1981) (Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli)

18. Bananas - (1971) (Woody Allen, Carlos Montalban)

19. Take The Money And Run - (1969) (Woody Allen, Janet Margolin)

20. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World - (1963) (Milton Berle, Jonathan Winters)

21. A Shot In The Dark - (1964) (Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer)

22. The Birdcage - (1996) (Robin Williams, Nathan Lane)

23. Adam's Rib - (1949) (Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn)

24. A Day At The Races - (1937) (Marx Brothers)

25. M*A*S*H - (1970) (Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland, Sally Kellerman)

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