toldailytopic: The best comedy movies of all time. What are your picks?

[Nathon Detroit]

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[Nathon Detroit]

Off the top of my head.....

- School of Rock
- Nacho Libre
- Kung Pow
- Napoleon Dynamite
- Tommy Boy

 

[Rusha]

See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Happy Gilmore
Dogma
Billy Madison
Young Frankenstein

 

[Son of Jack]

Tommy Boy (Classic..."Fat guy in a little coat...")
Billy Madison
Dumb and Dumber ("So you're sayin' there's a chance...")
Monty Python's The Holy Grail

I might have to think about it some more and add others later.

 

[Ask Mr. Religion]

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Airplane!
Dr. Strangelove
The Big Lebowski
Brazil

AMR

 

[Sozo again]

No particular order.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
In Bruge
Duck Soup
Raising Arizona
Much Ado About Nothing
The Big Night
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Caddyshack
The Jerk
Pulp Fiction
Fargo
The Pink Panther
Being There
I Love You To Death
Waking Ned Devine

 

[The Berean]

Some of my favorites...

The Holy Grail
Trading Places
Airplane!
White Men Can't Jump
The Pink Panther

 

[The Graphite]

It's not the greatest comedy ever made (obviously), but I have never in my life laughed so hard for so long (til I was red-faced and in literal pain) as I did when I saw Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie, in a little art-house theater with my best friend. I had heard of the show but never seen it.

I walked out of there hurting. It was a good hurt.

 

[Aimiel]

Duck Soup, the funniest movie of all time... hands down.
Second: Some Like it Hot.

 

[The Graphite]

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Noises Off

City Lights (Charlie Chaplin)

Groundhog Day

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Beetlejuice

My Cousin Vinny

 

[DocJohnson]

Blazing Saddles

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

An Inconvenient Truth

 

[The Graphite]

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

:up:

Also:

Swing Your Lady, (1938) starring Humphrey Bogart. Last time I checked, it has never been available for sale on video/CD, but I have seen it on TV. Very rarely shown.

Bogart said this was the most embarassingly bad movie he ever made, and didn't like to talk about it. Frankly, my family and I thought it was hilarious! It is low-budget and very goofy. It also starred real-life wrestler-turned-actor Nat Pendleton as an (of course) professional wrestler. And a cameo appearance near the end of the film by not-yet-famous Ronald Reagan, in one of his very earliest roles! If you see this in the TV guide, don't miss it! It's a mostly-forgotten gem.

 

[Sozo again]

If you see this in the TV guide

They still make TV Guide?

 

[The Berean]

They still make TV Guide?

Yes they do. But now it's the size of a regular magazine!

 

[Servo]

Off the top of my head.....

- School of Rock
- Kung Pow
- Napoleon Dynamite

Those films would be in my top 10.

And uhhh...

Several Coen Brother films.....

 

[Persephone66]

Clerks 2
Clerks
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Dogma
Zombieland
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Spaceballs
Robin Hood: Men in Tights

 

[DocJohnson]

Did I mention An Inconvenient Truth? That movie was hilarious... an absolute knee-slapper.

 

[Sozo again]

Did I mention An Inconvenient Truth? That movie was hilarious... an absolute knee-slapper.

So was Expelled.

 

[DocJohnson]

So was Expelled.

I own that one. Great movie. Best part was when Stein got Richard Dawkins to admit he believes in Intelligent Design!

 

[Sozo again]

I own that one. Great movie. Best part was when Stein got Richard Dawkins to admit he believes in Intelligent Design!

:chuckle: My favorite part too.