Standup:
John Pinette
TV:
M*A*S*H
The Benny Hill Show
Cartoons:
The Ren and Stimpy Show - Space Madness
Bugs Bunny - Rabbit of Seville
Movies:
The Great Race
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Quoted from DeathWish13:one of my favorites
I just watched this the other day. Freakin' hilarious!
I've seen a lot of the old classics that I love mentioned. Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs, Young Frankenstein, Holy Grail, Life of Brian and so on. A couple more old classics: Take the Money and Run and Sleeper.
How about some great comedies in the last 20 years? That gets a little tougher. Tropic Thunder is definitely an all time classic. One that has really grown on me is This is the End. That movie is ridiculously funny.
Dazed and Confused
That’s what I like about these high school girls, I get older, they stay the same age.
TV:
I Love Lucy
3rd Rock from the Sun
Northern Exposure
Film:
City Lights (1931)
Duck Soup (1933)
Ball of Fire (1941)
High Society (1956)
Some Like it Hot (1959)
Harold and Maude (1971)
Flashback (1990)
Movie: the big lebowski.
Series: fawlty towers, the office(eng), little brittain.
Comedian: Tage Danielsson.
Ed: just noticed nobody mentioned little miss sunshine, back to the future and doc hollywood yet. Three gems imo.
××××, just realised i really like m.j. fox. Anybody seen the hard way, with fox and woods?
Highly recommended.
Quoted from John_I:I've seen a lot of the old classics that I love mentioned. Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs, Young Frankenstein, Holy Grail, Life of Brian and so on. A couple more old classics: Take the Money and Run and Sleeper.
How about some great comedies in the last 20 years? That gets a little tougher. Tropic Thunder is definitely an all time classic. One that has really grown on me is This is the End. That movie is ridiculously funny.
Last 20 years for me:
Austin Powers (technically 22 years)
Something about Mary (technically 21 years)
Office Space
Big Lebowski (technically 21 years)
Borat
Taladega Nights
Step Brothers
Anchorman
Tropic Thunder
Shaun of the Dead
Superbad
40 year old virgin
Bad Moms
O' Brother where art thou (if you consider this a comedy)
Quoted from Bowlingpin:[quoted image]
Kingpin was the first time i ever heard of/saw the concept of dropping a deuce in the urinal hahaha
Quoted from Ballypalooza:The best, WKRP[quoted image]
"As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly..."
Slap Shot is fantastic. This sports movie reminds me of Major League. Every time it is on, I stop and watch it out of respect.
Quoted from John_I:Slap Shot was the best sports movie of all time and also one of my favorite comedies.
Hard to go wrong with Paul Newman and the Hanson Bros. And the strip-tease number at the end was a hilarious ending for a sports movie. I saw it as a kid on VHS, but then caught it again a while back and noticing they'd swapped out "Right Back Where We Started From" for some generic crap. Hopefully they've got that straightened out by now, that was a great era-specific soundtrack.
Quoted from Dr-pin:Movie: the big lebowski.
Series: fawlty towers, the office(eng), little brittain.
Comedian: Tage Danielsson.
Ed: just noticed nobody mentioned little miss sunshine, back to the future and doc hollywood yet. Three gems imo.
××××, just realised i really like m.j. fox. Anybody seen the hard way, with fox and woods?
Highly recommended.
James Woods was awesome in that movie!
Short Circuit
So cool when I was a kid, now my kids love it and we sit around watching it like a bunch of kids
My favorite character was Ben Jabituya
Quoted from RandomGuyOffCL:Short Circuit
So cool when I was a kid, now my kids love it and we sit around watching it like a bunch of kids
My favorite character was Ben Jabituya
I am standing here beside myself.
Ghostbusters obviously...
Honorable mentions:
Major League
Dumb and Dumber
Kingpin
Big Lebowski
Caddyshack
Quoted from pinkid:Slap Shot, Hollywood Knights, the Wild Life, Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
Haven't seen Hollywood Knights in years. For the longest time, it was restricted from VHS or DVD. I think you can now rent it on Amazon, but you never see it out in the wild. A ripoff of American Grafitti, but still a fun movie. A first film for Michelle Pfieffer and Tony Danza.
Quoted from Mcshaney:Role models with Sean William Scott and Paul Rudd
Some great lines in that one. “I will hit a child.”
Quoted from robertmee:O' Brother where art thou (if you consider this a comedy)
Yes I would consider it a dark comedy with a mix of comedy and drama, I think the Coen's dark comedy masterpiece is Raising Arizona.
Has anyone mentioned "The 'Burbs"? Tom Hanks when he was still going out on a limb with his roles.
Also "Nothing But Trouble", utterly insane movie with several SNL & SCTV alumni that's so bad, it's good. Well, good may be too strong a word, but it's like a train wreck that you can't help but watch, and funny in the "what the hell did I just see?" sense.
Quoted from jibmums:Also "Nothing But Trouble", utterly insane movie with several SNL & SCTV alumni that's so bad, it's good. Well, good may be too strong a word, but it's like a train wreck that you can't help but watch, and funny in the "what the hell did I just see?" sense.
That was a crazy movie. An epic waste of a talented cast, yes, but it does have its "what the hell" moments, such as this:
Trouble (resized).pngSome of these aren't flat out comedies but do have strong comedic elements:
Edgar Wright's Cornetto Trilogy
Thor: Ragnarok
Swiss Army Man
The Nice Guys
Hunt For The Wilderpeople
Boy
Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
Besides that, this isn't my top favorite but Galaxy Quest that I got from a friend at Apknite tickles my funny bone in a way few other movies do so it should be here.
Any love for British comedies? They just have a different sense of humor than many Americans. Been watching Father Ted and Vicar of Dibley lately. They're fantastic. Only problem is over there a lot of series have like 6 episodes in a season and sometimes years between seasons. The full series might only be 20 episodes. IT Crowd was also good.
Favorite comedian: Doug Stanhope, Ron White. Movies: Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Used Cars, Oh Brother where art thou
Quoted from RandomGuyOffCL:Short Circuit
So cool when I was a kid, now my kids love it and we sit around watching it like a bunch of kids
My favorite character was Ben Jabituya
Oooh her pants are blazing for you Newton Crosby!
Quoted from loneacer:Any love for British comedies? .
The young ones
Bottom
Black Adder
Allo
Allo
i never thought anything would remove Holy Grail from my top spot, but "O Brother Where Art Thou" did it. Honorable mentions: Napoleon Dynamite and School of Rock: "Rockin' ain't no walk in the park, lady."
Quoted from jhanley:The "Young Ones " is hilarious.
I'll have to read up on that one. I have Black Adder, Fawlty Towers, and Little Britain on DVD but I haven't watched them yet. Reading good things about Are You Being Served too, that's probably next on my list.
Blazing Saddles
Step Brothers
Super Bad
Road Trip
The Man
The Wolf of Wall Street
Little Man
Quick Change
Idiocracy
Mr. Bean The Movie
The Toy
My Cousin Vinny
Porkys
The Jerk
Bull Durham
The Goods
Meet The Parents
Guess Who
Patch Adams
Uncle Buck
What About Bob?
White Chicks
Amos & Andrew
Coneheads
Ruthless People
The Hangover (all)
The Replacements
Opportunity Knocks
Planes Trains and Automobiles
SGT Bilko
Vacation - Vegas, Christmas but not Europe
A Fish Called Wanda
Dirty Rotten Scandals
Without a Paddle
Weekend at Bernies
American Pie
Favorite comedy movie:
Return of the Pink Panther (best combo of humor offset with drama in the franchise, IMO). “Kato, your freezer ambush ploy was very good. But one thing, your fly is un duhnn.” “Try to do something about your filthy min kee.” “Here ez loooking at eyu, keed.”
Favorite comedy movie scenes:
Mirror scene in Duck Soup (I still crack up every time I see it)
Packed ship room scene in A Night at the Opera (ditto)
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