Your Top-12 favorite movie comedies

[rekane]

God, everybody's list stirs more memories. "Son of Flubber", "The Absent Minded Professor" or any of those Movies with Fred MacMurray and crew from Disney. Sometimes silly, but great, clean fun. Another I forgot that was already mentioned is "This is Spinal Tap". This classic is even better when you realize what these guys really look like.

It is difficult to leave out some great movies, because they aren't really comedies, but involve situations between actors that just click in a funny way. "The Whole Nine Yards" and "Pulp Fiction" are like that. And "My Cousin Vinny" is near and dear to my heart...I am hopelessly in love with Marisa Tomei.

Ok, I resisted the urge to put this down, but I have a confession: I had a thing for Don Knotts as a child. Well, Don Knotts and Vincent Price, actually, but I am hard pressed to think of a Vincent Price comedy.

Don Knotts in "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken"...loved it. Still have an affinity for it.
Then there's "The Apple Dumpling Gang" with Don Knotts and Tim Conway. It was complete comic gold for me as a youngster.

Hmmm - "Knotts"...a foreshadowing of my adult activities?

 

[NawtyShutterBug]

some of my faves, in the order I thought of them (and I'm sure the second I post, I'll think of 3 more which probably rate even higher than some on this list... )

Pulp Fiction - just watched this again last night so it's the first one that came to mind...
Slap Shot - there's not a single occasion where you can't find a suitable quote from this movie!
Bull Durham - constantly quote this one too!
The Blues Brothers - Classic!
A Fish Called Wanda - K-k-k-k-Ken
Groundhog Day
Monty Python and the Holy Grail - Who doesn't quote from this?
Princess Bride
Wayne's World - not so much now, but at the time? hysterical!
Slingblade - I know it's a drama but that's some funny stuff right there
Tropic Thunder - Never go full retard!
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - Ruprecht! Do you want the genital cuff?

 

[rekane]

I just watched Zombieland about eight times, cause I'm in a Zombie phase. Delightful. The Twinkies, dear god, the Twinkies.


Oh yes. American Psycho. Knee-slapping, pee-in-your-pants funny. A romp.

So, guess what I'm watching right now....
‎"What are the odds? Another marriageable woman to bring home to the folks. Someone's ear is in danger of having hair brushed over it."

American Psycho is actually quite funny. Patrick Bateman's discussion about Huey Lewis while he is dancing and preparing to hack his victim to bits is priceless. We often quote that and do his little dance around our house.
"TRY GETTING A RESERVATION AT DORSIA NOW YOU FUCKING STUPID BASTARD! YOU, FUCKING BASTARD!"

Then there is the Christian Bale factor.

Ah, rethinking my list.

 

[catalina_francisco]

Only 12?!! OK, will try to keep to that

Preaching To The Perverted (BDSM kink romcom)
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert
What About Bob?
Spider & Rose
Confessions Of A Shopaholic
Bruno (and basically anything by Sacha Baron Cohen)
The Fockers movies
Pirates Of The Caribbean movies
The Sum Of Us
Monty Python movies

and so many more!!

Catalina

 

[DVS]

Yup, I agree with the bolded part. Pulp Fiction is a good example and I laughed a lot when From Dusk Till Dawn changed from a perfectly normal movie to this really strange vampire story but it doesn´t feel quite right to call them comedies either. Fargo is another example.

Yes, "Fargo". Another great movie. Twists and turns and comedic interaction in the characters.

 

[callinectes2]

1. Zombieland
2. Office Space
3. Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
4. The Big Lebowski
5. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
6. Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
7. Bull Durham
8. Caddyshack
8. Animal House
9. Blazing Saddles
10 Better off Dead.

 

[DVS]

some of my faves, in the order I thought of them (and I'm sure the second I post, I'll think of 3 more which probably rate even higher than some on this list... )

Pulp Fiction - just watched this again last night so it's the first one that came to mind...
Slap Shot - there's not a single occasion where you can't find a suitable quote from this movie!
Bull Durham - constantly quote this one too!
The Blues Brothers - Classic!
A Fish Called Wanda - K-k-k-k-Ken
Groundhog Day
Monty Python and the Holy Grail - Who doesn't quote from this?
Princess Bride
Wayne's World - not so much now, but at the time? hysterical!
Slingblade - I know it's a drama but that's some funny stuff right there
Tropic Thunder - Never go full retard!
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - Ruprecht! Do you want the genital cuff?

Oh, "Slingblade"...uhhuh.

 

[NawtyShutterBug]

Oh, "Slingblade"...uhhuh.

I like the way you talk...

 

[DVS]

Ok, I resisted the urge to put this down, but I have a confession: I had a thing for Don Knotts as a child. Well, Don Knotts and Vincent Price, actually, but I am hard pressed to think of a Vincent Price comedy.

Don Knotts in "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken"...loved it. Still have an affinity for it.
Then there's "The Apple Dumpling Gang" with Don Knotts and Tim Conway. It was complete comic gold for me as a youngster.

Hmmm - "Knotts"...a foreshadowing of my adult activities?

I'm a big fan of Don Knotts, too, as well as Tim Conway. Tim's work on the Carol Burnett show is priceless. He consistently made his fellow actors crack up in that show, while keeping a straight face.

And there simply will never be another Don Knotts. His over the top way of reacting to things was just so special. Everybody knows the name Barney Fife and I'm sure many even remember Ralph Furley, let alone his great movie roles.

I know Vincent Price did a movie with Abbott and Costello, but I've never seen it so I don't know how much comedy his part involved. But when he created a character in his horror movies, he added quirky mannerisms to the part that someone else wouldn't think of. And he was so good at it that you saw those quirky mannerisms as true to the character's personality. He also did some voice overs in his latter years. He was in demand for that because his voice was one of those that had a special character all its own.

 

[DVS]

Only 12?!! OK, will try to keep to that

Preaching To The Perverted (BDSM kink romcom)
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert
What About Bob?
Spider & Rose
Confessions Of A Shopaholic
Bruno (and basically anything by Sacha Baron Cohen)
The Fockers movies
Pirates Of The Caribbean movies
The Sum Of Us
Monty Python movies

and so many more!!

Catalina

I think DeepGreenEyes is trying to flex his sadistic muscles with this thread because most people who enjoy comedies could never limit their favorites to just a few.

 

[DVS]

I like the way you talk...

uhhuh.

 

[Netzach]

I have to think about this. It changes a lot. I thought After the Fox was the funniest thing in the world when I was 12 or 14 and then I saw it in college and it wasn't funny, but now I think it might be funny again.

Lately I've been into things that are really more comic brilliant than people think of them being. Robocop is brilliant black comedy and no one remembers it that way. Comedy dates for me, and then becomes really relevant again when it resonates with what's going on - I like it to be tonic to specific ills.

Life of Brian is my favorite Python entry.

Most of the better ones I think have been from 3D studios, also. I loved Despicable Me and thought it was better and funnier than most live action things trying painfully to be funny. The first Shrek is still funny so there.

Albert Brooks' "Mother" is a comedy I love that almost no one has actually watched, it's one of my favorites. I also loved "Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World" - he has the balls to make himself be the complete cultural idiot in his own film and it's very funny.

Woody Allen hasn't been funny in a long time. Talk about stuff that dates, but it dates as a period piece. Broadway Danny Rose is my favorite, it mixes the screwball with some big sad morality tale stuff that makes it more than just silly.

I used to love Spinal Tap. Man. Now I just watched it and it came off so sad and old and overrated because a million weaker iterations followed it.

I love Harold and Kumar. Like most movies, a perfectly good movie fleeing a stupid sequel. Also - Asian men get to be hot and hip - it's only like 2000 something.

Strange Brew still has a flying dog.

Clerks: another perfectly good indie with no need for anything else that Kevin Smith has bored me with since. All themes in every Kevin Smith movie have been covered in Clerks 1 just fine, nothing to see there.

One of my absolute favorites: Hollywood Shuffle. I'm pleased to say I don't think this has aged and I'm sad to say I don't think it's aged. There's always a job - at the post office!

 

[catalina_francisco]

I think DeepGreenEyes is trying to flex his sadistic muscles with this thread because most people who enjoy comedies could never limit their favorites to just a few.

LOL, so true, just as well it was only movies as apart from movies, I have a huge collection of TV comedy, mostly British and Australian.

Catalina

 

[subish2009]

In no particular order at all:

Princess Bride
Hangover
Meet the Parents
Wedding Crashers
Knocked Up
What's Up, Doc?
Tropic Thunder
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Bull Durham
Pirates of the Caribbean
Never Again
Love Actually

 

[Chiara_searches]

LOL, so true, just as well it was only movies as apart from movies, I have a huge collection of TV comedy, mostly British and Australian.

Catalina

You could cheat and list the TV shows. I put two in my list and didn't get smacked for misbehavior.

I should have included Green Wing. But that puts me at fourteen, so I'm really cheating now.

 

[graceanne]

I rarely watch a movie more than a couple of times unless it's one of the kids movies and then I end up watching it enough to hate it.

However, I watch Princess Bride about once a year.

 

[chy_girl]

In no particular order:

1 Blow Dry
2 Galaxy Quest
3 Sister Act
4 Down Periscope
5 Hamlet (with Mel Gibson)
6 Death at a Funeral (the British version)
7 Dogma
8 From the Hip
9 Fuck: A Documentary (Now renamed The F-Bomb: A Documentary)
10 Lethal Weapon 4
11 The Three Musketeers (with Charlie Sheen)
12 Twister (with Helen Hunt)

 

[TN_Ann]

The Jerk
Spaceballs
Airplane
Fletch
Princess Bride
Meet the Parents
The Birdcage
History of the World: Part I
Clue
Blazing Saddles
Office Space
Modern Problems

 

[TN_Ann]

The twelve I listed were all movies... But I can't leave out some favorite TV comedies:

Better Off Ted
Carol Burnett & Friends
Monty Python Series (I like the movies too, but always preferred the series to the movies.)

 

[DeepGreenEyes]

Pretty close to in order

1. The Big Lebowski
2. Blazing Saddles
3. Christmas Vacation
4. Caddyshack
5. Happy Gilmore
6. Goin' South
7. The Hangover
8. Zombieland
9. Super Troopers
10. Me, Myself, and Irene
11. Liar Liar
12. McLintock!

The scene from Liar Liar in the courthouse restroom is worth it alone: Hurling himself against the wall and beating himself up. Sorta masochistic.

Ok, I resisted the urge to put this down, but I have a confession: I had a thing for Don Knotts as a child.

Freak.

some of my faves, in the order I thought of them (and I'm sure the second I post, I'll think of 3 more which probably rate even higher than some on this list... )

Pulp Fiction - just watched this again last night so it's the first one that came to mind...
Slap Shot - there's not a single occasion where you can't find a suitable quote from this movie!
Bull Durham - constantly quote this one too!
The Blues Brothers - Classic!
A Fish Called Wanda - K-k-k-k-Ken
Groundhog Day
Monty Python and the Holy Grail - Who doesn't quote from this?
Princess Bride
Wayne's World - not so much now, but at the time? hysterical!
Slingblade - I know it's a drama but that's some funny stuff right there
Tropic Thunder - Never go full retard!
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - Ruprecht! Do you want the genital cuff?

I'm obsessed with Pulp Fiction. I guess because so many parts of it are so disturbing, I don't classify it as a comedy, although it is hilarious. And the dialogue, good lord, the dialogue.

So, guess what I'm watching right now....
‎"What are the odds? Another marriageable woman to bring home to the folks. Someone's ear is in danger of having hair brushed over it."

And I love the graphic "Rules" that pop up. "Rule no. 1 for surviving Zombieland: Cardio."

Only 12?!! OK, will try to keep to that

Preaching To The Perverted (BDSM kink romcom)
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert
What About Bob?
Spider & Rose
Confessions Of A Shopaholic
Bruno (and basically anything by Sacha Baron Cohen)
The Fockers movies
Pirates Of The Caribbean movies
The Sum Of Us
Monty Python movies

Bruno!

Preaching to the Perverted? I need to check that out.

What About Bob? Sometimes I admit that I will quote, "Baby steps to the door. Baby steps down the stairs. Baby steps..."

1. Zombieland
2. Office Space
3. Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
4. The Big Lebowski
5. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
6. Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
7. Bull Durham
8. Caddyshack
8. Animal House
9. Blazing Saddles
10 Better off Dead.

Better off Dead; Interesting how High Fidelity hasn't gotten a mention. God, DVS is right. This is bringing back a lot of memories.

I think DeepGreenEyes is trying to flex his sadistic muscles with this thread because most people who enjoy comedies could never limit their favorites to just a few.

Yeah, well. You understand.

I have to think about this. It changes a lot. I thought After the Fox was the funniest thing in the world when I was 12 or 14 and then I saw it in college and it wasn't funny, but now I think it might be funny again.

Lately I've been into things that are really more comic brilliant than people think of them being. Robocop is brilliant black comedy and no one remembers it that way. Comedy dates for me, and then becomes really relevant again when it resonates with what's going on - I like it to be tonic to specific ills.

Yep. It is like medicine. I watched Bob Roberts again recently and I still love it, even though it's dated. It's because the bullshit that is going on now in the country needs the equivalent of folk-song-mocking.

In no particular order at all:

Princess Bride
Hangover
Meet the Parents
Wedding Crashers
Knocked Up
What's Up, Doc?
Tropic Thunder
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Bull Durham
Pirates of the Caribbean
Never Again
Love Actually

People love Wedding Crashers. They do. I want to go back and compile a voting list of responses. Then we can scientifically find the funniest film.

You could cheat and list the TV shows. I put two in my list and didn't get smacked for misbehavior.

I should have included Green Wing. But that puts me at fourteen, so I'm really cheating now.

SMACK! Don't think it didn't get noted on,your permanent record.

Unless there's been a Weeds movie I don't know about.

In no particular order:

1 Blow Dry
2 Galaxy Quest
3 Sister Act
4 Down Periscope
5 Hamlet (with Mel Gibson)
6 Death at a Funeral (the British version)
7 Dogma
8 From the Hip
9 Fuck: A Documentary (Now renamed The F-Bomb: A Documentary)
10 Lethal Weapon 4
11 The Three Musketeers (with Charlie Sheen)
12 Twister (with Helen Hunt)

Galaxy Quest makes me bust a gut. The Star Trek fanboy thing. Death at a FUNERAL (Brit version)!!! Oh GOD. WHY THE FUCK DID I NOT LIST THAT? I'm not sure anything has made me laugh as hard lately, except Bruno, where I almost peed my pants in the theatre and annoyed the fuck out of everyone there.

The Jerk
Spaceballs
Airplane
Fletch
Princess Bride
Meet the Parents
The Birdcage
History of the World: Part I
Clue
Blazing Saddles
Office Space
Modern Problems

A Jerk Fan. I haven't seen this in forever.

I just don't think you can go wrong with the Princess Bride, you know? Is there anyone out there who doesn't at least like it? "In-conceivable!"

 

[Cattypuss]

1. Withnail & I

2. The Big Lebowski

3. Planes, Trains and Automobiles

4. This is Spinal Tap

5. Along Came Polly

6. Groundhog Day

7. Little Miss Sunshine

8. The General (Buster Keaton)

9. The Man with Two Brains

10. Me, Myself and Irene

11. Play it Again, Sam

12. Dr Strangelove

 

[NawtyShutterBug]

I'm obsessed with Pulp Fiction. I guess because so many parts of it are so disturbing, I don't classify it as a comedy, although it is hilarious. And the dialogue, good lord, the dialogue.

Yes! It is so disturbing and perhaps even more disturbing is the fact that we're not disturbed! i love the scene when Butch is looking for the perfect weapon to go back down to the gimp's room with... priceless! i don't consider it (and probably half the movies on my list) to be 'comedy' either, but i often find the movies not trying to be funny are usually much more funny to me than the ones that are suppose to be... Warped sense of humour?

I just don't think you can go wrong with the Princess Bride, you know? Is there anyone out there who doesn't at least like it? "In-conceivable!"

heheh "In-conceivable!" One of the girls i work with turned it off after half an hour because it was "boring". Did I mention nobody at work likes her? LOL

 

[Firenresq71]

For the record I love Quentin Terrintino. Not exactly comedies but I normally laugh my ass off through them.

Another hilarious movie that isn't technically a comedy is "Snatch" and NO it is not a porno! LOL

 

[seela]

I don't watch a lot of comedies, so it's hard to list 12 that would have stood out so much that I would actually remember them. But here are some:

Some Like It Hot
Juno
Pulp Fiction
500 Days of Summer
Arsenic and Old Lace
Welcome To the Doll House


Few movies have made me laugh as much as 2012, but I don't think it still qualifies as a comedy.

 

[Primalex]

I'll just mention my favs I didn't see yet:

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (The Simon game as door entry system got it my personal 'geek comedy' award)

Bolt

Coupling (do TV series count?)

Army of Darkness

40 days, 40 nights