To steal a Facebook application and to tone down the Political arguments, I thought I would ask everyone to list their five favorite comedy movies. If this has been done before, then I apologize for repeating.
1. Airplane
2. They Call Me Trinity
3. The Princess Bride
4. Wayne's World
5. Army Of Darkness
I am sure someone will list a movie that I forgot and I might want to revise my list. I have to admit I love Adam Sandler and Eddie Murphy movies.
charlabob
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Blazing Saddles
Buckaroo Banzai
Mars Attacks (for sentimental reasons -- our first date movie)
Dr. Strangelove
The Producers
I started with 23 -- this was hard, but fun :-)
Patrick
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His Girl Friday
Young Frankenstein (given that Charla took Saddles)
Men in Black 1
Into the Night
Magic Christian
And I believe Buckaroo Bonzai is a serious film and should be treated as such.
In order of release dates:
1. Pretty much anything by Harold Lloyd, but if I have to pick one: Girl Shy
2. Pretty much anything by the Marx Brothers, but if I have to pick one: Duck Soup (Hail Freedonia!)
3. The Pink Panther (although "A Shot in the Dark" is close)
4. Young Frankenstein
5. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Lighthouse...you picked 3 of mine...wow...revising now - lol...(oh, that would be the last 3)
squareeyes
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Young Frankenstein
16 Candles
Dogma
Zoolander
Dazed and Confused
This is off the top of my head. I reserve the right to log back in and edit as I go through the day, slap my forehead and say, "how could I forget THAT one?!?"
JanS - I don't think there's a rule that says you can't repeat a movie. (If there is, I already broke it when I listed "Young Frankenstein"!) I'm sure that some movies will show up on multiple lists.
I know what you mean. I kind of forgot Animal House myself.
maplesyrup
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Tough to come up with a list but these come to mind quickly:
Monty Python's Holy Grail
Wedding Crashers
Midnight Run
The 40 Year-Old Virgin
Clerks
LOVE this thread! Off the top of my head:
Life of Brian
Priscilla Queen Of The Desert
Raising Arizona
Young Frankenstein
Tropic Thunder (a new favorite)
Oh oh oh...
How could I forget "A Fish Called Wanda"?
And just about any film of Buster Keaton's.
WSMom
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1) Big Fat Liar (love Paul Giamati dancing to Duran Duran
2) Ferris Bueller
3) Raising Arizona
4) O Brother Where Art Thou
5) Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion
And: "This is Spinal Tap".
Yes, I have too much time on my hands this afternoon.
Office Space
A Fish Called Wanda
M*A*S*H
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Airplane!
Isn't it time for Airplane III? ("That's exactly what they'll be expecting us to do!") There must be a wealth of new material, now that we have TSA, all sorts of new carry-on restrictions, color-coded threat levels, airlines nickel-and-dimeing you for stuff that used to be included, etc.
Don't have five that haven't already been listed, but ad this one to your Netflix line up - Fido. It's the story of a boy and his zombie - fantastic!! Very funny (in a sick Shaun of the Dead kind of way!)
andrea
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Clue
Knocked Up
The Jerk
Napolean Dynamite
There's Something About Mary
My absolute favorite of all time is Clue though - every actor in it is a comdey genius!
Great topic idea HMC!
JenV
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yes, andrea! Clue is the best. "...and monkey's brains, though popular in Cantonese cuisine, are not often to be found in Washington D.C."
1> Clue
2> Blues Brothers
3> It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world
4> Clerks
5> Young Frankenstein
What no Blazing Saddles?
rudy
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The Jerk
The Birdcage
Office Space
Kentucky Fried Movie
Tommy Boy
andrea
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great minds think alike Jen :)
my fav line is by the late, great Madeline Kahn as Mrs White..."That's right, I did it. I killed Yvette. I hated her... SO MUCH... it was flaming, flames, FLAMES... on the side of my face... heaving breaths, heaving..."
Cait
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1) Tommy Boy
2) Weird Science
3) Superbad
4) Cry Baby
But my ALL TIME FAVORITE MOVIE possibly of all time... ACE VENTURA PET DETECTIVE!!!
charlabob
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Oscillation Overthruster? John Big Bootay??? I'm supposed to take them seriously? Just one ? -- when is the B Banzai sequel? I've waited at least 15 years :-)
Rich, this was a great unifying exercise -- there's not a single movie OR film on this list to disagree with.
I have at least moderate Anxiety because I forgot to include High Anxiety on my list. It is amazing!
1. So I Married An Axe Murderer
2. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
3. 10 Things I Hate About You
4. Clueless
5. Knocked Up
Mayor Quimby
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Tisk Tisk W Seattle...I thought better of you
1. The Big Lebowski
I mean Walter Sobchak people, C'mon! The others don't matter in order
Blazing Saddles..."Where da white women at?!?!"
Snatch..."ya like dags"
MP Holy Grail..."I will nip your nose off"
Airplane...(Ms Clever speaks "Jive")
angelescrest
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Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
Borat (oh, jeez!)
The Dinner game (Le Con Diner/French sp?)
Any Austin Power
Jerry McGuire
(And in PG style, one scene with Ashton Kutcher and a dog in Cheaper By the Dozen)
Whats Up Doc
Dogma
Dodgeball (if you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a ball!)
Born in East LA (just cracks me up)
Baby Mama
Billy Madison
40 Year Old Virgin
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Office Space
Ghost World
Cait
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How did I forget THE DUDE! Big Lebowski... most definitely...
carrieann
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Office Space
Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
Meet The Feebles
The Jerk
The Aristocrats
angelescrest
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My kids are saying I must add The Nutty Professor.
("Hercules...")
Fletch
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Meet the Parents
Bad Santa
Office Space
Fletch
Planes, Trains, & Automobiles
Meet the Parents
Office Space
Throw Mama From the Train
pigeonmom
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In no particular order..
Airplane!
Snatch
The Royal Tenenbaums
Grosse Pointe Blank
Borat
*Sorry,can't stop there*
Napoleon Dynamite
Sullivan's Travels
Election
Harold and Maude
Pulp Fiction
squareeyes
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Oh man, now with all the suggestions above I've been reminded, and have to add, two more -- Shaun of the Dead and Napoleon Dynamite. But I can't remove any from my original list so now it'll have to be top seven instead of five.
carrieann
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I behaved and didn't go over 5, but if we're bending the rules now I'm totally adding some. In addition to those others have mentioned (LOVE Harold & Maude)...
Johnny Dangerously
Groundhog Day
Best In Show
Zoolander
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Top Secret
Some Like It Hot
Parenthood
Spaceballs
LOVE THIS THREAD!
1. Zoolander
2. Dick
3. Best in Show (for all you crazy dog lovers--myself included!)
4. Office Space
5. Billy Madison (this has been a favorite since it came out!)
Thanks SO MUCH for starting this thread Rich! We've managed to create a big fat list of fun films.
I'd also like to add:
Rushmore
Steve Zissu and The Life Aquatic
Bottle Rocket
c@lbob
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I stopped looking at people's answers because they all included a lot of great movies, and this challenge is for only five. So, I recount the movies that made me laugh out loud the most, not necessarily the greatest of comedies. In no particualr order:
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (up to getting to the "Big W", at least.)
Bedazzled (1967) [very British]
Blazing Saddles
Brazil
Being John Malcovich
I totally forgot about BRAZIL! Although I had friends who thought I was nuts after they watched it. I love that movie.
I like these kinds of threads. It also gives me clues to order some of the flicks that I have not known about that have been posted.
Maybe every few weeks we do a different top 5?
ellenater
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I'm sorry but Beverly Hills Cop (the first one, the others suck) is the funniest movie ever. EVER
Airplane should definitely be on the list. Best in Show. The Jerk. Fred Willard is literally channeling Chris Mathews in Best in Show. It's almost creepy...
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is the sweetest movie. RIP Jon Candy.
Sixteen Candles!
Navin R. Johnson: Well I'm gonna go then. And I don't need any of this. I don't need this stuff, and I don't need you. I don't need anything except this.
[picks up an ashtray]
Navin R. Johnson: And that's it and that's the only thing I need, is this. I don't need this or this. Just this ashtray. And this paddle game, the ashtray and the paddle game and that's all I need. And this remote control. The ashtray, the paddle game, and the remote control, and that's all I need. And these matches. The ashtray, and these matches, and the remote control and the paddle ball. And this lamp. The ashtray, this paddle game and the remote control and the lamp and that's all I need. And that's all I need too. I don't need one other thing, not one - I need this. The paddle game, and the chair, and the remote control, and the matches, for sure. And this. And that's all I need. The ashtray, the remote control, the paddle game, this magazine and the chair.
[walking outside]
Navin R. Johnson: And I don't need one other thing, except my dog.
[dog barks]
Navin R. Johnson: I don't need my dog.
*the best scene ever*
ellenater
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LMAO and...
"I'm picking out a thermos for you. No ordinary thermos will do. It's the extra best thermos that you can buy. With handles, and stripes, and a cup built right in."
Jiggers
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I didn't know that Pulp Fiction was a comedy pigeonmom. Here's some of my favorites off the the top of my head.
STRIPES
ANIMAL HOUSE
DUMB AND DUMBER
CADDYSHACK
CITY SLICKERS
BEVERLY HILLS COP
MRS.DOUBTFIRE
THE JERK
Trick
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KingPin
Dumb and Dumber
High Anxiety
Napoleon Dynamite
any Dean Martin Roast
pigeonmom
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Pulp Fiction is a black comedy or dark comedy.
c@lbob
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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles; High Anxiety; and Pulp Fiction all meet my laugh-out-loud quotient. 5 is too short a list.
Good Call Catlbob. Let's have even more fun and expand it to 10 and if Spinal Tap is one of the favorites, then it can go to 11.
My other 5 plus the Spinal Tap waiver.
6. Animal House
7. High Anxiety
8. Trading Places
9. Being There
10. Bowfinger
11. Spinal Tap
I was just saying today, before even seeing this thread, that I needed to re-watch This is Spinal Tap and Planes, Trains, and Automobiles!
And I agree with Office Space, Napolean Dynamite and Best in Show! I know there are more, will have to think about it...
So many great lists and great reminders, time to fire up the DVR and/or Blockbuster runs!
andrea
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OK...since we're expanding (yes!):
Best in Show
Dick
Meet the Parents
Ferris Buehler's Day Off
Coming to America
and all mid 90's Adam Sandler flicks (Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, The Wedding Singer)
My List:
All time favorite: Support Your Local Sheriff
Also:
Guilty pleasure: Say It Isn't So
Oldie: Devil and Miss Jones
Newby: Ghost Town
Strangest: Beetlejuice
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