The Best Comedies
 

For me it is Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Dr. Strangelove, Shaun of the Dead, Modern Times, and The Big Lebowski

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Good choices. From the same director I like Hot Fuzz as well as Shaun of the Dead.
Favourites of mine are Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Planes Trains and Automobiles and Uncle Buck - John Candy sadly missed, such a funny guy. Christmas wouldn't be the same without National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation :D

I'm sure that this topic has been done before, and someone will come along soon with a link to the previous thread, but until then, I'll add Airplane, My Cousin Vinny and Liar Liar.

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I love The Holy Grail and Shaun of the Dead. If you like Shaun of the Dead I think you'd really like Hot Fuzz(Pegg and Frost are cops) and The World's End.

My favorite comedies of recent years are Horrible Bosses, Zombieland, Birdman, Seven Psychopaths & Tropic Thunder

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Airplane!
Office Space
Blazing Saddles

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Some of my favorites

Clerks & Clerks II
Dr Strangelove
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Blazing Saddles
The Producers
The Wolf of Wall Street
Arsenic and Old Lace
Tropic Thunder

Was going to put Wolf of Wall Street, but didn't feel like it was the same thing he was looking for.

Hence why I put my favorites first. Though some do fit the bill.

Is Wolf of Wall Street really a comedy? I disclosed films like Fargo, Birdman, The Graduate, Being John Malkovich, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind because I thought they weren't focused enough on comedy.

Yes, a black comedy. And it is hilarious.

The Hangover series!!!

Out of the ones I've seen, i'd consider The Graduate and Fargo to be comedies. In fact The Graduate is easily a comedy in my eyes, but more of a fairytale romantic comedy.

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Until somebody responded to the review of the film I wrote on my review thread, I had no idea The Wolf of Wall Street was supposed to be a comedy.

I thought the Graduate was more depressing than comedic, it's about a boy who spends his life working to graduate college, and when he does, he doesn't know what to do with his life, and then

Haha, how much did your review change after thinking of it as a comedy?

I agree, Horrible Bosses is hilarious, and incredibly underrated.

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Now that I think of it, it was pretty hilarious.

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Surely it being funny and being a comedy are not one in the same? I've no idea of if is or not, but I never got that from the trailers or anything.

There again, as the OP included Dr. Strangelove all bets are off. ;)

Would you consider movies like The Room or Birdemic: Shock and Terror to be comedies, they were intended to be serious, but are ****ing hilarious

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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
Groundhog Day (1993)
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Borat (2006)
Rat Race (2001)
Brewster's Millions (1985)
Overboard (1987)
Meet The Parents (2000)
The Mask (1994)
The Monster (Il mostro) (1994)
The Sting (1973)
Road Trip (2000)
The Hangover (2009)
Crocodile Dundee (1986)
Dumb & Dumber (1994)

Beerfest
Stripes
Caddyshack
Vacation
Animal House
The Hangover
Bachelor Party
Old School
Wedding Crashers
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Revenge of the Nerds
Beverly Hills Cop
Young Frankenstein
Happiness
The Longest Yard
Slap Shot
Happy Gilmore
A Fish Called Wanda

I forgot about A fish called wanda and Groundhog day in my original list

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Clerks
Half Baked

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Avengers

I might have to look into this one!

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the apartment
some like it hot
one , two , three
modern times
the kid
city lights
hangover
due date
the wolf of wall street
dr.strangelove
annie hall
manhattan
groundhog day

Nope. Not comedies at all.

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Airplane!

There are movies that make me chuckle, and then there are the movies where I will actually laugh out loud. If that is what we are going for this, then this is my list:

Arsenic and Old Lace
Young Frankenstein
Life of Brian
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
A Fish Called Wanda
Tropic Thunder
Four Weddings and a Funeral
There's Something About Mary
The Hangover
The Out-of-Towners (1970)
Meet the Parents
Anchorman
Wet Hot American Summer
Napoleon Dynamite (mainly because Uncle Rico reminds me of someone I know)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Pineapple Express
Airplane!
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Hot Shots!
Dr. Strangelove
The 'Burbs
Girl Shy
Never Weaken
Head

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Kingpin
Caddyshack
They Call Me Trinity
Trinity's Still My Name
Airplane
The Naked Gun
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Top Secret
Watch Out, We're Mad
All John Candy's films apart from Spaceballs
National Lampoon's Vacation (Original and Christmas ones)
Both Fletch movies with Chevy Chase

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Stir Crazy with Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. How could I forget. Also, Blazing Saddles.

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"Double secret probation"

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The hangover, Wolf of the wall street, Paul Blart.

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The Big Lebowski,Office space,Superbad...

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The best comedies are really bad serious movies, like The Seventh Son.

I notice a distinct lack of Black Dynamite in this thread
Best parody I've seen in years
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She's The Man 2006
Samad ( Iranian Movie )

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City Lights
Forgetting Sarah Marshall

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I'll second Dr. Strangelove
Young Frankenstein
and add
Play it Again Sam
Hannah and Her Sisters
Brazil

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The Interview, The Watch (even though people didn't like it), the Cornetto trilogy and This is the End (with honorable mentions for barely all of Jim Carrey's comedies)

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