List Your Best Five Comedy Films
 

Out of Towners (1970
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
Great Outdoors (1988
Python/ The Holy Grail (1975)
Funny Farm (1988)


Special mention:
Who's Harry Crumb (1989
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. (1989)
Modern Problems (1981)
Python/ Life of Brian (1979)
Airplane (1980)

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The King of Comedy 1982 USA Martin Scorsese
When Harry Met Sally 1989 USA Rob Reiner
The Commitments 1991 Ireland Alan Parker
Sideways 2004 USA Alexander Payne
Palm Springs 2020 USA Max Barbakow

Assuming we're talking live picture movies and more or less straight comedy :

1. Cheech & Chong's Next Movie (1980)
2. Office Space (1999)
3. Back To The Future (1985)
4. The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)
5. Things Are Tough All Over (1982)

Honorable mentions:

Man On The Moon (1999) (More of a comedy drama but hilarious none the less and probably my favorite of the bunch)

In China They Eat Dogs (1999) (Best dark comedy ever)

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1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
2. Airplane! (1980)
3. Groundhog Day (1983)
4. The Princess Bride (1987)
5. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

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They shift of course depending on the day, but the Top Five I had on my ballot for the MoFo Top 100 Comedies will do nicely...

1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
2. Young Frankenstein (1974)
3. After Hours (1985)
4. His Girl Friday (1940)
5. Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)

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1. Nashville (1975)
2. Safety Last! (1923)
3. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
4. City Lights (1931)
5. Birdman (2014)

These were the top five from my comedy countdown ballot in 2022:

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1. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)

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2. The Big Lebowski (1998)

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3. Lilo & Stitch (2002)

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4. Mary and Max (2009)

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5. Death to Smoochy (2002)

I think that's still pretty accurate.

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1-) The Big Lebowski
2-) Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
3-) Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
4-) Dumb and Dumber
5-) Snatch

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1. It Happened One Night (1934)
2. City Lights (1931)
3. The Graduate (1967)
4. To Be or Not To Be (1942)
5. Chimes at Midnight (1965)

Tough to come up with a top 5 but here it is.

1) Airplane!
2) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
3) Blazing Saddles
4) Groundhog Day
5) Planes Trains and Automobiles

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So far the only comedy listed that I would also include in my top 5 is It Happened One Night (1934)

These were the top five from my list when we did the Comedy Countdown. They're still at the top of my list:

My Top 25 Comedy Movies List

1) My Cousin Vinny (1992)
2) Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
3) Sunday in New York (1963)
4) When Harry Met Sally… (1989)
5) Barefoot in the Park (1967)

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Airplane!
Caddyshack
Animal House
The Blues Brothers
Clerks.

Excellent choice! Love that film.


1. Nightmare Before Christmas, The

2. Inside Out
3. Dr. Strangelove
4. Great Dictator, The
5. Groundhog Day

I dont do lists and I dont know what compelled me to click this post except I'm insanely ****ing bored.

But I read all post and I'm gonna play by rules.

My 5 favourite comedies are as follows..

Pretty Woman

Wreck It Ralph

Some silly old irrelevant english tea slurping clever dicks

Coraline.. I guess

Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels

I feel like I should give an honorable mention to the Marx brothers, which are probably the funniest movie series ever.


Sadly, almost every one has at least one racist scene/joke that has aged catastrophically poorly. And I'm not talking about Chico's ethnic humor. Duck Soup has one joke in it that has the word 'darkies' in the punchline. 😬


A symptom of their times that keeps them from being in my top 5. But they deserve a mention.

More than one person says back to the future.

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Sounds awesome. Couldn't find it anywhere. It's one of those off-off-Broadways?