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I can see I may be shot down in flames for this, but one man of unquestionable comedy genius has been overlooked on these fine pages: Cornelius Crane Chase a.k.a Chevy Chase.
The Chasers finest moments can be found in Michael Ritchie's 1985 film, Fletch. Admittably an aqccuired taste but hilarious if you can handle Saturday Night Live's finest.
Scenes that stand out in comedy films have to be the racially motivated rant about Darth Vader in Chasing Amy (1996). Kevin Smith has some fantastic observations about Star Wars, just check out Clerks (1994). The first confrontation between Jack Burton (Kurt Russell) and Lo pan (James Wong) in John Carpenters hilarious comedy , Big Trouble in Little China (1986), is my favourite comedy scene of all time, if only Carpenter still had the magic...
I agree most definatley with the positive opinions on Happy Gilmore, "the best golfing film since Caddyshack". How many funny golfing films are there? Tin Cup wasn't very funny...