The Movie Forums Top 100 Comedies Countdown

All right! It's Lazlo! The newest generations will probably know him as Uncle Rico but he'll always be Lazlo to me. Speaking of which, Real Genius is another one I forgot to include on my list or even consider.

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Will we get the link to the file containing all the films with their points, as in the 2000s countdown?

Thanks, Kaplan. I'm glad you enjoyed the material. We were doing some unique music that still holds up today.

I imagine the answer will be yes. It'll take a few days, though. Maybe a week or two.

And with that we move on to the next countdown, which looks like it’ll be the decade 2010-2019, if we continue going by the usual method of alternating genre and decade, and let’s be honest…..it the only decade we have left at this point unless we refresh previous decades. Something like a 10 year refresh.*Maybe in the future….

Even so, I think the general consensus is 2010-2019, and rightfully so.

So I think I may be starting up a 2010-2019 recommendation thread in the meantime.

While I said it sort of in jest, I think that there's a bias against romantic comedy films where they get filed away more as romances than comedies.

SHOCKED that Tootsie didn't make this list.

Roman Holiday should have been on my list. What a wonderful movie. So funny and Rome is so photogenic in it.

1 and 2 are not surprising. I love Sterling Hayden and George C. Scott in Dr. Strangelove. What a great movie. I knew The Big Lebowski would be at the top cause wherever there are a preponderance of dudes The Dude is always revered. It wasn't on my list because I only saw it once and don't remember it very clearly. Probably when this came out I was more interested in foreign films than anything homegrown.


Here is my list:


1. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
2. A Hard Day's Night (1964)
3. The Pink Panther (1963)
4. Wayne's World (1992)
5. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)
6. The Lady Eve (1941)
7. The Palm Beach Story (1942)
8. I Married a Witch (1942)
9. My Sister Eileen (1955)
10. Bye Bye Birdie (1963)
11. The Odd Couple (1968)
12. Pillow Talk (1959)
13. Love Potion No. 9 (1992)
14. Lili (1953)
15. Love in the Afternoon (1957)
16. Woman of the Year (1942)
17. Desk Set (1957)
18. Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
19. On the Town (1949)
20. Elf (2003)
21. Fred Claus (2007)
22. Virgin Machine (1988)
23. Liquid Sky (1982)
24. Some Like It Hot (1959)
25. Tickled (2016)

@Diehl40,

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I am SHOCKED that you didn't bother to turn in a ballot yet are shocked by what did or didn't make it.

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1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
2. City Lights (1931)
3. The Graduate (1967)
4. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
5. Brazil (1985)
6. Fargo (1996)
7. Duck Soup (1933)
8. The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
9. Sideways (2004)
10. Midnight in Paris (2011)
11. Play It Again, Sam (1972)
12. His Girl Friday (1940)
13. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
14. To Be or Not To Be (1942)
15. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
16. Leap of Faith (1992)
17. Animal House (1978)
18. The General (1926)
19. Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)
20. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
21. MASH (1970)
22. The Odd Couple (1968)
23. The Lady Eve (1941)
24. Catch-22 (1970)
25. Young Frankenstein (1974)

The documentary? I certainly didn't classify that as a comedy

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Captain Spaulding's Comedy Ballot


#1) Pulp Fiction


#2) His Girl Friday


#3) Some Like It Hot


#4) Superbad


#5) The Great Dictator


#6) Happy Gilmore


#7) Napoleon Dynamite


#8) The Apartment


#9) Happiness


#10) Ghostbusters


#11) Paper Moon


#12) Beetlejuice


#13) Kingpin


#14) Harvey


#15) Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey


#16) Fast Times at Ridgemont High


#17) A Night at the Roxbury


#18) Austin Powers; The Spy Who Shagged Me


#19) Detroit Rock City


#20) Pineapple Express


#21) Dumb & Dumber


#22) Shaun of the Dead


#23) The Seven Year Itch


#24) Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby


#25) Pink Flamingos

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No where near enough love. I've been tempted to drop it into a HoF but it never seemed right at the time.

I just love the bantering and how Guildenstern would create basic Theories and Rosencrantz would knock them aside and think him foolish.


And holy critter cakes! The Tennis Match, using Questions as the ball. Just brilliant!

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Damn, I have not a common film with Capt. Spaulding...

Shit I forgot about Welcome to the Dollhouse. Erg

Good film list! I'd forgotten all about Lili. Haven't seen it since I was a child, and that's been a long time! On the Town is one of my favorite movies of all-time. Anyway, just saying.

And you'd be absolutely right.

Yeah, a few of these were on my list.

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