The Movie Forums Top 100 Comedies Countdown

Funny because,

I love this film. I was actually wondering just yesterday if I should maybe have found room for it, but alas...

And I raised a bit of an eyebrow at how low it was.
I thought it would make the top 15, possibly even higher.

*raises hand*

Again, the mere presence of humor in a film does not, to me, make it a Comedy. Or Lethal Weapon is a Comedy. No Country For Old Men is a Comedy. The Big Chill is a Comedy. Grease is a Comedy. Con Air is a Comedy. And on and on and on.
And, based on this list, I might actually argue that they all are. And that literally everything is.

I can't speak on Lethal Weapon (or Beverly Hills Cop. We can also throw 48 Hours into that mix as well), since I was guessing off of vague impressions. There's a general category of movies from the 80s that I was too young for at the time of their release, and for some reason never felt the need to go back and revisit, so I'm going off of 30 year old memories of trailers and posters there.


Wrt Network, what would you categorize it as then?


It's whole purpose of existence was to satirize through an extreme exaggeration of caricatures.
Look up the ending of the movie on YouTube, tell me their news line-up wasn't a complete mockery of what one would consider the news to be heading towards. Which, I'm just wondering, for comparison in comedic tone, how did you feel about Being There? (Which I guess could be a remainder as well).


Like, I get the sense that a certain kind of comedy just isn't registering with people because... Unclear. I'd say the jokes aren't telegraphed enough, but then people challenged Brazil and Being John Malkovich. So, I'm left guessing, maybe because there are parts that cut off the sugar high of laughing?


This thread has feeling a lot like the few times I've been told in the past year (IRL), "well John Carpenter's The Thing isn't really horror."

Network by any definition is a satire.


Satire is by any definition comedy.


This one is about as clear cut as it gets. It's not a hybrid of other genres. It's whole function is comedic. Yes, it is presented soberly, but so is most satire. What exactly is the debate here?

I watched Raising Arizona for the All-Time Countdown, but as usual, I don't seem to get the humor in the Coen Brothers movies. I find their movies to be interesting and unique, but they don't make me laugh.


Bringing Up Baby is a great movie, and I considered it for my list, but it just didn't make my final list. I'm glad to see that it made the countdown without my help.

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Raising Arizona is great, and has one of my favorite lines ever:


"Hey, do these blow up into funny shapes?"


"Well, no, unless round is funny".


I imagine for some this is less a joke than serious commentary on the shape of balloons. But what do I know of comedy. Probably nothing


Ive never been a fan of Bringing Up Baby. It always feels to me it pushes to far into screwy territory, and just loses me, but this is just my personal taste. It's got a great pedigree with everyone in front and behind the camera. And the problem certainly isn't that the characters are unlikeable.

I left off an obvious probable lock (I call them "probable locks" because I don't take it for granted that something will be on the list at this point, though some of their omissions might surprise me more than others).

I voted for Bringing Up Baby. If you don't find Mr. Bone the big game hunter funny, I can't help you.


I also voted for The Jerk. If you don't find Navin R. Johnson, sounds like a typical bastard funny, I can't help you.

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Yeah Cary Grant and Kate Hepburn are way good in that. I'm trying to think who else might have been able to handle the dialogue like they did? The film definitely benefits from their A-list star power.

I think the 80's almost got this in the bag fellas

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I saw Raising Arizona at one of those "preview" showings they used to do, with opinion cards being handed out at the end. Well, since my wife and I were laughing our throats raw at the film, we gave it high marks all around. For me, it's a comedy classic, and almost a Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies cartoon on film. So many great lines that punctuate the scenes they're in:

"Son, you got a panty on your head."
"Edwina's insides were a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase."
"H.I., you're young and you got your health, what you want with a job?"
"What Evelle here is trying to say is that we felt that the institution no longer had anything to offer us."

Besides the stars, and John Goodman and William Forsythe, I really loved the performances by Randall 'Tex' Cobb as the "warthog from hell" biker, and especially the late Trey Wilson as the kidnapped baby's father. I can watch this to this day and still laugh out loud. Love it. Made my list.

Bringing Up Baby is a classic by any measure, and Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn have rarely been as funny. Screwball comedy at its best and totally fun. I cut this one to put the other Cary Grant on that I listed earlier. I agree with you, @Kaplan about Father Goose. That was a family favorite when I was growing up and I love it to this day, but I only allowed myself one Cary Grant movie for this list, for some stupid reason.

My list:
#4.The In-Laws
#8.Stripes
#11.Arsenic and Old Lace
#13.Raising Arizona
#14.Animal House
#18.Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
#22.Caddyshack

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I will guess Annie Hall and Groundhog Day for today.

Hot Fuzz and Royal Tenenbaums I'll say