Classic Comedies

A few add-ons:

Caddyshack!!
The Jerk
Man with Two Brains
The Mouse That Roared
Foul Play
48 Hours
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension
The Princess Bride
Dr. Strangelove
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
A Fish Called Wanda
Duck Soup
Wayne's World
So I Married an Axe Murderer
Austin Powers
Ghostbusters
Four Rooms (and the Jerry Lewis movie that inspired it - The Bellhop)
The Money Pit
Good Morning Vietnam


Tarrantino deserves a special category for his wry use of comedy in Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Dusk Til Dawn, Reservoir Dogs, and Jackie Brown.


J
 
I have two more for consideration - CONDITIONAL - as I have not seen them since I was a young feller and it could be my memory has left a golden glow about them. If anybody has seen these and agrees with me, then let's offer them for inclusion to the list.

1. "The Pink Panther strikes again" - there were so many of them in the 70s and some were better than others... This is the one where Inspector Clouseau makes many (side-splittingly funny) attempts to cross the moat to get into Inspector Dreyfus' castle. "Swine moat!!!" Then later the scene with the nitrous oxide just killed me.

2. There was another old Peter Sellers movie, called "The Party" in which he played a bumbling Indian actor at a swank fancy party.
 
Ok...got 'em...well almost all of them. :p



Keep 'em coming!
 
Noises Off - A great cast with perfect timing, and wonderful slapstick. I never knew Christopher Reeve could be so funny. Has to be my favorite all-time comedy.

Mixed Nuts - Another Steve Martin winner.

Daniel
 
How about some of those British farces from the 1950s such as:
The Mouse That Roared*
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The Lavendar Hill Mob
School for Scoundrels**

* This was Peter Sellers' first big hit
** My personal favorite
 
omniphile said:
I don't think anyone has mentioned "It's a Mad Mad Mad World". I watched it again this week (the last time was about 35 years ago) and it was even funnier second time around. I couldn't believe how high powered the list of comedians was. Amazing! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057193/fullcredits
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Dang! I scrolled all the way to the end to see if anyone listed it and you got there first, ya dirty rotten scoundrel! :)

Hey - how about Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with Steve Martin and Michael Caine?
 
I would add acoupl of more that were recently remade into big budget flicks that I didn't find nearly so funny as the originals:
The Italian Job
The Ladykillers
 
Daniel Koster said:
Let's get a list going:



Animal House:D
Blazing Saddles:D
Blues Brothers:D
CaddyShack:D
Dr. Strangelove:D
Ghostbusters:D
the In-Laws:D
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation:D
Young Frankenstein:D
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I've always loved the ones above, and own a few of them. One that I have to add, one that I've loved since I saw it as a little kid, has to be "The Gods Must Be Crazy". The first one, not the second one with the kids. I also remember a movie I saw when I was very young, must have been the mid 80's, about a robot, I think it was Short Circuit. I remember laughing non stop through that. Of course, I was about 5.
 
mycroftt said:
Dang! I scrolled all the way to the end to see if anyone listed it and you got there first, ya dirty rotten scoundrel! :)

Hey - how about Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with Steve Martin and Michael Caine?
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May I go to the bathroom? (Remains seated, eyes, er, eye, rolls back in head)

Thank you.
 
Great list so far! I'll add a few...

The Burbs
Better Off Dead
One Crazy Summer
Quick Change
Fletch
Fletch Lives
Stripes
The Pirate Movie
Captain Ron
Weird Science
Trading Places
Real Genius
Dumb & Dumber
 
If "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" or "Prizzi's Honor" aren't on the list, they should be.
 
Trading Places (Beef jerky time! Ya want some beef jerky? Theres plenty ya know!!)
Anchorman
Money Pit
Scavenger Hunt (cant find it ANYWHERE on tape or dvd, starred "Burt" out of SOAP!)
Dumb & Dumber (Throw another shrimp on the barbie!)
Stripes
Caddyshack
Foul Play (LOVED Dudley Moore's "swinging pad" & watching him dance about to the BeeGees "Staying Alive")
School for Scoundrels (Take it again, old boy, I insist!)
Pink Panther (NOT the crap remake!)
 
Did anyone list Arthur?

"Girls, girls, girls, hello girls!"

"You're a hooker? Here I thought I was doing great with you!"

"Oh you're a hedge."

"Drunks freeze to death in summer."

"He's got a knife, do you think he wants a piece of cheese?"

"Bathing is a lonely business, except for fish."

Susan: A real woman could stop you from drinking.
Arthur: It'd have to be a real BIG woman
 
Three Stooges!! Laugh my ass off every time, even after seeing them a thousand times. Curley was great, by my favorite short films feature Shemp instead.

Greatest line from Larry, "Don't you know any better than to shoot down Moe with a rifle? You might miss. Here, use this shotgun."
 
For REAL old people:

Bringing Up Baby
Philadelphia Story

Catherine Hepburn, Cary Grant: Class
 
I LOVE "Arthur"!!
The scene in the church when he's trying to step thru the doorway, and he grabs both door jambs & makes an over-exagerated step thru just creases me up everytime I see it.

Also love the scene at the start of the movie when his car stops near the two hookers & says "Will the more attactive of the two fo you please step forward!"
 
I must comment on Dr Strangelove. I saw it when it first came out .I'm certainly part of the 'Cold War' generation with air raid drills in school etc.While I'm well aware of the serious part of it I can also see the humour of it. However , that was not true of many .While people in the east and people in the west took it as a comedy there were many theatres in the middle of the country that refused to show it !!! It's interesting that there were such differences in the country though I think there is much less difference today .....There are good wartime comedies such as "Up Front with Willie and Joe" which was derived from a popular comic strip during the war.
 
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