Topic: Your top 10 favorite comedy features

[metaldams]

We're talking ROCKIN' IN THE ROCKIES, so I got the idea.  Here are mine (at the moment I'm typing this, might change two minutes later), in no particular order.

1. THE GENERAL (1927)
2. TWENTIETH CENTURY (1934)
3. THIS IS SPINAL TAP (1984)
4. THE KID (1921)
5. SAFETY LAST! (1923)
6. DUCK SOUP (1933)
7. TROUBLE IN PARADISE (1932)
8. MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975)
9. SHERLOCK, JR. (1924)
10. THE KID BROTHER (1927)

[busybuddy]

I can't put these in order, it's too hard!

Duck Soup
Animal Crackers
Horse Feathers
It's a Gift
Take The Money and Run
Love and Death
Annie Hall
Blockheads
Sons of the Desert
The Bellboy

[archiezappa]

These are not in any order.  Also note that this list changes regularly.

The Cocoanuts
Animal Crackers
Duck Soup
Monkey Business
A Day At The Races
This Is Spinal Tap
Best In Show
Napoleon Dynamite
Wayne's World
Meet The Baron

[metaldams]

I can't put these in order, it's too hard!

Duck Soup
Animal Crackers
Horse Feathers
It's a Gift
Take The Money and Run
Love and Death
Annie Hall
Blockheads
Sons of the Desert
The Bellboy

Uh, OK, how can I forget W.C. Fields and Laurel and Hardy in my list?  These lists really ARE hard.

[FineBari3]

In no particular order:


Animal Crackers
Sons of the Desert
Some Like It Hot
Slap Shot
Caddyshack
Spinal Tap
Best in Show
Young Frankenstein
Dr. Strangelove
Blockheads

[Beatle Bob]

In no particular order and off the top of my head:

Chaplin:

City Lights
Modern Times
Great Dictator

Keaton:

Sherlock Jr
The General

Harold Lloyd:

Speedy
Saftey Last


WC Fields:

Never Give A Sucker An Easy Break
The Bank Dick

Marx Brothers:

Duck Soup

Laurel and Hardy:

Music Box (short)
Blockheads

Bob Hope:

Road To Morocco
Road To Utopia
Road To Rio
The Paleface
Son Of Paleface
Princess and the Pirate

Jerry Lewis:

Artists And Models
Hollywood Or Bust
It's Only Money
The Bellboy
The Nutty Professor

Zucker/Abrams/Zucker:

Naked Gun series

Regards,
Beatle Bob

[jrvass]

S#1,

Let's go in on I Like it Black & Deep in my Ass #7...

I'll watch it first. Then you can then have it from me! 

James

[BeAStooge]

THE PRODUCERS (1968)
IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD (1963)
IT'S A GIFT (1934)
DUCK SOUP (1933)
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1975)
A SLIGHT CASE OF MURDER (1938)
HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940)
THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK (1944)
SONS OF THE DESERT (1933)
HOLD THAT GHOST (1941)

[Justin T]

So many to choose from, but here goes....In no particular order:

Duck Soup (1933)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Young Frankenstein (1975)
Spaceballs (1987)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Caddyshack (1980)
The Court Jester (1956)

Other classics I could easily fit in my Top 10 would be A Day at the Races, The Princess Bride, Mallrats, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,
Clerks, Clue and several Abbot and Costello movies.

[locoboymakesgood]

Almost all of my favorite films are comedies, so I can't narrow it down. Ghostbusters is my all-time favorite film, so that takes the top spot, but the rest in no order...

Back to the Future
Back to School
Caddyshack
National Lampoon's Vacation
Beetlejuice
Ladybugs
South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut
Army of Darkness
The Naked Gun Trilogy
Brain Donors
Dumb & Dumber
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
There's Something About Mary
Clerks
Mallrats
Dogma
Chasing Amy
Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back

Jesus Christ seriously way too many. I love toilet humor, so that's where most of my comedies lie.

As for classic cinema, anything from Laurel & Hardy and the Marx Bros. Paramount films for sure..

Speaking of classic comedy, off-topic, but anyone else like Joe McDoakes?

[KingofVegas]

Hi, this is my first post in this fourm, so here goes:
1 Airplane!
2 Shot in the Dark
3 Mystery Science Theater 3000: The movie
4 Sons of the Desert
5 Way out West
6 Smokey and the Bandit
7 The Bank Dick
8 The Party
9 Monty Python's Life of Brian
10 Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

[Hammond Eggar]

It's hard to narrow down just ten films.  That said, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is my favorite film of all-time.  Here are some others I highly enjoy.

A Hard Day's Night
High Fidelity
Mystery Men
A Christmas Story
National Lampoon's Vacation/Christmas Vacation
The Bank Dick (Of all of Fields's great films, this one is my favorite.)
Duck Soup (I love just about all of the Marx Brothers films, but this one seems to be my favorite.)
Airplane!
All of the Pink Panther films with Peter Sellers, especially A Shot in the Dark.
The Blues Brothers
Office Space
The Hope/Crosby Road pictures
Dr. Strangelove
The Out-of-Towners (w/ Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis)

[stooged and confused]

Sorry, I have more than 10...Here are mine, I don't have them ranked:

Some Like It Hot (it may be the most perfect comedy feature ever made)
Dr. Strangelove
Blazing Saddles
A Hard Day's Night
Duck Soup
Airplane
Best In Show
Sideways
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Lost In America
High Fidelity
16 Candles
Broadway Danny Rose
The Producers (the ORIGINAL film)
Raising Arizona
Animal House
The Sure Thing
Young Frankenstein

[Hammond Eggar]

Some Like It Hot (it may be the most perfect comedy feature ever made)

That was certainly the opinion of the American Film Institute.  They named the film the best comedy of all-time, with Tootsie coming in at second place.  That's funny.  The top two comedies feature cross-dressing.  Are we learning something about the A.F.I. voters!?!

[busybuddy]

That was certainly the opinion of the American Film Institute.  They named the film the best comedy of all-time, with Tootsie coming in at second place.  That's funny.  The top two comedies feature cross-dressing.  Are we learning something about the A.F.I. voters!?!

Two other cross-dressing films also made the list, Mrs. Doubtfire and Victor/Victoria. I thought the Brits were the only ones that find a man in women's clothes funny!

[jrvass]

Benny Hill - British x-dresser

[Pat The Stooge]

I'm a little late on this topic so here's my list:

10. Soup to Nuts(1930)
9. It's a Mad,Mad,Mad,Mad World(1963)
8. Airplane(1980)
7. Spaceballs(1986)
6. Pee Wee's Big Adventure(1985)
5. Ruthless People(1986)
4. Mr. Deeds(2002)
3. I'm Gonna Git You Sucka(1988)
2. Life(1999)
#1. Fun With Dick and Jane( 2005-remake)

Well to be honest, I don't really have a sense of humor that much so it's hard for  me to laugh. Both Spaceballes and Pee Wee are a part of my childhood and the three older titles has aged just fine on my list.

[2reelers]

In no particular order:

BASEKETBALL
IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD
ED WOOD
IT'S A GIFT
GASBAGS (A British "Crazy Gang" feature)
BRAIN DONORS
ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN
1941
A NIGHT AT THE OPERA
THE GOOD HUMOR MAN

And I thought I'd throw in a selection of my favorite sound comedy shorts...

KEYSTONE HOTEL-Ford Sterling, Ben Turpin, Chester Conklin
MIDNIGHT BLUNDERS-Monty Collins & Tom Kennedy
FREE WHEELING-Our Gang
ROCKET & ROLL (Castle Films cut-down of A & C GO TO MARS)
MAMA'S LITTLE PIRATE-Our Gang
ONE SHIVERY NIGHT-Hugh Herbert
BOOBS IN THE WOODS-Andy Clyde with Shemp Howard

and The Three Stooges

I CAN HARDLY WAIT
THE HOT SCOTS
WHO DONE IT
DIZZY DETECTIVES
GRIPS, GRUNTS AND GROANS
and
DOPEY DICKS