Top 5 - Comedy films.

[Hallucination Generation]

This is still hard i know but if you had to take 5 comedy films into space with you forever what would they be?

My 5 are:

1. Tommy Boy
2. Dogma
3. Shaun Of The Dead
4. Loaded Weapon 1
5. Scary Movie

[Ari]

Comedy must be the worst genre besides Musicals.

off the top of my head.
EALING COMEDIES - Cant choose 1 but - (Hue and Cry, Kind Hearts and Coronets,The Magnet.The Lavender Hill Mob,The Man in the White Suit, The Maggie, The Ladykillers)
PILLOW TALK/SEND ME NO FLOWERS/LOVER COME BACK (count as one)
KING PIN (strange but true)
(All) CARRY ON films (if pressed Carry On Camping)
JERRY LEWIS - favourite is NUTTY PROFESSOR.


Comedy works MUCH better as television (or even radio) me thinks.

[Louie D.]

1. Top Gun
2. Top Gun
3. Top Gun
4. Top Gun
5. Top Gun

[Ari]

you just want to root tom cruise a LOT don't you Looster man?

[Louie D.]

you just want to root tom cruise a LOT don't you Looster man?

I just love gay comedy films.

[brude]

I just love gay comedy films.

Knock yerself out, Mr. Happy... 

http://www.squidoo.com/top-10-gay-comedy-movies

[Louie D.]

Knock yerself out, Mr. Happy... 

http://www.squidoo.com/top-10-gay-comedy-movies

This list is bullshit, no "Top Gun" 

And BTW, Mr. Conservative, what are you looking up gay things for?

[jayn_j]

Hey, I love old musicals.  Stuff it Ari.

OK, my comedy list in no particular order (of stuff that most will overlook)

1. It Happened One Night (Gable, Coulbert)
2. What's Up Doc? (Redford, Streisand)
3. Buck Privates (Abbott&Costello, Andrews Sisters)
4. Desk Set (Tracey, Hepburn)
5. The Philidelphia Story (Grant, Hepburn, Stewart)

But ask me again in an hour, and I'll probably pick a different 5.

[Ari]

Musicals I LOVE American In Paris.
If you call The Wicker Man a musical.

Mostly I don't like them, but its just the songs, if there is edited versions sans music Id like them more.

[marklawd]

Ninotchka
Dr Strangelove
The Apartment
The Odd Couple
Planes Trains & Autobiles

plus bonus - Kenny

Mark

[jayn_j]

Musicals I LOVE American In Paris.
If you call The Wicker Man a musical.

Mostly I don't like them, but its just the songs, if there is edited versions sans music Id like them more.

They used to do that on American TV when they had to edit to fit the timeslot.  Imagine your American in Paris without the finale ballet sequence!

Besides, they still make musicals that people go to and love.  They just learned not to call them musicals anymore.  Chicago, Little Shop of Horrors, Mama Mia, Rent, Grease, Saturday Night Fever, etc...

[Ari]

THOSE you list are the worst, Id take the old ones any day over any of them.
The finale of American in Paris is SO BAD....

[jayn_j]

THOSE you list are the worst, Id take the old ones any day over any of them.
The finale of American in Paris is SO BAD....

I'll admit that I never warmed to American in Paris.  My favorites are Singin in the Rain, Easter Parade, Meet Me in St Louis, The Bandwagon, etc.
Actually, I like many of the newer ones.

[Ari]

yeah as I said its really the music, in the old ones I love the look of them and enjoy the story but I am even fussier with music than films, if I dont LIKE a song, I HATE it.

Plus I never watched them as a kid so there's no nostalgia.

[brude]

This list is bullshit, no "Top Gun"  

And BTW, Mr. Conservative, what are you looking up gay things for?

For your viewing pleasure, putz.  

Louie: "I just love gay comedy films."

[Juli]

The funniest film I ever saw was The Hangover. I don't think there were any films that make me laugh out loud more.

[brude]

1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
2. Planes, Trains and Automobiles
3. Bringing Up Baby
4. Dumb and Dumber
5. The 20th Century

[easyenders]

on the buses
mutiney on the buses
s & m on the buses (or whatever the last of the trilogy was?)
fra diavalo (laural and hardy)
ask a policeman (will hay)

[Louie D.]

For your viewing pleasure, putz.  

Conservative tactic #1: Personal attack. 

Just because you put a winky smiley after what you wrote, doesn't negate the fact.

[brude]

You're right, you're a PUTZ. 

[Zorba]

Tough to do just 5 or even 25 even in one genre.

1) Arsenic and Old Lace
1A)  His Girl Friday
1B)  Philadelphia Story
2) DR. Strangelove
3) Slap Shot
4) Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
5) Swingers

[Charlie]

This stuff is so hard...  Stupid Comedy, Comedy with Drama, SNL comedy... Chevy Chase Comedy... 80s/90s comedy


Nothing But Trouble (I don't usually tell people that I like this one but when digital underground gets busted and rolls up with the entourage; I just crack up)
Fletch Lives
Oh God
Caddy Shack
Mannequin was fun..


Black Sheep
Don't Be a Menace to South Central


Big
Big Lebowski
Sandlot


Ah I quit...

[Hallucination Generation]

Tough to do just 5 or even 25 even in one genre.

1) Arsenic and Old Lace
1A)  His Girl Friday
1B)  Philadelphia Story
2) DR. Strangelove
3) Slap Shot
4) Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
5) Swingers

I narrowed it down from just your 5 favourites.
I figured it would be easier but it's not. I've changed my mind already.

I forgot 'In Bruges'

[stewart boyle]

1.Midnight Run
2.Planes,trains etc
3.Spinal Tap
4.Dr Strangelove
5.Life Of Brian
6.The Naked Gun

Stew

[jayn_j]

Interesting that nobody has listed any Mel Brooks stuff yet:  Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs, Young Frankenstein, The Producers.