Classic Comedy Movies

Craig’s Birthday thread made me think about some of my favorite movies that I can watch a number of times and they still make me laugh out loud. Some of my favorites include:
Blazing Saddles w/ Mel Brooks
City Slickers w/ Billy Crystal
As Good as it Gets w/ Jack Nicholson
Caddy Shack w/ Chevy Chase

hopefully a few on here are old enough to remember these.
What do you guys like?

Bill

Blazing saddles used to make me and my brothers cry with laughter growing up especially the bit round the camp fire,lol
I loved all the really daft stuff like that in the 70’s
The national lampoons where all pretty good too


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I like Cary Grant's comedies. His Girl Friday and Operation Petticoat break me up.

Hallelujah Trail, starring Burt Lancaster, is another good one.

More oldies...:D

The Gods Must Be Crazy (all unknowns & perfect!)
Fun with (short name for Richard, stupid censor!!!) & Jane (the ORIGINAL movie with Jane Fonda, George Segal- NOT the regurgitated, er, "remake"...)
The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming! (Alan Arkin, Jonathan Winters+)
The Jerk (Steve Martin)
Overboard (Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell)
What's Up, Doc? (B. Streisand, Madeline Kahn)

Blazing Saddles and Caddyshack are two of my all time faves. The Jerk is also awesome.

Now to add a few of my own....

Airplane
Fletch
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Grumpy Old Men
Slapshot
Major League

Three Amigos and Young Frankenstein!!

Foul Play with Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase

Certainly not up to modern PC standards but Animal House is hilarious!

Used Cars with Kurt Russell.

Funniest movie ever - The Naked Gun.

Runners up are; Ghostbusters, Napoleon Dynamite, and (my personal favorite) Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

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Funniest movie ever - The Naked Gun.

Runners up are; Ghostbusters, Napoleon Dynamite, and (my personal favorite) Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

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I'm a sucker for the Naked Gun movies too

Jees I must be a right miserable beggar . I can't think of any movie that really made me laugh .. must be me .

I'm the same with tv situation comedies as well .. I rarely laugh out loud .. I think I just find certain situations vaguely humorous or witty .. like The Big Bang Theory .. I have been called Sheldon and even Dexter in the past though .... in a nice way :)


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How has no one said Monty python and the holy grail!!?

Caveman with Ringo Starr

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How has no one said Monty python and the holy grail!!?

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Cuz they all know Life of Brian was better!

Life of Brian was definitely funnier

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Life of Brian was definitely funnier

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"Bring out your dead...clank!"

I will add:

Spaceballs
Hot Shots
All the Austin Powers movies
Tropic Thunder
Napoleon Dynamite

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I will add:

Spaceballs
Hot Shots
All the Austin Powers movies
Tropic Thunder
Napoleon Dynamite

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Were you passed out while watching those?

Spaceballs is great, also Hot Shots Part Deux, for silly fun times. Never been much for body humor (fart jokes and such)

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I was just logging in to say this one XD I prefer holy grail over life of brian.

Lots of good ones already said, I don't know if it counts as classic but I love the Ace Ventura movies. Also - Drunken Master/Legend of Drunken Master

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As far as new movies, Tag was quite enjoyable! I went in with low expectations and laughed quite a bit.

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Were you passed out while watching those?

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I take it you don't agree? Everyone is different.

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See I really enjoyed the Python movies but I find them really , really witty ..rather than hilariously funny ..


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Lots of good ones here
i will add
Mrs Doubtfire w/ Robin Williams

Sorry folks for putting that clip from Used Cars up. It didn't even dawn on me. My bad.

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Foul Play with Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase

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You get extra credit for picking a movie with a snake character ("Esme" played by "Shirley Python"). :D

I just remembered another one (so many good comedies!)-
"Bedazzled" 1967 with Dudley Moore & Peter Cook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedazzled_(1967_film) Check it out! ;)

Dudley Moore was also good in both "Foul Play" & "Arthur".

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I take it you don't agree? Everyone is different.

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And thankfully we are! I couldn't take another me.

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See I really enjoyed the Python movies but I find them really , really witty ..rather than hilariously funny ..


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They are on a "whole other level".

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You get extra credit for picking a movie with a snake character ("Esme" played by "Shirley Python"). :D

I just remembered another one (so many good comedies!)-
"Bedazzled" 1967 with Dudley Moore & Peter Cook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedazzled_(1967_film) Check it out! ;)

Dudley Moore was also good in both "Foul Play" & "Arthur".

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Even though it bombed, I thought Ishtar was funny.

Grumpy and Grumpier old men
Dumb and Dumber
Borat
Caddy shack
Dirty Grandpa
Naked Gun



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Cannonball Run
Gumball Rally

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...Even though it bombed, I thought Ishtar was funny.

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I saw it but don't remember anything about it (oops?) but I enjoyed "Mixed Nuts" (Steve Martin+) & that had poor reviews too. Oh well...

Sometimes it has to do with the mood we're in when we see a movie. Anyway, we really need all the laughs we can get in this life.

Don't really like chick flicks but It's Complicated and The Devil Wears Prada were pretty good.

I am surprised no one has mentioned Jerry Lewis. His comedy was physical, imaginative, and brilliant. It's probably too sedate for today's audience, but that doesn't diminish the genius. Not only was he an exceptional comedian, he was an unbelievable influence in the film industry to the point he was responsible for some of the technological advances that make movies possible today. Since he was acting in and directing his own movies, he needed a way to see if a "take" was good before he could move on. He commissioned and worked with Sony back in the 60's to develop the video playback. That way he knew if the "take" could be printed or he would do another take before going on to the next sequence which saved millions for the studio over his career. He also wrote a book about directing called "The Total Film Maker". If you question whether it was good or not, Martin Scorsese used to carry a copy around with him.

Some of my favorite moves of his are:

The Nutty Professor
Rock-A-Bye Baby
Who's Minding the Store
The Disorderly Orderly
Cinderfella

If you've never seen them, check them out and pay particular attention to how good a shape he had to be in to achieve some of the physical demands of the films. In the movie Cinderfella, he ran up a flight of 64 steps in 8 seconds.

OK, if we are going old, old school, I'll take just about any Bob Hope movie. The Road to Bali with Bing Crosby was especially funny.

I almost forgot- probably my favorite: a quirky gem of an English language German-made film called Bagdad Cafe (1987), set & filmed in the Mojave Desert
of CA at a real* remote truck stop, with a few actors you know but maybe don't think of in comedy, Jack Palance & CCH Pounder. A mix actually of comedy
-drama, but funny & super original. :D (*Newberry Springs, CA)

Here's the gist of it from Wiki-
German tourist Jasmin Munchgstettner (Marianne Sägebrecht) argues with her husband after car trouble strands them along a dusty highway in the American Southwest. Fuming, she storms off and travels by foot to the nearest outpost of civilization -- the Bagdad Café. Upon arriving, she butts heads with the owner (CCH Pounder), but they soon forge an unlikely friendship. What begins as a few days' respite becomes a prolonged stay as Jasmine finds her niche within this eccentric truck-stop community.

Muriel's Wedding

Benny & Joon

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Benny & Joon

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What planet was that shown on?

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What planet was that shown on?

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Don't knock it, got some great cooking tips there..."cereal in a blender" & iron-on 'grilled' cheese sandwiches.