Your favorite film comedies

[Tunescribe]

I've come to realize how hard it is to find a good film comedy these days, with all the juvenile shlock Hollywood is churning out ("Little Man," "You, Me & Dupree," etc.). So, what are your top 10 comedies? The only qualification is that it had to make you laugh out loud. (I reserve the right to amend my list as memory serves.)

(1). South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut

(2). Kung-Fu Hustle (just saw this the other evening, an instant classic)

(3). Young Frankenstein

(4). The Blues Brothers

(5). Airplane

(6). Team America, World Police

(7). It Happened One Night

(8). Naked Gun

(9). Monty Python and the Holy Grail

(10). Planes, Trains, & Automobiles

Honorable mentions: This Is Spinal Tap, Duck Soup, Army of Darkness, Men in Black, Top Secret, Groundhog Day, Animal House, Me Myself and Irene, Caddyshack, The Longest Yard (original version), Pee Wee's Big Adventure.

[milwaukeebeers44]

1. Baseketball

2. MP & the Holy Grail

3. Slap Shot

4. South Park, the movie

5. Animal House

6. There's Something About Mary

7. MP & the Life of Brian

8. The Sweetest Thing

9. Road Trip

10. Dodgeball, A True Underdog Story

[Michael]

1) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (recently saw the stage play in Boston)

and in no particular order

2) Dumb & Dumber

3) Young Frankestien

4) The Princess Bride

5) Team America World Police

6) Blues Brothers

7) The Man Who knew Too Little

8) Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers

9) My Cousin Vinny

10) Pee Wee's Big Adventure

11) Office Space

...many many more

[Clonamery]

1. A Fish Called Wanda

2. Being There

3. Annie Hall (d'jew ever see it?)

4. Kind Hearts and Coronets

5. Gregory's Girl

6. A Night At The Opera or Monkey Business or Horsefeathers or Duck Soup

7. The Thin Man

8. Bringing Up Baby

9. The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming!

10. The General

[Mike the Brit]

Originally Posted by Clonamery

1. A Fish Called Wanda

2. Being There

3. Annie Hall (d'jew ever see it?)

4. Kind Hearts and Coronets

5. Gregory's Girl

6. A Night At The Opera or Monkey Business or Horsefeathers or Duck Soup

7. The Thin Man

8. Bringing Up Baby

9. The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming!

10. The General

Wow! We have overlap!

1. A Fish Called Wanda

2. Kind Hearts and Coronets ("I always say that my West Window has all the exuberance of Chaucer with none of the concomitant crudity")

3. A Night at the Opera ("There ain't no Sanity Clause!")

and

4. Annie Hall (Yes -- Jew!)

are 'musts' for my list and Gregory's Girl and Bringing up Baby would be very close.

If it's laugh-out-loud funny we're after, I'll have to add

5. Animal House

6. Blazing Saddles

and

7. The Producers ("Today you dine with Max Bialystok!").

Also, I can't leave out

8. Some Like It Hot.

Yikes! Only two more.

Well, I can't leave out

9. Morgan, a Suitable Case for Treatment

Not well known at all (but I'm pretty sure you would like it, Clonamery). Set in early sixties London, rich socialite (Vanessa Redgrave in her first film role!) divorces her left-wing artist husband (David Warner) who goes mad while fantasising about the class struggle. (His Mum is even more Marxist than he is. They sit in front of Marx's grave and she talks about Morgan's late father: "'E wanted to abolish marriage, shoot the Royal Family and put everyone who'd been to public school to work on a chain gang. 'E was an idealist, your Dad!")

So it's number 10. Gregory's Girl is a great movie. There's also a case for another Ealing Comedy (The Lavender Hill Mob?). Then there's the screwball comedies. Bringing up Baby is great but I like Philadelphia Story even more, I think, and

10. His Girl Friday

best of all.

Cheers!

(Had never heard of "The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming!" Just looked it up on Google -- will now look out for it.)

[3 to be 4]

Not in any order

Its A Mad,Mad,Mad,Mad World
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Horsefeathers
The Russians are Coming
The In-Laws (1979)
Annie Hall
Theres Something About Mary
The Errand Boy (Doo Wakka Doo Wakka Doo Doo Doo)
The Graduate

[Blue Collar]

History of the world part I

[Willie55]

I have many of the same already listed but one I haven't seen mentioned is "Kentucky Fried Movie".

[3 to be 4]

Schindlers List
Angela's Ashes
Road to Perdition
Saving Private Ryan
Platoon
.....oh wait.....

[Alk]

A few that haven't been mentioned

Zoolander
Not Another Teen Movie
Kung Pow: Enter The Fist