What is the best comedy movie you've ever seen?

[twizzler]

Here's mine

Porky's

[eShirl]

1. Young Frankenstein

[twizzler]

2. In my opionon

one of Mel Brooks best, Marty Feldman, Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Peter Boyle were all funny as hell.

[BootinUp]

3. Best?....

Blues Brothers.

[HarveyDarkey]

4. It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

of course illicit substances were involved, so it might not be exactly what I remembered.

[Populist_Prole]

14. Yeah, a definite classic.

First saw it in the early-mid 70's and it was a gut buster to me.

[Brother Buzz]

31. For the star-studded cameo appearances alone, it's high on my list

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I was hooked when Jimmy Durante literally kicked the bucket when he kicked the bucket, and the movie was just starting.

"under the Big W."

Main actors

* Sid Caesar as Melville Crump
* Edie Adams as Monica Crump
* Milton Berle as J. Russell Finch
* Dorothy Provine as Emmeline Marcus-Finch
* Ethel Merman as Mrs. Marcus
* Jonathan Winters as Lennie Pike
* Mickey Rooney as Dingy Bell
* Buddy Hackett as Benjy Benjamin
* Spencer Tracy as Captain T. G. Culpeper
* Terry-Thomas as Lt. Col. J. Algernon Hawthorne
* Phil Silvers as Otto Meyer
* Dick Shawn as Sylvester Marcus

Secondary actors

* Jim Backus as boozy and rich airplane owner Tyler Fitzgerald
* William Demarest as Aloysius, Chief of the Santa Rosita Police Department
* Jimmy Durante as "Smiler" Grogan
* Peter Falk as a cop-hating cab driver
* Eddie "Rochester" Anderson as a cab driver
* Paul Ford as Col. Wilberforce
* Barrie Chase as Sylvester Marcus' bikini-wearing girlfriend, Mrs. Haliburton (or Halliburton)

Cameo appearances

* Jack Benny as a man who drives by in a Maxwell, offering to help, but is put off by Mrs. Marcus
* Paul Birch as a Santa Rosita Police Department officer
* Ben Blue as the vintage biplane pilot
* Joe E. Brown as the union official giving a speech at a construction site
* Alan Carney as a sergeant with the Santa Rosita Police Department
* Chick Chandler as detective outside Chinese laundry
* John Clarke as helicopter pilot
* Stanley Clements as a local reporter at police station
* Lloyd Corrigan as the mayor of Santa Rosita
* Howard Da Silva as an airport official
* Andy Devine as the Sheriff of Crockett County, California (fictional)
* Selma Diamond (voice only) as Ginger Culpeper, Captain Culpeper's wife
* Minta Durfee as a crowd extra
* Roy Engel as a Santa Rosita Police Department officer
* Norman Fell as primary detective at the "Smiler" Grogan accident site
* James Flavin as a Santa Rosita Police Department officer
* Stan Freberg as a Crockett County Deputy Sheriff
* Nicholas Georgiade as supporting detective at the "Smiler" Grogan accident site
* Louise Glenn (voice only) as Billie Sue Culpeper, Captain Culpeper's daughter
* Leo Gorcey as a cab driver bringing Melville and Monica to the hardware store
* Stacy Harris (voice only) as police radio voice unit F-7
* Don C. Harvey as a Santa Rosita Police Department officer
* Sterling Holloway as a Santa Rosita Fire Department fire captain
* Edward Everett Horton as Mr. Dinckler, owner of the hardware store
* Allen Jenkins as a Santa Rosita Police Department officer
* Marvin Kaplan as garage/service station co-owner Irwin
* Robert Karnes as Simmy, a Santa Rosita Police Department officer
* Buster Keaton as Jimmy the Crook (boatman)
* Tom Kennedy as a Santa Rosita Police Department traffic cop
* Don Knotts as the nervous motorist
* Charles Lane as the airport manager
* Harry Lauter as a police dispatcher of the Santa Rosita Police Department
* Ben Lessy as George the steward
* Bobo Lewis as vintage biplane pilot's wife
* Jerry Lewis as the man who runs over Culpeper's hat
* Bob Mazurki (presumed) as Eddie, the miner's son
* Mike Mazurki as the miner bringing medicine to his wife
* Charles McGraw as Lt. Matthews of the Santa Rosita Police Department
* Cliff Norton as a reporter
* Barbara Pepper as an ice cream counter waitress (scene deleted)
* ZaSu Pitts as Gertie, the Santa Rosita Police Department Central Division's switchboard operator
* Carl Reiner as the Rancho Conejo airport tower controller
* Madlyn Rhue as secretary Schwartz of the Santa Rosita Police Department
* Roy Roberts as a Santa Rosita Police Department officer (scene deleted)
* Eddie Ryder as Rancho Conejo air traffic control tower staff member
* Charles Sherlock as a crowd extra
* The Shirelles (voice), singing "31 Flavors" in Sylvester's bachelor pad scene
* Eddie Smith as an extra
* Arnold Stang as garage/service station co-owner Ray
* Nick Stewart as migrant truck driver forced off the road
* The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry, and Curly Joe)[2] as Rancho Conejo Airport firemen (they have the shortest cameo appearance; five seconds)
* Sammee Tong as a laundryman
* Doodles Weaver as a hardware store employee
* Jesse White as a Rancho Conejo air traffic controller

[Manifestor_of_Light]

79. You forgot Rochester (Eddie Anderson).

Jack Benny's valet.

[Brother Buzz]

80. He wasn't Benny's valet in the movie, he and Peter Falk drove a taxis

He wasn't on the list? I swiped the list from Wiki and now I see I missed the SECOND column of secondary actors. Eddie Anderson got higher billing then Benny - as it should have been all along. Thanks for noticing my omission. Noted and corrected.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

82. No, he wasn't Benny's valet in the movie. you are correct.

He was Jack Benny's valet on The Jack Benny Show.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

55. Me too!

I mean, I think this is the funniest movie I've ever seen. It stayed at high level the whole time. I also like the Jonathan Winters scene when he destroys the gas station.........

[Jack Sprat]

5. No Time for Sargeants

2nd: Cat Ballou
3rd: Life

[OmahaBlueDog]

6. Today, my answer is "Stripes"

On other days, my answer might be:

Airplane!
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Kind Hearts & Coronets

or
Monty Python & The Holy Grail

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

7. For me it's the 1967 French comedy "Oscar" with the immortal Louis de Funes

Louis de Funes was one of the all time masters of physical comedy. Oscar was originally a French stage play involving one comedic complication after another around a missing suitcase. Sylvester Stallone tried to do an American remake but it fell very flat as he's no comedian. Of his many hilarious madcap comedies, I think Oscar was the funniest for Louis de Funes.

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[AllenVanAllen]

8. Duck Soup

An all time favorite.

here's the entire film on youtube

[applegrove]

9. I loved "The Orchid Thief". Loved the book too.

[chknltl]

10. One would think Blazing Saddles needs added to this list. eom

[HeiressofBickworth]

81. You beat me to it!

I was going to add Blazing Saddles. In fact, I think it's funnier now than it was then (except for the channels that leave out the N-word and other objectionable language). It was the N-word and objectionable language that made it funny. The best scene was where Hedy (oops, Hedley) was reciting the type of person to recruit for his posse. All while the other guy was fumbling for paper and pencil.

[Cheap_Trick]

11. Love that scene

Eric Christmas and the others really sell it and makes me laugh every time.

Hard to believe that Porky's was directed by the same guy who directed A Christmas Story. (and a slasher film called Black Christmas).

But my favorite comedy is probably either Airplane! or Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

[JonLP24]

12. Tough one

At the moment I'm feeling "Bowfinger" but that can easily change at any moment.

Another that is coming to mind that was constantly hilarious - "Tropic Thunder".

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

13. The Gods Must Be Crazy

[Scuba]

52. +1 I laughed so hard I hurt myself.

[Populist_Prole]

15. Clerks

Unashamedly low budget: B&W grainy film but the best dialogue I've seen in a comedy film.

[unapatriciated]

16. Woody Allen's - Love & Death

[sarge43]

17. Some Like It Hot.

Although it has fierce competition

Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Airplane!, It Happened One Night, My Favorite Year, Office Space, The Big Lebowski, The Lady Eve, Bull Durham, King of Comedy, Galaxy Quest, A Christmas Story

[alphafemale]

18. Planes, Trains and Automobiles. I wish Martin and Candy had the chance to make more movies together.

Their chemistry was dead on perfect.

[fishwax]

44. I wish that too -- they were great together in that one

[Honeycombe8]

57. So true. Amazing and terrifically funny movie. A must-watch every Christmas. nt

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

67. I watch it every Thanksgiving

My family thinks I'm crazy.

[sendero]

19. Mine...

... with more fun movie quotes than you can shake a stick at

[Curmudgeoness]

39. Repo Man never crossed my mind

when I was thinking of really funny movies, but you are right....it was hilarious.

[hifiguy]

71. . . . Otttt-oooh.....

[Graybeard]

20. The Court Jester

Danny Kaye and a superb cast (Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury) all seem to be having so much fun it's infectious. Kaye's wonderful "Chalice from the palace" skit is a classic.

Good-natured spoof of all the Robin Hood, Ivanhoe, knights in armor films and one of Danny Kaye's best.

[mucifer]

24. My favorite Danny kaye movie is "Wonder Man"

"Potato Salad!"

[pinboy3niner]

51. The vessel with the pestle is the brew that is true

I haven't seen that movie in decades, but I still remember some of those lines.

Definitely a classic!

[solara]

54. i'm with you on this

Certainly a comedy classic. Kaye's wife, Sylvia FIne wrote his 'special' material - including "Chalice from the palace Glynnis Johns was also superb in this

[TorchTheWitch]

21. Monty Python's Holy Grail

I've lost count of how many times I've watched and still howl hysterically through the whole thing.

[LWolf]

83. It's sure on my list of funniest.

[Pool Hall Ace]

22. for me, Caddyshack never gets old.

"Elihu, will you come loofah my stretchmarks?"

[GoCubsGo]

23. Dr. Strangelove

I like dark comedies.

[EastTennesseeDem]

33. +1

[Iwillnevergiveup]

73. Agreed!

Peter Sellers was masterful.

Also, Office Space and The Big Lebowski.

[Bertha Venation]

25. Tootsie

Nothing has made me laugh as hard before or since. I highly recommend it to those who haven't seen it yet.

[BootinUp]

26. I don't think anyone has mentioned

The In Laws, so here it is

[BootinUp]

27. Blast from the Past

is another hilarious one.

[pipi_k]

28. Almost any comedy starring

Cary Grant, but my favorite of his comedies is "Father Goose". The poisonous snake scene with Leslie Caron is a hoot.


Also, the "Grumpy Old Men" and "Odd Couple" movies starring Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon.

[rrneck]

29. Twenty six posts and I haven't seen

the Big Lebowski.

[Initech]

35. Shomer shabbos!!!!!

[rrneck]

41. Shut the fuck up Donny.

I've always wanted to use that line.

[Yavin4]

76. I Used It A Lot When Rumsfeld Was Sec. of Defense

Came in handy.

[Baitball Blogger]

30. Porky was the most hilarious because it was so unexpected.

[Curtland1015]

32. Blazing Saddles

Followed by:

Airplane!
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Young Frankenstein
The Life of Brian
Black Dynamite

[Initech]

34. Animal House ranks way up there.

"Take it easy, I'm pre-law."
"I thought you were pre-med."
"What's the difference?"

[Major Nikon]

36. Airplane!

Oh Brother Where Art Thou comes in at a close 2nd.

[Honeycombe8]

58. Ditto on Airplane. When I first saw it (it now seems a bit old and tired, but at the time...

it was rip roaringly funny).

Who can forget the line "And don't call me Shirley" ?

I don't think I've ever laughed out loud so much at a comedy movie as when I saw that one. Every scene hit my funny bone. And Lloyd Bridges had some of the best scenes!

O Brother Where Art Thou is up there, too. First time I liked George Clooney. The movie came on TV, but I wasn't going to watch it. A friend told me to watch it. I said I wouldn't because I didn't like Clooney. She said, "It's not what you think. Watch it. You won't be sorry." So I did. And I wasn't. I've liked Clooney ever since.

[Major Nikon]

59. Here's what you do if you really want a hoot

Watch an old film called Zero Hour!, then watch Airplane!.

Zero Hour! was the film that Airplane! was based. Most of the plot and even many of the quotes are exactly the same, except Zero Hour! is not a comedy.

[Enrique]

77. i heartily second that suggestion

I caught "Zero Hour" on TCM and it made me appreciate "Airplane" about a million times more.

[Honeycombe8]

78. Seriously? I did not know that. I WILL watch Zero Hour (if I can find it). nt

[begin_within]

37. I think I laughed most at

[fishwax]

45. I'm not repeating myself. I am not repeating myself.

Oh god, I'm repeating myself.



That is a hilarious movie. It's one of my mom's favorites as well. She introduced it to me when I was a kid. She laughed so hard my brother and I thought she might require medical attention.

[grntuscarora]

38. The Producers.

I've been a Gene Wilder fan ever since I saw it so long ago.

[pokerfan]

40. Fargo (1996)

[pipi_k]

42. Hah!!!

Steve Buscemi was creepy funny in that movie!!

[ohiosmith]

43. Where's Poppa?

[cliffordu]

46. M.A.S.H.

[Scuba]

53. Probably still my favorite movie of any genre.

[ailsagirl]

47. A Night at the Opera

[Spider Jerusalem]

48. Dr Strangelove

Or possibly Withnail & I.

[pipi_k]

49. Thought of more...

"The Sandlot"


Also, one particular scene in "Stand By Me" (The Body):

the tale of Lardass Hogan.

I love Stephen King.

[Myrina]

50. Death at a Funeral - the British version

Or Waking Ned Devine.

[kwassa]

56. Groundhog Day

aside from being Bill Murray's tour de force, it is a profound little movie. Hilarious, too.

[grasswire]

60. Victor Victoria

My all-time favorite funny movie.

Also, the original "In-Laws", and "Night On Earth."

Nobody mentioned "Some Like It Hot" -- always voted top of the list by Americans.

[pipi_k]

66. It's one

of my perennial favorites as well.

I love her "Le Jazz Hot" number.


I saw "Night on Earth" over 20 years ago, and although I thought it was sort of strange at first, I got into it.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

61. The Wrong Box

A British comedy from the 1960s with an all-star cast, including Michael Caine, Peter Sellers, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Ralph Richardson, and John Mills.

A group of British schoolboys is entered into a tontine, in which a huge sum of money will go to the last survivor of the group. Most of them die (in hilarious ways) until only two old men are left. Now the heirs of the two last survivors strive to make sure that THEIR relative, not the other guy, wins the money.

And it's FINALLY out on DVD!

[emilyg]

62. aRSENIC AND oLD lACE AND

Some Like it Hot.

[raccoon]

63. The original "Out-of-Towners" (Walter Matthau, Sandy Dennis) would be way up there for me. nt

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

68. Definitely better than the re-make. Speaking of which...

The original "In-Laws" with Peter Falk and Alan Arkin.

Serpentine, Shell! Serpentine!

[Populist_Prole]

72. Oh wow, forgot about that one. Hilarious, and a great 1970 time capsule too

BTW, I believe it was Jack Lemmon who played the husband of Sandy Dennis, not Walter Matthau.

[HarveyDarkey]

64. I can't believe nobody's mentioned....

Mars Attacks

[CanSocDem]

65. If you're talking 'fall out of my seat' laughing...

...there are a couple that did that in first time viewing.

The Party with Peter Sellers

and, The Nutty Professor with Jerry Lewis


.

[mikeytherat]

69. "Love and Death" and "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid."

I've watched these films a million times, and they still make me laugh out loud.

mikey_the_rat

[hifiguy]

70. Today's answer is Duck Soup.

Tomorrow's would probably be Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Wednesday, Spinal Tap.

Definitely one of those three.

[nadine_mn]

74. The original pink panther with Peter sellers

I cry laughing every time I watch

[LanternWaste]

75. An even toss-up between Brighton Beach Memoirs and My Favorite Year.

An even toss-up betweenBrighton Beach Memoirs and My Favorite Year.

[Equate]

84. Hands down

Rat Race

[Broken_Hero]

85. Hmm,

I think I have to give the slight nod to SpaceBalls the Movie!!!!

We fucking brake for no one!-Space Ball 1

No sir, I didn't see you playing with your toys again!

Son of a bitch shot my hair!!!

That, wasn't bad for a girl...Hell, that was good enough for Rambo!

You idiots, you captured their stunt doubles!

So, the pass code is 12345...yes, damn, thats the stupidest combination I ever heard of, its the combination and idiot would put on his luggage!

I'm a Mog, half man, half dog...I'm my own best friend!

Barf!! Not in her mister, this is a Mercedes!

Your Royal Hignesses Mass Luggage!!

Yogurt...I hate Yogurt! Especially with Strawberries!

Only one man would Dare give me the Raspberry....LONESTAR!

I'm your fathers brothers cousins uncles' former roomate....so, what does that make us? Absolutely nothing, which is what you are about to become!

There are so many memorable lines in this movie...its ridiculous. I'll give a shout out to Blazing Saddles, but I enjoy Spaceballs a lot more.

[dimbear]

86. Front Page.

Never gets old.

[BainsBane]

88. Arsenic and Old Lace

I've seen it at least 50 times and always laugh.