What Are Your FAVORITE Comedies?

[Monsters For Sale]

What comedy movies are your perennial favorites?

No comedy is ever as quite as fresh and funny the second time around.  Some can even seem very annoying with the passage of time.  But a few win a permanent place in our hearts and bring back warm feelings year after year.

What comedy movies do you think never seem to get old with repeated viewing - the ones you drag out whenever you need a mood lift?


A few of mine:


Matinee
The ‘Burbs
The Great Outdoors - John Candy
Funny Farm - Chevy Chase
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House - Cary Grant
George Washington Slept Here - Jack Benny
Arsenic and Old Lace
Planes, Trains and Automobiles - (a Thanksgiving must)
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - (a Christmas must)
Groundhog Day - (a Groundhog Day's must)

[Flower]

Off the top of my head and I'll add more later ...

Adventures in Babysitting
Arsenic & Old Lace
The Desk Set
Home Alone
The Odd Couple
The Pink Panther .. A Shot in the Dark
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Some Like it Hot

[McDougals House of Horror]

A&C Meet Frankenstein (what else?)

A few others that immediately come to mind (I know there are more I'll add later):

Animal House
Caddyshack
Bridesmaids
Grumpy Old Men
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (I saw a preview cut and some of the scenes they took out were even funnier than some they left in)


 

[long live kong]

I share some from Monsters4sales's list (the Burbs, The Great Outdoors, Planes, Trains & Automobiles and Groundhog Day!)

Also -

Raising Arizona
Mike Leigh's Nuts In May
The Jerk
Trading Places
Uncle Buck
Three Amigos
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Cable Guy
Army Of Darkness
Throw Momma From The Train
Addams Family & Addams Family Values

[Unknown Primate]

CAT BALLOU

[long live kong]

Cat Ballou? Never heard of that one UP! To my shame I've never seen Abbot & Costello meet Frankenstein but its on my 'to watch' list.

[Mike Scott]

I'll stick to features and no more than two per artist, otherwise the list would be much too long.

Marx Bros. - Duck Soup and Hose Features
W. C. Fields - The Bank Dick and It's a Gift
L & H - Sons of the Desert and Way Out West
Chaplin - The Gold Rush and City Lights
Keaton - The General and Steamboat Bill Jr.
A & C Meet Frankenstein
Road To Morocco
Son of Paleface
His Girl Friday
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Ladykillers (1955)
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
The Errand Boy
The Great Race
A Shot in the Dark
The President's Analyst
M*A*S*H
Sleeper
The Producers
Young Frankenstein
MP and the Holy Grail
Life of Brian
Manhattan
Animal House
Airplane!
and many, many more.

[Unknown Primate]

Ben - Lee Marvin won an Oscar for his portrayal of Kid Shelleen - by far, the coolest character in the film.  Check out this clip.  The always drunk, Kid, walks in on the wake of a man he was supposed to be protecting.

Happy birthday song from Cat Ballou

Here's another.  BTW, it's a Western, if you can't tell, lol!

Cat Ballou Clip

[long live kong]

Bah! My useless iPhone isn't letting me watch the vids UP! Ill check em out later, I like a good western!
I'm struggling to find something worth watching on telly too. What's wrong with tv nowadays?? And it's Saturday for crying out loud and I'm watching scorpions mate!

[Paladin]

A few are...

The Odd Couple
The Fisher King
The Blues Brothers
The King of Comedy
The Big Lebowski
Grumpy Old Men
Duck Soup
Sleeper
Airplane!
The Pink Panther
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Blazing Saddles
The Jerk
Caddyshack
A Fish Called Wanda

[Paladin]

CAT BALLOU

Primate, I forgot about this film- and Lee Marvin is one of my all- time favorites!
Great flick!!

[Zackuth]

Some of my all time favorites, ones that I can watch over and over and still laugh.

A Christmas Story--I turn this on every Christmas Eve on TBS (?) and it stays on the entire 24 hours.

It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World--I think my favorite line is "Maybe we should just shoot 'em down and be done with it"

Arsnic and Old Lace--Excellent screwball comedy

What's Up Doc?--Another excellent screwball comedy

The Great Race--Jack Lemmon and Peter Falk are hysterical

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein--What needs to be said

[Count_Zirock]

I love just about anything with Laurel & Hardy, Abbott & Costello, The Marx Brothers, and The Three Stooges. The classic five "Pink Panther" films with Peter Sellers (especially "A Shot in the Dark"). Just about all the Dead End Kids/East Side Kids/Bowery Boys comedies (the early dramas are interesting, too). "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" is amazing. "Ruthless People" was hysterical. Oh, there are just too many to name!

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[Flower]

Some that I forgot ...

Bananas
The Belles of St Trinian's
Blues Brothers
The Producers
The Time of Their Lives
Trading Places
Where's Poppa?

[Monsters For Sale]

Some of my all time favorites, ones that I can watch over and over and still laugh.
...

That's what I had in mind, that small core of films that never fail to lift your spirits - not every film that you once found funny.

Films I should have added to my short list:

Grumpy Old Men
Airplane!
The Naked Gun
Murder By Death
S.O.B. - (I just love the interplay between the veteran actors.  They really do seem like life-long friends.)
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