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)
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
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)
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
CAT BALLOU
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.
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.
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 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L367Qs53xE#)
Here's another. BTW, it's a Western, if you can't tell, lol!
Cat Ballou Clip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz6fKjtQ1zI#)
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!
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
Quote from: Unknown Primate on June 29, 2013, 12:01:49 PM
CAT BALLOU
Primate, I forgot about this film- and Lee Marvin is one of my all- time favorites!
Great flick!!
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
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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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?
Quote from: Zackuth on June 29, 2013, 04:33:56 PM
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.)
What About Bob?
Quote from: Monsters For Sale on June 29, 2013, 08:04:36 PM
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.
My list may be long, but that still describes it! :)
Quote from: Mike Scott on June 29, 2013, 08:10:01 PM
My list may be long, but that still describes it! :)
You must be easier to lift out of a funk than I am - despite your avatar.
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Bad Santa
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Love "Bad Santa" and let me toss in "The Big Lebowski","Office Space", and "Showgirls" for good measure.
Ensign Pulver
Papa's Delicate Condition
Bananas
Eating Raoul
Dr. Strangelove...
Ghostbusters
Catch 22
Look Who's Talking
High Anxiety
Pineapple Express
The Absent Minded Professor (Jerry Lewis)
All Buster Keaton movies and shorts
Marx Brothers movies
Three Stooges ( including the new TS movie. )
Dr. Strangelove
Abbott and Costello movies
Annette Funicello beach movies
both Flint movies (James Bond parodies)
That Darn Cat (original 60s version )
The Parent Trap (original 60s version)
both Dr. Goldfoot movies
Finucci Boogie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLvX5lLQ2sg#)
DR. STRANGELOVE...Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
ARTHUR
CITY SLICKERS
LOST IN TRANSLATION
ANNIE HALL
TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN
THE GENERAL
AIRPLANE!
SILVER STREAK
A SHOT IN THE DARK
WHEN HARRY MET SALLY
ZELIG
OSCAR
PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES
STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME
PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED
STIR CRAZY
ISHTAR (Yes, ISHTAR!)
CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS
BEING THERE
THE MAN WITH TWO BRAINS
SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL
A HARD DAY'S NIGHT
PRIVATE BENJAMIN
THE RETURN OF THE PINK PANTHER
SOME LIKE IT HOT
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S SEX COMEDY
THE PARTY
"OH, GOD!"
BEST FRIENDS
MURDER BY DEATH
GALAXY QUEST
INCIDENT AT LOCH NESS
GROUNDHOG DAY
BATMAN (1966)
THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN
GHOSTBUSTERS
MISCHIEF
TOOTSIE
THE PRINCE & THE SHOWGIRL
9 to 5
AUSTIN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY
REVENGE OF THE PINK PANTHER
THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH
ROMAN HOLIDAY
MANHATTAN
WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP
MY COUSIN VINNY
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING IN THE BATHROOM DAY AND NIGHT? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS1HIThPcz8#ws)
Wow, where to start:
Sons of the Desert (Laurel & Hardy)
A Christmas Story
Duck Soup (Marx Bros.)
Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
Monty Python's And Now For Something Completely Different
It's A Gift (W.C. Fields)
McHale's Navy (1964)
A Shot In The Dark
MST3K The Movie
All 3 Stooges shorts featuring Curly
It Happened One Night (1934)
National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
Meatballs (1979)
The Jerk (1979)
Caddyshack (1980)
National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
Wayne's World (1992)
- All of the Bill Murray, Dan Akyroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, etc stuff is my favorite
Quote from: long live kong on June 29, 2013, 12:05:50 PMTo my shame I've never seen Abbot & Costello meet Frankenstein but its on my 'to watch' list.
Wait a minute llk, you've
never seen A&C Meet Frankenstein?? :o :o :o You're right, that
is shameful!! Please put your life on hold, get it, watch it, and let us know how much you love it and how it is now your all-time favorite Universal film!! I'm not biased or anything like that ;D ;D ;D
Mr. McDougal (you'll know me after watching the film)
All Three Stooges shorts (especially Curly and Shemp)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again 1976
WC Fields-It's a Gift and Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
A&C Meet Frankenstein (duh)
Pretty much any WB or MGM theatrical cartoon short
Quote from: McDougals House of Horror on June 30, 2013, 07:08:14 PM
Wait a minute llk, you've never seen A&C Meet Frankenstein?? :o :o :o You're right, that is shameful!! Please put your life on hold, get it, watch it, and let us know how much you love it and how it is now your all-time favorite Universal film!! I'm not biased or anything like that ;D ;D ;D
Mr. McDougal (you'll know me after watching the film)
thems 'shanghaiing' words- watch it or you'll walk the plank ;D
How could I forget ..
The Mouse That Roared
or
The Mouse on the Moon
?????
A classic -- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
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Quote from: steve050305 on June 30, 2013, 04:40:39 PM
All of the Bill Murray, Dan Akyroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, etc stuff is my favorite
Even NOTHING BUT TROUBLE and CADDYSHACK II? :o
Quote from: LP_Quagmire on June 30, 2013, 09:03:04 PM
Even NOTHING BUT TROUBLE and CADDYSHACK II? :o
I like Nothing But Trouble. Although, I've not seen Caddyshack II in a while.
MODERN ROMANCE ('80 or '81) with Albert Brooks cracks me up every time I see it!
THE IN-LAWS ('79) is another. Peter Falk & Alan Arkin - Hilarious!
Got all day?
Maybe if I break it down into categories:
Silents:
Buster Keaton
Steamboat Bill Jr.
The General
Our Hospitality
Laurel and Hardy
Big Business
The Music Box
Harold Lloyd
Safety Last!
Why Worry?
The Freshman
Charlie Chaplin
The Gold Rush
The kid
Talkies:
The Marx Brothers
Duck Soup
A Night at the Opera
A Night In Casablanca
At the Circus
The Ritz Brothers
The Three Musketeers
The Gorilla
Laurel and Hardy
Sons of the Desert
Bonnie Scotland
Way out West
A Chump at Oxford
Alec Guinness
The Lavender Hill Mob
The Man in the White Suit
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The lady Killers
Peter Sellers
A Shot in the Dark
The Pink Panther
The Party
The Return of the Pink Panther
Woody Allen
Bananas
Take the Money and Run
Sleeper
Play it Again Sam
Love and Death
Mel Brooks
The Producers (both versions)
The Twelve Chairs
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
High Anxiety
Miscellaneous-Too many stars to single out
Dr Strangelove
The Great Race
What's New Pussycat?
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines
Cat Ballou
The Halleluiah Trail
My Favorite Year
The Italian Job (original)
The In-laws
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
That's enough for now . . .
Quote from: Unknown Primate on June 30, 2013, 11:11:07 PM
MODERN ROMANCE ('80 or '81) with Albert Brooks cracks me up every time I see it!
THE IN-LAWS ('79) is another. Peter Falk & Alan Arkin - Hilarious!
I love The In-Laws - Peter Falk and Alan Arkin are awesome
Another nod to The In-Laws!! Great movie!
Quote from: LundyAfterMidnight on July 01, 2013, 07:08:31 PM
Another nod to The In-Laws!! Great movie!
"Serpentine! Serpentine!"
Quote from: Mike Scott on July 01, 2013, 07:18:37 PM
"Serpentine! Serpentine!"
So that scene is from The In-laws eh?! I saw a clip of that scene on the news after Peter Falk died (with the sniper taking pot-shots at them). It cracked me up! I'll definitley be watching the movie!
Quote from: Mike Scott on July 01, 2013, 07:18:37 PM
"Serpentine! Serpentine!"
That scene KILLS me everytime!!
Quote from: Mike Scott on July 01, 2013, 07:18:37 PM
"Serpentine! Serpentine!"
Just hand a visual flashback from about 30 years ago and fell out of my chair laughing.Excuse while I wipe the tears from my eyes.
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I forgot about the film Zelig, made by Woody Allen during the 1980's.
It's pretty entertaining and had it's moments.
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Quote from: Paladin on July 15, 2013, 10:09:23 AM
I forgot about the film Zelig, made by Woody Allen during the 1980's.
It's pretty entertaining and had it's moments.
Most of the ideas were "borrowed" by the overrated "Forrest Gump".
Ghostbusters
Young Frankenstein
A Night At The Opera
Airplane
Love At First Bite
Animal House
Duck Soup
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Murder By Death
Ghost Breakers
Pink Panther
Adding ..
The Tall Blonde Man with One Black Shoe.
The Return of the Tall Blonde Man with One Black Shoe.
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1974) Trailer English Subtitles (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VluVDDQ8lRo#ws)
Any Monty Python
Pink Panther flicks
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
I forgot about ...
Topper
Rubarb
Dinner at Eight
Caddy Shack
Slap Shot
Young Frankenstein
Bad News Bears
The Sandlot
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Blazing Saddles
For some reason this flick popped into my mind today ..
The Gods Must Be Crazy
The Gods Must Be Crazy Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GorHLQ-jLRQ#)
From Wikipedia ..
Xi and his tribe of Bushmen relatives are "living well off the land" in the Kalahari Desert. They are happy because the gods have provided plenty of everything, and no one in the tribe has unfulfilled wants. One day, a glass bottle is thrown out of an airplane and falls to earth unbroken. Initially, this strange artifact seems to be another "present" from the gods — Xi's people find many uses for it. But unlike anything that they have had before, there is only one glass bottle to go around. This exposes the tribe to a hitherto unknown phenomenon, property, and they soon find themselves experiencing things they never had before: jealousy, envy, anger, hatred, and even violence.
Since it has caused the tribe unhappiness on two occasions, Xi decides that the glass bottle is an evil thing and must be thrown off of the edge of the world. He sets out alone on his quest and encounters Western civilization for the first time. The film presents an interpretation of civilization as viewed through Xi's perceptions.
Quote from: Flower on September 30, 2013, 06:54:35 PM
For some reason this flick popped into my mind today ..
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Amazingly funny movie. The audience where I saw this film laughed harder than any I have ever seen since. The social commentary is very insightful - and who knew Land Rovers could climb trees?
The follow-up, "The Gods Must Be Crazy II", ain't half bad. I loved the scene where the pilot gets tethered to a tree and must fly helplessly in a circle until he runs out of rope. It was very like watching Wile E. Coyote working inexorably toward catastrophic failure.
I recommend them both to any members who have never seen them.
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Just watched this for the first time. Hysterical!
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Quote from: Count_Zirock on October 27, 2013, 09:09:11 PM
Just watched this for the first time. Hysterical!
For me, everything that Family Guy's Seth MacFarlane does is hilarious. And to boot he's a tremendous singer of great old Amercian songs -- here's a clip from his concert...Seth MacFarlane - The Sadder But Wiser Girl (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gguARak1Ot4#ws)
Duck Soup
Murder He Says
I Married A Witch
Arsenic and Old Lace
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
Roman Scandals
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
National Lampoon's Vacation
Caddyshack
Blues Brothers
This is Spinal Tap
A Mighty Wind
Start the Revolution Without Me
What's Up Tiger Lilly
Bananas
Sleeper
Zelig
A&C Meet Frankenstein
Young Frankenstein
The Producers
History of the World Part One
Raising Arizona
A Christmas Story
Local Hero
Dr. Strangelove
The Party
No Time for Sergeants
Groundhog Day
The Austin Powers flicks and the OSS 117 movies
The Lost Skeleton movies!
My Ten Favorite Comedies (musical or otherwise)
1) Young Frankenstein
2) The Producers
3) Some Like it Hot
4) Topper Returns
5) Airplane!
6) A Shot in the Dark
7) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
8 ) Sleeper
9) Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
10) My Man Godfrey
Runners up: Singin' in the Rain, Topper, A Christmas Story, Annie Hall, Top Hat, Blazing Saddles, The Twelve Chairs
Shaun of the Dead and A&C Meet Frankenstein (the 2 best horror comedies, bar none).
Can't believe I've never seen sotd, one of those that has fallen thru the cracks I guess???
Quote from: jimm on October 30, 2013, 08:50:04 PM
Can't believe I've never seen sotd, one of those that has fallen thru the cracks I guess???
I envy you being able to watch it for the first time, it's a real treat.
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