Your favorite comedy?

The one that you've watched several times ad still find funny. Mine is definitely "This Is Spinal Tap."

Second place would probably be Office Space.

lebowski i mean

although office space is gd

but that's just like my opinion man

then again we agree about The Wire too so no surprise there. heh. i mean, you know, that rug just really tied the room together man. ;)

I am partial to Being There, that damn Chauncy Gardner, and Blazing Saddles. Little Miss Sunshine also cracks me up. My kids have made me watch the Hangover lots, and I still laugh my ass off when the guy jumps out of the trunk.

MK

Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau were perfect in that movie.

The Princess Bride. :)

Although The Out of Towners (same two) is up there.

Out-of-Towners with Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis? Hysterical.
I haven't seen the remake - maybe I'll Netflix it soon.:)

It's still funny.

Igor: Could be worse.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: How?
Igor: Could be raining.


:rofl:

Why thank you doctor

:rofl:

Oh, you men are all alike. Seven or eight quick ones and then you're out with the boys to boast and brag. YOU BETTER KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT! Oh. I think I love him.

:spray:

:rofl:

Just testing.

8^)

Whether I am in a good mood or sad mood or whatever....It's always
time for Fawlty Towers.


Tikki

Dogma or Shaun of the Dead?

My Favorite Year
Young Frankenstein
Airplane!
The Producers
Animal House
The Big Lebowski
Bull Durham
A Christmas Story
Cold Comfort Farm
Galaxy Quest
Ghost Busters
Office Space
The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert
Raising Arizona
Some Like It Hot

The list isn't great; the movies are. Got me through the bad times.

Followed very closely by young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles :D

So I too love that movie, and it still makes me chuckle here and there. From the homicidal jilted would-be bride to the SWAT team at the county building, it's an iconic film for Chicagoans.

Hard to go wrong with Mel Brooks. One director:

The Producers
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Silent Movie
History of the World, Part I
Spaceballs
Men in Tights
and of course more.

That's a lot of laughter, right there.

Jane Lynch - omg - "I gotta get my Slurpee on...". And the thing she did with that hot dog...:rofl:

Spinal Tap
Airplane
The Big ol Lebowski

For TV...
Red Dwarf
Young Ones
Trailer Park Boys
South Park

I can watch that over and over.

I've got you, babe ....

If you've never seen it and are in the mood for a laugh, check it out.

:rofl:

And then a few of the Peter Sellers Pink Panthers have some hilarious scenes....

Spinal Tap
Office Space
I Love Lucy

followed by Kubrick's DR. STRANGELOVE.

Great question.

A late 40s movie called 'Murder He Says' with Fred McMurray.
Early Bob Hope stuff.
Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum.
And Stooges shorts.

is on the list, as is This is Spinal Tap, I watch it now with the commentary on.

Certainly Dr. Strangelove.

Young Frankenstein
Animal Crackers
Duck Soup
Ghostbusters
His Girl Friday
Local Hero
and others

But Young Frankenstein has more memorable one-liners.

Terry Southern was more political.

Perhaps "one liners" are more prevalent in "Blazing Saddles", but for sheer non-stop humor and memorably twisted lines, "Dr. Strangelove" is the bee's knees.

Mr. President, we must not allow a mine shaft gap.

You're not gonna try any of your preversions in there, are you?

Second-favorite movie, and about as "perfect" a picture as has ever been made, with everything working in concert to a glorious end.

Young Frankenstein is right there though.

Even though it was a tiny budgeted TV movie, this little gem is what Brooks says got him on the track to making Blazing Saddles. (I LOVE Blazing Saddles, by the way...)

Still, I'm a big John Astin fan, and he chews up every flat and bit of set decoration as the meanest gunfighter in the old west. As if that isn't enough, it's got the incomparable Dick Shawn as Sheriff Bing Bell, the singing sheriff on his tail, Micky Rooney as the evil Railroad Man, Henry Gibson as his minion, Milton Berle as a lily-livered family member of his girlfriend, and some truly hysterical moments.

When the psychiatrist (Dom DeLouise) tries to get Roy to walk without his guns, it's one of the funniest send-ups of gun-nuts ever exposed on film.

It's available, and I guarantee it.

"Hey boss, someone's comin'!"
"Kill him!"
"It's a woman!"
"Wound her!"

Jerry Paris directed this romp, with a script by Jerry Belson and Garry Marshall.

With an honorable mention to Spinal Tap.

Blazing Saddles.

We're badly in need of a new updated series of that.

OMG, I can't believe I forgot that one!! :thumbsup:

Love those two movies...

Arsenic and Old Lace
Bringing Up Baby
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Death at a Funeral (the original) - I laughed so hard, I really feared I would pee.

B-)

One of the all-time funniest movie scenes. Teri Garr is brilliant.

I even corrupted my 6 YO recently with it--only select parts of course (the killer bunny rabbit and the cow flinging--NOT the spanking scene!) ;) He loved it, BTW.

I've seen this more times than almost any film (except Kubrick's) and still find it as funny as the first time.

Comedy gold.

http://www.hbo.com/comedy/wanda-sykes-ima-be-me/index.html

Some of the most identifiable characters ever, imho.

Get Shorty/Be Cool I'll also watch any time they come on. My Cousin Vinny.

So funny it was banned in Norway

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364751/

Without a doubt the most hysterically funny movie I've ever watched.

my favorite is 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World' :)

It really holds up pretty well, especially the "wake up" scene in The Sculptured House in the Denver foothills where Miles is informed that the really healthy stuff is steak and deep fat. I love the description of Nixon and the political jokes, and slap stick cloning of the leader. Even "The Aires Project" is the real current name of the space program LOL

With Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. My age is showing, I know.

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...isn't mentioned more often -- I think it's by FAR the funniest movie
ever made.
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I'd also say "Arsenic and Old Lace".
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That's not necessarily showing anyone's age -- just an ageless appreciation
of comedy.
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One of my favorite genres of music is 1930's blues. To have LIVED through
that era as an adult would make me about 40 years older than I am. Once,
after finding a CD of this music at the local library, I stopped in my bank
(I was about 30 or so at the time and would have had to be about 70 to have
lived through the era) . I placed the CD on the counter and the teen-something
teller looked at it. I told her it was 1930's blues and it was my favorite music.
She looked at me with all her teenhoodnessosity and said, "GEE... you don't
LOOK that old!!" I just grumbled and told her to just gimme my damn money.
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:rofl:
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Don't know if this is only an urban legend, but it seems a teenager was asked about Lenin, and the kid said "Oh yeah, I know. The Beatles!".

And many years ago, my stepdaughter asked if radio had already been invented when I was a little girl. I said sure, I turned it on each morning before going into the barn-cave to saddle my dinosaur to ride to school. Her eyes lit up, there was this big, delighted smile and she said "You had a dinosaur of your own?". Argh.

and says "I'm a man!" and Osgood, cool as a cucumber, answers "Nobody's perfect".

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...and I remember hearing a DJ in the Philadelphia area talk about
overhearing some tweenagers in a record store in the early 90's
checking out a Wings album and one said, "You mean Paul McCartney
was in a band BEFORE Wings?"
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How could I have forgotten Young Frankenstein? That was funny as hell, too.

What I really enjoy are American comedies from the 1940s. There is one with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant "Bringing up Baby", which is one of my all-time favorites. Love Katharine Hepburn anyway.

they always make me laugh.

film: the blues brothers "we play both kinds of music, country AND western..."

tv: chef! "...I have adorned myself with the culinary condom."

animation: lilo and stitch (the film) "oh god, my dog found the chainsaw!"

The Scarlet Pumpernickel: "Funny. That never happens to Errol Flynn."

Duck Dodgers in the 24th and A Half Century: "Had the silly thing in reverse."

Robin Hood Daffy: "Yikes and Away! (Crash). Yikes and Away! (Bang). yikesandawa..." (Boom)

Anything Wile E Coyote and Road Runner (Earthquake pills and malicious catapult)

I laugh just as hard every time I pull out that DVD. "Blazing Saddles" and "Young Frankenstein" are great choices, but I'm not sure the younger generation would get them.

Young Frankenstein, Airplane, The Jerk, Blazing Saddles

I have a very simple mind... ;)

and just about anything by Preston Sturges.

Politically-minded people who haven't seen "The Great McGinty", "Hail the Conquering Hero" and "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" should do themselves a favor.

Greatest American Screenwriter, bar none.