Best comedy?

[Gob]

THE TOP TEN COMEDIES IN THE TIME OUT LIST ARE:

1. This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

2. Airplane! (1980)

3. Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)

4. Annie Hall (1977)

5. Monty Python And The Holy Grail (1975)

6. Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy (2004)

7. Withnail And I (1987)

8. Groundhog Day (1993)

9. Some Like It Hot (1959)

10. The Jerk (1979)



Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/mov ... z1XzcYHOXE

Out of the options given, your choice?

[BoSoxGal]

Hard to beat Monty Python!

[Sue U]

What, no Mel Brooks?

And why isn't Dr. Strangelove on the list?

ETA:

My Top 10, in no particular order:

1. Dr. Stragelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2. Blazing Saddles
3. This Is Spinal Tap
4. Young Frankenstein
5. The Producers (original version)
6. A Night at the Opera and/or A Day at the Races and/or Duck Soup and/or Animal Crackers
7. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
8. What's Up Tiger Lily and/or Bananas and/or Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask
9. The In-Laws (original version)
10. The Graduate
11. The Twelve Chairs
12. The Great Dictator
13. It Happened One Night
14. Arsenic and Old Lace
15. Harold and Maude
16. Being There

[BoSoxGal]

No History of the World Part I?

[Scooter]

My Top 10, in no particular order:

1. Dr. Stragelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2. Blazing Saddles
3. This Is Spinal Tap
4. Young Frankenstein
5. The Producers (original version)
6. A Night at the Opera and/or A Day at the Races and/or Duck Soup and/or Animal Crackers
7. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
8. What's Up Tiger Lily and/or Bananas and/or Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask
9. The In-Laws (original version)
10. The Graduate
11. The Twelve Chairs
12. The Great Dictator
13. It Happened One Night
14. Arsenic and Old Lace
15. Harold and Maude
16. Being There

Are you counting in hexadecimal, or what?

[Sue U]

Are you counting in hexadecimal, or what?

So I got 21 movies in my Top 10. Sue me. If I had any facility with numbers, I would have been an accountant.

(BTW, I also have about 30 or 40 songs that are my "all-time favorite song.")

No History of the World Part I?

I was already heavy on Mel Brooks, and while it's funny, I frankly don't think it's among his best works.

[Sean]

From the options given This is Spinal Tap edges it over Life of Brian.

Where the hell is The Party?

[kristina]

The Party was a 1968 Blake Edwards film starring Peter Sellers. I haven't seen it in years and only remember it a little, but thought it was pretty funny!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063415/

[Long Run]

That is a good list, but contains only "smart" comedies. What if you just want a riot fest? If you are looking for a no-brainer two hours of plenty of laughs, don't you have to go with a list that might include:

Old School
Animal House
Naked Gun
Airplane
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Ferris Buehler
Napoleon Dynamite
Waynes World
Austin Powers
Its a Mad .. World

Others I'd put in the "smart" category:

Little Miss Sunshine
Shaun of the Dead

[Scooter]

Victor Victoria and La Cage aux Folles. Great comedies with thoughtful lessons about what it means to be a man.

As for mindless laugh fests - Dude, Where's My Car?

[Gob]

Hellzapoppin anyone?

[Gob]

I find it hard to believe that the original "Pink Panther" movies are not up there

[Long Run]

I find it hard to believe that the original "Pink Panther" movies are not up there

I thought about them, but don't find them that funny, even noting their originality and Sellers' mastery. I think those movies created a premise that had not been popularized before -- clueless klutz dumbs his way to success. For whatever reason, those movies don't make me want to watch.