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I've wanted to do another film list thing having finally recovered from doing the top 10 of every year for lots of decades a few years back.

 

I'm contemplating starting an all time film list or top 20 by whole decade lists, but first let us go with comedies.  What are the funniest/best comedy films of all time?

 

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Must be a feature film (I won't stick to released at cinema as I'm sure there are a couple of decent comedies that were streaming only (an Andy Samberg time loop comedy SPRINGS to mind) so no stand up specials or Office Christmas special or three episodes of Blackadder tied together)

 

What classes as a comedy is obviously very subjective so nothing will be dismissed, unless you have something like Schindler's List in there. Ideally for films that are not an out and out comedy then lean towards films that are comedy first and another genre second, so using superhero films as an example - Ragnarok or Deadpool or the second Suicide Squad are comedy superhero films rather than superhero films with some comedy in it - so Endgame has some funny quips and fat Thor, but isn't a comedy.  Same for action (Die Hard - no? - Last Boy Scout - yes?), horror, animation, etc.  And, again nothing disqualified, but preferably don't go for films that aren't comedy, but are funny because they are total shit. 

 

Use the title from IMDB if you can and put the year if there is any title that might have a film of the same name.

 

Scoring will be 20 points for 1st place and 1 point for 20th place with any ties for total points decided on number of first places picks and so on.

 

Deadline is Sunday 9th October at the moment, but may be extended if everyone is still too sad about the Queen to put a list in.

 

 

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42 minutes ago, Made of Ghosts said:

I’m putting a list together but it’s surprisingly hard to decide what’s a comedy and what isn’t. Are we including animation, for example?

 

Yes - I think animation should be in there.  Not that this is a great example of an all time animated comedy or anything, but I watched League of Super Pets yesterday and found it very funny and probably more laughs than a lot of things I've seen this year.

 

Various magazine/web site top comedy lists have got South Park Movie, Team America, Monsters Inc as examples somewhere in their lists.

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I'm thinking of arranging my list based on how much I laughed at the jokes on first viewing. However that means that my list will probably be biased toward gag-a-minute stuff (Monty Python, The Naked Gun, etc) rather than films that are definitely comedies, but not so focused on one-liners (e.g. Groundhog Day, The Truman Show, Back to the Future, Being John Malkovich). With the latter films, the comedy is secondary to the high concept.

 

2 hours ago, Fitzcarraldo said:

Tried and gave up because comedy's so subjective and while I think No Country For Old Men, for instance, is funnier than most comedies, I wouldn't exactly put it in a list. But then, if it makes me laugh, maybe it is a comedy? I'll try again later.

 

The Coen Brothers are a good example of what I'm talking about. Fargo and Barton Fink are my two favourite films of theirs, and they have a lot of black comedy elements - but things like Burn After Reading, Hail Caesar and O Brother Where Art Thou probably have more individual jokes that are memorable, even though overall they're weaker films. So which films fit best on a list of best/favourite comedies?

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 I have a few that might be debateable as comedies but they are legit Dark/Black Comedies. No question. This is my work in progress...

 

20. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut 

19. Airplane!

18. The Naked Gun

17. Swingers

16. Zoolander

15. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy 

14. O Brother Where art Thou

13. White Men Can't Jump

12. There's Something About Mary

11. Coming to America

10. What we do in the Shadows

9. Office Space

8. Happy Gilmore 

7. Kingpin

6. The Grand Budapest Hotel

5. Old School

4. In Bruges

3. American Psycho

2. Dumb and Dumber

1. Fargo

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I’m glad it’s got an early mention as I watched There’s Something About Mary again a few weeks ago and I still completely buckle at the opening set piece. There’s probably funnier films I’m sure but I don’t think there’s a more relentlessly hilarious section than that. From the second he arrives at the house until he leaves in the ambulance it just gets better and better. The Farrelly Brothers had such a run around that time.

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Just now, Art Vandelay said:

I’m glad it’s got an early mention as I watched There’s Something About Mary again a few weeks ago and I still completely buckle at the opening set piece. There’s probably funnier films I’m sure but I don’t think there’s a more relentlessly hilarious section than that. From the second he arrives at the house until he leaves in the ambulance it just gets better and better. The Farrelly Brothers had such a run around that time.


I need to rewatch it before I finalise my list as I haven’t seen if for a long, long time, but when it came out me and my mates went to the cinema 3 or 4 times then battered a pretty decent pirate VHS we got from a comic con.

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20 - The Death of Stalin

19 - Team America: World Police

18 - Beetlejuice

17 - The Hangover

16 - Hot Fuzz

15 - The Blues Brothers

14 - Home Alone

13 - In Bruges

12 - The Princess Bride (Questionable as a comedy but it bloody well makes me laugh).

11 - This Is Spinal Tap

10 - Shaun of the Dead

9 - Groundhog Day

8 - Gremlins

7 - Galaxy Quest

6 - Airplane

5 - Monty Python and the Holy Grail

4 - Blazing Saddles

3 - Monty Pythons: The Life of Brian

2 - Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy

1 - Ghostbusters

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In no order yet.

 

1. This is Spinal Tap

2. Blazing Saddles

3. Anchorman

4. Zoolander

5. Airplane!

6. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

7. The Naked Gun

8. High Anxiety 

9. Trading Places 

10. Top Secret 

11. Planes, Trains and Automobiles

12. Annie Hall

13. The Big Lebowski 

14. Fargo 

15. The Princess Bride 

16. Clerks 

17. Galaxy Quest 

18. Clue

19. Murder By Death 

20. Hot Fuzz

21. Beverly Hills Cop 

22. Team America World Police

 

In order. 20 to 1.

20. Annie Hall

19. Clue

18. Team America World Police

17. Clerks

16. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

15. High Anxiety 

14. Planes, Trains and Automobiles

13. Murder By Death 

12. Galaxy Quest

11. The Princess Bride 

10. Fargo

9. The Big Lebowski

8. Trading Places

7. Top Secret

6. Zoolander

5. The Naked Gun

4. Airplane!

3. Anchorman

2. Blazing Saddles

1. This is Spinal Tap

 

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20. Airplane
19. This is Spinal Tap
18. Mindhorn
17. Three Lions
16. Hot Fuzz
15. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
14. Legally Blonde
13. The Squid and the Whale

12. Pride 

11. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

10. Mean Girls

9. Galaxy Quest

8. Mary Poppins

7. Monsters Inc

6. Paddington

5. Everything Everywhere All at Once

4. Booksmart
3. Toy Story 2

2. Inside Out

1. The Full Monty

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Rough 20 unordered.

 

1. Withnail and I

2. Planes Trains Automobiles

3. The Big Lebowski

4. Trading Places

5. The Naked Gun

6. Groundhog Day

7. Blazing Saddles

8. Dr. Strangelove

9. Spinal Tap

10. Rushmore

11. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

12. The Music Box

13. Three Amigos

14. The Graduate

15. The Odd Couple

16. The Blues Brothers

17. Fletch

18. Stir Crazy

19. The Producers

20. Paddington 2

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No order 

 

Trading places

See no evil, hear no evil

Coming to America

Holy Grail

Life of Brian

Top Secret

Airplane

Naked Gun

Fletch

Ghostbusters

Groundhog Day

National Lampoons Vacation

The jerk

The man with 2 brains

Blazing saddles

Fish called wanda

Shaun of the dead

Plane trains and automobiles 

Ferris Buellers day off

Walter Mitty (original)

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Random order, no huge surprises and I’ve flip flopped on Blues Brothers as I think it’s probably a musical. 
 

  1. The Naked Gun
  2. Dumb and Dumber
  3. Airplane
  4. Spinal Tap
  5. There’s Something About Mary
  6. Office Space
  7. Best in Show
  8. Trading Places
  9. Kingpin
  10. The Producers
  11. Blazing Saddles
  12. Swingers
  13. Jackass 2
  14. Planes, Trains and Automobiles 
  15. The Man With Two Brains
  16. The Three Amigos
  17. Superbad
  18. Hot Rod
  19. The Inbetweeners Movie
  20. A Fish Called Wanda
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  1. Singing in the Rain
  2. Planes Trains & Automobiles
  3. Some Like it Hot
  4. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
  5. One Cut of the Dead
  6. The General
  7. Withnail & I
  8. Fargo
  9. Groundhog Day
  10. My Neighbors the Yamadas
  11. Blazing Saddles
  12. Midnight Run
  13. Kung Fu Hustle
  14. Life of Brian
  15. Evil Dead 2
  16. Dr Strangelove
  17. The Wrong Trousers
  18. South Park the Movie
  19. What We Do in the Shadows
  20. Dolemite Is My Name

There's a quick and dirty list. Not really in order.

 

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Off the top of my head, though the order is fairly arbitrary after the first few.

 

1. Withnail & I

2. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

3. Ed Wood

4. In Bruges

5. The Big Lebowski

6. Evil Dead 2

7. Ghostbusters

8. Beetlejuice

9. Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

10. Rushmore

11. The Grand Budapest Hotel

12. Scrooged

13. Vampire's Kiss

14. Clerks

15. Grosse Pointe Blank

16. Shadow of the Vampire

17. Muriel's Wedding

18. Being John Malkovich

19. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

20. Inglourious Basterds

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