Patrick Bateman
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Fucking Woody Allen and a movie from 1933?
Coming to America, Trading Places and the Naked Gun-movies should've been up there.
Coming to America, Trading Places and the Naked Gun-movies should've been up there.
BBC asked 253 critics to determine the best comedies ever made. The results are...
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It's not completely awful or anything, but a LOT of the jokes in Spaceballs just aren't funny.
Vigilant Walrus
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Not a fan of the list, but Some Like It Hot, is really an excellent pick for number 1.
I saw it years ago, and was totally amazed by it. It was weird to see a film do cross dressing so much better than what you have today. Priscilla, Queen of the Desert might be the only film that comes to mind, that I like more, though that is about drag, not heteros in disguise.
Some like it Hot, really has an insane comedic timing. I had no idea it would be that good.
I saw it years ago, and was totally amazed by it. It was weird to see a film do cross dressing so much better than what you have today. Priscilla, Queen of the Desert might be the only film that comes to mind, that I like more, though that is about drag, not heteros in disguise.
Some like it Hot, really has an insane comedic timing. I had no idea it would be that good.
Bloodporne
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Where the FUCK is Naked Gun?
DUFFMCWALIN
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Turrible post. Airplane is amazing.
MetroidPrimeRib
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Spaceballs is good but it doesn't touch some of the other Mel Brooks stuff
It's on there.
A lot of the films mentioned in this thread that aren't on the top 100 list did receive votes.
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170821-the-100-greatest-comedies-of-all-time-who-voted
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170821-the-100-greatest-comedies-of-all-time-who-voted
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Spinal Tap in the top 10, so that's not too bad
Col WillieSharp
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I'm shocked that Life of Brian wasn't ranked #1, TBH. It's not my favorite, someone else already mentioned Road Trip, but I thought that there was a BBC mandate that Life of Brian had to be their number one.
FUCKING ROAD TRIP?!?!
How many of them AREN'T senior citizens?
Bloodporne
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If it's not in the top 10, it's not on there and this list can die in fire.
EDIT: Wait, get the fire extinguisher out, list redeemed by The Big Lebowski coming in at #11.
Conkerkid11
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For every one of these lists, we need a version that isn't strictly movies made 50+ years ago.
Much of this thread is like the reverse of that Principle Skinner image
"Am I out of touch with comedy from before the mid 1980s?"
"No, it's the elderly who are wrong!"
Go watch some of the comedies in the list you haven't watched yet, you might be surprised that they're actually pretty damn good. Whilst you may disagree with the list, or think it narrow-minded, facing said disagreement with narrow-mindedness of your own is just strange. It's as irritating as people turning their noses up at black and white or, worse, silent films because they're not modern enough.
"Am I out of touch with comedy from before the mid 1980s?"
"No, it's the elderly who are wrong!"
Go watch some of the comedies in the list you haven't watched yet, you might be surprised that they're actually pretty damn good. Whilst you may disagree with the list, or think it narrow-minded, facing said disagreement with narrow-mindedness of your own is just strange. It's as irritating as people turning their noses up at black and white or, worse, silent films because they're not modern enough.
yanipheonu
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I won't lie, I didn't like Airplane! that much. through comedy's always tricky, it's just so subjective.
Really need to watch Spinal Tap, been on the backlog for a while. Might be a good time to finally watch...
Really need to watch Spinal Tap, been on the backlog for a while. Might be a good time to finally watch...
Yeah I mean Coming to America, trading places, Beverly Hills cop. You gotta have 2/3 Eddie Murphy movies
I'm with you on that, for sure. But comedy is really subjective in as far as favorites. But to me- it's a marvel of screenwriting and performance.
badcrumble
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putting Keaton above Chaplin is a pretty bold move but The General is definitely his funniest (I'd say Gold Rush isn't Chaplin's best movie but it's his funniest)
agreed. I'm guessing most of the complaints in here are from people who as a rule don't watch anything earlier than like 5-10 years after they were born (which is a surprising number of people)
seriously, it is easily among his worst. I mean still funny and pretty good... but in a Brooks marathon I probably wouldn't even miss it if we ran out of time.
MetroidPrimeRib
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But seriously where is Kung Pow
Charles Alan Ratliff
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How is Tropic Thunder not on there
Don Draper's Hat
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This is Spinal Tap is so bad.
Bloodporne
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What about Weekend At Bernie's II????
Sgt. Kabukiman
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This.
We all have our nitpicks with the list of course but some of the posts in here are quite disappointing. Guys, people knew how to tell jokes in the 1930s. You should watch some of the films on that list, you might be surprised. Including something like Duck Soup is not being a snob or a pretentious movie critic. Hell, that entire movie is pretty fucking stupid. But it's a masterpiece of comedy.
Patrick Bateman
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Airplane! is one of the greatest movies ever made. It's stuffed with gags, puns and suggestive remarks. And it shits on the "comedy" of people like Will Ferrell etc.
Probably the holy trinity of Eddie Murphy-movies.
DasPenguin
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Nothing wrong with old movies like Blazing Saddles, for example. But Jim Carrey has zero movies on that list. Harry and Lloyd deserve better.
Alx
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It was an international panel of critics, and I don't think that Eddie Murphy movies are that appreciated outside of the US. Neither is typical American slapstick like Wayne's World or Dumb & Dumber.
Life of Brian is timeless
I've seen a number of them and this list is fucking crazy. For starters I wouldn't put Groundshog Day over Ghostbusters. Then you have asinine shit like Pulp Fiction over amazing comedies that didn't make it.
DasPenguin
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Lucky Seven
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Weird list. Some like it hot is funny but it isn't # 1. Strangelove was a comedy?
OK? This isn't a single person's opinion, it's a list made by literally hundreds of different people. Maybe those comedies got votes but not enough to make it, maybe more people think Pulp Fiction is both a comedy (it is in a lot of ways) and a good film than you think. It doesn't make this list "crazy" just because it doesn't line up with your own opinion and, admittedly, omits more recent films that haven't had the time to become 'classics.' Maybe in fifty years you can make your own list and have 20 years olds on the internet call your opinion crazy for not including Minions meets The Hangover: Part 2.
I don't even know if I would personally put it in there, and I love the movie. Personally it would probably be somewhere between 90-110.
MetroidPrimeRib
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Yeah, its political satire and a black comedy. Its also like 50 years old, and comedy has changed a lot - especially for a movie that was never meant to be laugh out loud funny.
Elegant Weapon
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They know they bullshitting with Pulp Fiction on that list. It's not a comedy.
How is Coming to America not on that list? Friday, too.
I was disappointed I didn't see Pee Wee's Big Adventure listed. Man that is a pure comedy.
How is Coming to America not on that list? Friday, too.
I was disappointed I didn't see Pee Wee's Big Adventure listed. Man that is a pure comedy.
Mutanthands
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Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles are way too low on that list.
Jag
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Every generation thinks their cultural influences are the best. (music, movies, etc)
I was an 80s kid, so my list is going to have Caddyshack, Naked Gun, Airplane, Vacation, etc. But I do like 60s/70s stuff like Animal House, Annie Hall and post 2000s like Borat, Step Brothers and Anchorman.
The funniest movie I've ever seen (Love and Death, on this list at #69) is from 1975. Hot take: This is a ridiculous viewpoint.
Hot take #2: People who only watch Hollywood blockbusters have no concept of how narrow their scope of films watched is.
everyday math
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^^^^this watch it so many times
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