Classic comedy movie you really love...

[Rowdyboy]

Poll question: Classic comedy movie you really love...

[Chovexani]

1. Revenge of the Nerds

Movie cracks me the hell up. Probably because I would be a Mu. :P

[Rowdyboy]

3. Me too...Consider it added...

[Gothic Sponge]

2. Airplane

[Rowdyboy]

4. Of Course

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

5. The Jerk? Naked Gun? wes anderson and Mel Brooks' work? Chaplin? Keaton?

your list of classics is a tad incomplete, my friend

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

6. of your choices, i'd go with stripes

bill murray alone does it me for me

[Rowdyboy]

8. Any list of classics must be incomplete, of necessity, because we

are limited to 10 choices in a poll...The lounge is intended for lighthearted banter. I'll be happy to edit out several of my choices if you can make a case that a contemporary movie was more deserving. Seriously, I welcome your suggestions.

[Swamp Rat]

25. History of the World, Young Frankenstein, The Great Dictator, The Gold

Rush...

[kevinam]

7. This is Spinal Tap.

Watched it again, the other night. It is just hilarious. From the song lyrics, to the lines "our's go to eleven", "you really can't dust for vomit", "we have armadillos in our trousers", . This movie is such a classic, yet is seems to get forgotten...Kevin.

[Mojambo]

9. Second that! n/t

[Swamp Rat]

26. Hilarious!

I've watched it a dozen times and still love it.

[WoodrowFan]

10. these are classics?

"Arsenic and Old Lace"

oh, and ANIMAL HOUSE!

[Rowdyboy]

13. NOOOOOOO!!!!!!

"Arsenic and Old Lace" is a classic "classic", along with "Harvey", "Philapelphia Story", "Jezebel" etc...That's a totally superior category of film that isn't comparable to the ones in my poll.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

11. Too recent to be "classic"

How about the Marx Brothers in "Duck Soup" or "A Night at the Opera"?

Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn in "Bringing Up Baby" or "The Philadelphia Story"?

The Britcoms such as "The Wrong Box," "King Hearts and Coronets," and "The Knack"?

[kclown]

45. "Bringing Up Baby"

is flat-out the best comedy ever made.  You have to ration
your laughter or you'll miss the next joke.

[bobbieinok]

59. completely agree.........also French movie Mon Oncle

[SnohoDem]

12. Some Like it Hot

Now THAT's a classic.

"It could turn out to be a surprise party!"

Otherwise, Caddyshack.

[Rowdyboy]

14. I'd change the thread title if it wouldn't make many posts seem crazy

I really should have specified the cinematic era I was talking about. I was talking about CHEAP classics...

[DemWitch]

15. I voted Airplane...

But two real classics, that still crack me up to this day is The Long, Long Trailer and also It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World.

[Skarbrowe]

16. I had to put a different movie

even though I think that's a great list of funny movies. The one movie that I remember that was so funny I literally got sick from laughing was the original movie version of "The Producers" with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder. I was at a drive-in ( Oh so long ago ) with my, well a friend that was male, and I was doubled up with stomack cramps from laughing so hard for at least an hour and a half non-stop. I've laughed at a lot of funny movies since then, but none that came close to feeling like they were going to kill me. :)

[Jokinomx]

17. My Favorite... "The Spy Who Shagged Me"

I had tears in my eyes I laughed so hard....


:dem:

[GingerSnaps]

18. Easy Money

Stewardess School and all of the others on your list.

[VOX]

19. Animal House, 1941, Used Cars, Fast Times at Ridgemont High...

There was a run of really terrific comedies in the late 1970s-early 80s.

IMO, Hollywood movies haven't been nearly as funny since.

[Swamp Rat]

28. I just bought the DVD of 1941

It's even funnier than I remembered.

"Hollywooooood!!!"

[Bat Boy]

20. The In Laws

Not the crappy remake. The original, with Peter Falk and Allen Arkin.

I'll also throw my weight 100% behind Blazing Saddle.

[LearnedHand]

21. What's Up Doc?

(Contest over. I win.)

[Syrinx]

22. I like that one

I also like "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice." And "Foul Play" with Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase. And Arthur. And a bunch more. Late seventies, early eighties was a great time for funny movies.

[non sociopath skin]

23. None of these can hold a candle to the Marxes at their best

Take time out to watch A Night At The Opera, Duck Soup or Animal Crackers again.

The Skin

[Swamp Rat]

24. The Holy Grail, The Meaning of Life, The Life of Brian, The Black Adder

series, The Big Lebowski, The Party, Being There... so many more

[LWolf]

40. That's what I was thinking.

With no Monty Python to choose from, I chose Caddyshack. But I'd have to go with Holy Grail or Life of Brian as a first choice.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

27. Ferris Bueller's Day Off

[enigmatic]

29. "What's Up, Doc?" and "Stranger Than Paradise"

I always had wildly veering taste..

[Warren DeMontague]

30. Three Words. Savage Steve Holland. n/t

[Rhiannon12866]

31. "A Thousand Clowns" starring Jason Robards

I love this movie, best seen without commercials.:-)

[ghostsofgiants]

32. ...

Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blazing Saddles, The Big Lebowski (pretty recent but definitely a classic)...meh, I should know more but it's 6:47 AM, so my mind isn't exactly working at full capacity right now.

[Rhiannon12866]

36. Welcome to DU, primate1!

I am not a big fan of Mel Brooks, sorry to say, but I do really like Monty Python. Anyway, glad to have you with us.:-)

[ghostsofgiants]

43. ...

Thanks! I didn't used to be much of a Mel Brooks fan, but recently I've watched a few of his flicks and thought they were great. Blazing Saddles had me in tears at points.

[Rhiannon12866]

56. Maybe I should give him a second look

I saw "Blazing Saddles" at the theater with three friends, when I was a kid, and they said that I spoiled the movie for them because I didn't laugh. I never saw anything of his, since.

Anyway, I am very glad to have you with us. This has been a tough week for all of us and we sure could use some humor! Welcome!:toast:

[auburngrad82]

33. Where's A Day At The Races- Marx Brothers?

I thought you said classic comedies.

[terrya]

34. "Airplane" and "Top Secret!"

Two inspired, laugh out loud movies from the Zucker brothers and Jim Abrahams.

[GreenPartyVoter]

35. Everything by Monty Python, Mel Brooks, Rowen Atkinson

[Swamp Rat]

37. And Peter Sellers

How can we ever forget "Dr. Strangelove?"

[5thGenDemocrat]

38. Oh, yeah -- "Airplane"...one of the most cheerfully stupid movies ever

"We have to get this man to a hospital."
"A hospital? What is it?"
"It's a big building with lots of patients -- but that's not important now."
John
Also: "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" and "Some Like it Hot."

[Tikki]

39. "What About Bob?".....

....Dr.Marvin.

[Gracie43]

41. I love ....

This Is Spinal Tap, Airplane!, Some Like It Hot, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Office Space, The Lady Eve, It Happened One Night, A Christmas Story.

[Gracie43]

44. And Animal House

[Zorro]

42. International House

Classic W.C Fields. An absolutely wacky film (Fields arrives by crashing his autogyro through the roof of the International House Hotel in Shanghai), where delegates from around the world are present to see the unveiling of a new television-like technology.

[Mara Steele]

46. Road to Zanzibar

[redqueen]

47. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

"$#!**er's full!"

[FunBobbyMucha]

48. "That's the fact, jack!"

"We're not homosexual, but we're willing to learn..."

I'd also have to nominate "One Crazy Summer," which is hardly a classic but nonetheless always makes me laugh. "Were you that little fat boy, Egg?" "NO! But I used to beat him up all the time, Arg, arg, why are you so fat?!"

[Kid_A]

49. Who ya gonna call?

[KoKo]

50. "Foul Play" and anything with Goldie Hawn. Pink Panthers, too. Sellers...

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

60. I love "Foul Play"

One of my favorites!

[chelsea0011]

51. "Any you homos touch my stuff. I'll killya".

[gpandas]

52. it's a mad,mad,mad,mad world

a true classic, imho

[TheCentepedeShoes]

53. A Shot in the Dark

and The Producers.

[HughBeaumont]

54. Moving Violations

"I . . . Hate . . . Your . . . aaaaaaaaaasss."

James Keach rules as Hank Hallik, evil patrolman.

[Jokerman]

55. Thanks for making me feel old.

My first thought was of movies like "The General" "His Girl Friday" and other "classics". Then I open this thread and see a bunch of movies that were released after I graduated from high school.

[Solar]

57. Going with 'Airplane!' here n/t

[JSJ]

58. "what's new pussycat" n/t