Favorite Comedy Films

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Generally I don’t like comedy anymore, but when I still did I thought Zoolander was one of the most outrageously funny movies ever. Mars Attacks too.
 
Midnight Run with Robert DeNiro and Charles Grodin.
So underrated.

“Are you using the Litmus configuration?”
My husband and I used to say that line in front of our kids just to confuse them. Worked pretty well.
 
Great question!

I remember laughing hard through so many movies, but now I’ve gone blank recalling what they were.

A couple:

The Three Amigos
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Australia’s most loved movie of all time:

The Castle
 
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No mention of The Princess Bride yet?

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Another one worth mentioning is Galaxy Quest. Fun, affectionate parody of Star Trek.

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Ben Stein saying “Bueller” is the funniest part of that movie.
 
Going by some of the things that I just saw were flagged on this post, I guess I can’t talk about a certain Disney Pixar series, that stars a guy who’s surname before he became famous, the one he was born with, is a nickname for Richard. I guess I can’t talk about the guy that does the voice of the spaceman in that series because of that. Sad.
 
The Apple Dumpling Gang Three orphan children strike gold in 1878 California.

Director: Norman Tokar
Writers:Don Tait, Jack M. Bickham
Stars:Bill Bixby Susan Clark Don Knotts

The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again,No Deposit, No Return 1976
 
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Tis_Bearself said:
The Women (1939 original version ONLY - the remake is not even worth watching the trailer)
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Agree with this 100%! The 1939 version of The Women is generally an uproarious look at the follies of wealthy New York women of the time, and does a great job of laughing at them AND with them. It’s worth watching for Rosalind Russell and Joan Crawford alone.

As an aficionado of comedy films, I say with all due respect that the funniest film I have ever seen in my life is It’s A Gift, starring W.C. Fields. Every time I watch it, I practically choke to death from laughing so hard. I am not normally a Fields fan, but his persona in this film is quite different from his usual con artist. He plays Harold Bissonette, a henpecked general store proprietor with a Gorgon for a wife and two dreadful children, and the film is one set piece after another: Fields losing a battle for the bathroom mirror with his teenage daughter, Fields dealing with obstreperous customers in his store, Fields cowering before the Wagnerian demands of his wife, &c. By far the most hilarious and extended segment is one in which Fields tries in vain to get some sleep on his porch swing, bedeviled by shouting neighbors, noisy milkmen, a persistent salesman and the ever-present Mrs Bissonette (‘Ahem, that’s Bisso-nay’). Please try to view this film for yourselves and see if you agree with my high opinion of it. I can virtually guarantee there will be at least one scene that puts you into fits of uncontrollable laughter.
 
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Agree with this 100%! The 1939 version of The Women is generally an uproarious look at the follies of wealthy New York women of the time, and does a great job of laughing at them AND with them. It’s worth watching for Rosalind Russell and Joan Crawford alone.
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Rosalind pretty much steals the show. I heard she begged and pleaded to get in this movie and I’m glad she prevailed. Paulette Goddard is also great and I think nowadays a lot of people miss the fact that her character is definitely there to shake up the “old order” of things being both Jewish (the character is named “Miriam Aarons”) and an actress, two things that would have been considered a social faux pas then.

The final part from where Mary waves her “jungle red” claws up to the final scene when she goes to meet her husband is one of the best movie sequences I have ever seen.
 
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It’s not human mods, it’s RoboCop or whatever the name is. It has no control over its reflex actions.
 
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