Favorite Comedy Films

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Moonstruck is a comedy. A romantic comedy I guess.

Danny Aiello and Nicholas cage are about 30 years apart, so that was interesting casting them as brothers.
 
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City Slickers was good too.
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There’s a line in that movie that stuck with me for years—Jack Palance’s character Makes a remark about how the businessmen tie themselves up in knots and stress themselves out all year and think they can undo all that in one week of vacation…
 
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The_Old_Maid:
City Slickers was good too.
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There’s a line in that movie that stuck with me for years—Jack Palance’s character Makes a remark about how the businessmen tie themselves up in knots and stress themselves out all year and think they can undo all that in one week of vacation…
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There’s a line that always stuck with me too:

Value this time in your life kids, because this is the time in your life when you still have your choices, and it goes by so quickly. When you’re a teenager you think you can do anything, and you do. Your twenties are a blur. Your thirties, you raise your family, you make a little money and you think to yourself, “What happened to my twenties?” Your forties, you grow a little pot belly you grow another chin. The music starts to get too loud and one of your old girlfriends from high school becomes a grandmother. Your fifties you have a minor surgery. You’ll call it a procedure, but it’s a surgery. Your sixties you have a major surgery, the music is still loud but it doesn’t matter because you can’t hear it anyway. Seventies, you and the wife retire to Fort Lauderdale, you start eating dinner at two, lunch around ten, breakfast the night before. And you spend most of your time wandering around malls looking for the ultimate in soft yogurt and muttering “how come the kids don’t call?” By your eighties, you’ve had a major stroke, and you end up babbling to some Jamaican nurse who your wife can’t stand but who you call mama. Any questions?

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F_Marturana said:
Moonstruck is a comedy. A romantic comedy I guess.

Danny Aiello and Nicholas cage are about 30 years apart, so that was interesting casting them as brothers.
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Did I ever mention this here before? Can’t remember. Years ago, in the early eighties, I lived on Henry Street, in Brooklyn, a block away from the real-life Cammareri Brothers bakery, the one used as a set for Moonstruck, and which gave its name to the two brothers in the movie.

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It was really, really good. Amazing bread, fresh every day. A couple of times a day, actually.

Sadly, it’s gone now.

However, this place (below) is still there. As a tribute, my grandmother (from Sicily) was a baker when she got to the US. In her later years, after she was retired, I’d go visit her and bring her pinoli. This was the only place that met her standards. High praise indeed.

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For the most part, I don’t like comedies. So I think that those I make an exception for must be pretty worthy of being put on a list.

I always liked How To Steal a Million, starring Audrey Hepburn and Peter O’Toole. A nice romantic comedy.

And for just plain goofy, I have to go with A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum. Great bunch of comedians all in one place–you don’t see that too often.
 
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Forrest Gump is my favorite. I also really love the Toy Story films, especially the first two, and Finding Nemo. Is Ratatouille considered a comedy? That’s actually my favorite Pixar film, but I found it more charming than hilarious.

In general, comedy is a genre I sort of moved away from in movies as I got older. I still love comedy TV shows, but I don’t watch a whole lot of movies anymore that are very clearly comedies.
 
Wow.

I remember when I was younger there were a number of bakeries in my neighborhood that looked similar to the one that had the pinoli cookies.

There aren’t as many left in my mom’s old neighborhood.

There was a bakery that had these delicious cookies that were hazelnut and chocolate clusters. Very crispy and not overly sweet. My godmother knew I like them and would bring them to me when I was expecting my daughter. Sicilian pregnant ladies aren’t supposed to ignore their cravings, according to my godmother and my mom.

That would make a good comedy film. Both my mom and godmother were really good cooks and bakers. Their recipes differed slightly, and each thought their own was the better recipe.

I miss them both so much.
 
Pillow Talk was funny and Man’s Favorite Sport - both with Rock Hudson.
 
Airplane!
The Out of Towners
Dr. Strangelove
Almost any Woody Allen movie, especially Annie Hall
Some Like it Hot (incidently, banned as indecent by the Vatican when it came out)
Blazing Saddles
Some of the Eric Idle/British comedy movies like Yellowbeard
The Long, Long, Long Trailer
Anything by or with Mel Brooks!
 
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