What is your favorite comedy film?

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I have several favorites, but one of them is certainly “The Out-of-Towners,” not the remake but the original 1970 movie, starring Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis. It depicts the hassles of living in New York City in the late 1960’s to perfection. One of the few good things about New York at that time was that apartment rents had not yet skyrocketed.

How about your favorite comedy? It need not be an officially “great” film, just one that makes you smile or laugh and gives you pleasure.
 
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World. When Jimmy Durante kicked the bucket in the first scene, you knew it was going to be good. :rotfl:
 
Catholic1954 said:
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World. When Jimmy Durante kicked the bucket in the first scene, you knew it was going to be good. :rotfl:
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I agree: Durante literally kicked the bucket, as I recall. Was there any comedian who was NOT in that hilarious film? And also including the likes of Spencer Tracy and Ethel Merman.
 
Trains, planes and automobiles and for some reason I’ve always liked House-sitter with Goldlie Hawn
 
All my favorite films are comedies, or just about all of them. If I had to pick just one it would be The Sting. And if had to pick the single most effective comic scene in that picture, it would be the ten minutes or so of the poker game on the train, in which Paul Newman, stinking of gin and acting like a drunken slob, winds up Robert Shaw until he’s so furious he’ll do anything to get his revenge.
 
Stripes.

I’m not a military person in any way, but those two screwballs in Basic are just hilarious.

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Off the top of my head it would be between Pillow Talk, There’s Something About Mary, The Long, Long Trailer. As I think about this I might be able to come up with a few more.
Not sure I have a number 1 favorite. Planes, Trains and Automobiles was pretty good. I really miss John Candy. 😦
 
Best in Show.

Hands down. I think I have it memorized.
Followed closely by Coneheads , O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Love and Death
 
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Best in Show.

Hands down. I think I have it memorized.
Followed closely by Coneheads , O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Love and Death
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I completely forgot about Woody Allen comedies, maybe because I consider them in a class of their own. In addition to “Love and Death,” the early ones such as “Take the Money and Run,” “Bananas,” and “Sleeper” are all wonderful.

One of my father’s favorite comedies was the British film “The Wrong Box.” I recently saw it but didn’t find it that good, surprisingly, since I usually appreciate British humor.
 
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