50 Greatest Comedy Films

[SJ's Love Monkey]

Spinal Tap - never really rated this as that funny but each to their own

It goes to 11!!

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Spinal Tap - never really rated this as that funny but each to their own

Unbelievable comment! It deserves to be in the top ten on the basis of their camp Jack The Ripper song alone: "Saucy Jack you're a naughty one..."



let alone Lick My Love Pump, The Black Album, being billed below the puppet show, the manager's doubletake to the comment "money talks, bullshit walks", Stone Henge, the Thamesmen, the rider food, the amp going up to eleven, Arnie Fuffkin (sp) head of Polymer Records, the whole Yoko Ono thing, trying to find their way onto the stage, the cucumber...

 

[eastlondonseagull]

Was Top Secret in it?

And what the f*** was Shaun Of The Dead doing so high up? It's funny, but not that funny

 

[chez]

Carry on films are as funny as a dose of the clap.

Spot the person whose either foreign or has no sense of humour. "Carry On" represents everything that is great about British comedy.

 

[chez]

Was Top Secret in it?

And what the f*** was Shaun Of The Dead doing so high up? It's funny, but not that funny

Top Secret!! What a classic - havent seen it in years. Val Kilmer and Omar Shariff wasnt it?

Nick Rivers and Chocolate Mousse!!

 

[eastlondonseagull]

Top Secret!! What a classic - havent seen it in years. Val Kilmer and Omar Shariff wasnt it?

Nick Rivers and Chocolate Mousse!!

Chocolate Mousse!!! Hilarious film. Just looked at the Channel 4 site and it didn't make it in, no

http://www.channel4.com/film/newsfeatures/microsites/G/greatest-comedyfilms/results/50-46.html

 

[eastlondonseagull]

 

[Pevenseagull]

Like all these lists, they're ridiculously loaded in favour of recent films: how many films on the list are more than 20 years old? Seven? Eight? I can't be bothered to count but it's not many.

The trouble with such lists is that they're not made up by the general public but by people with access to the Internet and time to fill in such surveys.

A list that has only one Marx Brothers, no Chaplin, Keaton, Laurel and Hardy or WC Fields on it is a very strange list. And one that doesn't include Bringing up Baby (the film that I imagine would vie with Some Like it Hot for number one if the list was drawn up by film critics) is downright bizarre.

And what is the appeal of Austin Powers, a one-joke movie? And not a funny one at that.

NOW i LIKE THE mARX bROS, A LOT

but if you were put on the spot to put a flim on that would make people laugh would you really put on Chaplain (even if he is twiddling his cane and walking funny), or Laurel anr Hardy ( even if they are moving a piano with hilarious consequences) or Buster Keaton (even if he is oblivious to the barn gable end falling in a contrived manner around hium)

innovative as these may have been they are critics/ purosts darlings and horribly dated ( I note you didn't flag up Harold Lloyd, so you OBVIOUSLY know NOTHING)

and blah der de blah balah blah



Mayo


McGhee


Ghee


Bhuna Bhajee


chin chin


and



GOODNIGHT


PS


bringng up baby is not a patch on Some Like it Hot



and Zoolander is very f***ing funny


(but only if you are are someone who has come to terms with having to carry the burden of being really super good looking)


and I think 1066seagull is getting a rough time for know good reason


bless him and more power to his elbow, the dickweed that he is







I'm off to collapse in a corner


I'll check my spelling later

 

[Gwylan]

NOW i LIKE THE mARX bROS, A LOT

but if you were put on the spot to put a flim on that would make people laugh would you really put on Chaplain (even if he is twiddling his cane and walking funny), or Laurel anr Hardy ( even if they are moving a piano with hilarious consequences) or Buster Keaton (even if he is oblivious to the barn gable end falling in a contrived manner around hium)

innovative as these may have been they are critics/ purosts darlings and horribly dated ( I note you didn't flag up Harold Lloyd, so you OBVIOUSLY know NOTHING)

Personally speaking, I don't find Chaplin, Keaton or Lloyd funny but there are plenty of people who do. I was just pointing out that a list of the funniest films of all time is a bit disjointed if it concentrates on the last 20 years.

 

[NMH]

I'd concede that Chaplin looks mildly amusing nowadays, as with most of the silent stars.

The Marx Brothers though, are 'different gravy' (ahem). Sharp, smart, slapstick, sarcastic, and just daft - and they still rate.

Bringin up Baby though?? Cute, in its' own archive romantic way - but barely a comedy classic standing the test of time surely?