The 100 greatest comedies of all time

BBC ^ | 22 August 2017 | no author listed

[Leaning Right]

BBC Culture polled 253 film critics from 52 countries to determine the funniest films ever made.

[oh8eleven]

Funneee ... right up there with PT&A.

[JPJones]

I don’t think I’ve seen that. Is that Steve Martin?

[Texas Eagle]

Just thinking of some of those scenes brings a smile to my face.

[hanamizu]

I watched “Arsenic and Old Lace” the other day.

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I really enjoy that movie. But it makes me think of the current state of “mental health”. Would today’s professionals encourage Teddy’s delusion that he is Teddy Roosevelt and insist that everyone address him as Mr President?

[llevrok]

I’d have to add another Billy Wilder film as Co-Number 1’s “The Seven Year Itch”

[left that other site]

They didn’t even mention the ORIGINAL “The Producers”, which is also one of my favorites.

I’m as OLD as #1, so I guess it still tickles me. :-)

[relee]

The Villain

[Ronald_Magnus]

Not listed was Lost in America with Albert Brooks, and I know Jim Carey is a POS, but Dumb and Dumber was pretty funny, imo.

[left that other site]

I LOVE that one! :-)

“Then he FORCED me to play “Chopsticks!”

[Leaning Right]

> The Villain <

Keep Hillary Clinton out of this, please.

[Flag_This]

"I liked Bat Guano and the Coke machine."

I thought George C. Scott was great in that movie. "Sure we wouldn't get off without getting our hair mussed, but we'd prevail. I don't think we'd lose more than fifty million people, tops."

[mkleesma]

Blazing Saddles???

Throw out your hands,
Stick out your tush,
Hands on your hips,
Give them a push,

You’ll be surprised, your doin’ the French Mistake.
Vio-la!

[RealVirginia]

Major Payne, Dumb and Dumber, Mars Attacks, Planes,Trains, and Automobiles

[xp38]

Comedy is a very subjective genre. Also a lot of it doesn’t translate very well into other languages and cultures. For that reason the silents had a broader and more universal appeal at their time than once sound came into existence. IMHO I would put The General at #1 or toss in the body of Keatons work during the 1920s. Chaplin a close second. After that one can debate the talkie era and beyond.

[LydiaLong]

What other movie exists that 10’s of millions of people have memorized?
“Blazing Saddles.” LOL.
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I love it when Cleavon Little takes himself hostage.

[xp38]

One Two Three is also great. I love machine gun dialog like it and His Girl Friday.

[freedom1st]

Blazing Saddles should be on that list.

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Agree

[Cicero]

Where are the Three Stooges?

[hardspunned]

No Mel Brooks until #20? That’s not right. Am I the only one who enjoyed the Dick VanDyke movie Cold Turkey?

[Aria]

No...it’s English with Andie McDowell and Hugh Grant. Mr Bean - Rowan Atkinson - has a scene in there that is so beyond funny...among the others.

I’m going to have to watch it again now. :-)