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Something nonpolitical for a Sunday. As always with lists like these, you're mileage may vary. Here's the top 10:

10. The General (Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton, 1926)
9. This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984)
8. Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
7. Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, 1980)
6. Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979)
5. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)
4. Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993)
3. Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
2. Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
1. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)

1 posted on 12/30/2018 7:54:33 AM PST by Leaning Right
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An interesting thing about “The General” is it was actually good history in addition to being a farce.


30 posted on 12/30/2018 8:14:28 AM PST by yarddog
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a6YdNmK77k


33 posted on 12/30/2018 8:14:56 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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Blazing Saddles.

Offends EVERYONE.


34 posted on 12/30/2018 8:15:14 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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Blazing Saddles should be on that list.


36 posted on 12/30/2018 8:16:08 AM PST by 4yearlurker ("There stands mother under the oleanders,open the windows." A dying cowboys last words,1879.)
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Coming To America (Eddie Murphy)
Bananas (Woody Allen)
Take The Money and Run (Woody Allen)
It’s a Gift (WC Fields)
City Slickers, 1 & 2 (Billy Crystal)


38 posted on 12/30/2018 8:16:49 AM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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History if the World Part 1?


41 posted on 12/30/2018 8:18:19 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!” 1978

Laurel & Hardy #1. “The Music Box” where they move a large piano down a long flight of steps.

Laurel & Hardy #2. “Hog Wild!” where Ollie’s wife demands that he install a radio antenna on top of their roof. Stan tries to help. The chimney is demolished.


42 posted on 12/30/2018 8:18:20 AM PST by lee martell (AT)
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All the Pink Panther series with Peter Sellers.

Evil Roy Slade-John Astin

Bananas-Woody Allen

Johnny Dangerously-Michael Keaton

Whats New Pussycat-Peter Sellers

Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines- Terry Thomas

Airplane!-Lloyd Bridges

Love and Death-Woody Allen

To name a few.


44 posted on 12/30/2018 8:18:42 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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Waiting for Guffman.


45 posted on 12/30/2018 8:18:52 AM PST by Mercat
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First time I saw this flick my sides ached for hours from laughing so hard.
50 posted on 12/30/2018 8:20:48 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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Groundhog day is funnier than Blazing Saddles?
One of my favorite funny flix is probably not
on the list. Am I the only one who remembers
“The Wrong Box”?


51 posted on 12/30/2018 8:20:59 AM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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This Is Spinal Tap? Cmon! Doesn't belong in the Top Ten or even Top 20.
52 posted on 12/30/2018 8:20:59 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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IMO, the only reason Tootsie (lame) and Some Like It Hot (not lame) are on the list today is due to the gender bending angle. Many on the list were just childish potty humor, not genuine comedy. Some I haven’t seen and will check out.


53 posted on 12/30/2018 8:21:01 AM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938)


58 posted on 12/30/2018 8:23:33 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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Idiocracy didn’t make the top 100?!


67 posted on 12/30/2018 8:26:58 AM PST by Flag_This (Liberals are locusts.)
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O Brother Where Art Thou is one of my top favorites!

Just for sheer laughs, Dumb and Dumber, Analyze This and School of Rock cracked me up. Wouldn't pay a dime to see any of those lefties who starred in them today, but at the time, very funny.

68 posted on 12/30/2018 8:27:03 AM PST by Albion Wilde ( "It's a disgrace what's happening in our country; other than that, a very merry Christmas!"--DJT)
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#1 is unequivocally “ Young Frankenstein “. “Blazing Saddles” and “The Producers “( the original from 68) are somewhere in the top 30.

I like most of your list. But some, meh. Aniie Hall? Really? Woody Allen was funnier before he got ‘sophisticated ‘.

I hate to give Meathead Reiner credit but I must. I do love Spinal Tap.

Groundhog Day is funny. Somewhere in the top 100. For BFM though, The original Ghostbusters is funnier and Caddy Shack even funnier “so I got that going for me…which is nice”.

“Some Like it Hot” was funny in 1959 when I first saw it”. It didn’t age well. I would put it somewhere in the top 60 or so.

“Life Of Brian” was great. But what of “MP and the Holy Grail”?


70 posted on 12/30/2018 8:28:27 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you .)
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How does The Big Lebowski possibly rate higher than Blazing Saddles??


71 posted on 12/30/2018 8:28:27 AM PST by Ciaphas Cain (FreeRepublic.com is the most-used app on my iPhone.)
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Comedy=funny=lots of laughs
C+F=L sqaured.


75 posted on 12/30/2018 8:29:45 AM PST by Leep (Leftist are neither liberal or democratic. Nor are they pro American.)
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Blazing Saddles, Cadyshack, Animal House and Waterboy.
77 posted on 12/30/2018 8:30:41 AM PST by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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