(Five) Best Comedy Movies Ever

ABC News ^ | March 22, 2011

[EveningStar]

5. Tootsie

4. Young Frankenstein

3. Some Like It Hot

2. Monty Python and The Holy Grail

1. Airplane!

[I still care]

It says something about your legacy, doesn’t it, when 80 years later, 50 years after you’ve passed, a group of such different people get together, to recreate one of your dances - and in such a spirit of joy.

[dfwgator]

Out To Sea was another funny Lemmon-Matthau movie, one of my favorite lines:

Where exactly did you go to college, Gordo?

Oh, that’s a little place called F.U.

[Finny]

It says something about your legacy, doesn’t it, when 80 years later, 50 years after you’ve passed, a group of such different people get together, to recreate one of your dances - and in such a spirit of joy.

Never thought of it that way -- but exactly!

[wyokostur]

Anyone remember Paint Your Wagon.

[6323cd]

5. Nothing Sacred (Carole Lombard and Frederic March)
4. Ninotchka (Garbo Laughs!)
3. What's Up, Doc (despite Streisand)
2. Animal Crackers (The Marx Brothers)
1. Monty Python and The Holy Grail ("I didn't know we had a king; I thought we were an autonomous collective."

HR: My Man Godfrey (Carole Lombard again)

Did I mention Carole Lombard?......

[Mr. K]

The Original “The Producers” with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder

It’s a mad mad mad mad world.

Ice Pirates

[Mr. K]

“I was born a poor black child”

[Mr. K]

I love the scene in The Money Pit where the bathtub falls through the floor and Tom Hanks starts this maniacal laugh that goes on for about 5 minutes

I swear he must have hurt himself on that scene..

[6323cd]

Remember Tex and Edna Boyle's Prairie Warehouse and Curio Emporium?

And Great White North.... my mom (who was Canadian) and I would end up having to hold each other up, we'd be laughing so hard at Bob and Doug....

[giotto]

Carl Reiner (in spite of his politics)

I can't think of an instance where Carl Reiner talked about politics. His son, Rob, on the other hand, never shuts up about politics. And, unlike his old man, Rob's not even funny. Just tiresome.

[GATOR NAVY]

I saw Brazil for the first time last week. Very interesting in its own way, but I don’t think I’d put it in the top 5 comedies. Blazing Saddles definitely needs to be on this list, but it’s waaaaaay too un-PC for ABC News.

[ResponseAbility]

A classic scene.

[rfreedom4u]

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken was awesome. Don Knotts was hysterical.

[Crcl1]

Where am I going to find a piece of metal? In space? At this hour?

[ROTB]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTIkdBXe8g0

Don’t forget ...

1) The boys downtown
2) The boys in Washington
3) The boys in Psychology

[cubreporter]

Yesssssssssssssss..... Buster Keaton. Thank you.

[cubreporter]

Oh, OK. Well, I guess we all see what we see in something and that’s how it is. I thought it was so funny ...but...thanks for your response. I appreciate it.

[Hoodat]

Waking Ned Devine was pretty darn funny. And what about Animal House?

[Hoodat]

I forgot about Hollywood Knights. That movie was hysterical!

Lawrence . . . Lawrence of Arabia . . . He's an English guy . . . came to fight the Turkish . . .

[Dr. Eckleburg]

“Enter Laughing” and “The Room.”