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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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To: Leaning Right

I’ll throw in Caddyshack and Animal House. Napoleon Dynamite.


2 posted on 12/30/2018 7:56:35 AM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: Leaning Right

I agree with #1.


3 posted on 12/30/2018 7:57:21 AM PST by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: Leaning Right

Wow, life of Brian but NOT Holy Grail?


4 posted on 12/30/2018 7:57:40 AM PST by JPJones (More tariffs, less income tax.)
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To: Leaning Right

The Apartment #27, was a good movie but it was not comedy.


5 posted on 12/30/2018 7:57:42 AM PST by AU72
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To: Leaning Right

Of those ten, the only two I haven’t seen are The General and Playtime. The only one of those I would consider worthy of the top 10 is Some Like it Hot.

I would include Caddyshack, Animal House and others that don’t immediately come to mind.


7 posted on 12/30/2018 7:58:58 AM PST by be-baw (still seeking...)
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You couldn’t make 80% of those films today without getting run out of town by Communists.


8 posted on 12/30/2018 7:59:10 AM PST by thoughtomator (Nobody is coming to save the day)
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To: Leaning Right

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

It’s inn the top 100.

Hysterical movie.

“This is developing into a very bad habit!!” :)


9 posted on 12/30/2018 7:59:22 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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A Shot In The Dark with Peter Sellers and Elke Sommers should’ve been in the Top 5.


11 posted on 12/30/2018 8:00:45 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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ping


13 posted on 12/30/2018 8:01:46 AM PST by EveningStar (I am a Non-Cultist Trump Supporter.)
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To: Leaning Right
No Python?!?!?
14 posted on 12/30/2018 8:01:47 AM PST by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: Leaning Right

it’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world. buddy Hackett flying an airplane! everybody was in it, including a cameo by the three stooges.


17 posted on 12/30/2018 8:04:38 AM PST by camle (keep and open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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Mad, Mad, World!

(What a stupid list!)

ML/NJ

18 posted on 12/30/2018 8:05:54 AM PST by ml/nj (.)
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To: Leaning Right

Do my eyes deceive me? Not a single Peter Sellers flick?


20 posted on 12/30/2018 8:06:20 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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I'm surprised Being There didn't make their list. I think it's one of the funniest satires ever made, right up there with Dr. Strangelove.
21 posted on 12/30/2018 8:06:31 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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I would put Planes, Trains, and Automobiles in the top 10..

‘Wilmaaaaa’

22 posted on 12/30/2018 8:09:07 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: Leaning Right

I was going to post my favorites but then remembered that “favorite movie” is often a challenge question.


24 posted on 12/30/2018 8:10:05 AM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: Leaning Right

These lists are pretty much meaningless.

I remember my Mother just laughed and laughed at “The Russians Are Coming” X2. I never could figure out what was so funny.

Bob Hope had a bunch which were funnier than several on the list. Also “The Gods Must Be Crazy” did make me laugh out loud several times.


25 posted on 12/30/2018 8:10:25 AM PST by yarddog
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I would put “My Man Godfrey” in the Top 10. Am I one of the few who really liked Mel Brooks’ “Silent Movie”?


27 posted on 12/30/2018 8:12:28 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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Another that should be on the list is the original ‘Police Academy’.

“Oh my God! Someone call a veterinarian!!”


28 posted on 12/30/2018 8:13:13 AM PST by hoagy62 (America Supreme!)
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There are so many of the Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd films that are so funny it is hard to find enough talkies to replace them. IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD, WORLD is still my top talkie movie for comedy.

What is funny to some will leave others cold. I haven’t seen a modern comedy worth watching in the last 30 years. The 1980s films were the last for me.


29 posted on 12/30/2018 8:13:33 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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