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)
I’ll throw in Caddyshack and Animal House. Napoleon Dynamite.
I agree with #1.
Wow, life of Brian but NOT Holy Grail?
The Apartment #27, was a good movie but it was not comedy.
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.
You couldn’t make 80% of those films today without getting run out of town by Communists.
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!!” :)
A Shot In The Dark with Peter Sellers and Elke Sommers should’ve been in the Top 5.
ping
it’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world. buddy Hackett flying an airplane! everybody was in it, including a cameo by the three stooges.
(What a stupid list!)
ML/NJ
Do my eyes deceive me? Not a single Peter Sellers flick?
‘Wilmaaaaa’
I was going to post my favorites but then remembered that “favorite movie” is often a challenge question.
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.
I would put “My Man Godfrey” in the Top 10. Am I one of the few who really liked Mel Brooks’ “Silent Movie”?
Another that should be on the list is the original ‘Police Academy’.
“Oh my God! Someone call a veterinarian!!”
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.