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The 50 Best Comedies of All Time
Esquire ^ | 3/21/22 | Anna Grace Lee and The Esquire Editors

Posted on 11/02/2023 12:58:42 PM PDT by DallasBiff

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To: DallasBiff

No “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World”?


21 posted on 11/02/2023 1:14:30 PM PDT by moreisee (The Media is the enemy.)
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To: Ge0ffrey

Not “its” but “it’s.”


22 posted on 11/02/2023 1:15:13 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: Ge0ffrey
Animal House wasn’t funny then and its not funny now. Neither are Mel Brooks movies.

Zot! (just kidding)

23 posted on 11/02/2023 1:15:34 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: srmanuel
I was a pledge in a Fraternity when Animal House came out,

Same here. We swore they spied on us and made a movie out of it. ;O)

24 posted on 11/02/2023 1:15:40 PM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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To: DallasBiff

Only four movies before 1970. NONE from the 1940s. Only one fron the ‘30s.
Spaceballs as representative of Mel Brooks?! I favor the mostly forgotten Silent Movie or The Peoducers, or High Anxiety. Many would go with Blazing Saddles or Young Frankenstein. Spaceballs is like saying Henry IV Part II is your favorite Shakespeare play.

Clue?! Really!? It wasn’t funny. Murder by Death aces it in that genre, and the Maltese Falcon is funnier than both, even though it isn’t a comedy.

This is a list by someone given an assignment who knows little about cinema or its history, and hasn’t seen a broad enough spread of movies. I am not sure if he is mainly ignorant or just has stunted taste.


25 posted on 11/02/2023 1:15:56 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: Ge0ffrey

26 posted on 11/02/2023 1:16:58 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold eday in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: DallasBiff

I watched “Hot Fuzz” a few months ago, I hadn’t laughed so hard in a movie for a long time.


27 posted on 11/02/2023 1:17:06 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: gundog
Spaceballs is in there.
28 posted on 11/02/2023 1:17:53 PM PDT by workerbee (==)
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To: DallasBiff

Not the original The Producers? Not Kentucky Fried Movie? Not Annie Hall? Not A Night at the Opera?


29 posted on 11/02/2023 1:18:33 PM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore (The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK!)
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To: dfwgator

LOl......


30 posted on 11/02/2023 1:19:50 PM PDT by Liz (“The only time Biden gets his hands dirty is when he’s taking cash from foreign countries." Trump)
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To: DallasBiff

BASEketball, made me laugh out loud so much.

I don’t know why Matt and Trey distance themselves from it now, I thought they were great.


31 posted on 11/02/2023 1:20:05 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff

They forgot “Four Weddings and a Funeral”.

I laughed so hard I couldn’t breathe.


32 posted on 11/02/2023 1:20:34 PM PDT by Aria
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To: DallasBiff

Toga Toga Toga


33 posted on 11/02/2023 1:21:31 PM PDT by JSM_Liberty
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To: Dr. Sivana

Out of Towners, The Apartment
Couple of good ones with Jack Lemon.


34 posted on 11/02/2023 1:22:33 PM PDT by reviled downesdad (Some of the lost will never believe the Truth and will hate you for it.)
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To: DallasBiff
The Couch Trip
Dan Aykroyd, Walter Matthau, Charles Grodin, David Clennon, Donna Dixon
35 posted on 11/02/2023 1:23:17 PM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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To: gundog
Have you seen A Mighty Wind?

Yes - along with 'Best in Show'.

36 posted on 11/02/2023 1:23:32 PM PDT by TomServo
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To: DallasBiff
Hollywood Knights With Sasha Du-Dubinsky, the one-armed violinist!


37 posted on 11/02/2023 1:24:29 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: srmanuel

“Animal House was fictional but contained enough truth to make it hysterical funny”

That’s how I felt about “Office Space” those years when I was a cube rat. Fictional, but enough truth — too much truth, actually.


38 posted on 11/02/2023 1:26:05 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Normal" is never coming back.)
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To: reviled downesdad
Out of Towners, The Apartment
Couple of good ones with Jack Lemon.

The Odd Couple
Another one with Jack Lemon and Walter Matthau

39 posted on 11/02/2023 1:26:43 PM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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To: DallasBiff
Oh, COME ON...
Dr. Strangelove: You know that lingering fear we had for about four years that someone might push a button and cause an international nuclear holocaust?
Barf. They just can't help themselves.
40 posted on 11/02/2023 1:26:57 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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