Posted on 08/31/2017 11:11:11 AM PDT by Phlap
this year BBC Culture decided to get serious about comedy. We asked 253 film critics – 118 women and 135 men – from 52 countries and six continents a simple: “What do you think are the 10 best comedies of all time?” Films from any country made since cinema was invented were eligible, and BBC Culture did nothing to define in advance what a comedy is; we left that to each of the critics to decide. As always, we urged the experts to go with their heart and pick personal favourites, films that are part of their lives, not just the ones that meet some ideal of greatness.
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Bananas for the Howard Cosell-cameo, alone.
A few months back I watched The Glass Bottom Boat for the first time in like 40 years. It was a bit dated, but still funny as hell. And Doris Day was still sexy as hell!
It’s hard to put Black Comedies in with authentic Comedies. Bunuel on this list, are you kidding ? “The Apartment” was a straight-up drama. “Pulp Fiction” !?
Easy Money is my favorite Rodney movie.
That is a good one....................
#1 should be Rat Race.
Funniest ever.
1) Rat Race
2) Bruce Campbell vs. the Army of Darkness
Dr Strangelove and Pulp Fiction do not belong on that list.
Dr Strangelove and Pulp Fiction are two good movies. Dr. Stranglove is great actually. One of my top 5.
Cannonball Run and Smokey & the Bandit should be there.................
Not anymore.
One of the funniest lines in film IMO.
Ah, Christopher Walken driving Annie and Woody to the airport...
Strange Brew with Bob and Doug McKenzie eh?
WHAT? No ITS A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD! What’s with these people! No GHOST BREAKERS or Bob Hope movies! No Abbott and Costello? This list is trash except for the Marx Brothers.
Anything Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton did ranks way above many of these new “comedies” they have listed!
It hasn’t been mentioned yet probably because most felt it wasn’t that great a comedy therefore I may be a cult of one in almost dying laughing at Weekend at Bernies particularly when “Bernie” gets taken for a boat ride. This example shows just how subjective comedy is compared to other film types. Any list of comedies is going to get wildly divergent opinions. Even something funny in one country can fall flat in another.
Ed
Glad to see Trading Places and Animal House made it.
Gopher, Everett?
NEEK!
(LOL)
I don't know if I would go #1, but it certainly deserves to be in the top 10. Yes, Danny Kaye was absolutely hilarious, and the script was awesome. I have watched it over and over again throughout my life. It is a fine example of comedy at it's best.
SLIH is a good movie. It is decently funny, but not riotously on a constant basis (and like CJ, also has a “long” slow start, complete with killings).
Maybe back when it was made it was cutting edge funny, but for someone of my age group, already jaded by mobster movies and shows with cross dressing in them, it just didn't work. I guess the gag of men dressing as women had already been worn out on me, and I just didn't really see the humor in it.
I love the jokes and the put-ons in SITR. My God, I can’t believe Lina Lamont doesn’t have a whole line of promotionals and never has. Talk about quotable! “I make more money than...than Calvin Coolidge! Put togither!”
I have actually yet to see "singing in the rain." I have always intended to see it, but I just haven't so far.
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