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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“Used Cars” had some top flight talent...
Kurt Russell
Jack Warden
“Lenny & Squiggy”
Al Lewis
Robert Zemeckis
Steven Spielberg
“That’s too F’n high!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqHZWdFVyyQ
Well, I am impressed that so many of the old films that I love were included along with the irreverent 70’s and 80’s and onward films that slammed head on through the culture shift.
Pink Panther strikes again is the funniest of the series of movies.
Where is Up in Smoke. Hilarious.
I can’t believe they left off “Running Scared”. 1986 with Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines. I’ve watched that movie 25 or 30 times.
Ghostbusters was awesome. "From the Hip" was also good. I think "Joe's Apartment" was also a New York based movie.
I just thought all the Woody Allen movies I have seen so far are boring. The humor just isn't all that appealing to me. What there is of it is just very subdued.
So far as Seinfeld goes, I like the show, but by far the best character on it was Kramer, followed by George, then Elaine, and almost last (just ahead of Newman) is Jerry.
Jerry was boring, narcissistic and superficial, and for the most part he just played the straight man to the other character's funny bits. His stand up comedy routine that he does in his show is always terrible and not funny, and for the longest time I couldn't understand why his stand up jokes were so weak.
I finally realized he had a real stand up comic routine, and if a bit was really good, he would save it for that. (or so I assumed, because i've never seen his stand up routine outside of his show.)
I didn't much care for "Kind Hearts and Coronets", and i'm not sure I recall "My Man Godfrey", though it sounds familiar.
Jerry Lois also did the multi-role parts in his movie "The Family Jewels", and I suppose it was inspired by "Kind Hearts and Coronets."
All kinds of room for criticism and improvement, but I was actually pleasantly surprised that the list contained many classic comedies that would be banned from public viewing on BBC or heavily edited. Blazing Saddles and The Party (where Peter Sellers portrays an actor from India invited to a movie producer’s party) were both very politically incorrect and two of my all time favourites.
Seinfeld wouldn’t have worked without the supporting cast. Jerry as a stand-alone wasn’t strong enough. He had some funny bits here and there, but I wouldn’t put him in the top echelon of stand-up comics. Most of the stand-up giants have since died and unlikely will ever be matched or surpassed, such as Don Rickles, Rodney Dangerfield, Sam Kinison and Richard Pryor.
The first time I saw Annie Hall I laughed my head off. The second time I was just embarrassed. I now think of it as coarse, nasty, and self obsessed. IOW, a perfect biography of its auteur.
I do admit it is very watchable and entertaining, I'm just not sure I would personally place it in my Top 5 comedies of all time.
Wait make that 62. I have seen "Born Yesterday (1950 film)" and I loved it. Like I say there could be nine or ten more.
No “Slapshot”?
No thank you, Delmar. A third of a gopher would only arouse my appetite without beddin’ ‘er back down.
Speaking of Rodney Dangerfield, was "Back to School" on the list? I thought that movie was very funny.
Eddie Murphy had a hilarious if raunchy stand up routine, as did David Chappell. George Carlin was also pretty good, and I liked Gallagher's routine.
Red Skelton and Abbot and Costello were also good. Jackie Mason was excellent, and though I hate to admit it, that horrible Liberal b*tch Sarah Silverman was actually pretty d@mn funny.
But yeah, Jerry was a useful foil off which the rest of the cast could make comedy. Jerry would occasionally have funny bits that were all him, but most of the funny things I saw in the show had no direct connection to him.
Kentucky Fried Movie
I have to agree on #2! Col Bat Guano...
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