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100 Greatest Comedies of All Time
BBC ^ | 08/22/2017

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: comedies; comedieslist; movies; movieslist
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To: Oklahoma

“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


181 posted on 08/31/2017 1:21:37 PM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: Phlap

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.


182 posted on 08/31/2017 1:21:56 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: DFG

Pink Panther strikes again is the funniest of the series of movies.


183 posted on 08/31/2017 1:25:14 PM PDT by partyrepub
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To: Red Badger

Where is Up in Smoke. Hilarious.


184 posted on 08/31/2017 1:25:42 PM PDT by partyrepub
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To: dfwgator

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.


185 posted on 08/31/2017 1:26:48 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Some people have a visceral dislike for NYC-themed films as Allen embodies (ditto for “Seinfeld”). I happen to like them, even if Woody is a schmuck.

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.)

186 posted on 08/31/2017 1:27:58 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: B.Bumbleberry
Two on the list deserve higher ranking: the British dark comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets and My Man Godfrey. Both of these are worth watching again and again just for their superb acting and clever plots. In Kind Hearts, Alec Guinness convincingly plays the role of 6 different heirs to a dukedom.

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."

187 posted on 08/31/2017 1:35:38 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: higgmeister

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.


188 posted on 08/31/2017 1:35:55 PM PDT by littleharbour
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To: DiogenesLamp

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.


189 posted on 08/31/2017 1:38:24 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: miss marmelstein

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.


190 posted on 08/31/2017 1:40:20 PM PDT by Romulus
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To: Alberta's Child
Groundhog Day is a very underrated movie.

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.

191 posted on 08/31/2017 1:40:43 PM PDT by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: Gay State Conservative
You got me thinking and a quick count shows that I have seen 61 of them. There may be ten more that I don't recognise by the title alone. Who can tell one Fellini film from another just by the name?

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.

192 posted on 08/31/2017 1:42:43 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: Phlap

No “Slapshot”?


193 posted on 08/31/2017 1:42:44 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Gee Wally

No thank you, Delmar. A third of a gopher would only arouse my appetite without beddin’ ‘er back down.


194 posted on 08/31/2017 1:48:03 PM PDT by skinndogNN
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To: fieldmarshaldj
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.

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.

195 posted on 08/31/2017 1:48:06 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: dfwgator
Two of my favorites! Top Secret and Hollywood Knights. Best lines—”What phony Dog Poo?”
“He grabbed it with his !@##”
196 posted on 08/31/2017 1:48:09 PM PDT by lone star annie
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To: daler

Kentucky Fried Movie


197 posted on 08/31/2017 1:49:17 PM PDT by sharkhawk (Chelsea Dagger)
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To: the_Watchman
Used Cars anyone?
198 posted on 08/31/2017 1:50:08 PM PDT by katana
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To: littleharbour
I just had to chuckle because you mentioned "The Party", the shoe....... lol
199 posted on 08/31/2017 1:51:19 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: Phlap

I have to agree on #2! Col Bat Guano...


200 posted on 08/31/2017 1:55:44 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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