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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

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To: dfwgator

101 posted on 08/31/2017 11:50:48 AM PDT by CaptainK (No collusion.No obstruction.He's a leaker.)
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To: Little Pig
Pulp Fiction was a comedy?

Right? ... and where's Fargo?!

102 posted on 08/31/2017 11:51:10 AM PDT by glock rocks (... so much win!)
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Agree with all who noticed absence of “It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. My first observation as well.

Also raised an eyebrow on Harold and Maude. I never ever considered that a comedy or funny in any way.

Watched ‘The Jerk’ again recently and it is truly good. Much better than I remembered - maybe because there were so many average to sub-average Steve Martin movies afterwards (Sgt Bilko was a huge disappointment)

Also, where’s A Christmas Story????


103 posted on 08/31/2017 11:52:16 AM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: Phlap

“Armed and Dangerous” Maybe lowbrow, but hillarious.
“The Bride came C.O.D.” Another Cagney classic.
“Folks” Tom Selleck aka One Nut.
“Flirting with Disaster” Lotsa big names.
“The Russian’s are coming” Carl Reine
“Club Paradise” Robin Williams, Twiggy.
“One, Two, Three” For Sure
“My Man Godfrey” They don’t make em like this anymore.
“It’s a Gift” W.C.’s best. Carl LaFong?
“That touch of Mink” Cary rox
“Operation Petticoat” Cary again. Seaman Hornsby?
“The Great Race” Tony, Natalie, Jack, Peter.


104 posted on 08/31/2017 11:52:19 AM PDT by karbine
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To: Responsibility2nd

#34 Clueless???? Really!

#46 Pulp Fiction??? It’s one of my all time favorites but I never considered it a true comedy?


105 posted on 08/31/2017 11:52:46 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: Phlap
Any such list by any person or group of people that doesn't include It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is no more serious than any general waste of time.

Probably such a list can't be serious if Mad World isn't No. 1 by a large majority.

106 posted on 08/31/2017 11:53:05 AM PDT by stevem
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To: Red Badger

Somewhat surprising. It’s pretty good, but in no way a comedy. It’s a Tarantino film, for one thing (an early one), and is very violent and dark. It’s definitely not intended as comedy.


107 posted on 08/31/2017 11:53:12 AM PDT by Little Pig
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To: Phlap

They put the Dude at #11.

Charlatans.


108 posted on 08/31/2017 11:53:57 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Phlap; dfwgator
I would have nominated Vacation or European Vacation.


109 posted on 08/31/2017 11:55:13 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Take Covfefe Ree Zig!)
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To: DFG

But that’s a priceless Steinway!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74YLwinLT7M

Can’t believe no Pink Panther movies here


110 posted on 08/31/2017 11:56:07 AM PDT by freedomlover
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To: glock rocks
Right? ... and where's Fargo?!

North Dakota, silly.

111 posted on 08/31/2017 11:57:00 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Phlap

A remarkable number of films which probably had writers who started in radio.

Which confirms my sentiment about current writers. They are just filling in blanks on computerized formats.

Really lousy writers.


112 posted on 08/31/2017 11:57:05 AM PDT by buffaloguy (Bond arms Cowbot)
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To: Phlap

These lists are good for one thing.

They reveal the inner workings, biases, and stupidity of the people who developed them.


113 posted on 08/31/2017 11:57:38 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Exempting Trump and his team, our media and government have adopted the Zoolander management style.)
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To: Larry Lucido

LOL, talk about the blind leading the blind, I just followed you right on that other thread.


114 posted on 08/31/2017 11:58:03 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Phlap
#1 Blazing Saddles
#2 Used Cars
#3 Airplane!
#4 Groundhog Day
everything else
115 posted on 08/31/2017 11:58:21 AM PDT by BipolarBob (I bought a house on a one-way street that's also a dead end and now I can't leave.)
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To: EvilCapitalist
I can’t believe Blazing Saddles isn’t in the top 5.

Agreed, never laughed so hard in my life when I saw it for the first time.
116 posted on 08/31/2017 11:58:35 AM PDT by ratzoe (damn, I miss Barbara Olson)
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To: Mariner

“Number 11? Yeah, well, that’s just, like, your opinion, man...”


117 posted on 08/31/2017 11:59:28 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: DFG

the funniest scene I ever saw in the movies was in The Fiendish Plot of Dr Fu Manchu.


118 posted on 08/31/2017 12:01:33 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Red Badger

If “Porkies” isn’t on the list then this list had zero credibility,IMO.


119 posted on 08/31/2017 12:02:36 PM PDT by TheStickman (And their fear tastes like sunshine puked up by unicorns.)
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To: Red Badger

No Tommy Boy or O Brother Where Art Thou??? sad list.


120 posted on 08/31/2017 12:03:04 PM PDT by azcap (Who is John Galt ? www.conservativeshirts.com)
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