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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.

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KEYWORDS: comedies; comedieslist; movies; movieslist
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To: Phlap
Pulp Fiction? Dayam...

These lists are always a little silly; there's no real metric for humor. I'd probably add Ruthless People, another Zucker Brothers project. I'm not a Marx Brothers fan, but I'm a little surprised not to see their names in there somewhere.

61 posted on 08/31/2017 11:32:02 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Phlap

Bookmarking for additional Freeper suggestions. Mine is “The Ladykillers” with Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness.


62 posted on 08/31/2017 11:32:50 AM PDT by BillyBonebrake
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To: Lou L
Groundhog Day is a very underrated movie. I'm not surprised to see it so high.

The DVD version has an interview with the late Harold Ramis, who directed the movie. He cites a survey that was done some years after the movie was released, in which this movie was selected as the one movie of its generation that would still be considered a timeless classic even a hundred years from now.

63 posted on 08/31/2017 11:33:15 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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To: dfwgator

More on “One, Two, Three...”

That movie was made just as they were building Berlin Wall.

Difficulties forced them to move to Munich.


64 posted on 08/31/2017 11:34:00 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Phlap

Three movies with Jerry Louis in them.... who was voting the French?


65 posted on 08/31/2017 11:34:09 AM PDT by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I’d put Bananas or Sleeper over Annie Hall.


66 posted on 08/31/2017 11:34:29 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Billthedrill

The most underrated Zucker Brothers movie, “BASEketball”.

It’s silly, but it made me laugh a lot. Don’t know why Parker and Stone hate on it so much.


67 posted on 08/31/2017 11:34:49 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: yarddog

My favorite, “Office Space”, at least made the list — #80.


68 posted on 08/31/2017 11:35:38 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Negative people make healthy people sick." - Roger Ailes)
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To: Phlap

Too funny!

69 posted on 08/31/2017 11:35:50 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: Phlap

Here’s a question: How many of those could get made today?

Earth to Hollyweird....


70 posted on 08/31/2017 11:36:02 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: Phlap

Doctor at Sea.


71 posted on 08/31/2017 11:36:07 AM PDT by TNoldman (AN AMERICAN FOR A MUSLIM/BHO FREE AMERICA. (Owner of Stars and Bars Flags))
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To: Red Badger

“When Harry Met Sally”?

Oh my gosh! I’d gauge my eyes out before I’d watch that again. I got tricked into seeing that in 1989. Not funny at all!


72 posted on 08/31/2017 11:37:01 AM PDT by subterfuge (Save the monuments!!)
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To: BillyBonebrake

Amazon Women on the Moon


73 posted on 08/31/2017 11:37:31 AM PDT by daler
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To: Red Badger

Some odd choices!

I just saw Annie Hall in a revival house in NYC last month and very young women were walking out on it. “Sexist! Bigoted!” They screamed.

It’s still his best movie. So funny.


74 posted on 08/31/2017 11:38:24 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: dfwgator

75 posted on 08/31/2017 11:38:38 AM PDT by xp38
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To: miss marmelstein

The only good Woody Allen movies are “Take the Money and Run” and “Bananas”.


76 posted on 08/31/2017 11:38:59 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: daler

You can say that but then you probably believe the Loch Ness monster was Jack the Ripper, don’t you?


77 posted on 08/31/2017 11:39:16 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Phlap
Other than the obvious comedies .. Blazing Saddles, Animal House, Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, Galaxy Quest .. that I always come back to to re-watch, there are a few other movies that I didn't see that make my list: Court Jester and Inspector General (Danny Kay), both versions of "To Be or Not To Be" (Jack Benny in 1942 and Mel Brooks in 1983), The Villain (Kirk Douglas), The Great Race (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon) and Prisoner of Zenda (1979, with Peter Sellers).

However, there is one movie out there that I truly enjoy that I believe that I am the only person who ever watched it: Undercover Blues - 1993 - Kathleen Turner, Dennis Quaid, and Stanley Tucci.

"My name ... is Muerte!"

"Well, hi, Morty ... I'm Jeff."

78 posted on 08/31/2017 11:39:49 AM PDT by BlueLancer (ANTIFA - The new and improved SturmAbteilung)
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To: dfwgator

Not true. Annie Hall, Manhattan, Hannah and her Sisters are classics.


79 posted on 08/31/2017 11:40:00 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Phlap

“Raising Arizona” with an honorable mention to the hugely underrated “Used Cars”


80 posted on 08/31/2017 11:40:32 AM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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