Great Movie Comedies

In addition to what was mentioned above, I'd like to add Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Father Goose, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Donovan's Reef, Father of the Bride (Spencer Tracy version), anything Three Stooges, The Trouble with Harry, Only the Lonely, Airplane, and Bringing Up Baby.

My Top 10 are:

1. Father Goose
2. Blazing Saddles
3. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
4. McLintock!
5. Father of the Bride (Spencer Tracy version)
6. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
7. Animal House
8. Arsenic and Old Lace
9. Monty Python & the Holy Grail
10. The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

Cheers

Quote from The Ringo Kid

How about: The Canterville Ghost w/ Robert Young and Charles Laughton (as the Canterville Ghost)

Thank you for reminding of this one, Ringo. When I was a kid, The Canterville Ghost was one of my favorite movies.

ringo

i too like father goose have wanted to buy it for a long time but havent seen it released on dvd here but i will wait for it to come as all good things come to those who wait. i always thought how they got him onto the island was one of the funny parts, then the teacher hiding his drink what a hoot

cheers smokey

Mad Mad World, Trading Places , The Blues Brothers, Smokey & The Bandit, What's Up Doc Uncle Buck Planes Trains & Automobiles and of course the great Laurel & Hardy who are guaranteed to brighten up any day.

Mike

Still love to watch Smokey and tha Bandit. If you look close, you can spot Hank Worden (Ol' Mose) driving one of the 18 wheelers late in the movie. Another good one is Cannonball Run. I always liked the pairing of Burt Reynold and Dom Deluise.

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Thank you for reminding of this one, Ringo. When I was a kid, The Canterville Ghost was one of my favorite movies.

I've seen this one twice and like it more and more each time. One wonders why the studio that owns it is waiting for in realeasing it?

Hi Smokey, I can't get enough of: Father Goose. That movie was one that I first saw when I was 17, and sick in the hospital w/ double pneumonia. I was lucky in that it was played twice (on seperate cable stations) while I was in. Another Cary Grant favorite of mine besides Arsenic and Old Lace is: Operation Petticoat.

Thanks Mike, i'd forgotten about What's Up Doc?" Ryan O'Neil was great in it.

i like operation pettycoat as well it is such a laugh my son loved to watch it when he was younger so much in fact that we had to go out and but dad a new copy of it (on VHS) havent seen it released on dvd if it was i would snap it up nothing funnier than a pink sub. and when they sink the truck on the beach good laughs to be had. wish they made more of these types of movies

cheers smokey

I remember watching 'Bringing up baby' and laughing from start to finish this is perhaps my favourite comedy and Cary Grant had superb comic timing.

I also like 'Mister Roberts' this movie is very funny with some great visual gags, its also a great movie and there are some bittersweet moments in it.

I think my favourite John Wayne comedy is 'North to Alaska' this is a rumbustious action packed western with many funny scenes including the legendary jealousy scene, I rate it ahead of 'Mclintock' in terms of comedy because 'Mclintock' while being a great movie had some very heavy issues within its material whereas 'North to Alaska' is pure unadulterated lighthearted entertainment.

I've got a few.I've always liked Jerry Lewis and he did some that had my sides splitting.
The Disorderly Orderly
The Patsy
The Errand Boy
The Bellboy
A couple of Mel Brooks films
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Just about anything by Laurel and Hardy but, my absolute fave is The Music Box, where they drag the piano up the hill.
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad World
Support Your Local Sheriff
Airplane
The Naked Gun movies