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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The In-Laws (”Serpentine, Shelly! Serpentine!”)
The Out-of-Towners (”As long as we got our brains, we can think.” “Oh, they’ll get that too, George. You’ll see.”)
Lost in America (”As the boldest experiment in advertising history, you give us our money back.”)
The Mouse that Roared (”My idea was sound. Only an idiot could have won this war, and he did.”)
FOR REAL!
IT WAS ONE OF THE FUNNIEST OF ALL TIME!..................
Steve Martin was funny in “All of Me” with Lily Tomlin too.
I'm guessing it's where the idea for "Liar, Liar" came from.
I peed my pants watching Bob Hope in that one.
How Animal House and Blazing Saddles are not 1 and 2 are mystifying.
Ron Burgundy rated ahead of Animal House by 14 spots is downright insulting and stupefying!
“We thought you were a Horney Toad.”
I have watched 4 Woody Allen movies, and none of them were funny.
It must be a New York comedy thing. Just like Monty Python and British comedy.
Because what New Yorkers think is funny, and what the British think is funny is NOT what I think is funny.
The scene in the principal’s office makes me LMAO still after all these years lol.
“My Cousin Vinnie”...YES!!!
Also “Police Academy”.
Personally I think CJ is #1. Even if it’s a little slow to start. It’s just too perfect after that. So many quotables, never mind the perfect timing in acting by Danny Kaye. (Before I saw this, generally “Inspector General” was considered his best.)
SLIH is a good movie. It is decently funny, but not riotously on a constant basis (and like CJ, also has a “long” slow start, complete with killings).
I love the jokes and the put-ons in SITR. My God, I can’t believe Lina Lamont doesn’t have a whole line of promotionals and never has. Talk about quotable! “I make more money than...than Calvin Coolidge! Put togither!”
It was not. List is full of errors, missing films and odd priorities.
Just a few observations, Borat and Annie Hall completely stank, and do not belong on list.
You have it wrong. Transvestitism used to be played for laughs, and thus should be totally UN-PC to watch SLIH (and, they were doing it as disguises, not because they like being women), or Uncle Miltie or Flip Wilson (gasp! A black guy making fun of women/transvestites?).
Animal House #47?
Oh, because all those other movies are SO OFTEN QUOTED
GMAB
Where is “Waterboy” and “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, World?”
9 to 5, another truly great comedy. Not here at all.
I love Doris Day comedies, but didn’t like Touch of Mink at all.
I would plug a few favorites to be somewhere fairly high (or higher) on the list:
“Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”
“Ruthless People”
“Love and Death”
“Bringing Up Baby”
One of my absolute all-time favorites, the greatly under-recognized “Smiles of a Summer Night” (Ingmar Bergman), I would put near the top. Not an uproarious comedy, more of a tender love farce, but I think it’s wonderful.
I would have “Groundhog Day” and “Dr. Strangelove” solidly on the list, but certainly neither near the very top for me. More toward the middle.
I don’t understand how “Pulp Fiction” is much of a comedy but there were a few laughing moments. Still, I wouldn’t place it too far up the list strictly on a comedic basis.
I would plug a few favorites to be somewhere fairly high (or higher) on the list:
“Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”
“Ruthless People”
“Love and Death”
“Bringing Up Baby”
One of my absolute all-time favorites, the greatly under-recognized “Smiles of a Summer Night” (Ingmar Bergman), I would put near the top. Not an uproarious comedy, more of a tender love farce, but I think it’s wonderful.
I would have “Groundhog Day” and “Dr. Strangelove” solidly on the list, but certainly neither near the very top for me. More toward the middle.
I don’t understand how “Pulp Fiction” is much of a comedy but there were a few laughing moments. Still, I wouldn’t place it too far up the list strictly on a comedic basis.
How to speak San Franciscan... Vagoina!
The Odd Couple 1968
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Absolutely!
It's an encyclopedia of comedy in and of itself.
We proposed burying a copy in a time capsule with a note that THIS was a comedy movie.
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