The 100 greatest comedies of all time

BBC ^ | 22 August 2017 | no author listed

[Leaning Right]

BBC Culture polled 253 film critics from 52 countries to determine the funniest films ever made.

[Leaning Right]

Something nonpolitical for a Sunday. As always with lists like these, you're mileage may vary. Here's the top 10:

10. The General (Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton, 1926)
9. This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984)
8. Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
7. Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, 1980)
6. Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979)
5. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)
4. Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993)
3. Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
2. Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
1. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)

[crusty old prospector]

I’ll throw in Caddyshack and Animal House. Napoleon Dynamite.

[left that other site]

I agree with #1.

[JPJones]

Wow, life of Brian but NOT Holy Grail?

[AU72]

The Apartment #27, was a good movie but it was not comedy.

[JPJones]

Yup. Caddyshack.

[be-baw]

Of those ten, the only two I haven’t seen are The General and Playtime. The only one of those I would consider worthy of the top 10 is Some Like it Hot.

I would include Caddyshack, Animal House and others that don’t immediately come to mind.

[thoughtomator]

You couldn’t make 80% of those films today without getting run out of town by Communists.

[dp0622]

I watched “Arsenic and Old Lace” the other day.

It’s inn the top 100.

Hysterical movie.

“This is developing into a very bad habit!!” :)

[JPJones]

Monty Python’s Holy Grail is the funniest movie ever made:

What other movie exists that 10’s of millions of people have memorized?

[Texas Eagle]

A Shot In The Dark with Peter Sellers and Elke Sommers should’ve been in the Top 5.

[LydiaLong]

Monty Python’s Holy Grail is the funniest movie ever made:

What other movie exists that 10’s of millions of people have memorized?
________________

“tis a flesh wound.”

[EveningStar]

ping

[Ouchthatonehurt]

No Python?!?!?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“I’ll throw in Caddyshack and Animal House. Napoleon Dynamite.”

Agreed! *BUMP* for later...

[Leaning Right]

> I’ll throw in Caddyshack and Animal House. < I sure agree with Animal House. Lots of great quotes came from that movie. It was #47 on the list. According to the article, iAnimal House wasn't higher because it wasn't very popular with female critics. I wonder why.

[camle]

it’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world. buddy Hackett flying an airplane! everybody was in it, including a cameo by the three stooges.

[ml/nj]

Mad, Mad, World!

(What a stupid list!)

ML/NJ

[Nifster]

I fart in your general direction

[Texas Eagle]

Do my eyes deceive me? Not a single Peter Sellers flick?