Best Comedies of All-Time

From the BBC website who supposedly 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?”
So take it with a pinch of salt...

1. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)
2. Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
3. Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
4. Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993)
5. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)
6. Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979)
7. Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, 1980)
8. Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
9. This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984)
10. The General (Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton, 1926)
11. The Big Lebowski (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1998)
12. Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin, 1936)
13. To Be or Not To Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942)
14. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
15. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones, 1975)
16. The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin, 1940)
17. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938)
18. Sherlock Jr (Buster Keaton, 1924)
19. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)
20. Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, 1974)

Ful list of 1oo:
The 100 greatest comedies of all time

 

Blazing Saddles being that low is a joke, pardon the pun.

Coming to America not making the list at all makes this list invalid.

Blazing Saddles, Airplane, and Coming to America are the three best comedies of all time, IMO.

Car Wash is the most UNDERRATED comedy of all time. Fuckin hilarious movie.

 

Its average at best.

 

A really funny movie not on that list is Skin Deep with John Ritter. Really good film from 89

 

There's always this elephant in the room when it comes to comedy that most people are too PC to admit, but is clear as day to see - black people and white people, due to cultural differences, have different perceptions of great comedians AND comedies. And that's FINE, I think. Not in ALL cases, but in MANY cases.

Due to our general differences in culture, and upbringing, we have a tendency to find different things funny.

There's a lot of cultural references in great black comedies, and made by great black comedians that the white masses a lot of times don't "get", and I think that's fine, because the reveral I'm SURE is also true.

I say that because, in the black community, Coming to America is comedy gold.

Of course, somebody is gonna take this post the wrong way and get all sensitive, but I don't think there's anything wrong with the fact that we have different ideas of what constitues great comedy.

I wouldn't expect the average white guy to consider Bernie Mac a stand-up legend, just like I wouldn't expect the average black dude to consider Jerry Seinfeld a stand-up legend.

 

Jerry Seinfeld is overrated as fuuuuuuck

 

You know what I meant.

There are some univeral funny guys though. For instance, as a stand-up, I think Louie CK is funny as a motherfucker.

 

I don't find Seinfeld funny either, but I never spoke out about it, cause I said to myself, "Maybe I just don't get his comedy."

Some comedians are just universally UNfunny though, and any race could recognize it, like Dane Cook or Tracy Morgan.

 

who is your favorite polish comedian?

personally i go with krzysztof kowalewski

 

Golota in the Tyson post-fight interview.

 

Tracy Morgan is unfunny and annoying as fuck. I'll at least give you credit for realizing that.

 

There's a shitload of black comedians I don't find funny or I find overrated.

Unfunny - Tracy Morgan, Steve Harvey, Nick Cannon, Marlon Wayans.

Overrated - Chris Tucker and Kevin Hart.

 

Yeah he is but anyway Coming To America isn't even Eddie Murphy's funniest movie...

 

Coming to America is great in spots but Trading Places is a much more consistent movie although it's not an Eddie Murphy vehicle

 

We have a winner, re: Murphy.

 

Groundhog Day? It's a nice little movie and if I stumble across it while flipping through the channels I'll usually leave it on, but among the best comedies ever?

That's a bit of a stretch.


TFK

 

did you guys just get these from an imdb search for top comedies?

 

Groundhog day is a GREAT movie but it's not exactly funny.

 

Xmas Vacation has to be a top 10 all time comedy, IMO.

 

Race and culture obviously play a part but individual tastes break it down even further. For me I never liked Seinfeld as a standup but loved the sitcom. Coming to America is also one of my all time my favorite comedies. Standup, sketch comedy and movies are three different animals. Eddie was one of the few who exceled at all three.

 

No, we just know all about movies.....

 

bullshit, you're just watching the teenybopper shit you're told to find funny

 

What About Bob?
The Three Amigos

 

The South Park movie and Team America would both make my list.

 

Superbad is the best from the last 15 years i think

 

No idiocracy?

 

2,3,4 are among my favourite movies, I haven't seen most the others on the list

 

agREED...

Just Narrowing it Down To Bill Murray Movies, "Stripes" was Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay Funnier than "Groundhog Day", in REED's Opinion...





REED

 

Yep...

95% of Black Folks Would List "Coming to America" as a Top 5 Comedy AT WORST...

REED just Watched it w/his Kids a Year Ago, and they Thought it was Hilarious...And All the Silly Ass References REED's Made Their Whole Lives FINALLY Made Sense...





REED

 

Plus he was a pop singer. Check out his song, boogie in your butt. Ha ha.