Bravo's top 100 Comedies

100. Anchorman
99. The Birdcage
98. School of Rock
97. Happy Gilmore
96. Four Weddings and a Funeral
95. Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
94. Waiting for Guffman
93. The Aristocrats
92. Father of the Bride
91. Revenge of the Nerds
90. Clueless
89. Slapshot
88. Team America: World Police
87. The Kentucky Fried Movie
86. Zoolander
85. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
84. Silver Streak
83. Sister Act
82. Tootsie
81. Half Baked
80. Lost in America
79. Three Amigos
78. Bananas
77. Flirting With Disaster
76. Ghostbusters
75. Dumb and Dumber
74. Trading Places
73. City Slickers
72. Moonstruck
71. Roxanne
70. Nutty Professor
69. The Blues Brothers
68. Broadcast News
67. Kingpin
66. Dazed and Confused
65. Office Space
64. This is Spinal Tap
63. Manhattan
62. The Pink Panther
61. Election (or, as the announcer pronounces it: “Ah-lection”)
60. When Harry Met Sally…
59. Police Academy Series
58. Private Benjamin
57. Swingers
56. Young Frankenstein
55. Bull Durham
54. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
53. Dr. Strangelove
52. Meet the Parents
51. National Lampoon's Vacation
50. The Princess Bride
49. American Pie
48. American Graffiti
47. 9 to 5
46. The Incredibles
45. Raising Arizona
44. Sixteen Candles
43. What About Bob?
42. Harold and Maude
41. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
40. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
39. Mrs. Doubtfire
38. Best in Show
37. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
36. Good Morning, Vietnam
35. Beetlejuice
34. Rushmore
33. Clerks
32. Groundhog Day
31. The Big Lebowski
30. The 40-Year-Old Virgin
29. Legally Blond
28. Annie Hall
27. A Fish Called Wanda
26. Wayne’s World
25. Meet the Fockers
24. Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
23. Big
22. Beverly Hills Cop
21. Shampoo
20. The Jerk
19. Wedding Crashers
18. Stripes
17. M*A*S*H
16. Old School
15. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
14. Napoleon Dynamite
13. Naked Gun (series)
12. The Producers
11. Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
10. Arthur
9. Blazing Saddles
8. The Wedding Singer
7. Ace Ventura, Pet Detective
6. Airplane
5. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
4. There’s Something About Mary
3. Shrek
2. Caddyshack
1. Animal House

 

No Buster Keaton. The Wedding Singer #6. Bananas at #78.
Airplane! is my favortite period.

 

No Marx Bros? No Some Like It Hot? Was the cut-off date 1960 or something?

100 movies funnier than Woody's Love and Death? Not in my universe.

 

I'll second that one...how about "What's Up Doc" and the "Money Pit". IMO it's not a very good list.

 

Ghostbusters at #76 and Spinal Tap at #64

And Shrek at number 3?? I can sit through the whole movie without laughing once. Fart jokes really aren't that funny in the context of an animated film.

And didn't 40-year-old-virgin only come out last year? IMO, a film needs to stand a little time before belonging in the top 30 movies of all time.

 

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Wedding Crashers is at 19 on the list.

 

Amen brudder! Shall we say "pistols at dawn" to this crummy list?

 

#16 is #1 for me

 

I'll third it! Planes Trains and Automobiles was the first one I looked for.

Life of Brian?

Chaplin?

Marx Brothers?

Laurel and Hardy?

It looks like the list was created by a 14 year old.

 

It's impossible to make a list without somebody not appreciating their favorite being left off, or somebody else's favorite being above theirs.

My only quibble is...were one to start at the beginning, and watch every one of these, just how much taste for comedy would one have by the time they reach the peak? Some of these would cease to be funny by then, affecting their position.

My suggestion - avoid lists at all costs, and find reasons to laugh often, all by yourself. If you get a chance to see a funny movie, try and see it in the company of others, so the infectiousness of laughter will spread to the betterment of all. And try not to empathize too much with the characters who experience misfortune: when I was young, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World was ruined for me because I felt too sorry for the weakest of the characters, and too angry at how Ethel Merman treated everybody!

...speaking of which - it's not even on the list...?!?

 

Moved to Visual Arts.

 

This appears to have been assembled by folks under the age of 25. That's fine if the list is for people in that age group, but seriously underweights older movies or movies that are not of particular interest to younger viewers.

 

AS for the actual program, they interviewed ROb Reiner, Harold Ramis, the guy who died a few days ago. And some interesting comments were made.

 

#43 "What about Bob" & #31 "The Big Lebowski" are actually "funny" movies. Rushmore is a comedy?

 

They shouldn't put "series" in anything. "Police Academy" - the first one, yes. "Naked Gun" - the first one, yes.

They hit a lot of the great ones that are often missed, all in all.

"Bananas," "Three Amigos!" "Flirting with Disaster," - etc.

JEFF!

 

Paul Gleason
I should have just looked it up in the first place. I was too lazy.

 

I usually look at lists like this for an intellectual argument. I might not agree, but I generally give the creators a little respect for making me think.

This is the stupidest compilation I've ever seen in mainstream media.

Holy Grail and Big Lebowski get whomped by Legally Blonde and Meet the Fockers?

No In-Laws?

No Bringing Up Baby?

No What's Up Doc?

No freakin Marx Brothers???

Jeff

 

(still ranting)

Broadcast News is a comedy? One of the Top 100 ever?

I guess Pulp Fiction was a gritty crime drama.

Jeff

 

American Graffiti is in my top 10 movies of all time. If you are going to label it superficially it as a comedy, how in the world could it be placed after shrek?

I'm convinced that this list was made to aggravate people in the same demographic as the people who use this website.

 

Agreed. Bravo used to be a fairly decent channel, and even their horror list had some merit. But this is drivel.

Without going to IMDB, the oldest movies look to be "The Nutty Professor" (UNLESS they mean Eddie Murphy and not Jerry Lewis), Dr. Strangelove or The Pink Panther (as long as they don't mean Steve Martin) - which is the least funny of the ones made while Peter Sellers was alive. But they didn't put that in a seires, a la the two police series.

-Mark