"12" Favorite Comedy Movies of the past 35 years?

1. Blazing Saddles
2. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
3. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
4. Trinity Is Still My Name
5. Stripes
6. Airplane!
7. Kentucky Fried Movie
8. Blues Brothers
9. Home Alone
10. A Christmas Story
11. Every Which Way But Loose
12. Fire Sale

 

...see below. System problems on this end, I guess. I think our pipe here at work is clogged!

 

Indeed!!! The Terence Hill Italian Westerns are Great!!! "My Name is Nobody", I think was the last one he did. It featured Henry Fonda.

Also; "Fire Sale" was hilarious!!! That's the one where Sid Ceasar is trying to grow his leg back!

 

Oooops! It double posted!

 

In no particular order:

Arsenic and Old Lace
National Lampoon’s Family Christmas Vacation
Addams Family Values
Fearless Vampire Killers
Being There
Local Hero
Monty Python’s Search for the Holy Grail
Office Space
Airplane!
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein

 

In no particular order:

Arsenic and Old Lace
National Lampoon’s Family Christmas Vacation
Addams Family Values
Fearless Vampire Killers
Being There
Local Hero
Monty Python’s Search for the Holy Grail
Office Space
Airplane!
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Blazing Saddles
Brazil

 

And Rob Reiner with his asthma attacks when his old man (Vincent Gardenia) was on his ***: "Schmuck!"

 

A Fish Called Wanda
Life Of Brian
High Anxiety
Blazing Saddles
Something About Mary
Last Remake Of Beau Geste
Dragnet
Sideways
Ruthless People
L.A. Story
The Jerk
Bull Durham

It's over 35, but my fav comedy is Dr. Strangelove....

 

Favorites since 1971? That means many of my favorite comedies won't make the list.

Wonder Boys
About A Boy
The Truth About Charlie (I may be the only one who likes this fun remake of "Charade")
Top Secret
Much Ado About Nothing
The Three Musketeers (70's version with Michael York)
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Is the full screen version of this really Pan and Scan or is it open matte?)
Sleuth
The Royal Tenenbaums
Emma
Murder By Death
Gosford Park

 

In no particular order (and I went over 12 oops)

This Is Spinal Tap
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
A Fish Called Wanda
There's Something About Mary
Blazing Saddles
Airplane!
Young Frankenstein
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Stripes
A Christmas Story
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Jerk
Strange Brew
Life of Brian - well, all Monty Python movies

Jerry wrote:

These are EXCELLENT Movies and I have to add Willow too!!!

 

(1) Blazing Saddles
(2) Blues Brothers
(3) Animal House
(4) Young Frankenstein
(5) Life Of Brian
(6) Clockwise w/John Cleese
(7) A Fish Called Wanda
(8) Fast Times At Ridgemont High
(9) Carry On At Your Convenience
(10) Monty Python & The Holy Grail
(11) Planes Trains & Automobiles
(12) Canadian Bacon

 

Honourable mention

Breaking Away
Diner
Slap Shot
Bad News Bears
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
An American Werewolf In London
The Longest Yard
After Hours
The Meaning Of Life
History Of The World Part 1

....................&....................

The "Bogart" double feature

The Cheap Detective
Play It Again, Sam

PLUS an extra special mention for Blake Edwards

Return Of The Pink Panther, etc.
Victor/Victoria
10
S.O.B.

 

I was going to list this, but I wasn't sure if it actually qualified as a comedy rather than a humorous coming of age tale.

 

Best in Show
Bottle Rocket
Clueless
Ed Wood
A Fish Called Wanda
Mean Girls
Monty Python's Meaning Of Life
Napoleon Dynamite
Raising Arizona
This Is Spinal Tap
Trading Places
Waiting for Guffman

Not sure what people consider movies like GO and SNATCH. Maybe a little rough for "comedy."

 

Certainly has the best stereo salesman bits in the movies:

A customer walks into a Hi-Fi store with his girlfriend to help her make a decision
on which speakers to purchase:

Boyfriend: See, that's what I've got (he says to his girlfriend as he points to the Definator X-1 speakers).

Girlfriend: Yes, it's really pretty.

(The salesman approaches)

Salesman: Over here we have a great speaker. Consumerphile Stereo has rated it "Best Buy".

Boyfriend: What do you think of this one? (Pointing to the Definator X-1s)

Salesman: The Definator is a GREAT marketing idea, but it's really not a good speaker. We give it a 500% markup and then discount it 50% off so the customer thinks he's getting a good deal and we still make a bundle.

Girlfriend: But it's so big and impressive.

Salesman: Size means very little. Bigger isn't necessarily better. I sound like Dr. Ruth Westheimer.

Girlfriend: You mean the Definator is like, a, um . . .

Salesman: Well, the Definator is popular with men who like to have . . .

Girlfriend: Bigger equipment?

Salesman: Exactly!

* * *

A young man with long hair, wearing laid back clothes, and a flannel shirt
wrapped around his waist enters the store:

Dude: Hey, YO! Wanna sell me a stereo?

Salesman: Yeah, I'll help ya'.

Dude: I'm lookin' for somethin' REAL HOT but I don't wanna get ripped off. Know what I mean?

Salesman: OK. You're lookin' for some REEEEEEALLY HOT speakers right? Not just somethin' you listen to, but something you can feeeeeeel, right?

Dude: YEAH !!!

Salesman: When it comes to a great stereo you can't beat BIG SPEAKERS. I'm talking big speakers with big woofers. Like this . . . You could get this speaker with a little eight inch woofer, or this one with a ten inch woofer. OR even this one with a twelve inch woofer. BUT I can see by the look on your face you want somethin' even bigger!

Dude: F^<K YEAH!!!

Salesman: F^<K YEAH is right! We gotta go to the "Big Room" for this.

(As the salesman and the dude walk into the room in the rear of the store. The salesman opens the door and exclaims . . . )

Salesman: THE BIG ROOM!!! The flagship of the Definator line. The PB-0002, I have a pair of these myself. THIRTY INCHES of thigh slappin', blood pumpin', nuclear brain damage!!!

Dude: Bitchin'! What's it cost?

(As the salesman start to turn up some cool death metal rock at a really loud volume level)

Salesman: That's the beauty of it. If you can't afford it f^<kin' finance it!!! Who cares if it's as big as a Subaru and costs twiceas much, you'll never have to upgrade it and when you die you can be buried in 'em!!!

 

Scotland Pa. Macbeth at a McDonalds. Christopher Walken gets to play straight man.
Mystery Train, esp. for Screamin' Jay.
Night On Earth. Roberto Bengini goes nuts.
The Big Lebowski. It sorta tied everything together.
This Is Spinal Tap. How can I leave this behind?
Young Frankenstein. Nice knockers.
Eulogy. Best use of a Joan Armatrading song in any movie.
Office Space. Well I can't exactly say I've been missing work.
Airplane! And don't call me Shirley.
Groundhog Day. I've got you, babe.
Snatch. Kuasehfgaiurgh.
Bananas. This is Howard Cosell.

 

42 posts so far and nobody's yet mentioned Love and Death? My favorite comedy of all time.

"You're the greatest lover I've ever had."
"I practice a lot when I'm alone."

"I know that guy. He was from my village. He was the village idiot."
"Oh yeah? What'd you do, place?"

"And you must be Don Francisco's sister."
"No no, you must be Don Francisco's sister."

"Ivan saved string."
"I know. That's one of the reasons why I loved him."

"I shall walk through the valley of the shadow of death. Better yet, I shall run through the valley of the shadow of death...you get out of the valley much faster that way."

"Wheat. I'm dead, and they're talking about wheat...there are things worse than death...if you've ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman, you know exactly what I'm talking about."

 

I know the thread says the last 35 years, but there are a couple of comedies over 36 years old that need to be mentioned -- Philadelphia Story and Some Like it Hot. Two great comedies.

 

I have comedies from the 30's and 40's that stille hold up....Ruggles Of The Red Gap and The Great McGinty are real fav's and a good excuse to use the LD player. I stille watch Dr. Strangelove on Criterion CAV LD too... The Party with Peter Sellers didn't make the arbitrary 35 year limit either, hot dam, it's so birdy-birdy, chirp-chirp!

 

Ron, I'm suprised we're the only ones who remember Ruthless People so fondly!

 

Monty Python And The Holy Grail
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
High Anxiety
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Animal House
1941
The Blues Brothers
Caddyshack
S.O.B.
My Favorite Year
Trading Places
Quick Change
Groundhog Day

I know it's fourteen!


Have many others of course!

 

They killed a duck with a hard loaf of bread

Many different types of comedy. . .

 

Here are mine:

Monty Python & The Holy Grail--(Now get out of here at once or I shall taunt you a second time!!!!!)
The Blues Brothers--(The extended cut rocks!)
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World--(Another great extended cut)
The Graduate--(My first ever Laserdisc purchase, just to be able to see it widescreen, and a GREAT soundtrack, of course!)
This is Spinal Tap--(Great in it's original form, but I can NOT watch it anymore without the "in character" commentary from Shearer, McKean, and Guest)
Waiting For Guffman--(The BEST of the three Christopher Guest "Mockumentaries", not counting Tap. Dartanian! How DARE you speak to me that way, you!)
Hold That Ghost--(Abbott & Costellos most solid film from start to finish.)
South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut--(THE greatest musical of the last 15 years!)
Ghostbusters--(To this day, I can probably recite the whole movie by heart. The sequel doesn't exist to me!)
Trading Places--(Aykroyd and Murphy never again came close to being as funny as in this movie, IMHO)
Me, Myself, & Irene--(Crude and Brainless, but for some reason I just love it)
Napoleon Dynamite--(Is Pedro There?)

 

How could I forget about "Down By Law"? Great road movie.