re: Greatest comedy of all time

Airplane!

Office Space
Arthur (1981)
It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Dogma
Young Frankenstein
Groove Tube
Animal House
Trading Places
Fun With Dick And Jane
Ferris Buellers Day Off


Kentucky Fried Movie
Christmas Vacation
Police Academy
The Hollywood Knights
Spaceballs
The Bird Cage
Tootsie

You Cant Take It With You
Harold and Kumar
Silver Streak
Smoky and the Bandit
High Anxiety
Home Alone 2
Porky's
The Nutty Professor
Cable Guy
This Is Spinal Tap
Scrooged
Man With Two Brains
Liar Liar
A Christmas Story
Home Alone
Step Brothers
Lonely Guy
Ghostbusters


Dr Strangelove
The Ref
Planes Trains and Automobiles
Oh Brother Where Art Thou
Abbott and Costello Meet..
Superbad
Best In Show
A Mighty Wind
Stir Crazy
Dumb and Dumber
Caddyshack
It Happened On Fifth Avenue
Some Like It Hot
Theres Something About Mary
Not Another Teen Movie
Sixteen Candles
Breakfast Club
Vacation
Amazon Women On The Moon
Blazing Saddles
Holy Grail
Raising Arizona
Dazed and Confused
Big Lebowski

My Cousin Vinny and Wedding Crashers.

Not really a fan of the over the top stuff like Naked Gun and Dumb and Dumber. I am sort of surprised that Austin Powers hasn't been mentioned.

Austin Powers 2 was better than the first.. which is rare for a movie, but especially a comedy.

Mike Myers is really good at making a sequel on par with the original. Austin Powers 3 was not very good though.

Oh how I love comedy. I'm not a fan of the over the top stuff either unless it's truly clever. Not really a fan of the Monty Python/ or Leslie Neilsen stuff. Probably why Dracula Dead and Loving it is the only Mel Brooks movie I have never watched more than once.

I absolutely love Black Dynamite though.

frick !!! Page 4 and the funniest movie ever to grace the BIG or little screen has not even been mentioned. Cheech & Chong's "UP IN SMOKE" is by far the greatest comedy of all time.

From the first scenes - Cheech waking up and pissing in the laundry hamper - Chong getting yelled at by the chauffeur as he drives away in the VW with the Rolls Royce grill he stole - Cheech dancing around as he dusts the "Love Machine" - Chong false advertising.

To the very end at the battle of the bands - Earache My Eye - "Mama talkin to me tryin to tell me how to live but I don't listen to her cause my head is like a sieve.

Dave? Dave's not here, man.

Earache my Eye

Beginning of movie

Born in East LA is better than that

For me personally, the movie I still laugh the hardest at every time I see it is probably Dumb & Dumber. That being said I really love some of the classics - Vacation, Christmas Vacation, Caddyshack, Ghostbusters..the list could go on and on.

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I challenge you to name a movie quoted more than this one.

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What wonderful logic!

That's like equating the most widely known song chorus to being the greatest piece of music ever written.

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Greatest comedy of all time

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Well, in terms of awards and accolades, it would have to be It Happened One Night, or Annie Hall, or Tootsie, or Some Like It Hot, or

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

my favs in no order

Dumb and Dumber
the jerk
airplane
naked gun
dazed and confused
swingers
office space
American pie
Old School