What is your Favourite comedy movie

Melissa McCarthy - Spy

PeeWee’s Big Adventure

Mrs. Doubtfire

Emperor’s New Groove

Some Like It Hot

Pretty much any Mel Brooks movie, especially the two pillars of Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. His wit is so sharp, the set designs are charming and evocative, and the acting is perfect down to the extras and supporting players in the town of Rock Ridge and in Transylvania.

I’ve mentioned this movie before but Hot Fuzz is absolutely brilliant - the editing, the subtle clues throughout, the silliness - I will watch it again and again and still howl with laughter.

Animal House, Blues Brothers, Stripes, and Caddyshack hit when I was in late junior high/early high school so of course we memorized them and acted out various scenes at school while cracking each other up: “I was booooorn to love you, I was booooorn to lick your face…” and I still laugh at the anarchy in each of these movies. I miss that.

Some like it hot is one of my favourites. Emperors new groove is an interesting choice. I dont know how we havent gotten a Spy 2? Mrs Doubtfire is lovely and cozy...like Splash.

I was too young and probably too gay for the Stripes, Animal House kind of movies. Is Hollywood unable to make us laugh or has everything been done? This Laurel and Hardy scene makes me howl with laughter. I showed it to a bedridden friend who soon after died and he laughed so much. Its a moment, his family say, brought them all a lot of joy at the time and remembering it. Is it the writers or maybe we dont have good comedy actors now? Kevin Harts shtick is funny enough but done to death now. Remember Whoopi in Ghost? Hysterical. The bank scene is class. Why do I have to go back that far to reference something funny?

[quote]please STOP doing that Melissa; its commendable but its ruining your legacy

A legacy of fat girls shitting themselves and being stuffed into gorgeous gowns?

oops ... The laurel and Hardy scene

In Bruges (2006). It's my favorite comedy and in my top five favorite movies. Watching it always puts me in a good mood.

Fatal Attraction

G as a sex kitten never fails to make me laugh

Woody Allen’s early, funny movies

R6 Yes..its a style of comedy called gross out. its usually male driven and i never cared for it...but Bridesmaids had heart. I love Mel Brooks...genius. Ive recently discovered Larry David and watched all episodes and loved it....but thats TV..and again both rate and 20 years old.

oops...rare..not rate ... Do you think its an age thing? Or more specificly a decade thing. And we remain in love with m9vies that were aimed at us then..and they arent aimed at us now? My dads still rewatched 60s and 70s comedy movies when i was a kid...Mel Brooks and Woody Allen a lot. But surely funny is funny. The Marx brothers, Laurel and Hardy were well before my time but I love them. Who is making the people lol nowadays...and i'll check them out.

I love Spy, and The Heat.

Do you laugh more if you are watching it in a crowded movie theatre vs at home alone?

Home alone because I'm free to laugh at the really stupid stuff or the stuff that's not meant to be funny.

Airplane

The Producers..a classic but still hilarious. The Nazi musical number could never be done today. . Bridesmaids, Caddyshack, the last 20 minutes of Tootsie.

Duck Soup

Bringing Up Baby

Raising Arizona

The General

Jacque Tati's Playtime

John Waters’ Hairspray from 1988

Thank You For Smoking is pretty good.

I used to show clips from it to my American Government students.

The Awful Truth

I completely neglected Buster Keaton’s entire catalogue, Duck Soup, and Bananas - Woody Allen was at his best when showing his deep Marx Brothers influence and Bananas is so absurd it makes me cry with laughter.

What's Up, Doc

What's Up, Doc?

1. What's Up Doc? 2. Young Frankenstein 3. Showgirls

The movie that was like a carnival ride from start to finish, I'm So Excited. Also, Women on the Verge

Great choices everyone!

I’ll add The Producers and Bullets Over Broadway

Woody Allen was the KING from Take The Money And Run to Bananas, to Sleeper (a comic masterpiece), to Love and Death, to Annie Hall, to Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, which is a criminally underrated sidesplitting BLAST of a film, to Zelig (another masterpiece), to Broadway Danny Rose. That streak is unbeatable. And then the Judy Davis scene in Husbands and Wives where she starts raging about men at the home of her prospective opera date, just phenomenal. Nothing touches Woody when he's on form.

It's Spinal Tap for me

Best in Show

Drop Dead Gorgeous. Not a big success but it’s lasted and I’ll watch it every few years.

Shaun of the Dead

Young Frankenstein

Death Becomes Her

Arsenic and Old Lace

I love the Minnesota accent Kirstie Ally does in Drop Dead Gorgeous.

What’s Up Doc ?

Waiting for Guffman, and another vote for What’s Up, Doc?

Unintentional comedy: Mommie Dearest, and another vote for Showgirls.

Serial Mom!

I have watched Horrible Bosses more times than should be allowed, and I laugh until my stomach hurts every time. The three leads have insane chemistry together, and I am an eternal sucker for Jason Bateman's straight man schtick. He's just inherently so goddamn funny. Also always a pleasure to see Kevin Spacey doing comedy.

Clue is my favorite comedy movie. Coming to America is a close second.

Now Voyager

Sweet Home Alabama is a fun movie. It's a nice feel-good movie with a cute gay storyline.

What's Up Doc, Arthur (the Dudley Moore one), Play it Again Sam, the Full Monty. I'm sure there are more but I can't think of them. I don't like those horrid "hangover" type movies. They're just not funny. They're just stupid.

Election, To Die For, The Lonely Guy, Zoolander

Sophie's Choice.

Another Horrible Bosses fan here. The sequel wasn't nearly as good. Office Christmas Party was hilarious too.

Another vote for What's Up Doc. I've been on DL for years, and I would bet WUD is the #1 favorite on here.

Albert Brooks' Lost in America is another favorite of mine.

OP, I totally agree with your assessment of Melissa McCarthy's career. I think she's brilliant in Spy and The Heat, but the movies she makes for her husband are awful! She must really love the guy to partake in them.

Tootsie (1982)- For me it’s a movie I can watch over and over.

What about 9 to 5? That's a classic.

I tried to watch 9 to 5 fairly recently. I couldn't get thru it. It seemed dated and stupid.

Working Girl

The Graduate

Oh my god, R38 of course, CLUE is one for the ages. One of my all-time favorites, I can't believe I forgot about it.

I remember thinking The End was hilarious when I was a kid. Tried to watch it recently and I had to turn it off.

Jerry Lewis' "Cracking Up" is one of my favorite films ever. It's not everyone's cup of tea but some of those scenes/characters have stayed with me for decades. The entire opening credits sequence of him sliding off the furniture in the therapist's office, omg. It just goes on and on. Jerry was a one-man comedy army.

Most of mine have been mentioned already:

Animal House

Horrible Bosses

Arthur

Best in Show

Spinal Tap

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

The Hangover

Meet the Parents

Princess Bride

Porky's

The Austin Powers movies. There are 2 types of people in the world. You either crack-up at them in a good way, find them extremely funny as I do, or you can't get over how unfunny and stupid the comedy is -

The last time I truly tears producing, belly-laughed at a movie is during the Jerry Springer scene in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.

Follies

Hot Tub Time Machine splits my sides and fills my Gen X horndog heart.

Girls Trip and Office Christmas Party will do in a pinch, too.

Oh, and Fun Size. I love Fun Size.

This is Spinal Tap along with the rest of the Christopher Guest mockumentaries.

Young Frankenstein and History of the World Part I by Mel Brooks

The Frisco Kid starring Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford. This one may not be well known. A Rabbi and a bank robber have to get to San Francisco in the old west. Just trust me.

Dogma

Defending Your Life. If you see one movie before you die...

r56, I find most of his movies get funnier upon viewing, especially "So I Married an Axe Murderer".

Raising Arizona

This is Spinal Tap and the two Brady Bunch movies. They always make me laugh.

Lost in America

r61, So many have told me to watch SIMAAM and now you've praised it, too.

For sure, it's going on my This Winter Snowy Saturday Afternoon watch list.

I love a lot of the movies mentioned above. I also really love Barb and Star, Clockwatchers, Big Tease, Bottoms, Harold and Kumar, Home For the Holidays, The Daytrippers.

R65 It's great. Criminally underrated.

Serial Mom was great. Most movies by John Waters are funny.

Some like it hot, and Clockwise.