Your top-ten list of all time funniest movies

Bring on your own choices and tell me where I'm missing some good comedies from the list please!

Funniest Comedies:

1: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (I Bet You're Gay/ No I'm not!)
2: It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (It's under a Big Dubya)
3: Blues Brothers (I Hate Illinois Nazis)
4: Manhattan Project (Sir, what about evacuation? / Evacuation? Of who? / The people. / Oh, you mean New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Canada... those people?)
5: Animal House (Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!)
6: Office Space (We find it's always better to fire people on a Friday. Studies have statistically shown that there's less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week.)
7: It Happened One Night (Aw, nuts! You're just like your old man! Once a plumber's daughter, always a plumbers daughter! There isn't an ounce of brains in your whole family!)
8: Rustler's Rhapsody (For some reason, the bad guy was always a Colonel who had a beautiful daughter and about a thousand head of cattle which you would hear but never see.)
9: Blazing Saddles (Come on, boys! The way you're lollygaggin' around here with them picks and them shovels, you'd think it was a hundert an' twenty degree. Can't be more than a hundert an' fourteen.)
10: Over the Hedge (Do you, in fact, have an Associates Degree from Vermtech!)

The Matador
Wedding Crashers
40 Year Old Virgin
Shallow Hal
Taladega Nights
Napoleon Dynamite
Dumb and Dumber
Zoolander
Wayne's World
All 3 Austin Powers movies

In no special order:

Joe Dirt
The Jerk
Blazing Saddles
Blues Brothers
Pink Panther (original)
Animal House
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
MASH
Up In Smoke
Life Of Brian

what? no It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World on anybody's list? For shame...

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I see a few good alternatives on some of the lists above (for my tastes).  Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a favorite though it gets perhaps a bit too crazy at times.

M*A*S*H was a good movie and very funny at parts, but I so enjoyed the TV series (which I saw many episodes of before seeing the movie of) that I never really enjoyed the movie.

The Pink Pather movies (with Peter Sellers) were funny though I like some of his other work a lot better.  One of my favorite movies (period) is Being There, but another that he was in (The Mouse that Roared) is up there also.

Joe Dirt was ok for me, which is sort of funny since it was panned pretty badly by most people.

Wedding Crashers was ok but drug on a bit too long.  For a second my dyslexia was kicking in and I was thinking the mention above was about The Wedding Singer which I also find funny.

My wife loved What About Bob, and I'm a big fan of National Lampoon Vacation.  The original of that was pretty funny.

A movie I don't necessarily consider a comedy, but which isn't that much drama either, Silver Streak was very funny at times.  It brought the great Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor pairing which was brought back for success later too.

My friends (at the site that inspired this article) mentioned Space Balls, which was also a favorite of my wife.  That movie took many airings to grow on me.  Much like another Mel Brooks classic, History of the World Pt. 1.  I originally didn't appreciate either one that much, but after several watchings, I came to find them funnier.

Waynes World is another favorite, though I don't know it would be on my "all time favorites" list.

I'm also reminded of a few Jim Carrey titles: Liar Liar, The Mask, Me, Myself and Irene, and Bruce Almighty were pretty funny too.  Anyway, several good choices up there though I'm interested in other alternatives still.

Shovelheat:

what? no It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World on anybody's list? For shame...

2: It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (It's under a Big Dubya)

Ahem... I agree, it is a great movie!

1. Airplane
2. Blazing Saddles
3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
4. Stripes
5. Police Academy
6. Its a Mad, Mad, Mad World
7. Animal House
8. M*A*S*H
9. History of the World, Part 1
10. Pink Panther

Crap, I just realized a few other titles that I completely missed...   bad movies, but funny none the less.

Porky's  (inspired somewhat by Dr. Guy's inclusion of Police Academy on the list... not sure why one reminds me of the other, but it does....)  The whole "Lassie" thing just cracks me up.

And just as quickly, I forget the other title I had wanted to mention (darned old age catching up with me quickly).  Hopefully I'll remember it and include it later.

I guess I need to see it's a mad, mad, mad, mad world. I never even heard of it. Is it old?

Wedding Crashers did kind of crash towards the end but Vince Vaughn's tyrades were worth a spot in my faves. He was hilarious.

I guess I need to see it's a mad, mad, mad, mad world. I never even heard of it.

You've led a sheltered life

It's a very funny movie.

There are so many it's hard to narrow it down to just 10.

guess I need to see it's a mad, mad, mad, mad world. I never even heard of it. Is it old?

It was done in about 62 or 63. It has Spencer Tracy, Buddy Hacket, Mickey Rooney, Phil Silvers, Peter Falk, Jim Bacchus, Milton Berle, Sid Cesar, Ethel Merman, Jonathan Winters, William Demerest, Andy Devine, Buster Keaton, Don Knotts, The Three Stooges, Jimmy Durante, Jack Benny, and Jerry Lewis. Basically a whos who in comedy from that time period.

It was done in about 62 or 63. It has Spencer Tracy, Buddy Hacket, Mickey Rooney, Phil Silvers, Peter Falk, Jim Bacchus, Milton Berle, Sid Cesar, Ethel Merman, Jonathan Winters, William Demerest, Andy Devine, Buster Keaton, Don Knotts, The Three Stooges, Jimmy Durante, Jack Benny, and Jerry Lewis. Basically a whos who in comedy from that time period.

A recent "update" (read that as: rip-off) of the original storyline might be the movie "Rat Race" (made in 2001) with Whoopie Goldberg, Brecken Meyer, Seth Green, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jon Lovitz and Kathy Najimy as a couple (with kids in tow), John Cleese as the master of ceremonies that sets up the big race so that the "whales" at the casino that sponsors the big race can then bet on who the winner will be, Dave Thomas (normally paired with Rick Moranis as Bob and Doug McKenzie, as in the movie "Strange Brew" -- another movie I would include on the list if in the right frame of mind), Rowan ("Mr. Bean") Atkinson, Amy Smart, Paul Rodriguez and more.

In both movies the idea is to get so much mad cap zaniness going on that you just can't stop laughing at the situation.

Personally, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad world did a much better job and was much funnier.  Rat Race was ok, but tried too hard really.  Mad... was just funny because of all the goings on chasing after a fortune (which would now be considered nothing but a paltry sum if memory serves, rather like Dr. Evil's plans to ask for One Meeeeellion Dollars ransom/blackmail money when Billions are tossed around like nothing, and Trillions are used for counting the National Debt/Budget, etc.) that was buried under the "big dubya"

The case that Dr. Guy mentions above goes chasing after the fortune to great comic effect with Milton Berle dragging along his mother-in-law (and griping about same the whole time) and others all comicly fighting each other to be the first to get to the money.

Oh -- I would add this about Mad....  If you snag it on DVD there's a nice little bonus bio/making of on the disc (or at least had been there when I rented the disc) that talks about how it all came together.

By memory and as evidenced by the cast list that Dr. Guy wrote above -- it included basically anybody that was anybody at the time and several people were left out because they just had so much going on with so many different cast members they couldn't fit it all in.

I don't remember the exact running time on the movie, but I remember it being a little long which is part of why you don't see it that often on TV any more.  It used to air once a year to every two years apart on the local TV stations that weren't network affiliated and such.  Now it would show up somewhere like American Movie Classics, or maybe Turner Classic Movies or some such.

Worth snagging on DVD (even as a rental) to sit back and enjoy.  Just be prepared for it to be a little long and definitely crazy.

I finally remembered the other title I had been trying not to forget -- Back to School with Rodney Dangerfield.  He was so funny in that movie and got to play such a great character.

Kentucky Fried Movie
A Mighty Wind
The Day After Tommorow (yeah, I know, it wasn't supposed to be......)
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
The Princess Bride
Spinal Tap
A Night at the Opera (The Marx Bros)
The Complete Works of Shakespeare Abridged
Four Rooms
Christmas Vacation

And about a bazillion others that I had to pick and choose from, damn your eyes!!!

Animal House

Uncle Buck

Stir Crazy

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

Ghostbusters

Sing a Song of Six Pants (3 Stooges short....does that count?)

Blazing Saddles

Home Alone

Adventures in Babysitting

Airplane


Honorable mention:

Trains, Planes and Automobiles

Beverly Hills Cop

Disorder in the Court (Stooges short)

Back to School ("I see you and I see Raoul...but what's with the midget over here in the corner?"....."Call me sometime when you...have no class". Gotta luv Rodney.)

ZOOLANDER!!!1 number one and I see amy was the only other person here with a real sense of what is funny/

How about "The Gods Must be Crazy?"

A belly achingly funny movie.

Beverley hills cop

blazing saddles

Meet the parents

Guess who

The Pink Panther - original with Peter Sellers

The Party - Peter Sellers

I cannot think of anymore just now.............

i know i'm late on this, but i noticed it in the tab and thought i'd chime in...

1) animal house (they can't do that to our pledges, only WE can do that to our pledges!)
2) airplane ( i picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue)
3) napoleon dynamite ( vote for pedro)
4) my blue heaven ( it's the shoes, right?)
5) clerks (yeah, i'd like to place an order...)
6) my cousin vinny ( would you like me to explain?)
7) young frankenstein (Igor!)
8) the meaning of life ( every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great. if a sperm gets wasted, God gets quite irate)
9) blues brothers (i'm murph, and these are the magic tones)
10) fast times at ridgemont high ( hey bud, let's party!)

Blazing Saddles


everything else is irrelevant

Idiocracy
Stripes
Caddyshack
Office Space
Don't be a Menace to Society While Drinking Your Gin and Juice in The Hood
The Big Lebowski
Spies Like Us
Trading Places
History of the World Part I
Spaceballs
Mallrats

In no particular order...

and I must give great mention to most of the Pink Panther movies, rarely do I laugh so hard.

"Yes, my greedy little yellow pimp."

Tears of laughter, Kato, tears of laughter.

Okay, if these count, I'd like to also add Trailer Park Boys: The Movie, Hallelujah Trail and The Great Race, as well as Grumpy Old Men.

...and who can forget Borat - poking fun at america was never this fun, since well, since Idiocracy...