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BBC Culture polled 253 film critics from 52 countries to determine the funniest films ever made. Out of the top 100 I think I have seen about 50, though of the remaining 51, (yes there are 101 films in the top 100 :rolleyes: :LOL:) there are a number I have seen, but not in so many years to have been memorable enough. And some I haven't heard of before. There is a good write up about gender differences and regional differences in tastes in comedy.

Here is their Top 10

1. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)
2. Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
3. Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
4. Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993)
5. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)
6. Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979)
7. Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, 1980)
8. Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
9. This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984)
10. The General (Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton, 1926)

The full list can be found here.

My Top 10 only includes 3 of their Top 10. :eek: :LOL:

Here is my Top for anyone who is interested, :LOL: with the numbers where they placed in the BBC poll.

1. (81) There's Something About Mary (Bobby and Peter Farrelly, 1998)
2. (30) Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati, 1953)
3. (20) Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, 1974)
4. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014)
5. (11) The Big Lebowski (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1998)
6. (4) Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993)
7. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2000)
8. (53) The Blues Brothers (John Landis, 1980)
9. (9) This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984)
10. (6) Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979)

Two of my favourites, The Grand Budapest Hotel and O Brother, Where Art Thou? didn't even make their 100. :eek::thinking: :LOL:
 
Never held much stock in the opinions of film critics, to be honest, but I do agree that Groundhog Day is right up there.
 
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Airplane rightly in the top ten. Probably my No 1. I'd have Me, myself and Irene in there somewhere too.
 
3,4,6,7,9 are all classics. Life of Brian is IMO the funniest film ever made, particularly John Cleese giving a lesson in Latin grammar.

Love the Blues Brothers and Big Lebowski too.
 
Is it news to anyone else that Pulp Fiction and Withnail and I are considered comedies?

I've seen quite a few, though probably less than half. While I tend not to have favourites or rank things that way, Spinal Tap, Mars Attacks, Monty Python and the Holy Grail and The Blues Brothers would probably be in a personal top 10.
 
Pulp fiction is barely considered a film. :ROFLMAO:
 
Pulp Fiction is a great film but not a comedy.

Not really thought of a list myself but would probably say these would make it into a top 10:

Python - Grail, Brian & Life - all total classics
Freddy got Fingered (I think I may have been the only person to find it funny!)
Chaplin - Modern Times, a real classic
Very Important Person
The Ladykillers
Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines
Bad Santa
Carry On Dick
 
cambsno said:
Freddy got Fingered (I think I may have been the only person to find it funny!)

Very Important Person
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I've never heard of those two. :thinking:

You may have been one of the few that thinks Freddy got Fingered was funny though, judging from the 4.5/10 it gets at at IMDB. :LOL:
 
I only recognise 4 titles out the 2 groups the OP listed.

Dr. Strangelove and Blazing Saddles I liked a lot.
 
Ten films which I can watch again and always laugh:

Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
The Burbs
Planes Trains and Automobiles
Hot Fuzz
Life of Brian
Airplane
Caddyshack
Meet the Parents
Meet the Fockers
 
andy700 said:
Ten films which I can watch again and always laugh:

Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
The Burbs
Planes Trains and Automobiles
Hot Fuzz
Life of Brian
Airplane
Caddyshack
Meet the Parents
Meet the Fockers
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4 of yours (in bold) would be on my list as well as:

Shaun of the Dead
The Worlds End
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
The Blues Brothers
Trading Places
M*A*S*H
 
fabs said:
4 of yours (in bold) would be on my list as well as:

Shaun of the Dead
The Worlds End
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
The Blues Brothers
Trading Places
M*A*S*H
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Great films.
I really like a lot of the US comedy films with Will Ferrell, Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller - Zoolander, Blades of Glory, Tropic Thunder.
 
fabs said:
4 of yours (in bold) would be on my list as well as:

Shaun of the Dead
The Worlds End
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
The Blues Brothers
Trading Places
M*A*S*H
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Forgot about young Frankenstein, and the worlds end (especially the first 30 mins) is brilliant.
 
I found Dumb and Dumber to be funny when I watched it, though it'd probably be crap now.
 
andy700 said:
Great films.
I really like a lot of the US comedy films with Will Ferrell, Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller - Zoolander, Blades of Glory, Tropic Thunder.
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I must be one of the few that doesn't find Will Ferrell funny. I quite like Ben Stiller, I enjoyed Night at the Museum & Dodgeball.
 
national lampoon animal house for me a porkys
 
Would have thought Way Out West (Laurel & Hardy) would be on the list, but can see a couple of other L & H films on there anyway.
 
I liked Uncle Buck, but probably because I had an uncle that was like him.

Blazing Saddles, Life of Brian and Animal House, Airplane would be my favourite comedies.

Now I'm older and a miserable old git I'm not so keen on comedies:(
 
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