Some Like it Hot, Planes Trains & Autommobiles, Caddyshack

My favorite comedy is Scary Movie 3.

I love the movies "Liar, Liar" and "Bruce Almighty" with Jim Carrey.

I love Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and Johnny English...and there are more that I can't remember!

Borat of course. This movie is real masterpiece and Sasha is genius. I mean idea is brilliant so is realization. I like Azamat Bagatov very much

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Monty Python's The Life of Brian
Space Balls
Kung Pow
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Blazing Saddles...those are some of my favorites.

Well... what Comedy made me laugh the most?

Either Airplane! or Murder by Death. Those movies are beyond hilarious!

Actually the movie that made me laugh the most times was Shriek! If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th. But that's because I'm a horror fan. And a love of dark, satirical humor. So this was a really fun watch. The first time. The second time... it all starts to lose it's humor.

So, best? It's back to either Murder by Death or Airplane! Murder by Death is a bit slow, while Airplane! just keeps them coming at an insanely fast pace. And I know people that hate silly comedies that just laughed their butt off at this movie.

So, I'm going to have to go with Airplane!

I agree with TrueHorrorFan. Airplane! makes me laugh almost non-stop for the entire run of the film. The sight gags are brilliant, the lines are hilarious. I know it's kind of stupid, but that's the whole point. You have to take it for what it is and enjoy it, because it's just really really funny.

I would also rank Some Like it Hot, Shaun of the Dead, Caddyshack and There's Something About Mary up there as some of the best comedies of all time.

Ooh...

Some Like it Hot is too...old-fashioned for it's humor to still hold up today. I also side myself with the crowd that think: A) embarassment humor is overrated, and B) men-in-dresses is just not that funny.

There's Something About Mary is just plain gross. Way too gross.

Caddyshack is only really funny because of Rodney Dangerfield. And out of all of the comedians in the movie, he gets the least screentime.

It's a hard one....

But I nominate the following...

Anything featuring Monty Python... geniuses!
A Fish Called Wanda
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Young Frankenstein (love the bit with the bookcase)
Zoolander
Animal House
Hudson Hawk
The Whole Nine Yards

and...
correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe anyone has mentioned Revenge of the Nerds.. which is definitely one of the funniest movies I have ever seen... well, it's in the top 5 anyway...

There are probably heaps of others, but these are the only ones that spring to mind at this present point in time...

Animal House... About as funny as having acupuncture performed on you with tent spikes while you're standing in an elevator.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Someone mentioned Strictly Ballroom. The actress playing the ditzy mother was a friend of mine called Pat Thompson. We were having coffee one day and she said she had to go to a ballroom dancing lesson for a movie she was going to be in. I thought to myself "A movie about ballroom dancing....thats going to be a great hit." Lucky I like eating crow.

Plains, Trains and Automobiles is the funniest movie in the world! "You're going the wrong way!" Never laughed so hard at a movie.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Super Troopers
Better Off Dead
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Caddyshack
8 Heads In A Duffel Bag
Dodgeball
Mallrats
Clerks
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
The Wedding Singer
Booty Call
Cannibal The Musical
Team America
Happy Gilmore (Go To Your Home!)
Whoopi Boys

*edited to ask if anyone knows where I can buy "Whoopi Boys" on DVD in Australia*

Can you tell I watch stuff in the wee small hours after being at work for ridiculous numbers of hours? It tends to warp the mind........

Anything with Monty Python definately.
Arrghhh I forget the name, it starts with "b" its funny, O right! Blackadder. That's pretty good.

Mine are

Borat
Meet the Parents
Jerky Boys
Knocked Up

I have a strange sense of humor and I love cheesy horror films. My picks, therefore, are Army Of Darkness, and Dead Alive. I would have to give a shout out for the ever-classic, Airplane. And I must admit that I actually enjoyed Zoolander.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I have many favourite comedy movies, I love all the Monty Pythons, Peter Sellers is always a rib-tickler, the old 'Thin Man' series is amusing, albeit dated. I appreciate the one-liner humour in "Star Wars". John Cleese and 'Fawlty Towers' cracks me up, Manuel is a killer. Mel Brooks' films are always funny, but most of the Woody Allen flicks leave me cold. Some of the Jim Carrey movies such as 'Liar, Liar' are amusing, but i find the modern comedies which insist on explaining the humour leave me cold. Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider, are, in my opinion, over-rated. I have never appreciated 'Friends', and 'Seinfeld' is a waste of air-time, in my opinion. John Candy, (may he rest in peace) is not funny, just a fat man on the silver and big screen. Gene Wilder is a a stitch, as is Richard Pryor, who is one of the funniest stand-ups i have ever seen! Yahoo Serious is also excellent.

Can't imagine that nobody has mentioned my favorite one... "The Heartbreak Kid."

I must have seen it 4-5 times and it's still hilarious. When Grodin explains his problem to Eddie Albert... or when he's discussing the "sincerity of the potatoes"... hilarious stuff.

Another one not mentioned is "Fierce Creatures." I liked it bettr than the often compared "Fish Called Wanda."

A few of my favorite funny movies:

1. This is Spinal Tap
2. O'Brother Where Art Thou
3. Ocean's Eleven

Caddyshack, of course.

First to say, how it can be asked picks of the *best ever* and then have something chosen be called "dated" is a bit confusing to me. Ever is a v-e-r-y long time; it didn't begin in 1985, despite accusations thereto !

Anyway, looking at 'all-time' (which would include any number of comedy genres within that large framework), I'd probably pick:

- Almost anything when Buster Keaton was on the top of his game. If he was good, he was hysterical.
- "The Phiadelphia Story", subtle (or, some say, sophisticated ) as it happened, was hilarious!
- Whoever said "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" - hearty agreement there.
- I gotta say it, there were moments in "Tootsie" that had me almost peeing my pants.
- Agreed, too, on "Young Frankenstein" ("Blazing Saddles", too, speaking of Mr. Brooks)
- I think, though, out of all the comedies I've seen (and with due respect to the millions that I haven't) that the most entertaining, occasionally uproarious, intelligent and heartful one would be "Some Like It Hot". Personally, I find men clumsily disguised as women a laugh riot (unless Patrick Swayze and Wesley Snipes are in such a film, that is).

I guess I'm rickety and don't find this "gross-out" comedy all that fun. I liked it better back when it was an option (it's clearly not a "new" idea). Now? It seems there's no comedies OTHER than that sort of thing. The funniest movie I've seen in a decade, quite frankly, was the first "Shrek". Why I found that so funny I can't tell ya. But I did. Must have been the right day for me to see that particular movie? Comedy's like that, I think. It has to hit you at the very right time.

Whew ! Sorry about that. Hadn't planned to write a book. I will shut up now...

You have done a fine job running down some great screen comedies, Gats. It does bear mentioning, however, that none of them promenently features a gopher.