Funniest comedies ever?

[Gojirob]

The first five Marx Brothers films. I dunno what it was he did, but Zeppo moved those movies from merely LOL to brilliance. Their later movies always made me laugh, but these were non-stop literal laugh riots. I'm guessing Whedon knew, but I'm never sure.

 

[Neroon]

Arsenic and Old Lace is another great screwball comedy, one which serves to heighten most anyone's appreciation for Cary Grant's diverse acting talents. But he's not the only star in this one. I can never remember the actors' names, but those who played Teddy Brewster as well as Aunt Martha and Aunt Abby really provide such a great balance of styles in the film.

 

[Gojirob]

His Girl Friday

 

[Jack Bauer]

Anyone mention The Great Race yet? A really funny movie. And Natalie Wood was hot as hell in it.

 

[Sheliak]

History of the World Part I
Rat Race
The Nutty Professor

 

[James Bond]

Rat Race

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY9t465wFyM

 

[ancientone51]

So many of my favorites have been named...but I must add: "The God's Must be Crazy."

The scene with the jeep and the gate and the rock and the hill...oh how I hurt from laughter.

 

[Barbados Slim]

The Court Jester
Annie Hall
Airplane!
Top Secret!
History of the World Pt I.
Blazing Saddles
Dr. Strangelove
Superbad
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Friday
About A Boy
Caddyshack
Ghostbusters

 

[Kryton]

The Court Jester

Heh..."The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon. The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true."

 

[Sheliak]

Whoopi!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFm0DofA8h8

 

[trekkiebaggio]

Dumb & Dumber, The Party, Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie (I still laugh so hard I can't breathe even though I've seen it so many times).

 

[The Great Meech]

In spite of its stupidity (probably because of it), Talladega Nights was the most I'd laughed at a movie in years.

 

[Neroon]

The Court Jester

Heh..."The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon. The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true."

(hangs head in shame for not mentioning this one earlier)

 

[ITL]

In spite of its stupidity (probably because of it), Talladega Nights was the most I'd laughed at a movie in years.

When one of the kids said "I'm gonna come atcha like a spider monkey!" in the dinner table scene I laughed mightily.

 

[Barbados Slim]

The Court Jester

Heh..."The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon. The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true."

(hangs head in shame for not mentioning this one earlier)

"The Duchess dove at the Duke just when the Duke dove at the Doge. Now the Duke ducked, the Doge dodged, and the Duchess didn't. So the Duke got the Duchess, the Duchess got the Doge, and the Doge got the Duke!"

 

[ELURIA]

The Three Amigos

What About Bob?

Groundhog Day

 

[Chocolate Log]

Alot of great ones mentioned so far so rather then re-suggest those I'll recomend mixed nuts a steve martin film, and bubble boy with jake gyllenhaal.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

The In-Laws starring Peter Falk and Alan Arkin

Oh man, The In-Laws was brilliantly funny. Every now and then, I'll flip through the TV Guide listings and see it and get excited for a second before I realize it's that crap Michael Douglas remake.

Aaaaahhhh! There's another one I forgot. Going on Netflix NOW!

SERPENTINE!!!

 

[M'Sharak]

God, I'd forgotten all about What's Up, Doc? . One of my favorite movies as a kid. I'm chuckling right now just thinking of the chase scene. I was never much of a Ryan O'Neil fan, but he and Babs played off of each other perfectly here.

And Kenneth Mars' delightfully bizarre performance as Hugh Simon. And the big chase. And the courtroom scene.

Check out an obscure movie called After Hours sometime.

And I loved the Producers. Seeing Will Ferrell as a Nazi was absolutely hilarious.

Not to be a party-pooer, but I liked the original better. Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder were comic gold!

With Kenneth Mars as the Nazi playwright. (He was also the nearly-incomprehensible Inspector in Young Frankenstein.)

The first five Marx Brothers films. I dunno what it was he did, but Zeppo moved those movies from merely LOL to brilliance. Their later movies always made me laugh, but these were non-stop literal laugh riots. I'm guessing Whedon knew, but I'm never sure.

What made those movies better than anything that followed was less Zeppo's presence and more that they were well-polished stage shows before they were movies, and ones on which the brothers and the writers were collaborators. The later Marx brothers movies were based upon formula writing by studio writers and the quality suffered accordingly.

Anyone mention The Great Race yet? A really funny movie. And Natalie Wood was hot as hell in it.

Brilliantly funny movie, and the best pie fight ever filmed.


Not mentioned yet: The Magic Christian

 

[stj]

Buster Keaton's Seven Chances and Sherlock Holmes Jr. are still funny.

More recent hilarious films overlooked here I think are Foul Play and Death Becomes Her.

They don't have any cachet but Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and Happy Gilmore were quite funny.

A couple of obscure films I thought quite funny were Out on a Limb, with Jeffrey Jones (in a dual role,) Matthew Broderick and John C. Reilly. Also, There Goes the Neighborhood, with Jeff Daniels, Catherine O'Hara, Jonathan Banks, Hector Elizondo, Judith Ivey, Rhea Perlman, Harris Yulin, Dabney Coleman, Chazz Palminteri, Jeremy Piven and Mary Gross.