In your opinion, funniest comedy of all time?

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19 votes, 3 passes | Time left: Unlimited
	Airplane (1980)
	2 (11%)
	The Big Lebowski (1998)
	1 (5%)
	Blazing Saddles (1974)
	8 (42%)
	The Producers (1967)
	0 (0%)
	Caddyshack (1980)
	0 (0%)
	A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
	0 (0%)
	Life of Brian (1979)
	2 (11%)
	National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
	1 (5%)
	Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
	0 (0%)
	Young Frankenstein (1974)
	5 (26%)
	3 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[Sancho]

1. Animal House

[FuzzyRabbit]

16. Mine also.

The first time I saw Animal House I said it was a documentary about my time in college in the mid 1960s. I knew every character in the movie except for the horse.

[True Dough]

2. The Trump administration

I laugh until I cry!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. This Is Spinal Tap

[unblock]

5. that is a good one

it goes all the way to 11.

[red dog 1]

15. I loved it and have seen it many times

Let's see how many others want it up there.
(Which one do I take down to make room for it?)

[ailsagirl]

23. YES!!

[livetohike]

37. Yes! Love it. Always makes me laugh. n/t

[subterranean]

78. +1

Few comedies actually make me laugh out loud, but that one did! At least the first time I watched it.

[bif]

82. Absolutely!

I have the deluxe edition with a few scenes they left out of the movie. Some very funny stuff.

[unblock]

4. life of brian? that isn't even the funniest monty python movie!

holy grail!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

8. Book of Armaments..Chapter 2

And St. Attila raised the hand grenade up on high , saying "Oh Lord, bless this thy hand grenade, that which it thou mayest blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy."

And the Lord did grin.

And the people did feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and fruits bats, and breakfast cereals.....

And the Lord spake, saying "First, thou shalt take out the Holy Pin. Then though shalt count to three, no more, no less.

Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number shall be three.

Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting thou shalt proceed to three.

Five is right out.

Once the number three, being the third number be reached,then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch toward thy foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snffit."

[genxlib]

11. My thoughts exactly

Holy Grail is the best.

[wakemewhenitsover]

91. Hear, hear!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

6. Wheres Poppa?

[NanceGreggs]

9. Absolutely one of my all-time faves!

"The Odd Couple" is in my Top Ten as well.

[red dog 1]

17. I don't know where he is

but I know where he isn't....(He isn't in the funniest top 10 comedies)

[Floyd R. Turbo]

72. :

[Laffy Kat]

53. Oh my, never saw it but now I want to. I always adored Ruth Gordon. nt

[Auggie]

7. Eating Raoul (1982)

I've never laughed harder at any first viewing

[Still Blue in PDX]

59. Hilarious! nt

[lunatica]

10. I love Young FrankenstEEEEN!

[dvduval]

12. The Jerk

And Borat would not make my top 20

[red dog 1]

13. The Jerk was very funny, and I love Steve Martin

but I disagree with you about Borat.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

14. A Fish Called Wanda

[red dog 1]

18. Don't call me stupid!

[red dog 1]

42. You can vote for it now

(It's now a poll option)

[jberryhill]

19. The Exorcist

Cracks me up every time.

[2naSalit]

20. ...

"A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum" w/Zero Mostel.

https://archive.org/details/AFunnyThingHappenedOnTheWayToTheForum

[HeartachesNhangovers]

21. The Producers

[red dog 1]

39. "I'm the concierge, my husband used to be the concierge,but he's dead, so now, I'm the concierge

"We're looking for Frans Liebkind"

"Oh the Kraut!....He's up on the roof....with his birds (boids)...filthy, stinking, 'boids"



(I voted for Borat, and since no one else voted for it, I'll put The Producers up in place of Borat)

[red dog 1]

43. The Producers is now a poll option

[MustLoveBeagles]

22. I'll have to go with the majority-Blazing Saddles

I do like several of the other choices though.

[ailsagirl]

24. I guess Being There isn't a contender

One of my all-time favourite films

https://www.thedailybeast.com/being-there-is-the-trump-eras-bible

[surrealAmerican]

25. Wait a minute - there's nothing on that list before the 1970s.

Most of my choices are older than that.

[red dog 1]

46. The Producers is on the list now (1967)

I thought about putting "Some Like It Hot" and/or "The Odd Couple) up there
(both from the 1950s)

[surrealAmerican]

61. You're right. I don't know how I missed that.

I'd kind of like to see some Marx brothers there too, and maybe a few screwball comedies ...

[red dog 1]

74. I love The Marx Brothers

I especially love their first film, "The Cocoanuts"

Duck Soup was also great.

(You only get 10 "options" when doing a DU poll)

I would also have liked to put "Take the Money and Run" up there as well as "Spinal Tap", and the aforementioned "Some Like It Hot" & "The Odd Couple"

[applegrove]

26. Used to be "The Ref"

[blm]

27. Some Like it Hot

.

[red dog 1]

34. (Takes wig off) "I'm a Man!"

"Nobody's perfect"

[Stuart G]

95. If you have not seen "Some Like it Hot" (1959).well. "Nobody's perfect."

rated one of the funniest ever. 1959.. Lots of people haven't..see it.

[Sanity Claws]

28. The Producers

Interesting how there are several Mel Brooks movies in this list.

[red dog 1]

44. You can now vote for The Producers...It's been added as a poll choice.

[ghostsinthemachine]

29. The Jerk?

He hates these cans!

[Ohiya]

70. Funniest scene ever!

Starting with the phone book!

[ghostsinthemachine]

73. Yep.

So many great comedies and great comedians in that period.
That scene though was hilarious. Few as funny.

[smirkymonkey]

86. I just finished watching that a few minutes ago.

Definitely in my top 10!

[OhZone]

30. Monty Python and the Holy Grail duh -

My uncle is a MAJOR COMEDY fan and he got me in go a lot of old movies.

Like - Duck Soup, It's a Gift, Sherlock Jr, and Return of the Pink Panther.

[Awsi Dooger]

65. Thirded

I need to launch a Holy Hand Grenade toward the person who excluded anything Python from this poll

[OhZone]

69. ikr - it's like they don't even know the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

Also - ni!

[TygrBright]

31. How could you leave "A Fish Called Wanda" off this list!?!? n/t

[red dog 1]

36. So which one do I take down to make room for it?

[red dog 1]

45. It's now a poll option

So you can vote for it

[ClarendonDem]

32. Young Frankenstein was hilarious

Laughed really hard at American Pie, Superbad, and Old School, and think those are funnier.

[dchill]

33. Uncle Buck.

In MY opinion, funniest comedy of all time.
You asked me.

[NightWatcher]

41. Here's a quarter, why don't you go downtown and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face.

[dchill]

50. "Hmm! Unbreakable!"

[nocoincidences]

35. The Ritz

Rita Moreno/Googie Gomez had me screaming with laughter and still does.

[rainy]

38. Bridesmaids

[wishstar]

57. The airplane scenes-Kristin Wiig and Melissa McCarthy!

[rainy]

63. And the air marshal😂😆

[Upthevibe]

67. I LOVED Bridesmaids too. I also thought The Hangover was absolutely

hysterical. Stu to Alan, "You're literally too stupid to insult." Soooooooooo funny!

[NightWatcher]

40. I'm a huge movie nerd and my list would be too long. 1.Clerks 2.Police Academy 4

[KT2000]

47. Spy

especially the part played while the credits were running.
I laughed a lot at parts of Borat too.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was funny too.

[red dog 1]

102. There are so many great scenes in Borat,

including Borat chasing his producer out of their hotel room in the nude, get into the elevator, and when they reach the lobby, the chase continues, and they run into a large room full of realtors.

But probably the funniest scene was when Borat calls the black hooker to join him for dinner at the segregationists' house.

[KT2000]

106. the nude wrestling scene

my friend and I were both choking we were laughing so hard. It was almost dangerous.

[First Speaker]

48. Duck Soup...

...followed closely by any of the Marxes, You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, The General, Arsenic and Old Lace, Bringing Up baby, My Man Godfrey, The Awful Truth...classic comedies, but they appeal the most to me...

[enid602]

49. Eating Raoul

'Eating Raoul.' "But don't you want to get free-eee?"

[Laffy Kat]

55. That was a weird one.

I thought it was a scream although it's not for everyone.

[enid602]

56. Eating Raoul

My favorite LA movie. Along with Barflies and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? And of course Mommy Dearest and Chinatown.

[Laffy Kat]

58. You mean Barfly?

I loved that movie. Haven't thought about it in years.

[pangaia]

51. Blazing Saddles,, No contest..

See how funny it is??

[Turbineguy]

52. The Great Race.

For me it just edges out Blazing Saddles.

[demosincebirth]

54. Planes, trains and automobles.

[CentralMass]

60. Young Frankenstein

[yardwork]

62. Dr. Strangelove.

[TomSlick]

64. Blazing Saddles

I was in high school when Blazing Saddles was released. I remember sitting in a small town theater with a couple of friends. Governor Lepetomane was saying something - no one remembers what - while fondling a statue. My friends and I were rolling. Everyone else in the theater were listening carefully to the dialog and trying to figure out what was so funny.

When we figured out that we were the only ones laughing and that everyone else was confused, we collapsed in laughter. Great night for a too smug teenager.

[William Postsalot]

66. Airplane in Third Place???

[parkia00]

68. Fierce Creatures!

You forgot Fierce Creatures!!!!!!!111111

[Laxman]

71. Serpentine Shell, Serpentine......

The In-Laws. Alan Arkin and Peter Falk were great. Just a crazy funny movie. Tse-Tse Flies as big as eagles.....

[VOX]

75. Jacques Tati's "Monsieur Hulot's Holiday" (1953)

Gloriously silly and the visual gags are accessible to anyone on the planet. The highest level of art in film comedy. If you've never seen it, do so ASAP!

Some clips:

[Eliot Rosewater]

76. Hands down

[JonLP24]

77. The Man Who knew too little

Bowfinger and Tucker & Dale vs Evil.

[Mike Nelson]

79. That was easy...

..."Young Frankenstein". It would have been hard for me to choose if you'd included "Arthur" (the Dudley Moore film).

[Bayard]

80. No Princess Bride?

I've seen it 50 times, and it still makes me cackle. So does Buckaroo Bonzai. John Lithgow is hysterical.

[denbot]

90. I know

"My Name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father. Now prepare to die".

The Goon Squad,

The Pit of Despair.

These guys!

[Bayard]

93. Inconceivable!

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

[patricia92243]

81. "It's a mad, mad, mad, mad World." Outdated now, but funny in it's day. n/t

[aka-chmeee]

107. My choice as well,

although of those offered, picked Blazing Saddles

[Texasgal]

83. I don't know about of all time...

but I could watch "Trading Places" over and over again!

" You want me to break something else?"

[sakabatou]

84. Duck Soup

[Awsi Dooger]

85. Whoops...Life of Brian is in there

I didn't see Holy Grail and ripped the poll for nothing Python.

My goof

[Demoiselle]

87. The Inlaws.(Alan Arkin has FLAMES on his CAR!!!!)

[Zorro]

88. Tropic Thunder may be at the top of my list

Tom Cruise's performance is off-the-charts hilarious, but all the rest of the A/B-list cast are incredible, too.

[TexasBushwhacker]

92. Pineapple Express too

For more recent films, they made me laugh A LOT. I loved that they cast Franco and Rogen against type.

[red dog 1]

103. I hated Pineapple Express the first time I saw it

I wanted my money back.

Then I watched it again and sort of liked it.

Then I watched it a 3rd time and began to love it.

I've now probably seen it at least 15 times.

My favorite scene is when Franco & Rogan are in the woods at night, hear a noise, and start running, with Rogan falling down twice & finally crashing into a tree.

(Flawed, uneven movie, but still very funny)

[TexasBushwhacker]

104. I agree it was uneven

But redeemed itself with some parts that were just hilarious. Now the director, David Gordon Green, made "Your Highness" a couple of years later and it was just awful.

[red dog 1]

89. The Producers (1967)

Also, The Odd Couple, Borat, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Take the Money and Run

[Stuart G]

94. Some Like it Hot..1959

[TexasBushwhacker]

105. It has not aged well for me

I remember seeing it as a kid in the 60s and 70s and liked it, but now when I watch it, it just seems sexist and Sugar comes off as a golddigger.

[Stuart G]

96. Funniest movie scene, ever, warning, it's crude, "Something About Mary"

This scene is from " There is Something About Mary.." This guy gets something caught in his zipper...guess what? I was laughing so hard when I saw this, I was bent over with laughter. (most of it is shown, but not all)..

[red dog 1]

108. Very funny movie!

I love Markie Post (she played Mary's mom)

[syringis]

97. Not sure it is listed as comedy

Fargo

I have seen it several times. It cracks me up.

[red dog 1]

109. I've seen it at least 20 times

"Where is pancakes house?"

[retread]

98. Much, much more than just comedies, I would say Modern Times followed closely by City Lights.

Timeless classics.

[AmandaRuth]

99. i know these have been mentioned, but i want to get my vote in

some like it hot,

followed closely by

This is Spinal Tap

[Paula Sims]

100. Blazing Saddles

It's sad that it couldn't be made today - it lambasts all groups and shows the idiocy of society. I'm one of the few females that can quote nearly the entire movie!

[red dog 1]

101. Are there more beans, Mr. Taggart?