Classic comedy films recommendations

[Readman]

This thread is for recommendations of classic comedy films.

Marx Brothers

They've basically got four brilliant films, a bunch of mediocre ones and some really crap.

Their best one is probably Duck Soup, for a few reasons. The musical numbers actually make sense in terms of plot (as much as musical numbers do anyway), rather than just being tacked on. As a political satire it remains eerily relevant (it was banned in fascist Europe).

The other ones worth watching are A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races and Go West!.

Mel Brooks

What are the good Mel Brooks films? The first version of The Producers, Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles. The rest are entirely missable.

Misc. classic films

Caddyshack
Some like it hot
Harvey
Airplane!

...

Got any of your own to recommend?

[Lazlow]

As if Robin Hood: Men in Tights is totally missable.

[TAT]

Freddy Got Fingered.

[Lazlow]

The Backwards man
The backwards man
I can walk backwards as fast as you can
O,the backwards man the backwards man

[Readman]

As if Robin Hood: Men in Tights is totally missable.

There are two characters call 'Achoo' and 'Asneeze'.

[Jickle]

Duck Soup is amazing.

How are we defining 'classic' here? Does This is Spinal Tap count?

[Lazlow]

There are two characters call 'Achoo' and 'Asneeze'.


A jew? Here?

[Readman]

How are we defining 'classic' here? Does This is Spinal Tap count?

Sure.

Let's just say pre-1990, or post-1990 obscure but influential cult comedies. It's arbitrary, but it'll do for the purposes of the discussion.

[Hyperblau]

Animal House
Police Academy 1

[AranchineD]

The Naked Gun (all of them are pretty good actually)
Hot Shots (Part Deux is the better one, I think)


Police Academy 1

Why do you think I took you to all those "Police Academy" movies? For fun? Well, I didn't hear anybody laughing! Did you?!

[Daniel]

Anything Buster Keaton - especially The General.

[Lazlow]

I spent my youth watching every Police Academy movie.

[Jay]

I spent my youth watching every Police Academy movie.

Not possible. No one could get through them all in a 'youth'.

[AranchineD]

It's a well known scientific fact that watching a Police Academy movie ages your body by five years.

[TAT]

Oh God I'm a 56 year old man~

[Readman]

Animal House
Police Academy 1

Neither of these are actually funny. Animal House is the most overrated movie of all time.

[sausage]

Dr Strangelove for Peter Sellers at his peak plus the second Pink Panther movie had me in tears.

Special mention to Beverly Hills Cop and Trading Places.

[FrozenSoul80]

Spaceballs
Anchorman
Zoolander

[sausage]

How could I have forgotten Flying High?

[Ad-Rock]

Young Einstein

[dinopoke]

How could I have forgotten Flying High?

Maybe because it's already been listed? :p

[buckstwits]

the monty python films
network
dirty rotten scoundrels
the jerk
the party

[big_b]

Orgasmo!

[Readman]

Orgasmo and Baseketball I thought were both underrated.

Baseketball was a great film in that madcap Zucker, Abrams and Zucker model.

Which also neatly segues into the Naked Gun movies.

[Patdog]

Return of The Living Dead.

[TrinityJayOne]

Wrongfully Accused, infact anything with Leslie Nielson before he starting doing crap like Mr Magoo.

[aubergine]

Repeats will be on my list:

Flying High! / Airplane!
This Is Spinal Tap
Dodgeball
South Park Movie
The Three Amigos
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Puthon and the Life of Brian
Monty Python and the Meaning of Life
Ace Ventura Pet Detective
The Naked Gun

[Jickle]

Wait, why are people discussing movies other than This is Spinal Tap?

[BB2K]

This is our monthly "At Ease" weekend. It gives us a chance to let our hair down, although I see you've got a head start in that department. I'd better not stand too close to you, people might think I'm part of the band. I'm joking, of course.

[aubergine]

We're all big fans of your music. Not yours specifically but the whole "rock" genre.

[Lazlow]

The Freshman

[BB2K]

..... These go to eleven.

[aubergine]

Everything must be folded, and then you wind up with THIS, and I don't want THIS, I want LARGE BREAD.

[Stevorooni]

As if Robin Hood: Men in Tights is totally missable.

No joke, this is one of my favourite films - yet I don't even own the dvd!

Dracula: Dead and Loving It and Spaceballs are up there too.

I bought Blazing Saddles on Blu Ray when I saw JB had it cheap, I'd never seen it before but I got bored half way through and switched it off. I'll get back to it someday.

[TAT]

Dodgeball
South Park Movie
The Three Amigos
Ace Ventura Pet Detective
Motion supported!

[aubergine]

National Lampoon's Vacation and Christmas Vacation, and it's hard to go past Fletch as a watchable movie despite what Bill Hicks has to say about Chevy Chase.