Category: top 50 comedies
1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 2. Groundhog Day 3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 4. Airplane! 5. The Big Lebowski 6. This Is Spinal Tap 7. Duck Soup 8. Young...
directed by Stanley Kubrick While there can be a lot of humor in randomness, there’s something to be said for the importance of context. Whether it be emotional, historical, or intellectual, context can be the difference between hilarity and indifference....
directed by Harold Ramis Is there any actor, comedian, person or living creature better at simply reacting to things than one Bill Murray? I think not, and if you dare field a competitor, I beg of you to re-watch Murray...
directed by Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam Monty Python changed the world of sketch comedy in the 1960s, and The Holy Grail is my favorite of their forays into the world of cinema. Just as hilarious and irreverent today as...
directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker Airplane disaster movies surely were serious business in the 1970s. The success of Arthur Hailey’s 1968 novel Airport birthed a quartet of films in which airplanes run into trouble in the...
directed by Joel and Ethan Coen The Coen Brothers take the hard boiled film noir formula from The Big Sleep, twinge it just enough and somehow one the funniest movies ever pops out. The Big Lebowski isn’t exactly a spoof, and...
directed by Rob Reiner Rob Reiner didn’t create the mockumentary, but he created the most famous one in This Is Spinal Tap. With the help of genius improvisers Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer, Riener’s film gave us unbelievably...
directed by Leo McCarey The Marx Brothers had a spark of impishness that none of their contemporaries could really touch. Their films always brought them into the world of high society, and watched them spin chaos just for fun. Duck...
directed by Mel Brooks Mel Brooks’ films are always funny and always clever but some of them really take the cake and Young Frankenstein is a stand out among his work. Not only is it the only film he directed...
directed by Mel Brooks The King of Parody takes on the Western. Mel Brooks’ movie world is one populated with physical comedy, puns, sight gags, and all the trappings of broad madcap comedy. Blazing Saddles is one of his most...