Top Ten Comedies of all Time
The best comedy movies also enjoy a freedom that seems out of place in most other media, with run-times that allow them to develop complicated but self-contained worlds, the full buffet of acting, editing, and musical options, and the (frequent) R ratings that give them the appropriate range of artistic motion.
remains one of the greatest comedies of all time, ... And Groundhog Day, ... RECOMMENDED BY FORBES.
Some Like It Hot. Photograph: Allstar/UNITED ARTISTS/Sportsphoto Ltd./Allstar T hough it takes place in the Roaring Twenties, Some Like it Hot can be thought of as the first great American comedy of the swinging 60s.
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is a 2004 American comedy film directed by Adam McKay, produced by Judd Apatow, starring Will Ferrell, and written by McKay and Ferrell. The film is a tongue-in-cheek take on the culture of the 1970s, particularly the new Action News format.
And if you think General Ripper is an over-the-top slur on the good name of America's military might, then you've never come across the real-life head of strategic air command, US Air Force General Curtis "bombs away" LeMay – as floridly insane as any character in Strangelove.
And if we had to name the all-time best Woody Allen romantic comedy, it would be Annie Hall. Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. Boy loses girl. Boy comes over to girl’s apartment to kill a spider. Repeat. Annie Hall changed the way movie makers told love stories, and its influence can still be seen in modern-day rom-coms.
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Jeff Bridges as The Dude in The Big Lebowski (2009) Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd./Allstar I t says a lot about the Coen brothers that The Big Lebowski – their feverishly adored, relentlessly quoted, 1998 stoner comedy – may not even be their best film.
Monty Python's Life of Brian, ... The film was named "greatest comedy film of all time" by several magazines ... Not all the Pythons agree on the ...
Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles was recently released on Blu Ray, and the man behind some of the most classic comedies we’ve ever seen has something to say about it. According to the pioneer of parody films, the Gene Wilder and Cleavon Little film is four of the best comedies of all time.
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There are a lot of comedies out there. Some are really good, or great (see the list below), but some are called The Pest, or B.A.P.S. or Lorenzo's Oil. For every good comedy, there is approximately a s@#!ton of bad ones. But we here at IGN Movies managed to sift through the bad and find the really ...
Shaun of the Dead is a 2004 British comedy horror film directed by Edgar Wright, written by Wright and Simon Pegg, and starring Pegg and Nick Frost. Pegg plays Shaun, a directionless Londoner who is caught in an apocalyptic zombie uprising.
National Lampoon’s Animal House, one of the most successful American film comedies of all time, was filmed in the Eugene area in the fall of 1977.The producers needed a campus setting for their story of the disreputable Delta Tau Chi fraternity and the mayhem it creates in 1962 at fictional Faber College.
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It is respectable to claim that anti-war films of the early 30s are really important and frightening. But I'm not sure the blithe pro-war stance of Duck Soup hasn't lasted better as a clue to how crazy the 30s were. McCarey didn't actually want to make Duck Soup. He only renewed his contract at Paramount when told the Marx brothers had quit.
Whether you’re watching with that special someone or just watching while dreaming about him or her, these are the 50 Best Romantic Comedies of All Time. 50. Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World Year: 2010 Director: Edgar Wright In many ways, all of Edgar Wright’s films have been romantic comedies in some fashion.
'Superbad' Seth Rogen and his writing partner Evan Goldberg wrote this script when they were teenagers, but when they finally had enough to juice in Hollywood to make it a reality they were too old to star in it themselves.
The best comedy movies also enjoy a freedom that seems out of place in most other media, with run-times that allow them to develop complicated but self-contained worlds, the full buffet of acting, editing, and musical options, and the (frequent) R ratings that give them the appropriate range of artistic motion.
The 20 Best Comedy Movies of All Time By John Wenzel March 31, 2015 The funniest movies tend to burrow into our brains like no other form of popular entertainment.
T his film capped a whole genre: the gross-out comedy. That sibling directors Bobby and Peter Farrelly managed to convince anyone that there was humour to be found in Ted (Ben Stiller) getting his "frank'n'beans" caught up in his fly, or in Mary (Cameron Diaz) mistaking his, erm, issue for hair gel is achievement enough. What still amazes is how such hitherto lowbrow laughs are elevated to almost graceful perfection.
How did we choose the 100 best comedy movies of all time? We asked the experts – more than 70 stand-up comedians, actors and writer and directors who make a living tickling our funny bones. Explore the top ten entries from all our contributors, including Peter Capaldi, Sharon Horgan, Jack Whitehall and Jo Brand.
The 20 Best Comedy Movies of All Time By ... “Comedy is subjective,” we’re constantly told. Maybe, but if something stays funny for decades it’s clearly reaching across cultures and contexts to tweak our collective nipples for a reason. Here are our picks for the best of the best. 20. Office Space (1999) Before Office Space, most people knew about Mike Judge’s crass but perceptive ...
The Hangover – 2.4 laughs/minute. 3. Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! – 2.3 laughs/minute. 4. Superbad – 1.9 laughs/minute. 5. Borat – 1.7 laughs/minute. 6. Anchorman: the Legend of Ron Burgundy – 1.6 laughs/minute 7. American Pie – 1.5 laughs/minute. 8. Bridesmaids – 1.4 laughs/minute. 9. Shaun of the Dead – 1.3 laughs/minute. 10.
British Film Registry, a celebration of all films British...With no Jessie J or Taio Cruz allowed. As the furore of debate begins over what just great British films are worthy of selection, I thought I would weigh in with a personal favourite; Hot Fuzz... my pick for the greatest British comedy of all time.
Imagine a comedy with a script more twisty than Inception and has the two of the most popular "serious" actors around make fools of themselves. It couldn't and wouldn't be done today. No synopsis can do it justice: Cary Grant plays a stuffy palaeontologist who meets the anarchically free-spirited Katharine Hepburn.
Few movies are as quotable as The Princess Bride, based on William Goldman’s book and screenplay. ... The 100 Best Comedies of All Time 5/22/2018 9:19:00 AM;
Easily Ferrell's second-funniest movie (keep reading this list for the first), Step Brothers is one of those special comedies that remains laugh-out-loud hilarious with every subsequent viewing. It's a modern-day classic for "Boats N Hoes" alone.
Clueless (1995) Often dismissed as a candy-coated time capsule of ’90s teen culture, Clueless is (as any true fan knows) a classic comedy of manners and social critique inspired by Jane Austen’s Emma.
100 best romantic comedies of all time. We all know how it goes. Girl meets boy, ... Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights is considered one of his greatest works ...
Like Woody Allen's Take The Money and Run, The Jerk is basically designed to allow Martin to use as many of his standup jokes and routines as possible, but his charm and timing makes this cleverly constructed movie seem fantastically loose and easy.
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"The 40 Year Old Virgin" "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" almost didn't happen, but it was a good thing it did, because it helped launch the careers of Hollywood A-listers like Paul Rudd, Seth Rogen, and Steve Carell.
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Next month marks the 30th anniversary of the release of what is, in my opinion, one of the funniest films of all time: Trading Places.
Carrey has never been more on his game, and later this year the sequel is finally hitting just in time for the 20th anniversary. We're cautiously optimistic, even though there hasn't been a good Jim Carrey movie in a long, long time.
How did we choose the 100 best comedy movies of all time? We asked the experts – more than 70 stand-up comedians, actors and writer and directors who make a living tickling our funny bones. Explore the top ten entries from all our contributors, including Peter Capaldi, Sharon Horgan, Jack Whitehall and Jo Brand.
Soon Team America is at war with a leftie coalition called the Film Actors' Guild (oh yes, FAG), comprised of celebrities all voiced by Stone and Parker, with Michael Moore, Alec Baldwin, Matt Damon and Sean Penn taking an epic amount of crap for their troubles.
‘What are the best comedy movies of all time?’ That’s the simple question we posed to almost one hundred comedians, writers, actors and movie experts. Thousands of suggestions later, we assembled the results into a list of the top 100 funny movies ever made – find out how many you’ve seen with our checklist below, and share your titter-inducing total with your friends.
The best comedy movies also enjoy a freedom that seems out of place in most other media, with run-times that allow them to develop complicated but self-contained worlds, the full buffet of acting, editing, and musical options, and the (frequent) R ratings that give them the appropriate range of artistic motion.
1. Mean Girls (2004) Let’s just get this one out of the way. Mean Girls has set the standard for intense female rivalry, and is practically the Bible of teen bitchiness. Extra points for being able to make future-trainwreck Lindsay Lohan believable as a plucky and impressionable girl battling the nasty It Girls.
'Deadpool 2' will become (probably) the biggest-grossing comedy sequel of all time here and abroad.
Meet The Parents Jay Roach's brilliant, and in some ways underrated, Meet The Parents was one of the highest-grossing films of 2000. It may not have been the most edgy, original comedy ever made, but it is full of laughs and some excellent performances.
The Philadelphia Story is a 1940 American romantic comedy film directed by George Cukor, starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart and featuring Ruth Hussey. Based on the Broadway play of the same name by Philip Barry, the film is about a socialite whose wedding plans are complicated by the simultaneous arrival of her ex-husband and a tabloid magazine journalist.
These are the films most associated with Capra’s legacy, yet ironically, his three Best Director wins came for his comedies — It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) and You Can’t Take It With You (1938).
News team assemble Ron Burgundy Brian Fantana Brick Tamblan and the Champ Anchorman best damn comedy movie of all time. Anchorman belongs in the top 5. I love this movie. It's science! My all time favorite line is when Ron: Brick where did you get a hand grenade? Brick: I don't know.
Earning more than $200 million, Wedding Crashers remains one of the most commercially successful R-rated comedies of all time, popularizing the bromances that have flourished in the last decade (The Hangover, I Love You, Man and much of the Judd Apatow canon) and helping foster an atmosphere in which female characters can be as interesting as their male counterparts.
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Director Mel Brooks' 1974 movie stars Gene Wilder as the grandson of Victor Frankenstein (he pronounces it Frahnkensteen) who inherits the old family home in Transylvania and travels there, only to become fascinated with his relative's experiments and whether his theories of reanimation could be made possible. Marty Feldman plays Igor and Teri Garr plays the young laboratory assistant.