Friday, March 12, 2010

What are your five favorite comedy films?

25 comments:

Leslie said...

It took me way too long to come up with this list but here they are, in no particular order:
- The Birdcage
- Major League
- Saved!
- My Cousin Vinny
- The Sandlot

Scottie said...

You're insane if you think any reasonable person can narrow this down to five films only, so I'm going ten. Even that's going to be a challenge. In no particular order:
Airplane!
Major League
Anchorman
Caddyshack
National Lampoon's Vacation (and Christmas Vacation)
Friday
The Birdcage (thanks for reminding me, Leslie...this movie is genius)
Office Space
Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Oh, and Se7en. That movie was hilarious!

Cate said...

Animal House
Elf
Manhattan
The Thin Man
Office Space

John said...

This is easily the hardest ever. To make this easy, leaving out any stand up movies. Still, I have 10 and I'm sure I'll add more later

Spinal Tap (was in grade school watching while sick and I had to stop the tape I was laughing too hard)

Waiting for Guffman

Bowfinger

Fletch

The Jerk

Dumb and Dumber

Superbad

Anchorman/Talladega Nights

Office Space

Unknown said...

Yeah, tough to narrow this down but I'd say ...

Office Space
Mallrats
Big Lebowski
Tommy Boy
and my new favorite movie ... Black Dynamite

I'm sure I have forgotten things that should be on this list.

John said...

good lord, now I need to add 3 of tim's

ok, I'm going to stop reading qotd today. Seriously, this is the hardest question you have ever asked. This is harder than "Pick your favorite kid" (Im pretty sure no one here has children, but you get the point

Sean (argue with me) Flannery said...

Shit, five IS hard.
Dr. Strangelove
Stir Crazy
Raising Arizona
Spinal Tap
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Honorable Mention: Duck Soup (The Marx Brothers just broke all the rules)

Leslie said...

Crap! This is hard. Totally make it ten movies. Or maybe 15.

I would like to add the following to my list:
- Airplane!
- Dogma

And I really liked Animal House, especially when Belushi is running across the empty quad all crouched down. Hahaha!

I've never seen The Big Lebowski.

Hailey Snow said...

oooook here it goes:
The Hangover
Wedding Crashers
Night at the Roxbury
Miss Congeniality
Juno

Dan S said...

John if you were my kid, you'd be my favorite.

Alright so...

Princess Bride
Goonies
A Knights Tale
SuperTroopers
The Hangover <- I can't help it

Scottie said...

I TOTALLY forgot about the Coens! How could I forgotten Lebowski and Raising Arizona!

Gotta add:
Austin Powers
Fletch
The Holy Guest Trilogy of Tap/Guffman/Best in Show
Tommy Boy
Billy Madison (better than Happy Gilmore, John...sorry)
The Naked Gun Trilogy (Yes, even the third one was hilarious. Screw you.)
Top Secret
The Python Duo (Holy Grail and Life of Brian)
Dammit Leslie, I'll probably add like 30 more before the end of the day...

Unknown said...

Am I the only one who found "The Hangover" totally overrated?

Five fav:
Animal House
Big Lebowski
Knocked Up
Waiting
1st 15 min. of Wedding Crashers (rest of the movie was just OK)

beenu said...

i want to be hailey's friend. i thought i was the only one who loved a night at the roxbury. EMIIILLLIIIOOOOOOOOOO!

five is hard. this question blows.
1. night at the roxbury
2. foul play
3. airplane
4. overboard
5. bullets over broadway

beenu said...

ahh i forgot 10 things i hate about you.

Hailey Snow said...

so i was standing there waiting to use the payphone....

Leslie said...

I *love* overboard.

Unknown said...

I'd like to add Blues Brothers.

Leslie...you really need to see Big Lebowski.

rob said...

Groundhog Day

Groundhog Day

Groundhog Day

Groundhog Day

Groundhog Day

(see what I did there?)

Unknown said...

I'd also like to add:

Election
Groundhog's Day
Best in Show
Harold & Kumar go to White Castle (how did i forget that?!)

Unknown said...

also Weird Science

Leslie said...

Rob is clever. But I didn't really like that movie.

I think Sarah is traveling so I am going to give her credit for this one - What About Bob? - hilarious movie.

pinchie said...

All wonderful choices and I'm not even going to bother with a list.

I can't believe no one mentioned The 40-Year Old Virgin!

I laugh out loud at least once every time I see it.

Sister Ashley said...

Dumb and Dumber
Mean Girls
Mr. Deeds
Billy Madison
Big Daddy

I heart Adam Sandler

Cate said...

i'm going to add snatch. b/c its funny and fun to say

Dan said...

Hah! I love snatch!





See what I did there?