Best In Show, Waiting for Guffman, A Mighty Wind. Same bunch of actors and directors, all hilarious.

Thx for rec! I think Amazon should makr make all comedies free through this crisis! 👍

As I’m sure you know, he wrote The Apartment (“Shut up and deal.”) (my favorite movie btw) and Sunset Boulevard (“Mr. deMille, I’m ready for my closeup.”), as well as Double Indemnity and The Major and the Minor and others. Hitchcock gets all the acclaim (deservedly so), but my favorite filmmaker is Billy Wilder.

ETA — I agree with you about that being the best last line in a movie (but Casablanca is pretty memorable, too).

All of the above. Great films by a genius filmmaker. All of those screenplays are so tight. No throwaway dialog. That seems a lost art.
Stay safe out there and watch great cinema.

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

The humor is so subtle. It’s not (for me) a laugh out loud movie, but it’s unquestionably very funny in its own way. Definitely a movie everyone should see, especially given our current situation.

Of Chancy Gardener.

I haven't seen Crazy People in ages, but definitely got a good laugh out of that as a kid.

I bought digital version on Amazon.

Doesn't the meeting where they are all trying to say something honest remind you of dump & company? Fkn grifters!

I drive my old 240.

I think the timing of that movie is perfect. Not too fast or too slow. Just straight forward at one pace.

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For that line and so many others, Blazing Saddles would never be made today. And we wouldn’t have one of the funniest movies ever made.

(long pause) ni**er."

Second favorite line: "Howard Johnson is right."

"Blazing Saddles" is one of two movies I fell out of my seat laughing. The other is "Airplane."

Those are two hysterically funny movies. Don’t Be a Menace... is another funny spoof. As well as the Naked Gun series.

One last recommendation. It’s not s spoof, but I guarantee you’ll be laughing your ass off if you watch Ruthless People. Right up there among the funniest movies ever made.

Young Frankenstein
Blazing saddles
Spaceballs
The Producers

The dancers with blonde pigtails wearing pretzel brassieres and carrying beer steins, doing a Rockettes swastika — OMG!! Mel Brooks, what a genius.

other laughs to list!

...he knew exactly how to make a parody/comedy....and exactly when to do it.

Not as well known as some of his others, but it was a take off on Hitchcock movies and it was hilarious.

The scenes with Harvey Korman are all especially great.

I can't listen to "Puttin' On the Ritz" without picturing that tap dance. It cracks me up every time I see it.

“No no no, light speed is too slow!”

Love it when the Martians smoke the nuclear explosion like a joint

i hear you knocking but you can't come in

...

...in the newsroom of the newspaper I worked for (I'm retired now). My first name is Ron. So I bought a DVD of that movie and watched it. Only once, I'm afraid I don't like it as much as you apparently do. But maybe I should watch it again now, 10 years later.

-- Ron

Monty Python/Holy Grail

What's Up, Doc


RV

High Heels and Low Lifes

Bringing Up Baby

Bells Are Ringing

(Hey, what can I say. I'm old!)

Forgot to mention that on my list!

Eric "Otter" Stratton: Now we could do it with conventional weapons, but that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part!

makes me laugh until i cry.

(Richard Dreyfuss is also excellent.)

the day before yesterday. It is a go to for sure. My son is an adult who is living with us through this and I cannot count the times we have watched this together over the long years but once again.....years ago I bought him the t-shirt that Murray wears. It is the cover picture on my tablet. He, of course, has never worn it but he still has it. ((hugs)) for good sons.

"DOCTOR! LEO! MARVIN!"

Man Up
Bridesmaids
Rat Race
Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
Animal House

they drove the classic car from the Barbi museum into the Veteran's event and Jon Lovitz unintentionally gave a Hitler speech.

Funny, highly underrated movie.

"We came in the rocket car!"

they should have bought a squirrel!

"Minors, not miners!"

Another great one.

It's a shame that the studio undersold it initially, but the appreciation of it seems to have grown over time.

So many good moments. One of my favorites is the obvious (and hilarious) overdub of Sigourney Weaver's character's line "Oh, F*** that!" as "Oh, screw that!" The change was made for rating purposes, but they left the visual the same.

Also, "Whoever wrote this episode should die!"

Hard to believe the movie came out over twenty years ago. I still remember seeing it in the theater with my kids...

And, it has some top musical talent for good measure.

...The Magic Christian, any Monty Python film.

And Idiocracy.

"Now then, Dimitri... You know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb. The bomb, Dimitri. The hydrogen bomb. Well now what happened is, one of our base commanders, he had a sort of, well he went a little funny in the head. You know. Just a little... funny. And, uh... he went and did a silly thing...."

terrific, but co-star Charles Grodin is completely off-the-charts with his deadpan delivery of hysterically funny lines! Every member of the supporting cast was just perfect in their roles as well - Dennis Farina, Yaphet Kotto, John Ashton, Joe Pantoliano.

I've not seen this 1. I'm going to get through Amazon! TY!

Oh, you just reminded me of 2 more DeNiro films:

Meet the Parents
&
Meet the Parents

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍

Watched 3 times over the years. Gotta watch again soon.

That scene in the restaurant/bar where they pretend they are cops is ao funny.

and starts quizzing him. And RD in the phone booth with the body language. Well done. Not revered enough as buddy movies go.

It is indeed a seemingly overlooked yet excellent flick.

I've owned the DVD for at least 20 years. I love playing it for people who've never seen it.

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Any Monty Python
Airplane
Early Eddie Murphy (48 Hrs, Beverly Hills Cop, Trading Places, Coming to America)
Dumb & Dumber, Liar, Liar & Bruce Almighty
Happy Gilmour & Big Daddy
All Will Farrell from Anchorman backwards
Wayne's World & Austin Powers
Shrek
All Toy Story movies
Midnight Run
Napoleon Dynamite
Pulp Fiction (clearly a comedy imho)
Death at a Funeral (UK version)
Shawn of the Dead
Office Space & Idiocracy
Beavis and Butthead Do America
The South Park Movie

That's a few of mah faves ...

Forgot a few other faves:
Royal Tenenbaums (and most Wes Anderson)
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Risky Business
Zoolander
Everything by Christopher Guest

And of course who DOESN'T love Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller & Back to the Future?

FASCISTS, that's who.

Like Blazing Saddles, some of that movie would not make it to the screen today.

Yeah...that would not make it to the screen today.

FANTASTIC list (and Pulp Fiction is one of my all time faves). I only would have added:

ANYTHING with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Shawn of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World's End)
ANYTHING by the Broken Lizard Group (Super Troopers I & II, Beerfest, The Slammin' Salmon, and to a lesser extent Club Dread; the final, fade-out scene ALWAYS kills me!)
And I might have added to Billy Madison to Happy Gilmore and Big Daddy

LOVE IT!

Another great list! At LEAST check out Beerfest... it might be one of my favorite movies in general. Of course I'd add:

The Matrix (honestly, I might be one of the only people that LIKED the whole trilogy, but the first one was groundbreaking)
Shutter Island
Interstellar
Reservoir Dogs

ODD point: I OWN Dark City (somehow; I think it caught my eye in a bargain bin) but haven't watched it yet! No time like a quarantine!

PS. OOH! And Four Rooms! "I 'aven't gotten a fucking PROBLEM... I've got fucking PROBLEMS... PLURAL!"

and she sent it back to Netflix before I got to finish it! She doesn't like scary movies. I was pissed.

You can see why things didn't work out lol ...

First Matrix was great.

I need to see Interstellar still.

I think I did see Beerfest too, yeah it was pretty good.

Reservoir Dogs goes without saying, man ... CLASSIC, I own it.

Dark City is definitely cool ... if you partake of the herbal amenities ... it's great accompaniment

If you're scraping for something trippy and fun sometime ... this one is actually a pretty good, obscure flick ...

Particularly and some additions...

All the Monty Python Films
All the Airplane, Naked Gun, Hot Shots Films
Eddie Murphy Films
Some Will Farrell Films - Blades of Glory, Zoolander, Talledaga Nights, Wedding Crashers
Wayne's World and Austin Powers
Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz
Office Space
Idiocracy
We're The Millers
South Park - Bigger, Longer and Uncut.
The Pink Panther Films
Waking Ned Devine
A Fish Called Wanda
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

I'm sure there are more, but that's all I can come up with right now.

And, oddly enough, still first in my collection alphabetically (yes, I count the "A"; indefinite articles are words too!).

I love that movie. It's so stupid, it's brilliant.

I don't normally watch movies >1 time, but that one ... gotta be about 10 times by now.

What's amusing to me is some people absolutely hate that movie ... it's one of those 'you either get it, or you don't' kinda flicks.

What's also amusing is even though there's no drugs (or even references thereto) in the movie, it definitely helps if you're a stoner

... After I saw it the first time, I was telling friends, "You have to see this. It's great!"

I was surprised by mixed reactions. I re-watched to see if it was actually as fun as I remember. It was!! (At least to me.)

They are without a doubt my all time favorite movie-making team.

Masterful at dialogue, at scene-setting, at both recruiting top notch quality actors and developing new ones.

And what makes them great is that many of their dramas double as comedies and many of their comedies double as dramas.

For example, A Serious Man--one of my favorites of theirs--is listed as a comedy, but I view it more as a drama. But it works so well on both levels.

I forgot this in my list. Love it.

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I forgot that one!

One of my all time favorites! Along with "The Man with Two Brains" and "All of Me" w/ Lily Tomlin.

Also forgot "Big Business" w/ Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin and "Ruthless People" w/ Bette Midler and Danny DeVito. Both great films, but total sleepers. Definitely worth a watch.

And it was such a sleeper. One of my favorite films ever!

With a well deserved credit to you

Duck Soup.

And Cloris Leachman as Frau Blucher. (that's as close as I could get to a horse rearing )