What are the 10 Best Movie Comedies of All Time?

[Ming]

Duck Soup was also mentioned by Rufus in post number 23 and by Guynemer in post number 29

[Joseph]

Francis the Talking Mule. Now how many of you can say I saw it a movie theater.

[Straybow]

Tough choices to be made, so limiting one to any producer/star

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Princess Bride
Young Frankenstein
The Blues Brothers
Airplane
This is Spinal Tap!
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Big Lebowski
Caddyshack
Support Your Local Sheriff

Honorable Mention: The Gods Must Be Crazy

My qualm about TGMBC is that it is only rip roaring funny the first time you see it. It's only worth a chuckle on re-viewing.

It isn't that I don't like Marx Brothers, but they don't make top ten for me.

[SlowwHand]

I don't get English humor. Monty Python, and like that.
Playful loves it, it's just by me.

[Wezil]

You are a younger version of my father.

[SlowwHand]

I think that's the nicest thing I've heard today.

[Wezil]

He's definitely a redneck by Canadian standards but he'd make a great Texan.

[SlowwHand]

Come on down!

[Tiamat]

What about Martin and Lewis movies? I loved those. Princess Bride, one of my favorites.

[Dis]

I've only seen Monty Python in the holy grail. I like that. The rest of English humor...

[Tiamat]

So how can you make a judgement if you've only seen one Monty Python? Isn't that a bit one sided

[Lord Avalon]

See Life of Brian

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
I don't get English humor. Monty Python, and like that.
Playful loves it, it's just by me.

Python is a bit like that. I once watched the Peasant scene with my gran, chuckling all the way through.

http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/grail/grail-03.htm

Afterwards she asked why it was funny. I didn't really know what to say - it's not like a knock knock joke.

Actually I'm pleasantly surprised at the amount of Americans that have also chosen Holy Grail/Life of Brian here - we usually consider Pythoneque humour above your heads.

[Berzerker]

Terence Hill. Contrary to rumor, he does have a name.

But we dont learn it in the first movie with Henry Fonda. There's a commercial where Hill is standing face to face with a gunfighter in a bar and he's slapping the guy silly and the guy just stands there not knowing what to do. Maybe thats a scene from They Call Me Trinity, its pretty funny even though its overplayed

[Dis]

Originally posted by Tiamat
So how can you make a judgement if you've only seen one Monty Python? Isn't that a bit one sided

was going to edit my post. As it wasn't clear. I have seen bits and pieces of the other films. Although perhaps I should give them more consideration. But from what I saw, I wasn't all that impressed. But perhaps I just didn't give it enough time.