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Post by spiderwort on Apr 17, 2017 15:17:22 GMT
Feeling the uncertainty looming in the world, how about a shout-out to some films and tv shows that make you laugh and feel happy, be they good or bad.
Some of mine:
As Time Goes By (TV)
Tootsie
His Girl Friday
Bringing Up Baby
Auntie Mame
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
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Post by mattgarth on Apr 17, 2017 15:24:48 GMT
#1 for me -- THE COURT JESTER
THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER not far behind
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Post by Jillian on Apr 17, 2017 15:28:37 GMT
Dude where is My car. The chinese food scene always makes me laugh out loud.  |
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Apr 17, 2017 15:39:32 GMT
I'm probably one of the few people who finds Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914) to be a very funny comedy.
I'm also one of the few people who loves the failed 1977 sitcom "Odd Man Out", starring John Inman.
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Post by mattgarth on Apr 17, 2017 15:49:31 GMT
mattgarth The Man Who Came to Dinner is one of my favorites, too. Always does the trick. Now about your game. . . WHAT ABOUT IT  ? Oh, that -- posting the next one tomorrow. Be there or be square.  |
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Post by movielover on Apr 17, 2017 15:59:12 GMT
What's Up Doc?
Used Cars
The Goodbye Girl
The Life of Brian
A Fish Called Wanda
Tootsie
Midnight Run
This Is Spinal Tap
Heaven Help Us
Risky Business
The Jerk
Annie Hall
Manhattan
Major League
Innerspace
Three O'Clock High
Just One of the Guys
Airplane!
The Naked Gun
Top Secret!
Scary Movie 1,3,4
Spaceballs
The Man with Two Brains
Vice Versa
Bachelor Party
Revenge of the Nerds
Sixteen Candles
Animal House
The Pink Panther movies
MASH (1970)
The Bad News Bears
Take the Money and Run
Oh God!
The Longest Yard (1974)
Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Apr 17, 2017 16:11:31 GMT
While not great by any means, I do have a fondness for Buster Keaton's mid-1930s shorts for "Educational Pictures", which despite its name, mainly did light-hearted comedies. True, they aren't as good as his silent-era work, but they still provide their share of laughs, and have a nice 1930s flavour.
I also enjoy the 1950s TV series "The George Gobel Show", which I consider to be refreshingly of its time.
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Post by movielover on Apr 17, 2017 16:45:48 GMT
movielover Some great titles there, movielover. You'll never run out of things to watch, that's clear. I love Airplane!, too. You might want to try watching Top Secret! It's made by the same people who made Airplane! It's a hilarious spoof of old World War II spy movies, which I'm sure you would appreciate being a classic film buff. |
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Post by mattgarth on Apr 17, 2017 17:23:31 GMT
mattgarth No, no, I meant your Cole Porter game. Wowsie, it took me this long just to do one stanza! And you can stand-za tall on that stanza, Spider |
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Post by mikef6 on Apr 17, 2017 17:56:45 GMT
While not great by any means, I do have a fondness for Buster Keaton's mid-1930s shorts for "Educational Pictures", which despite its name, mainly did light-hearted comedies. True, they aren't as good as his silent-era work, but they still provide their share of laughs, and have a nice 1930s flavour. I also enjoy the 1950s TV series "The George Gobel Show", which I consider to be refreshingly of its time. Gobel was a funny guy who is almost forgotten today. His comedy/variety series ran from 1954 to 1959 on NBC and them moved to CBS for one last season. The October 21, 1958 show was presented in stereo, pioneering what we now call a "simulcast." One track was broadcast via your TV set and the other came through your radio. His show spawned a couple of catchphrases that could be heard just about everywhere in the late '50, viz., "Well I'll be a dirty bird" and, his introduction, "So there you are and here I am and here's the show." Anyone arriving at your home for a visit was likely to use the latter and many a business meeting was started with that joke. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2017 18:32:11 GMT
The Pink Panther(s) starring Peter Sellers
La Cage Aux Folles I, II and III
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Post by mikef6 on Apr 17, 2017 18:34:19 GMT
Glancing through the years at my Best lists, I don’t find too many comedies, Of the ones I do have, most are not lol funny, not jokey funny, but more witty and clever, viz.,
A Hard Day’s Night / Richard Lester (1964)
The Americanization Of Emily / Arthur Hiller (1964)
The Wrong Box / Bryan Forbes (1966)
Both the 1993 and 2012 films of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing”
Videos from Australian Opera of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Trial By Jury,” “H.M.S. Pinafore,” “The Mikado,” and “Patience.”
Any Christopher Guest mocumentary (e.g. “Waiting for Guffman”)
As for just Fall Down Funny there is always
The Complete Marx Brothers
All the Zucker/Abrams film spoofs
Any genre spoof with Leslie Nielsen
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Apr 17, 2017 19:17:26 GMT
Matthew the Swordsman This is completely OT, but while I have you: I believe I posted to you at some point about the films made by the 101 Ranch in Oklahoma. Don't remember what thread that was, so I just wanted to give you this link, given your affinity for things historically significant in terms of culture. It's a short doc about the place. If you want only to see part of one of their films ca. 1915, it's about 18 minutes in. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjCPwV2JXcE I'll try to watch that at some point. I'll add this thread to my favourites to remind me. |
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Post by fangirl1975 on Apr 17, 2017 20:30:11 GMT
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
Silent Movie
High Anxiety
Dracula: Dead And Loving It
Some Like It Hot
anything Abbott and Costello
Arsenic And Old Lace
Monty Python And The Holy Grail
Bringing Up Baby
The Hangover
Beavis And Butthead Do America
both Ace Ventura flicks
Munster Go Home
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Post by mikef6 on Apr 17, 2017 21:20:17 GMT
There is no reason in the world why the silly Ace Ventura films should have interested me at all. My sons, who were still in public school at the time, liked them, but my interests were different from theirs (and vice versa). However, when they brought the two films home from the video store, we watched together - and I giggled insanely during both of them. My kids were laughing harder than me than at Ace. They remain near the top of my Guilty Pleasures list. Good choice. Great comedy. |
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Post by twothousandonemark on Apr 17, 2017 21:27:27 GMT
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Duck Soup
Dr. Strangelove...
Ace Ventura Pet Detective
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Post by Jillian on Apr 18, 2017 8:27:40 GMT
Jillian Haven't seen, Dude Where is My Car?, but anything that makes you laugh out loud - well, isn't that what it's all about? Yes, the story itself Is quite rubbish and a parody of something else imo, but that foodn scene alone makes up for it and the chemistry between the main actors is in sync. |
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Post by CoyoteGraves on Apr 18, 2017 8:33:03 GMT
A Fish Called Wanda
Hudson Hawk
Clue
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Post by divtal on Apr 18, 2017 16:05:59 GMT
THE CHEAP DETECTIVE - Neil Simon's clever melding of THE MALTESE FALCON and CASABLANCA, with Peter Falk in the Bogart parts (as Sam Peckinpaw.) Madeleine Kahn is wonderful as the Mary Astor character from TMF (she has 19 different names). Louise Fletcher plays the Ilsa role ("a most beautiful ... and boring ... woman"). And, Dom DeLuise does comic justice to the Peter Lorre roles.
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Post by shield on Apr 19, 2017 14:51:17 GMT
Many of the films already listed like:
Duck Soup
His Girl Friday
The Court Jester
What's Up Doc? (one of my alltime favorites)
A Fish called Wanda
Midnight Run
The Life of Brian
Animal House
The Pink Panther (Peter Sellers)
Young Frankenstein
Ace Ventura (both)
And I also think these are very funny
Grundhog Day (another alltime favorite)
Some Jim Carrey movies like Dumb and Dumber (the first), Me Myself and Irene, Bruce Almighty.
We're the Millers
Superbad
Bad Words
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