Friday OT #1 - The Aristocrats

[Angie]

Thanks so much to @MeanDean for this idea!

What are your top five all-time favorite comedy movies? What are your five comedies where, whenever they come on, you will stop what you are doing and watch them?

Mine aren't in any particular order:

This Is Spinal Tap
Airplane!
Ghostbusters
Groundhog Day
**Wet Hot American Summer

**Last place was a hard spot to decide on. I had several strong contenders, but I never get sick of Paul Rudd in this. Second closest contender was Grand Budapest Hotel.

 

[BCClone]

Caddy shack
Dumb and dumber
Happy Gilmore
Spinal tap
Slap shot


Quick one off the top of my head.

 

[oldman]

Office Space
Goin' South (see trailer, if you're not familiar)
Groundhog Day
Napoleon Dynamite
Step Brothers

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[Bret44]

Caddy Shack
Office Space
Young Frankenstein
Spinal Tap
The Blues Brothers

(Anchorman is Honorable Mention)

 

[Buster28]

Airplane!
Top Secret!
Romy & Michele's High School Reunion
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Heathers

Am I giving my age away here with four 80s movies and one movie about people from the 80s?

Edit to add an honorable mention: Just Friends

 

[1UNI2ISU]

Ghostbusters
Blues Brothers
Groundhog Day
Step Brothers
Anchorman

 

[isu_ce]

In no particular order:

Monty Python's Holy Grail
Blazing Saddles
Animal House
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Caddy Shack

 

[cyclones500]

Narrowed it to 6 ... no specific order

This is Spinal Tap
Groundhog Day
Fargo (black-comedy thriller, still qualifies)
Being John Malkovich (another cross-genre comedy)
Airplane!
Animal House

I probably wouldn’t have to see “Tap” again the rest of my life, I could “watch it” from memory.

 

[jcyclonee]

Blazing Saddles
Holy Grail
Airplane
Old School
Young Frankenstein
The Jerk
Office Space

FYI - seven is greater than five

 

[drlove]

Clerks
Caddyshack
the Big Lebowski
Raising Arizona
The Royal Tennenbaums

Honorable mention: The Aristocrats

 

[NWICY]

Animal House
Caddyshack
Blues Brothers
Blazing Saddles
Any Monte Python movie

Animal House is my favorite comedy of all time. Too much of it gets censored on regular TV though.

 

[MeanDean]

No order

The Jerk
Airplane
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Office Space
Vacation

Difficult to leave off This Is Spinal Tap, so give it an Honorable Mention.

American Graffiti gets pigeonholed as a comedy and it definitely has its comedic moments but it has a deeper overall message, in my eyes anyway. (Edit: Same with Groundhog Day)

 

[MeanDean]

Blazing Saddles
Holy Grail
Airplane
Old School
Young Frankenstein
The Jerk
Office Space

FYI - seven is greater than five

The Jerk is definitely underappreciated, so gave you the thumbs up like! The "special purpose" bit is worth the time to watch the whole thing, LOL.

 

[Al_4_State]

Blues Brothers
Big Lebowski
Animal House
Caddy Shack
This Is: Spinal Tap

Next 5
Blazing Saddles
Vacation
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Wedding Crashers
Old School

 

[coolerifyoudid]

Eurotrip
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Top Secret
Mallrats
A Fish Called Wanda

Just missing the cut: Princess Bride, Dazed and Confused, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Clerks, The Jerk

 

[dahliaclone]

In no order:

Waiting for Guffman
Young Frankenstein
This Is Spinal Tap
Raising Arizona
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

 

[SCyclone]

Wow, 5 is tough....but I'll try......

Night Shift
Caddyshack
Cheech & Chong's Next Movie
Fargo (not truly a comedy, but way too many funny moments)
Any Marx Brothers movie (A Night at the Opera is probably my favorite)

 

[3GenClone]

My "whenever they are on TV" list is way different than my Top 5 favorite comedies of All-Time, so here are the 5 comedies that I would watch anytime they were on TV:

The Goonies
Joe Dirt
Police Academy
Groundhog Day
Beetlejuice

 

[runbikeswim]

I have two lists, one more recent movies, and then a list from the golden age, just cuzz.

I love Mel Brooks stuff at first, but it loses a lot of luster for repeat viewings for me.

The Great Race
Victor Victoria
Galaxy Quest
Best in Show
Ghostbusters


The Philadelphia Story
The Lady Eve
Harvey
It Happened One Night
Ball of Fire

 

[BCClone]

Eurotrip
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Top Secret
Mallrats
A Fish Called Wanda

Just missing the cut: Princess Bride, Dazed and Confused, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Clerks, The Jerk

Thought D&C was a documentary