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did you get this list from somewhere or are you just rattling them off?

where the fuck is Naked Gun.

I suggest whoever made that list to stop jacking Wes Anderson off just long enough to slip Hot Fuzz in there.

You have to question to whole thing when Airplane is omitted.

You have to question to whole thing when Airplane is omitted.

I think I saw 12-15 overall.

How's Moonrise Kingdom?

in order of release date. hope this gives you some good recommendations, CE :)

Safety Last! (Fred C. Newmeyer & Harold Lloyd, 1923)
Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924)
The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin, 1925)
The General (Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, 1927)
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Buster Keaton & Charles Reisner, 1928)
City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932)
Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy & Busby Berkeley, 1933)
The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke, 1934)
It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1935)
Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey, 1935)
My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava, 1936)
Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin, 1936)
The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey, 1937)
Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938)
Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch, 1939)
His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin, 1940)
The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)
Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges, 1941)
The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)
Hellzapoppin' (H.C. Potter, 1941)
The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges, 1942)
To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942)
The More the Merrier (George Stevens, 1943)
Cluny Brown (Ernst Lubitsch, 1946)
Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1951)
Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)
The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
PlayTime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
A New Leaf (Elaine May, 1971)
The Heartbreak Kid (Elaine May, 1972)
Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich, 1973)
Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks, 1974)
Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, 1974)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Jones, 1974)
Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
Dirty Ho (Lau Kar-leung, 1979)
They All Laughed (Peter Bogdanovich, 1981)
Tampopo (Juzo Itami, 1984)
This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984)
After Hours (Martin Scorsese, 1985)
Raising Arizona (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, 1987)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis, 1988)
Drunken Master II (Lau Kar-leung, 1994)
Ed Wood (Tim Burton, 1994)
Toy Story (John Lasseter, 1995)
The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, 1998)
Rushmore (Wes Anderson, 1998)
The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)
Ratatouille (Brad Bird, 2007)
A Serious Man (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, 2009)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson, 2009)
Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, 2012)
The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014)
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino, 2019)
Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2021)

ok getting tired but this should be good enough for now. which ones have you seen? which ones are you excited to check out now that you've heard about them? i didn't actually count how many i put in here but hopefully more than 70

It comes on TCM once every few months. That's where I saw it (and most of the ones on the list).

Theres so much wrong with this list (coming from a guy whos seen and enjoyed a good 60-70% of it)

How the fuck is caddy shack not on here?

Hes pretentious as fuck you think hes going to put actual comedies on his list?

nah hes gonna put the hilarious punch drunk love and a serious man

hellzapoppin' as far as i can tell has never once aired on TCM.

https://www.moviecollectoroh.com/reports/TCM_SCHEDULES_SUMMARY_alpha.htm

this is more or less 100% accurate as of at least 2011.

it is notoriously hard to track down. the dvd and vhs are obviously out of print and fairly pricey on amazon.

I fucking saw it on TCM within the last year or two.

Why would I fucking lie about that?

seems like a snobby list.

7 of them.

What an awful list.

That is a shitty list.

what is snobby about it

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino, 2019)

Its supposed to be a comedy list and it has movies that arent comedies. They might have a funny scene or two but are actively not comedies. The coen brothers are my favorite directors and besides like blood simple, a serious man might be their least funny movie.

no airplane, no dumb and dumber, no caddyshack, no naked gun, and you know this person isnt going to put a movie like 21 jump street in there

once upon a time in hollywood is hysterical. a serious man too. pretty sure no country or millers crossing or the man who wasnt there are less funny. also the tragedy of macbeth which on top of being not funny is really bad. are those the only two non comedies on the list? do you take exception to others?

also i'm less interested in omissions than why exactly movies on the list are bad.

Punch drunk love, once upon a time in Hollywood, licorice pizza, a serious man, singing in the rain, after hours are all amazing movies that are some of my favorites, but do not belong on a list of best comedies.

saying the list is bad and pretentious isnt saying the movies on the list are bad