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Comedies

Duck Soup - (1933) (Marx Brothers)
Some Like It Hot - (1959) (Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Marilyn Monroe)
Blazing Saddles - (1974) (Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder)
Airplane! - (1980) (Robert Hayes, Julie Hagerty)
A Night At The Opera - (1935) (Marx Brothers)
"Dr. Strangelove" - (1964) (Peter Sellers)
What's Up, Doc? - (1972) (Barbra Striesand, Ryan O'Neil)
National Lampoon's Animal House - (1978) (John Belushi, Tim Matheson)
The Odd Couple - (1968) (Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau)
Caddyshack - (1980) (Bill Murray, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight)
The Producers - (1968) (Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn)
Tootsie - (1982) (Dustin Hoffman, Jessica lange, Bill Murray)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail - (1975) (Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Eric Idle, etc.)
Bringing Up Baby - (1938) (Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn)
Young Frankenstein - (1974) (Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle)
Arthur - (1981) (Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli)
Bananas - (1971) (Woody Allen, Carlos Montalban)
Take The Money And Run - (1969) (Woody Allen, Janet Margolin)
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World - (1963) (Milton Berle, Jonathan Winters)
The Birdcage - (1996) (Robin Williams, Nathan Lane)
A Shot In The Dark - (1964) (Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer)
Adam's Rib - (1949) (Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn)
A Day At The Races - (1937) (Marx Brothers)
M*A*S*H - (1970) (Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland, Sally Kellerman)
City Slickers - (1991) (Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern)
Sleeper - (1973) (Woody Allen, Diane Keaton)
National Lampoon's Vacation - (1983) (Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo)
Spaceballs - (1987) (Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, John Candy)
Road To Morocco - (1942) (Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour)
Fast Times At Ridgemont High - (1982) (Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh)
Home Alone - (1990) (Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern)
The Court Jester - (1956) (Danny Kaye, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury)
Wayne's World - (1992) (Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe)
Lost In America - (1985) (Albert Brooks, Julie Hagerty, Sylvia Farrel)
The Naked Gun - (1988) (Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley)
This Is Spinal Tap - (1984) (Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer)
Top Secret - (1984) (Val Kilmer Lucy Gutteridge, Omar Sharif)
The Nutty Professor - (1963) (Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens)
Up In Smoke - (1978) (Cheech & Chong)
Scary Movie - (2000) (Keenen Ivory Wayans, Anna Faris, Shawn Wayans)
History of the World: Part 1 - (1981) (Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Gregory Hines)
No Time For Sergeants - (1958) (Andy Griffith, Mervyn LeRoy)
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery - (1997) (Mike Myers, Elizabeth Hurley)
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective - (1994) (Jim Carrey, Sean Young)
The Money Pit - (1986) (Tom Hanks, Shelley Long)
The Jerk - (1979) (Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters)
Mrs. Doubtfire - (Robin Williams, Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan)
Silver Streak - (1976) (Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Jill Clayburgh)
Baby's Day Out - (1994) (Joe Mantegna, Lara Flynn Boyle)
My Little Chickadee - (1940) (W.C. Fields, Mae West)
Private Benjamin - (1980) (Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan)
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken - (1966) (Don Knotts, Dick Sargent)
The Toy - (1982) (Richard Pryor, Jackie Gleeson)
The Pink Panther - (1964) (Peter Sellers, David Niven, Robert Wagner)
Cat Ballou - (1965) (Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, Dwayne Hickman)
Arsenic and Old Lace - (1944) (Cary Grant, Josephine Hull, Peter Lorre)
Stir Crazy - (1981) (Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder)
Hot Shots - (1991) (Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Lloyd Bridges)
Multiplicity - (1996) (Michael Keaton, Andie MacDowell, Eugene Levy)
Harvey - (1950) (James Stewart, Josephine Hull)
The Big Lebowski - (1998) (Jeff Bridges, John Goodman)
There's Something About Mary - (1998) (Cameron Diaz, Ben Stiller, Matt Dillon)
My Cousin Vinny - (1992) (Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Fred Gwynne)
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - (1989) (Chevy Chase, Randy Quaid)
Good Neighbor Sam - (1964) (Jack Lemmon, Romy Schneider, Dorothy Provine)
Easy Money - (1983) (Rodney Dangerfield, Joe Pesci)
Down And Out in Beverly Hills - (1986) (Bette Midler, Nick Nolte, Richard Dreyfuss)
Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure -(1989) (Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter)
Happy Gilmore - (1996) (Adam Sandler, Dennis Dugan)
Dumb and Dumber - (1994) (Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels)
The Family Jewels - (1965) (Jerry Lewis, Sebastian Cabot)
Meet the Parents - (2000) (Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller)
Meatballs - (1979) (Bill Murray, Harvey Atkin, Kate Lynch)
Ruthless People - (1986) (Bette Midler, Danny DeVito)
The Inspector General - (1949) (Danny Kaye, Alan Hale, Walter Slezak)
A Fish Called Wanda - (1988) (John Cleese, Kevin Kline, Jamie Lee Curtis)
The Mouse That Roared - (1959) (Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg)
Foul Play - (1978) (Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn)
Rush Hour - (1998) (Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker)
Groundhog Day - (1993) (Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott)
Bean - (1997) (Rowan Atkinson, Pamela Reed, Burt Reynolds)
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me - (1999) (Mike Myers, Michael York)
Coneheads - (1993) (Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Phil Hartman)
Hot Shots! Part Deux - (1993) (Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges)
Monty Python's Life Of Brian - (1979) (John Cleese, Eric Idle)
American Pie - (1999) (Jason Biggs, Eugene Levy)
Sister Act - (1992) (Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Najimy)
Monty Python's Meaning Of Life - (1983) (John Cleese, Eric Idle)
Robin Hood: Men In Tights - (1993) (Cary Elwes, Dave Chapelle, Richard Lewis)
Beverly Hillbillies - (1993) (Jim Varney, Cloris Leachman, Lily Tomlin)
Blame It on the Bellboy - (1992) (Dudley Moore, Bronson Pinchot)
Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein - (1948) (Abbott & Costello, Lon Chaney Jr.)
Mouse Hunt - (1997) (Nathan Lane, Lee Evans)
A Night at the Roxbury - (1998) (Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan)
Mars Attacks - (1996) (Jack Nicholson, Annette Bening)
Waterboy - (1998) (Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates)
Three Amigos! - (1986) (Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, Martin Short)
Oscar - (1991) (Sylvester Stallone, Marisa Tomei, Tim Curry)
Tommy Boy - (1995) (Chris Farley, David Spade)
Encino Man - (1992) (Brendan Fraser, Pauly Shore)



The Three Stooges made 190 "short subject" episodes for Columbia pictures,
but no full length movies. However their comedy on film deserves recognition.

Also, the 'Silent Movie' and 'Short Film' Greats:
Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle,
The Keystone Cops, Laurel and Hardy, Harry Langdon, and other silent film actors.
















Top Ten Comedy (Movie) Writers/Directors:

Charlie Chaplin
Woody Allen
Mel Brooks
Joel Coen/Ethan Coen
David Zucker/Jerry Zucker/Jim Abrahams
Monty Python's Flying Circus;
(Terry Jones/Terry Gilliam/Eric Idle/John Cleese/
Michael Palin/Graham Chapman)
Alexander Payne/Jim Taylor
Peter Farrelly/Bobby Farrelly
Charlie Kaufman
Billy Wilder/I.A.L. Diamond
Harold Ramis
James L. Brooks
Neil Simon
Kevin Smith
John Waters

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