The JDPNYY Top 5 WD -- Question 16

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The JDPNYY Top 5 Winter Diversion -- Question 16


List your top 5 Favorite Comedy Movies (release year 1999 or earlier)

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Rules:
Rank your top 5 answers to the question in order from 1-5, with 1 being the highest rank.
Points will be awarded in this manner:
1 = 5 pts
2 = 4 pts
3 = 3 pts
4 = 2 pts
5 = 1 pt

You can list more than 5 if you wish.
Any answers from 6-10 will be awarded 0.0 pts,
Any answers from 11-20 will be awarded 0.0 pts,

The question will remain open for a minimum of 36 hours. Often longer.
There may be times when more than one question are open at the same time (this is a change from previous JDPNYY diversions)
Once the question is deemed closed (by JDPNYY or a designated substitute) no more rankings will be considered. At a reasonable time after the question is closed, the points will be compiled and a NYYFans.com top 5 will be declared.
Corrections can be made to your list up until the time the question is deemed closed, please edit the original list rather than entering a new list.

All ties will be at the discretion of management.

[YankeePride1967]

Airplane
Naked Gun
Groundhog Day
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Caddyshack
Dumb and Dumber

[GiambiRocks]

Animal House
Home Alone
Vacation
Caddyshack
Blazing Saddles

[fredgmuggs]

Some Like it Hot
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
The In-Laws
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Big Lebowski

Honorable mention goes to Airplane!

edit: Harvey gets bumped for The Big Lebowski

[Soriambi]

Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Groundhog Day
Ghostbusters
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Evil Dead II


The Naked Gun
The American President
This is Spinal Tap
Being John Malkovich
The Truman Show

Airplane!
Major League
Wag the Dog
Father of the Bride (1950)
The Player
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Trading Places
The Producers (1968)
Caddyshack
Ed Wood

[fredgmuggs]

Ghostbusters
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Evil Dead II
This is Spinal Tap
The Naked Gun

The American President
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Being John Malkovich
The Truman Show
Airplane!

Major League
Wag the Dog
Father of the Bride (1950)
The Player
My Fellow Americans
Trading Places
The Producers (1968)
Caddyshack
Ed Wood
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Nice mention of Ed Wood. Love that film.

[Soriambi]

Nice mention of Ed Wood. Love that film.

Changed my list, as I left out my #1 somehow, but Ed Wood still in.

[theDurk]

Blazing Saddles
Animal House
Blues Brothers
The Absent Minded Professor
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World

The first three I liked. The other two are the only other ones I can think of I didn't hate. TheDurk is not a fan of comedy.

[HelloNewman]

I'm leaving out "dramedies" like "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" ...

1. The Naked Gun
2. Airplane!
3. Duck Soup
4. Speedy
5. Sons of the Desert

[Bub]

Groundhog day
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Blazing Saddles
Caddyshack
Major League

[fredgmuggs]

I need to edit my list to include The Big Lebowski

It's interesting seeing Blazing Saddles and The Producers from Mel Brooks being mentioned. I always felt Young Frankenstein was his funniest offering.

[fredgmuggs]

Blazing Saddles
Animal House
Blues Brothers
The Absent Minded Professor
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World

The first three I liked. The other two are the only other ones I can think of I didn't hate. TheDurk is not a fan of comedy.

I'd rather stick a fork in my eye than watch It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World again. Once was more than enough.

[JL25and3]

I'd rather stick a fork in my eye than watch It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World again. Once was more than enough.

I’m with you. I saw it in a theater when I was a kid, and I thought it was unbearably stupid and unfunny even then.

[JL25and3]

I need to edit my list to include The Big Lebowski

It's interesting seeing Blazing Saddles and The Producers from Mel Brooks being mentioned. I always felt Young Frankenstein was his funniest offering.

I thought about that. Young Frankenstein is his best and most consistent movie, but the funniest parts of the (original) Producers are flat-out funnier.

[theDurk]

I’m with you. I saw it in a theater when I was a kid, and I thought it was unbearably stupid and unfunny even then.

It helped seeing it in Cinerama and having Buddy Hackett sitting in the row behind you. He laughed hysterically oops loudly at his every appearance and at nothing else. Apparently he went everyday to that theatre (the one next to The Plaza) to laugh at himself. I was eleven, I think. You would have been eight or nine. Maybe it was too mature for you.

[JL25and3]

It helped seeing it in Cinerama and having Buddy Hackett sitting in the row behind you. He laughed hysterically oops loudly at his every appearance and at nothing else. Apparently he went everyday to that theatre (the one next to The Plaza) to laugh at himself. I was eleven, I think. You would have been eight or nine. Maybe it was too mature for you.

Yes, the subtle, nuanced acting of Buddy Hackett and Milton Berle, among many others, might have run too deep for me. Or maybe it sucked.

I do remember learning the expression 'kicked the bucket" from that movie.

[fredgmuggs]

Yes, the subtle, nuanced acting of Buddy Hackett and Milton Berle, among many others, might have run too deep for me. Or maybe it sucked.

I do remember learning the expression 'kicked the bucket" from that movie.

I'll go with it sucked.

About the only thing I can thankfully recall from that movie was Jimmy Durante saying "it's under the Big W, see"... Dick Shawn calling "Mama I'm coming"... and Ethel Merman being her annoying self.
(I shudder thinking about what the off-spring of Ethel Merman and Ernest Borgnine would look like if they had reproduced during their short marriage)

[Soriambi]

Groundhog day
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Blazing Saddles
Caddyshack
Major League

Jeez, how did I forget Groundhog Day? Editing list again.

[Maynerd]

Animal House
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Caddyshack
Blazing Saddles
Harvey

[edit -- adding additional choices, because there are too many good comedies to completely exclude.]

Duck Soup
Young Frankenstein
Animal Crackers
Groundhog Day
Ghostbusters
Stripes

[Yankee Tripper]

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Slapshot
Ghost Busters
Stripes
Princess Bride

[JL25and3]

Well, here's a start. Considerable addition/revision expected

To Be or Not to Be (the original, of course)
Duck Soup
His Girl Friday
The Palm Beach Story
Clerks

[Yankee Tripper]

It's interesting seeing Blazing Saddles and The Producers from Mel Brooks being mentioned. I always felt Young Frankenstein was his funniest offering.

I enjoyed all 3 but Blazing Saddles was so hilariously irreverent the first time I saw it I couldn't stop laughing.

History of the World Part I had its moments too.
Space Balls was a nice Star War spoof and High Anxiety was a fun Hitchcock spoof.

[Maynerd]

Duck Soup

I was really on the fence between Duck Soup and Harvey.

[JL25and3]

I was really on the fence between Duck Soup and Harvey.

I don’t get that at all, but as muggs says, 28 flavors.

[fredgmuggs]

I don’t get that at all, but as muggs says, 28 flavors.

and yet I always buy fudge ripple. Go figure?