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My favorites that come immediately to mind are in alphabetical order:

Animal House
Caddyshack
Death at a Funeral (British version)
Dr. Strangelove
Hannah and Her Sisters
Modern Times
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
My Cousin Vinny
Repo Man
The Big Lebowski
The Princess Bride
There's Something About Mary
This is Spinal Tap
Used Cars

Hannah and her Sisters is a dark comedy/drama and The Princess Bride is as much an adventure film as a comedic one. Nevertheless, I think both fit the category.
 
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OK, showing my age. But you did ask for input:

1. Young Frankenstein
2. Airplane
3. Murder by Death
4. It's a Mad ... World
6. The Monty Python films
7. The Peter Sellers Pink Panther films
 
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Option Bob said:
OK, showing my age. But you did ask for input:

1. Young Frankenstein
2. Airplane
3. Murder by Death
4. It's a Mad ... World
6. The Monty Python films
7. The Peter Sellers Pink Panther films
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Excellent choices. I have not seen Murder by Death, but how in the heck did I forget Young Frankenstein and at least one other Mel Brooks film that I'm sure someone else will nominate?
 
Slap Shot - I still laugh the first time the Hanson Brothers take the ice.
Office Space - if you have ever worked for a large company
 
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mn78psu83 said:
My favorites that come immediately to mind are in alphabetical order:

Animal House
Caddyshack
Death at a Funeral (British version)
Dr. Strangelove
Hannah and Her Sisters
Modern Times
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
My Cousin Vinnie
Repo Man
Something About Mary
The Big Lebowski
The Princess Bride
This is Spinal Tap
Used Cars

Hannah and her Sisters is a dark comedy/drama and The Princess Bride is as much an adventure film as a comedic one. Nevertheless, I think both fit the category.
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Planes, trains, and automobiles
Tommy Boy
There's Something about Mary
Austin Powers, Man of Mystery
My Cousin Vinny
Talledega Nights
Caddy shack
Animal House
 
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psulongago said:
Slap Shot - I still laugh the first time the Hanson Brothers take the ice.
Office Space - if you have ever worked for a large company
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Both great. My favorite lines in Office Space were from Lawrence. Very funny.
 
Blazing Saddles
Slap Shot
The Longest Yard (original)
Ruthless People
Beverly Hills Cop
Trading Places
Zombieland
Shaun of the Dead
Caddyshack
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
 
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Grumpy old men
Planes, tranes, and auto
Big lebowski
Caddyshack
Revenge of the nerds
Animal house
Friday
Slap shot
MASH
Bad News Bears
groundhog day
 
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Blazing Saddles
Big Lebkwski
Oh Brother Where Art Thou
Old School
Ghost Busters
Waiting For Guffman
Best In Show
This is Spinal Tap
Holy Grail
Fletch
Christmas Vacation
A Christmas Story

Wow...could go on and on....
 
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Lots of great ones so far. I always felt Midnight Run was always underrated, love that movie. A few I didn't see mentioned:

Fletch
Porky's
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Stir Crazy
Midnight Run
Stripes
Bull Durham
Tin Cup
Vacation
Christmas Vacation
 
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Relayer said:
Lots of great ones so far. I always felt Midnight Run was always underrated, love that movie. A few I didn't see mentioned:

Fletch
Porky's
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Stir Crazy
Midnight Run
Stripes
Bull Durham
Tin Cup
Vacation
Christmas Vacation
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High! Heck Yeah!
 
Player2BNamedL8r said:
Blazing Saddles
Big Lebkwski
Oh Brother Where Art Thou
Old School
Ghost Busters
Waiting For Guffman
Best In Show
This is Spinal Tap
Holy Grail
Fletch
Christmas Vacation
A Christmas Story

Wow...could go on and on....
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I just remembered another one for my generation (graduated high school in 1978): "Dazed and Confused"
 
Just an observation from the list of movies posted, how many of those listed have been made in the last 10 years or less? Last five years?

Safe to say they don't make comedy movies like they used to.
 
Relayer said:
Lots of great ones so far. I always felt Midnight Run was always underrated, love that movie. A few I didn't see mentioned:

Fletch
Porky's
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Stir Crazy
Midnight Run
Stripes
Bull Durham
Tin Cup
Vacation
Christmas Vacation
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Wow, how did I forget Bull Durham? One of the best sports comedies ever!!!
 
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mn78psu83 said:
My favorites that come immediately to mind are in alphabetical order:

Animal House
Caddyshack
Death at a Funeral (British version)
Dr. Strangelove
Hannah and Her Sisters
Modern Times
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
My Cousin Vinny
Repo Man
The Big Lebowski
The Princess Bride
There's Something About Mary
This is Spinal Tap
Used Cars

Hannah and her Sisters is a dark comedy/drama and The Princess Bride is as much an adventure film as a comedic one. Nevertheless, I think both fit the category.
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In order of how they occurred to me, though Dr. Strangelove is the best:
Dr. Strangelove (not just funny, a really great movie)
Some Like It Hot ("Nobody's perfect". Can't understand why nobody has mentioned this one - oh, I just saw one mention.)
The Naked Gun series (Silly but very funny. Can't understand why nobody has mentioned this one.)
The Big Lebowski
The Great Dictator (Chaplin)
Modern Times (Chaplin - the most realistic movie ever made about working at an old-time corporation ever made)
Office Space (the most realistic movie about working at a modern corporation ever made)
The Producers ("Springtime for Hitler")
Borat
Young Frankenstein
Slap Shot (not a hockey fan, but this is funny)
Fargo (a great movie but is it a comedy?)
Most anything with WC Fields (a true comedic genius)
 
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jj410 said:
In order of how they occurred to me, though Dr. Strangelove is the best:
Dr. Strangelove (not just funny, a really great movie)
Some Like It Hot ("Nobody's perfect". Can't understand why nobody has mentioned this one - oh, I just saw one mention.)
The Naked Gun series (Silly but very funny. Can't understand why nobody has mentioned this one.)
The Big Lebowski
The Great Dictator (Chaplin)
Modern Times (Chaplin - the most realistic movie ever made about working at an old-time corporation ever made)
Office Space (the most realistic movie about working at a modern corporation ever made)
The Producers ("Springtime for Hitler")
Borat
Young Frankenstein
Slap Shot (not a hockey fan, but this is funny)
Fargo (a great movie but is it a comedy?)
Most anything with WC Fields (a true comedic genius)
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Excellent list. Only you and one other person mentioned Some Like it Hot. Great call on WC Fields. Million Dollar Legs is one of the funniest movies many have never seen. Man on the Flying Trapeze - same. Most people have seen him as Egbert Souse in the Bank Dick or with Mae West in My Little Chickadee. She gets the best laughs with her deliveries in that one.

Flower Belle Lee (Mae West): [reading off the blackboard] “‘I am a good boy. I am a good man. I am a good girl.” What is this, propaganda?

Wayne Carter: I think you could turn a man’s head very easily if he wasn’t careful.
Flower Belle Lee (Mae West): Well, there’s no fun in being too careful.
Wayne Carter: Aren’t you forgetting that you’re married?
Flower Belle Lee (Mae West): I’m doin’ my best.

Jeff Badger: I wonder what kind of a woman you really are.
Flower Belle Lee (Mae West): Too bad, but I can’t give out samples.
 
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Just went through the list and I think the only Woody Allen movie mentioned so far was "Hannah and Her Sisters." No "Annie Hall, "Sleeper," Crimes and Misdemeanors, etc...
 
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