| Title | Comments | Recommended by |
| After Hours |
Martin Scorsese, anxious computer programmer Griffin Dunne, SoHo
artist Rosanna Arquette |
fin |
| Airplane! |
|
rkolb kpmuelle ninadm |
| Amateur | Hal Hartley | ealtier |
| Animal Crackers | Marx Brothers | kpmuelle phyll |
| Animal House |
| mcarter |
| Annie Hall | Woody Allen | lippertm |
| The Apartment | Jack Lemon and Shirley MacLaine | lippertm |
| Austin Powers, Secret Agent Man |
| ccbeck |
| The Awful Truth |
| kpmuelle |
| Bananas | Woody Allen | kpmuelle |
| Beavis and Butthead Do America | bad taste, but really funny | ccbeck |
| Bedazzled | Dudley Moore & Peter Cook | blives gyoung |
| The Belles of St. Trinians | Alistair Sim | lbowman |
| Better Off Dead | John Cusak | darcy calebtr kmaxwell |
| Big Deal on Madonna Street | group of bungling burglars | lippertm |
| Biloxi Blues | mixing comedy with poignance | rkolb |
| The Birdcage |
| whatsa |
| Blazing Saddles | Gene Wilder and Madeline Kahn | ozzie kpmuelle |
| The Blues Brothers |
| mcarter ealtier |
| Born Yesterday | Judy Holiday | phyll |
| Bringing Up Baby | demonstrates the necessity of comedy for keeping us alive and alert | stephenb kpmuelle |
| Bulworth |
| patf |
| Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
| lippertm |
| La Cage aux Folles |
| whatsa |
| Canadian Bacon |
| calebtr |
| Charade |
| rkolb |
| Children of the Revolution | Another Aussie flick about the possible love child of Stalin. With Judy Davis, Sam Neill, F. Murray Abraham, Geoffrey Rush, Rachel Griffiths and Richard Roxburgh |
|
| A Christmas Story |
| banshee |
| City Slickers | mixing comedy with poignance | rkolb |
| A Close Shave | Nick Park, Wallace and Gromit | kpmuelle |
| Cold Comfort Farm | A great British cast plays extremely eccentric people |
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| Les Compères | french movie on which Father's Day was based | whatsa armommy |
| Creature Comforts | Nick Park | kpmuelle |
| Desk Set | Tracy/Hepburn | ealtier-spouse gyoung |
| Destry Rides Again | Jimmy Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, comedy, Western, mystery, and romance | rkolb |
| Dinner at Eight |
| pbuehler |
| Down by Law | Benigni | phyll |
| Dr. Strangelove |
| plreid kpmuelle |
| Duck Soup | Marx Brothers | pbuehler kpmuelle |
| Fargo | a real screamer | pbuehler |
| The Fatal Glass of Beer |
| pbuehler |
| Female Trouble | if you're feeling really twisted | dcvh |
| A Fish Called Wanda |
| mfcarr |
| Fletch |
| bets |
| Flirting with Disaster | Ben Stiller | olen |
| Foul Play | Goldie Hawn as a librarian | aahnie patf tat |
| The Full Monty |
| lippertm |
| The General | Buster Keaton | kpmuelle |
| Ghostbusters |
| ealtier |
| A Grand Day Out | Nick Park, Wallace and Gromit | kpmuelle |
| Groove Tube | Chevy Chase and Richard Belzer, pretty vulgar, Abraham/Zucker Bros. | gyoung |
| Grosse Pointe Blank | John Cusack | kmaxwell ccbeck |
| Groundhog Day |
| bets |
| Grumpy Old Men |
| lippertm |
| Hairspray | John Waters | dcvh |
| Harold and Maude | Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon | mnoga efc plreid pbuehler |
| The Heartbreak Kid |
| bets |
| His Girl Friday | ultimate battle-of-the-sexes, Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell | rkolb kpmuelle |
| History of the World Part I | Mel Brooks (only he can make the Inquisition funny) | lippertm |
| Holiday | Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn in a George Kukor comedy. The supporting cast steal the picture! It was done before The Philadelphia Story. |
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| Hopscotch | Glenda Jackson, Walter Matthau, and Mozart | lbeattie |
| The Horse's Mouth |
| pbuehler |
| Horsefeathers | Marx Brothers | kpmuelle |
| The House of Yes | may not be to everyone's taste | plreid |
| Hudson Hawke | A whacked out comedy, even though it bombed. How can it lose? It's got Richard E. Grant and Sandra Bernhardt parodying the Trumps as well as glowing, talking crucifixes and assassins named after candy bars! |
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| Husbands and Wives | Woody Allen | olen |
| I'm from Hollywood |
| bets
|
| I'm Gonna Git You, Sucka |
| calebtr |
| The In-Laws |
| plreid |
| It | starring Clara Bow | rkolb |
| Jeremiah Johnson | "Skin that one, Pilgrim, while I go get you another." | pbuehler |
| Johnny Stecchino | Benigni | phyll |
| Kentucky Fried Movie | early mid-seventies flick, pretty vulgar, Abraham/Zucker Bros. | gyoung rkolb |
| Kind Hearts and Coronets |
| kpmuelle |
| The King of Comedy |
| bets |
| King of Hearts | Alan Bates | efc |
| Kingpin |
| mcarter |
| The Knack (And How To Get It) | might be thought of as soaked with sexism | rkolb |
| Knock On Wood | Danny Kaye | rkolb |
| The Lady Eve | Romance aboard ship between a conniving Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda playing a naive upper-crust scion |
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| The Lady Killers |
| pbuehler |
| The Lavender Hill Mob |
| kpmuelle |
| Life of Brian | Monty Python | gyoung calebtr kpmuelle |
| Little Murders | Elliot Gould | barsamia |
| Love and Death | Woody Allen | kpmuelle |
| The Man in the White Suit |
| kpmuelle |
| Manhattan | Woody Allen | lippertm |
| Married to the Mob | Wacky, silly comedy from the '80s | mfcarr |
| Der Maulkorb |
| depopolo |
| Midnight Run | Robert De Niro | banshee |
| Mighty Aphrodite |
| jssandbe
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| The Miracle of Morgan's Creek | by Preston Sturges. It's a crazy WWII comedy about how single women have to be careful. Stars Betty Hutton and Eddie Bracken. |
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| Modern Times | Charlie Chaplin | lippertm |
| Mon Oncle | Jacques Tati | lippertm |
| Monkey Business | Marx Brothers | kpmuelle |
| Monsieur Hulot's Holiday | Jacques Tati, Frenchman on holiday in England | lippertm |
| Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
| ccbeck kpmuelle |
| Il Mostro | Benigni | phyll |
| Mrs. Doubtfire | Robin Williams | rkolb |
| Murder By Death | Peter Falk, Truman Capote | almeida |
| My Favorite Wife | Cary Grant | patf |
| A Night at the Opera | Marx Brothers | calebtr kpmuelle depopolo ninadm |
| Night on Earth | Benigni | phyll |
| Night Shift |
| mdarrell |
| Ninotchka |
| pbuehler |
| The Old Dark House | an early, wonderully campy James Whale | mfcarr |
| One, two, three |
| pbuehler |
| Parenthood |
| rkolb |
| Party Girl |
| armommy |
| The Party | Peter Sellers | meow |
| The Philadelphia Story |
| kpmuelle |
| Pink Panther movies | Peter Sellers | whatsa |
| Polyester | from the department of extremely bad taste, in Smell-o-rama! | mfcarr dcvh |
| The Princess Bride |
| kpmuelle
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| The Producers | Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel | mnoga mdarrell plreid calebtr pbuehler kpmuelle ninadm jssandbe |
| Raising Arizona |
| mfcarr |
| Road to Rio |
| depopolo |
| Rocky III | So it's not a comedy, but it's definitely gut-burstingly funny. | calebtr |
| Roxanne | mixing comedy with poignance | rkolb |
| Rushmore |
| bets |
| S.O.B. | Blake Edwards | lbowman |
| Serial Mom | from the department of extremely bad taste | mfcarr dcvh |
| Seven-Year Itch | Tom Ewell, quintessential male fantasy | rkolb |
| Sex and the Single Girl | Natalie Wood, Lauren Bacall and Tony Curtis in the story of Helen Gurley Brown |
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| Sherlock, Jr. | Buster Keaton | kpmuelle |
| Singing in The Rain | screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, it has as witty a script as any of 'em | rkolb |
| Sleeper | Woody Allen | kpmuelle |
| So I Married an Axe Murderer |
| ccbeck |
| Soap Dish |
| pbuehler |
| Some Like It Hot |
| ninadm |
| Something About Mary |
| calebtr jssandbe |
| SpaceBalls |
| banshee |
| [This is] Spinal Tap | Can anyone really ever forget that Stonehenge scene? | bets jssandbe |
| Stake Out | not the one with Rosie O'Donnell | banshee |
| Stranger Than Paradise | Jim Jarmusch | ealtier |
| Strictly Ballroom | Cute romance set in the world of Australian championship ballroom dancing |
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| The Sure Thing | John Cusack/cheesy 80s movie | kmaxwell |
| Take the Money and Run |
| jssandbe |
| Task Matrix | Starring Keanu Reeves and IMPS | wiesenheimer |
| Thin Man movies |
| phyll |
| Tight Little Island | aka "Whiskey Galore" | rkolb |
| Tom Jones |
| pbuehler |
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