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Best/Worst “Comedy” Titles — Here is yet another example of why I hate these top ten or top 30 or whatever lists. I’ve been in meetings where they are put together and the process, I can assure you, is corrupt. This particular list of top comdey movies was done by public votes combined with some odd/corrupt process. What a a joke. The number three movie is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004). I love that movie but it is more intellectually interesting than funny. Try Kingpins (alos excluded) for a real laugh. And note that not one single W.C. Fields movie is on the list. The fact is that It’s a Gift is in fact the funniest movie ever made. There are alo no Laurel and Hardy or anything classic except a Marx Brother film and a Chaplin or two. It just totally sucks. All such lists suck. This one is really bad.
Humph.
Jean Renoir is represented on this list by “Règle du jeu.” If that’s a comedy, why not put his La Grande Illusion on the list, a much finer movie, and a lot more like a comedy.
– The Precision Blogger
Wow, where were the comedy movies?! Maybe I’m just stupid, but the first rule of any comedy has to be to make you laugh. Sure the Graduate was funny, but it was a comedy in the same way a Hummer is an economy vehicle. And does anyone think that Toy Story 2 was funnier than This is Spinal Tap?!
No spelcheker tehn?
Comedies?
The list seems to include anything with at least two funny scenes.
The Incredibles, Toy Story, and Finding Nemo are animated films.
Singing in the Rain is a musical.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Christmas Story, The Philadelphia Story, among others are dramas.
Now Duck Soup is a comedy.
I think this belongs on the list of inane lists.
They have to use a “true Bayesian estimate” to come up with top 50 comedies of all time? Of course how else can you get a movie receiving 1,217 votes (#4) ranked higher than one receiving 89,951 (#35)?
And here I thought environmental doomsayers held the copyright to Boogus Statistics.
I agree, It’s a Gift is the best comedy movie ever. But, I’d also like to
see a full copy of Man on a Flying Trapeze and I can’t find it anywhere.
These list compilers sometimes don’t read their own articles. Years
ago, the jazz critic Leonard Feather listed Big Sid Catlett as the greatest
Jazz drummer, then a few months later in a review of a reissue album
of the Port of Harlem Jazz Men described the band as having a very weak drummer. Who was that drummer: Big Sid.
TCM shows Man on the Flying Trapeze every so often.
TCM? Oh thanks, I really want to see that movie.
What a terrible list.
Only two Marx Brothers movies. Where’s The Man Who Came To Dinner? Or Billy Liar? Or Spinal Tap?
Clearly humor is an alien concept to the list compilers.