Top ten comedies
Now for something completely different.. my top ten favourite comdies of all time.
#10 The Odd Couple, starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matheau as two desperate friends who decide to live together, despite their obvious differences. Mattheau, the slob, a sports reporter for a daily newspaper collides with neat freak Felix Unger, played by Jack Lemmon. Hilarity ensues.
#9 National Lampoon's Animal House, is clearly one of my faves', just for the last scene alone. Time Matheson leads a band of college misfits on a comic rampage at Faber College, during the turbelent 60's.
Watch it, then we'll talk.
#8 Arsenic and Old Lace , starring Cary Grant as a befuddled nephew of two old aunts who kill their gentlemen borders, who they come to realise are not happy in their life. A thirties screwball comedy erupts in this adapted stage play,also srarring Josepjine Hull and Raymond Massey and Peter Lorre.
#7 Some Like it Hot, starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon as two musicians get mixed up as accidental witnesses of the the St. Valentine's day massacre, in old Chicago. They take it on the lam, hiding out as female band musisicans in all girl orchestra. Billy Wilder directs this fantastic romp on thetrain down to Miami, eventually resulting in the boys getting discovered.
#6 Groundhog Day, is winner these days of the pandemic, like every day becoming the same as the last, starring Bill Murray as the weather man for a local TV station, who travels to see this liitle rodent see his shadow or not. A twist of fate has him reliving each day again and again, and again.
My worst fears are played out.
# 5 Slap Shot, starring Paul Newman, and a cast, actually a miscast of ex hockey players who bring this comedy tonumber 5 on my list. Made during the late 70's in the hey day of theBig Bad Bruins, and the Philly Flyers, it depicts a small town, dependant on one major industry, shutting down but rallying around the local hockey team. Old Time hockey, vulgarity, some nudity , but mostly great laughs surround this classic. The real "stars" of this movie are the Hanson brothers, real hockey siblings.
#4 The Philadelphia Story, starring Katherine Hepburn , Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant, in an oscar worthy romp through a jazz enthused set. Kate spurns Grant, makes a play for Stewart, then realises she was better offer with Grant, in the first place.
#3 His Girl Friday, starring Roslind Russell, and Cary Grant, who makes his third appearance on my top ten comedies,in a nearly perfect screw ball comedy. A convicted murderer, hopelessly framed is set upon by all sides. Newspaper editor Grant tries to convince Russell to write one more gem for his newspaper, all the while Russell is trying to navigate marriage to Ralph Bellamy.
# 2 Young Frankenstein, a Mel Brooks movie, written & directed by Mel, in 1974 strring Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman and Peter Boyle. A take offon the original Frankenstein monster story, with a mixture of realism folded in Teri Garr, makes her first screen appearance as Wilder's youthful young lab assistant, but it's Feldman that steals the movie, with his deadpan eyes and lines " Walk this way ", "I'll take the one in the turban", "the only worse would be if it started to rain".
# 1 -and the winner and still champ, A Night at the Opera, starringbthe 4 Marx brothers, Zeppo, Chico, Harpo and of course the old professer Groucho. A comedy of errors, operatic themes , Margaret Dumont and double entendes galore. One of the finest comedic scenes every written, filmed or directed is the famous state room scene.
#10 The Odd Couple, starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matheau as two desperate friends who decide to live together, despite their obvious differences. Mattheau, the slob, a sports reporter for a daily newspaper collides with neat freak Felix Unger, played by Jack Lemmon. Hilarity ensues.
#9 National Lampoon's Animal House, is clearly one of my faves', just for the last scene alone. Time Matheson leads a band of college misfits on a comic rampage at Faber College, during the turbelent 60's.
Watch it, then we'll talk.
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#8 Arsenic and Old Lace , starring Cary Grant as a befuddled nephew of two old aunts who kill their gentlemen borders, who they come to realise are not happy in their life. A thirties screwball comedy erupts in this adapted stage play,also srarring Josepjine Hull and Raymond Massey and Peter Lorre.
#7 Some Like it Hot, starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon as two musicians get mixed up as accidental witnesses of the the St. Valentine's day massacre, in old Chicago. They take it on the lam, hiding out as female band musisicans in all girl orchestra. Billy Wilder directs this fantastic romp on thetrain down to Miami, eventually resulting in the boys getting discovered.
#6 Groundhog Day, is winner these days of the pandemic, like every day becoming the same as the last, starring Bill Murray as the weather man for a local TV station, who travels to see this liitle rodent see his shadow or not. A twist of fate has him reliving each day again and again, and again.
# 5 Slap Shot, starring Paul Newman, and a cast, actually a miscast of ex hockey players who bring this comedy tonumber 5 on my list. Made during the late 70's in the hey day of theBig Bad Bruins, and the Philly Flyers, it depicts a small town, dependant on one major industry, shutting down but rallying around the local hockey team. Old Time hockey, vulgarity, some nudity , but mostly great laughs surround this classic. The real "stars" of this movie are the Hanson brothers, real hockey siblings.
#4 The Philadelphia Story, starring Katherine Hepburn , Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant, in an oscar worthy romp through a jazz enthused set. Kate spurns Grant, makes a play for Stewart, then realises she was better offer with Grant, in the first place.
#3 His Girl Friday, starring Roslind Russell, and Cary Grant, who makes his third appearance on my top ten comedies,in a nearly perfect screw ball comedy. A convicted murderer, hopelessly framed is set upon by all sides. Newspaper editor Grant tries to convince Russell to write one more gem for his newspaper, all the while Russell is trying to navigate marriage to Ralph Bellamy.
# 2 Young Frankenstein, a Mel Brooks movie, written & directed by Mel, in 1974 strring Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman and Peter Boyle. A take offon the original Frankenstein monster story, with a mixture of realism folded in Teri Garr, makes her first screen appearance as Wilder's youthful young lab assistant, but it's Feldman that steals the movie, with his deadpan eyes and lines " Walk this way ", "I'll take the one in the turban", "the only worse would be if it started to rain".
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# 1 -and the winner and still champ, A Night at the Opera, starringbthe 4 Marx brothers, Zeppo, Chico, Harpo and of course the old professer Groucho. A comedy of errors, operatic themes , Margaret Dumont and double entendes galore. One of the finest comedic scenes every written, filmed or directed is the famous state room scene.
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