Channel Five7/9/08 @ 10.05pm - Greatest Ever Comedy Movies

I love The Princess Bride but I wouldn't class it as a top comedy.


I can't belive some of these so called critics that they have on. One of them spouting some bollocks about only the Farrelly brothers would dare to have scenes about getting balls caught in a zip or spunk for hair gel, which may have been a Kevin Smith idea (appologies if i've got that one wrong).

Do these guys actually go to see movies or just read a review from IMDB and then go on TV and talk about it.
 
Life of Brian


There was no Airplane in the top 40 (I missed 50-41) which surprised me as when I've seen polls like this before it's usually a straight fight between that and LoB for number 1
 
I saw some of this last night and some of the choices baffled me.

Now I liked shrek, but 3rd in the list? and no Airplane? who compiled the list?



1. Monty Python's Life Of Brian
2. Blazing Saddles
3. Shrek
4. American Pie
5. Meet The Parents
6. Groundhog Day
7. The Blues Brothers
8. Shaun Of The Dead
9. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
10. Mrs Doubtfire
11. Some Like It Hot
12. Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery
13. Dumb And Dumber
14. There's Something About Mary
15. This Is Spinal Tap
16. Men In Black
17. Beetlejuice
18. A Fish Called Wanda
19. Ghostbusters
20. Dr Strangelove
21. Home Alone
22. Toy Story
23. The Naked Gun
24. Happy Gilmore
25. Dodgeball
26. Carry On Camping
27. Planes, Trains And Automobiles
28. Wayne's World
29. Trading Places
30. The Incredibles
31. Father Of The Bride
32. Police Academy
33. Team America: World Police
34. The Princess Bride
35. Return Of The Pink Panther
36. South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut
37. Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
38. Scary Movie
39. School Of Rock
40. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

http://www.five.tv/programmes/greatestevermovies/countdown/?list=0
 
What a weird selection? Home Alone? Toy Story? The Princess Bride?? Shrek?The Incredibles?!!! :confused:

Theres only 10 in that top 40 that would make my personal top 40 list and I'm being generous.

Their other 'Greatest Ever..' list (chosen by the British public) are also a bit iffy.
 
There's some real garbage in that list, but Life of Brian deserves its place for the Jehovah stoning scene alone. :D

But where's Airplane? That's top three material. :confused: And what about Tom Hanks' finest moment, The Burb's? I love that film. :o

Return of the Pink Panther should've been higher than 35. That brings tears of laughter to my eyes no matter how many times I see it. It's just a shame the best Cato v Clouseau fight is in the slightly poorer 'Strikes Again'.
 
Very odd selection I thought. Apparently voted by Times readers, I think. The usual arbitrary list of films as decided by people whose memory stretches back little more than 15 years.

The list breaks down like this:

1950s: 1 film
1960s: 2
1970s: 3
1980s: 12
1990s: 14
2000s: 8

Very disproportionate and absolutely nothing prior to 1959 - no Laurel and Hardy, Marx Brothers, Chaplin, Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Abbott and Costello, Three Stooges etc. etc.

Apparently Happy Gilmore, Dodgeball and the dreadful Father of the Bride are all funnier than anything made in the first half of the 20th century.

I could name 50 films funnier than 80% of that list off the top of my head but I try not to get too wound up by these Top 40 / 50 / 100 list programmes but try to just enjoy watching the clips of some good and sometimes favourite movies.

Giles Coren is a tw*t, though. Really irritating and not at all funny.
 
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