Premiere Magazine's 50 greatest comedies list

[ash2]

I'd recommend the comedy issue of Premiere to everyone, it's got some great pictures of comedians and an oral history of comedy.

Anyway the list of the 50 greatest comedies they have is much more inclusive than that other list. Here they are in cronological order

Safety Last
The Gold Rush
The General
Duck Soup
It Happened One Night
A Night at the Opera
My Man Godfrey
The Awful Truth
Bringing Up Baby
His Girl Friday
A Chump at Oxfod
The Bank Dick
To be or Not to Be
Road to Marocco
The Miacle of Morgan's Creek
The Ladykillers (1955)
Big Deal on Madonna Street
Some like it Hot
The Apartment
Dr. Strangelove
A Shot in the Dark
The Producers
M*A*S*H
Sleeper
Blazing Saddles
Young Krankenstein
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Sunshine Boys
Annie Hall
Animal House
Heaven can Wait
The In-Laws (1979)
The Jerk
Airplane!
Caddyshack
Private Benjamin
My Favorite Year
Trading Places
National Lampoon's Vacation
This is Spinal Tap
A Fish Called Wanda
Grouindhog Day
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
The Big Lebowski
There's Something About Mary
Rushmore
Best in Show
Zoolander
Wedding Crashers
The 40-year-old Virgin


okay discuss...

JG

[Torgo]

Ugh. There's Something About Mary, Caddyshack, and Wedding Crashers are on this one as well? Am I the only one who thinks these three are overrated pieces of crap?

And Zoolander being on that list is just plain wrong.

But at least they have a wider selection than than Bravo's.

[mightyjack]

Much better list, but with Torgo, I've never liked Mary and Zoolanders cute, but not top 50 material.

Muray makes Caddyshake for me. Yeah I know, comedies subjective. But overall I like this list much more.

[Mr. Atari]

Caddyshack should be on any top-50 comedies list. Bill Murray, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, and Chevy Chase (when he was funny), with Harold Ramis at the helm...it's a powerhouse of comedy. Although, I'll grant you that the whole Danny Noonan subplot is pretty dull.

But I'll agree that Mary, Zoolander, and Wedding Crashers don't belong. Zoolander especially is almost painfully not funny.

[Lincolnator]

Ummm, no Ghostbusters? Top Secret? Yet, Rushmore and Zoolander. Wow. I obviously did not have a vote on that list.

[donmac]

Much better than Bravo's list (although that's not hard to do), but the omission of Monty Python's Life of Brian is really surprising. It's easily one of the Top-10 comedies ever made and (IMO) Python's best film.

[Torgo]

sampo said:

and Chevy Chase (when he was funny),

Chevy Chase used to be funny? I find that hard to believe.

[Bix Dugan]

My Favorite Year.
For a long time if I was asked "Favorite Movie?" my answer was "My Favorite Year".
Haven't seen it for a ling time now.

[Captain Hygiene]

As far as old movies go, I liked Chaplin's Modern Times better than The Gold Rush. They're both good ones though

[Joseph Javorsky]

hard to imagine a top comedy list without The Blues Brothers

[Famous Mortimer]

"Anchorman" is easily funnier than any of the last five films on the list, and most of the rest of the others too. But a lot of people evidently disagree with me. That lot of people are all wrong

[Melting Manos]

I do not see "What About Bob?" in that list so I cannot take it seriously.