top ten comedy films for andyking's comedy extravaganza (part 1)
CC = classic comedy
GB = genre-bender (I might be the only one calling these movies comedies...)
CC/GB? = see i heart huckabees for more on what this designation means
a shot in the dark(1964) - CC
(if I hadn't started with this one, I would have included another peter sellers movie, either dr. strangelove or lolita)
midnight cowboy(1969) - GB
okay, i bet no one in 1969 and very few people in 2021 will agree with me that this is a comedy, but it still has some of the funniest lines i've ever heard, and my only criteria for if it is a comedy is did it make me laugh, and this movie did, a lot...
life of brian(1979) - CC
hard to choose which monty python to include, but i picked this one because i think i will laugh most on replaying this one... on first watch, i probably would have picked one of the other two, but which one? I really don't know! Time Bandits gets honorable mention as well...
adventures of buckaroo bonzai across the eighth dimension(1984) - CC
i hated this movie the first time i saw it... i must have had an inadequately developed sense of humor at the time... i think i still feel in some neglected corner of my brain that this movie must be objectively terrible... but who cares when you are laughing that hard?
glengarry glen ross(1992) - GB
trust me, it's as much comedy as drama... what do you mean imdb doesn't agree? who cares what bezos's mouthpiece says? they aren't the boss of me! wait, now i can't have any coffee? who says?
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