Leaving aside the errors noted already, that is a pretty good list; I've seen more of them than I would have thought. But to pick a few nits:
1. I'd put This Is Spinal Tap higher on the list. 2. A list on which the first Marx Brothers movie appears does so at #17 is not to be trusted. 3. Life of Brian funnier than Monty Python and the Holy Grail? Well, maybe, but not as far as I'm concerned. 4. At #27 & #28--The Graduate and The Apartment...those are, in my opinion, not funny movies. They might have funny incidents or scenes, but they are both as serious as a heart attack. 5. I realize It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (#62) is a classic, but if you watch it again today I think it will strike you as trying too hard to be not quite funny enough.
I agree on The Graduate and The Apartment. I saw them both when the came out. I remember feeling kind of sad when I left the theater both times, although I may have laughed at parts of both.
I didn't even think Mad, Mad World was that funny 50 years ago. Of course, as a kid I thought the funniest movie ever was One, Two, Three. It isn't.
There is nothing funny (to my mind) about Meet the Parents. Not a big fan of Being There either. Is it supposed to be funny? Arthur? No, just distasteful.
My Cousin Vinny should be higher on the list.
Lastly, and most importantly, where is It's a Gift or any of the other W. C. Fields classics?
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THE BIG LEBOWSKI was written by Mel Brooks? In what universe?
Even the Writers Guild of America, West, can make a mistake.
And Peter O'Toole didn't win an Oscar for My Favorite Year. Though that was an awesome movie.
Leaving aside the errors noted already, that is a pretty good list; I've seen more of them than I would have thought. But to pick a few nits:
1. I'd put This Is Spinal Tap higher on the list.
2. A list on which the first Marx Brothers movie appears does so at #17 is not to be trusted.
3. Life of Brian funnier than Monty Python and the Holy Grail? Well, maybe, but not as far as I'm concerned.
4. At #27 & #28--The Graduate and The Apartment...those are, in my opinion, not funny movies. They might have funny incidents or scenes, but they are both as serious as a heart attack.
5. I realize It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (#62) is a classic, but if you watch it again today I think it will strike you as trying too hard to be not quite funny enough.
I agree on The Graduate and The Apartment. I saw them both when the came out. I remember feeling kind of sad when I left the theater both times, although I may have laughed at parts of both.
I didn't even think Mad, Mad World was that funny 50 years ago. Of course, as a kid I thought the funniest movie ever was One, Two, Three. It isn't.
There is nothing funny (to my mind) about Meet the Parents. Not a big fan of Being There either. Is it supposed to be funny? Arthur? No, just distasteful.
My Cousin Vinny should be higher on the list.
Lastly, and most importantly, where is It's a Gift or any of the other W. C. Fields classics?
The Jerk #19 and Night at the Opera #38. No, no, and no.
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