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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: GUEST,Peter T. Date: 15 May 06 - 04:32 PM Is there a joke in "O Brother Where Art Thou?" Is there a scintilla of humour in it? Where? yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: GUEST Date: 15 May 06 - 03:15 PM Brother where art thou, anything film which includes Peter Sellers. I can`t recall the name of a film which starred Leonard Rossitter as a French wind-passer, truly hilarious. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: GUEST,Peter T. Date: 15 May 06 - 02:05 PM Duh. The Lady Eve. yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: Becca72 Date: 15 May 06 - 11:13 AM Two more I thought of that I could watch over and over: Office Space Dogma |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: Dave the Gnome Date: 15 May 06 - 10:40 AM Too many to list but recently I laughed a lot at Kung Pow - Enter the fist. Copletely barking... :D (tG) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: HuwG Date: 14 May 06 - 09:46 PM Another one which I found hilariously funny, but which seemed to go down like a lead balloon on release Rebecca's Daughters |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: Stilly River Sage Date: 14 May 06 - 05:04 PM Are you sure you mean All About Eve? Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda in The Lady Eve is a better example of a comedy. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: Peter T. Date: 14 May 06 - 03:50 PM I am not sure a list without "Sleeper" is a good list. More missing: All kinds of screwball comedies, including 5 masterpieces: "All About Eve", "The Awful Truth", "The Front Page", "Holiday", and the greatest of them all, "Twentieth Century". yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: Peter T. Date: 14 May 06 - 03:44 PM And practically no foreign films appear here. Almodovar's early films are wildly funny. The funniest film I have ever seen is the original "Cage Aux Folles" (not the crappy American remake, why they do these things, I will never know). yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: Peter T. Date: 14 May 06 - 03:36 PM Movies unmentioned so far (I think): The Moon's Our Home -- a lovely film with Henry Fonda and Margaret Sullavan, a screwball comedy which has been completely overlooked, but which is deeply charming and very funny. "Manhattan" - Woody Allen's masterpiece, and very funny. My all time favourite Woody Allen scene however is his indoctrination-into-the-Russian-army scene in "Love and Death" ("You Love Mother Russia, don't you!") yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: GUEST,Coyote Breath Date: 14 May 06 - 01:04 AM Putney Swope The Woman in Red (the 'Blind Man' bit, especially) Tank Girl Blazing Saddles Young Frankenstein How the West Was Won Time Bandits Monty Python and the Holy Grail The Life of Brian The Meaning of Life Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein (when I was ten) Raising Arizona Fargo The Big Leibowski Cecil B. Demented Matinee (starring John Goodman) Tremors (the first one) anything with Cantinflas anything with Marty Feldman A Boy and His Dog The Saragossa Manuscript The Fabulous Adventures of Baron Von Munchausen And many of those others mentioned above. I'm going to put Barcelona in the VCR right now and then to bed. CB |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 13 May 06 - 09:05 PM Ok thread drift alert! "Maverick" had lots of interesting music. But there were clear pictures of pretty guitars. Did guitars exist in this speriod? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: Stringsinger Date: 13 May 06 - 05:19 PM Anyting by Laurel and Hardy. "The Road to Wellville" "Saved" Frank Hamilton |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: kendall Date: 13 May 06 - 08:58 AM The Meaning of life. No Time for Sargents |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 13 May 06 - 08:27 AM TV here just ran "Maverick" again tonight - I've still got tears in my eyes. Looks like it is no my current 'favourite'... Near the beginning, during the 'holdup', Gibson pulls the kerchief off the face of the negro (Danny Glover). They look at each other, as if they sorta recognise each other (they had done lethal weapon!), and as Glover is making his getaway, he stumbles and curses "I'm getting too old for this shit!". Then there is the scene where he is dragged under the stage coach (Indiana Jones style)... and so on... the more movies you know, the funnier it is... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: Cluin Date: 13 May 06 - 08:06 AM Greenaway is definitely not to everyone's taste, HuwG. I've liked some of his films (including the one you've quoted), but not all. "Prospero's Books" was a real labour to watch. "So I Married an Axe Murderer" was lastingly funny and much better than those Austin Powers flix Myers did later. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: Peter Kasin Date: 13 May 06 - 12:09 AM My all time favorite is Buster Keaton's "Steamboat Bill, Jr." Chanteyranger |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: Midchuck Date: 12 May 06 - 10:05 PM I don't say all those mentioned are not funny. But to me, there's The Great Race, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, and Animal House. Then there's all the others. Pure personal prejudice. Peter. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: HuwG Date: 12 May 06 - 12:10 AM Perhaps not to everyone's taste - Drowning by Numbers |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: kendall Date: 11 May 06 - 07:15 PM Monty Python and the holy grail |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: Helen Date: 11 May 06 - 05:49 PM The Marx Brothers films Eddie Cantor films Danny Kaye films The Flying High series of films Who Framed Roger Rabbit Drop Dead Fred (this is my favourite favourite - whether I'm feeling depressed or feeling happy) I'm sure there's more but they are the top ones on my list. Helen |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: closet-folkie Date: 11 May 06 - 01:41 PM Bedazzled(1967)--Peter Cook was the man! Life Of Brian I'm amazed that people consider "Love, Actually" to be a comedy; It depressed the hell out of me. "Crud, Actually" might have been a better title. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: kendall Date: 10 May 06 - 04:41 PM Absolute funniest: The Producers "We're not aloooo-oooone" "He's wearing a dreeeee-esssss." "Springtime for Hitler and Germany. Goosesteps the new step of dance. We're marching to a different pace Look out here comes the Master race." SINS on Kendall's PC |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: Becca72 Date: 10 May 06 - 04:31 PM Most have been mentioned already, but some of my favorites are: The Jerk Anything Python (particularly The Meaning of Life) Two Weeks Notice The Wedding Singer Wedding Crashers The Man with Two Brains The Breakfast Club Slap Shot |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: clueless don Date: 10 May 06 - 11:31 AM Another good Peter Sellers movie - if it may indeed be called a comedy - was "Only Two Can Play". And then there's "I'm All Right Jack". Both, as I recall, were serious movies with funny moments. Don |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 10 May 06 - 08:11 AM My (other) favourite scenes from the Court Jester: The knighting scene - "Run him through" said the King! and the fight scene where he was flippping in and out of being hypnotised (actually that goes on for large parts of the movie!) that he was "the greatest swordsman on earth - no blade can touch you!" - Poor opponent - wasn't it Basil Rathbone - an Olympic level fencer in real life? :-) And the Inspector General - 'Play gypsy, sing gypsy, dance gypsy - and now....... we drink' with the crooked councillors waiting for him to drink the poisoned glass... That's The Wrong Box scene I remember from almost childhood, SRS! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: Stilly River Sage Date: 10 May 06 - 01:06 AM The Love One--is that the Evelyn Waugh story in the pet cemetery? I liked that one so well I even found the book and read it, but it was so many years ago I barely remember either now. In The Wrong Box I loved the scene when Sellers signs a document then picks up a kitten to blot the page. :) SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: mrdux Date: 10 May 06 - 12:22 AM The Loved One BTW, I remember seeing the Court Jester at a movie theater with my parents when i was a little kid, and it's always been a favorite -- "The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon! The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true." Thanks for the reminder. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 09 May 06 - 08:19 PM Oh, yes, now it clarifies - "The Wrong Box" - The Doctor and the cats! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 09 May 06 - 08:06 PM Have been unable to stop thinking about "The Wrong Box" ever since The Aussie Defence Dept brought home the wrong coffin from Iraq, according it all the military niceties on the way... At least in this country, the widow was able to drag the PM out of bed at 11pm and give him a big earful of abuse, and have him just sit there and take it, which he later publicly said on TV that she had every right to do. Could that happen in your country? Or has Johnny just got us conned in other ways? :-) Yerggh! Which sorta reminds of "Tank Girl", which was pretty funny too... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: Stilly River Sage Date: 09 May 06 - 07:18 PM The Wrong Box was wonderful. I haven't seen it in many years. I don't think The World of Henry Orient has been mentioned here yet, but it was also a rather poignant comedy. One of my favorites--[slaps forehead]--how could I forget Sellers in Being There. That is simply marvelous. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: Big Al Whittle Date: 09 May 06 - 02:35 PM singin' in the rain |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: Bill D Date: 09 May 06 - 02:30 PM (clueless Don did already mention "The Court Jester", I see...but it deserves 2nd-ing also.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: Bill D Date: 09 May 06 - 02:01 PM Brewster McCloud! The Wrong Box ....one of the most complex plots to explain I ever saw. and 2nd "Being There" and "The Gods Must be Crazy" and couple of OLD ones..I Married a Witch and The Court Jester with Danny Kaye....a classic! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 09 May 06 - 11:37 AM Fever Pitch. Can a beautiful, successful, competitive woman find happiness with a Red Sox fan? One reason I liked it was that it didn't just tell the story, it took pictures. Especially in the early stages of the film,the camera would capture an image and I would say to myself, "I would have photographed that." And the guys dancing: Whooeee! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: Bert Date: 09 May 06 - 01:15 AM Saving Grace |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: Little Hawk Date: 09 May 06 - 12:31 AM Wow. We had that record with Danny Kaye when I was a kid. I have not seen those lyrics in maybe 45 years! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: Stilly River Sage Date: 09 May 06 - 12:20 AM He and Gertrude Lawrence started racing and emoting through their songs in the Broadway Play Lady in the Dark and it became famous for their friendly rivalry. He was noted for "Tschaikowsky" and she for "The Saga of Jenny."
Music: Kurt Weill Lyrics: Ira Gershwin Book: Moss Hart Premiere: Thursday, January 23, 1941 link Jenny made her mind up when she was three She herself was going to trim the Christmas tree Christmas Eve she lit the candles, tossed the tapers away Little Jenny was an orphan on Christmas day Poor Jenny, bright as a penny Her equal would be hard to find She lost one dad and mother, a sister and a brother, But she would make up her mind Jenny made her mind up when she was twelve That into foreign languages she would delve But at seventeen to Vassar, it was quite a blow That in twenty-seven languages she couldn't say no Poor Jenny, bright as a penny Her equal would be hard to find To Jenny I'm beholden, her heart was big and golden But she would make up her mind Jenny made her mind up at twenty-two To get herself a husband was the thing to do She got herself all dolled up in her satins and furs And she got herself a husband--but he wasn't hers Poor Jenny, bright as a penny Her equal would be hard to find Deserved a bed of roses, but history discloses That she would make up her mind Jenny made her mind up at fifty-one She would write her memoirs before she was done The very day her book was published, history relates, There were wives who shot their husbands in some thirty-three states Jenny made her mind up at seventy-five She would live to be the oldest woman alive But gin and rum and destiny play funny tricks, And poor Jenny kicked the bucket at seventy-six Jenny points a moral with which you cannot quarrel, Makes a lot of common sense-- Jenny and her saga prove that you're gaga If you don't keep sitting on the fence Jenny and her story point the way to glory To all man and womankind Anyone with vision comes to this decision-- Don't make up your mind |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 08 May 06 - 11:27 PM Danny Kaye has always been one of my favourites - his 'patter routines' are very similar to the 'patter songs' of G&S - and were specially written for him too. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: Little Hawk Date: 08 May 06 - 09:47 PM Love and Death - Woody Allen & Diane Keaton once again... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: GUEST,Murray on Saltspring Date: 08 May 06 - 09:40 PM Yes, L&H in "Bonnie Scotland" is a favourite, though I haven't seen it for years. My choice scene is where they are in India in a Scottish regiment and the band strikes up a jolly Scots tune. Stan and Ollie are doing their fatigue duty, picking up bits of paper & rubbish, and the scene is wonderfully choreographed, with them dancing with each other, etc. etc. Does anyone remember this? - If they do, maybe they can identify the tune (a jig, I think). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: WFDU - Ron Olesko Date: 08 May 06 - 02:05 PM Some of my favorite comedy "comfort" films - Animal House The Blues Brothers (the orignal, not the drek sequel that came out in 2000) Airplane Naked Gun M*A*S*H* The classics - Abbott & Costello - The Time of their Lives Laurel & Hardy - Bonnie Scotland Marx Brothers - Horse Feathers (the first Marx Brothers film I recall watching) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: TheBigPinkLad Date: 08 May 06 - 01:47 PM How to get Ahead in Advertising A Clockwork Orange |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: Stilly River Sage Date: 08 May 06 - 01:21 PM RangerSteve, I had the same thought in rapid succession after listing You Can't Take it With You" (and I agree--the Robards version is better, but anything with Jean Arthur is always good!). I love The Man Who Came to Dinner. They weren't confident enough that Monty Woolley could pull it off by himself so they had Bette Davis join the cast, but he was magnificent in the role. I'll have to look for the Nathan Lane version. And I watched Harvey many times as a child, but haven't seen it in a long time. I'll have to pick it up at the library. My son is a fan of the James Garner western farces Support Your Local Sheriff and Support Your Local Gunfighter. A lot of subtle stuff buried in the slapstick, particularly in the first one. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: catspaw49 Date: 08 May 06 - 01:21 PM HEY ALANABIT..........Alan, the actress in question who played Veta Louise was Josephine Hull and I agree on her brilliance. Like many others who have enjoyed acting on the amateur college and community theater level where "Harvey" is a staple, I too have done the play and the performances of almost all the actors in the movie are almost always attempted to be mirrored by us amateurs. BTW, the only actor I ever saw do a great job on the Elwood P. Dowd character besides Jimmy Stewart was Art Carney and his was a different and equally compelling performance. It was a wonderful and wonderfully funny play and movie which gives us a great piece of hard earned life philosophy:"In this world you have to be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. For years I was smart......I recommend pleasant." Perhaps you have also seen Ms. Hull in the movie of "Arsenic and Old Lace" where she palys one of the two Brewster sisters who poison the poor and lonely men who apply to rent a room with their spiked Elderberry wine and bury them in the basement. I mentioned Cary Grant as a fine comedic actor and he shows it in "A&OL." Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: GUEST, heric Date: 08 May 06 - 01:19 PM Oh my we have neglected to mention The Castle - Australia's own Braveheart - a man of principal who will stand up to government oppression at all costs. Too damned funny. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: Rapparee Date: 08 May 06 - 01:08 PM I also kind of like "Crocodile Dundee" (the first one). I find it interesting that such "classics" as the "Francis the Talking Mule" and "Ma and Pa Kettle" series aren't mentioned, and I don't think anything by Martin & Lewis has been either. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: Little Hawk Date: 08 May 06 - 12:28 PM The one I don't find all that funny is "Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World". Too noisy, frantic, and relentless for my taste, but it does have a few inspired moments here and there. "The Gods Must Be Crazy" is a good one. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: clueless don Date: 08 May 06 - 11:41 AM Has anyone mentioned "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" yet? Was 1 a good year? And Danny Kaye in "The Court Jester", if only for the scene involving the vessel with the pestle, the chalise from the palace, and the flagon with the dragon (which one has the brew that is true?). Don |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Comedy Films From: Essex Girl Date: 08 May 06 - 08:36 AM Apart from my favourites - Harvey, Bringing up Baby & The Party -, there are two more great Ealing comedies, The Titfield Thunderbolt and Passport to Pimlico. |
