Funniest movies

[Roadhawg]

My two favorites are

Airplane
Young Frankenstein (Frankensteeeen)

[MadMonk]

A few I like:
40-Year Old Virgin
Christmas Vacation
The Princess Bride
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Clerks

[Roadhawg]

I agree with you on Christmas Vacation, and Monty Python. I saw Princess Bride as a story rather than a comedy although I really like it and have watched it several times.

[RadicalModerate]

(In no "particular" order) . . .

A Mighty Wind
Animal House
Best In Show
It's A Gift
O, Brother Where Art Thou?
Take the Money and Run
The Big Lebowski
This is Spinal Tap
Walk Hard
Waiting for Guffman

(Plus some already mentioned =)

(Did I fail to mention "A Christmas Story"?)

[MikeOKC]

RM, We must really be a couple of old coots. To find another person that would list "It's A Gift" as a favorite comedy! Love it - definitely in my top 5 comedies.

I'd also go with...

Bringing Up Baby

Bananas

Father of the Bride (both versions, but I like the newer Steve Martin version best)

Annie Hall - Many wouldn't think of it as a pure comedy. But it's one great one-liner after another.

Groundhog Day

National Lampoon's Vacation

[Easy180]

40 year old virgin and almost embarrassed to admit it Team America

[HewenttoJared]

Expelled

[Lord Helmet]

There's Something About Mary

[FritterGirl]

Take the entire Christopher Guest ensemble films mentioned by Radical Moderate, and then throw in another film far, far more crude... Borat. Yes, I have to admit, I have never laughed so hard in my life as I did during my first screening of that. I had to go for a second viewing because we were laughing so hard the first time we missed the majority of the jokes.

Certainly National Lampoon's Christmas is among them, as is Blazing Saddles and a few others of that genre.

[Roadhawg]

Lots of good ones

[OKCisOK4me]

Horrible Bosses

[Easy180]

Moderate just mentioned this in the other movie thread but let me put Bad Santa in a tie with 40 Year Old Virgin

Billy Bob was born to play that part

[RadicalModerate]

Yes. (and i think Bad Santa is hilarious)
But before that, he was a Serious Actor. =)
(ever see the one where he was a scary barber c/o the coen bros?)

(We actually drove to a movie house in a mall to see that one.
I can't remember the title. It was Quail Springs Mall.
The traffic and the parking were just as bad as if it had been Christmas. =)

[boscorama]

Smiley Face.

[RadicalModerate]

I would have to add "Rock Around the Clock" as the funniest "Comedy Noir" film ever
(and Sam Katzman as the pretender to the Coen Bros Throne, Producer-wise)
except it--"Rock Around the Clock"--wasn't intended as a comedy.

Unlike "It's a Gift". =)

Of course, to be fair, W.C. Fields is no Bill Haley.
And vice-versa, with or without Comets or Promoters. =)

[Roadhawg]

The old Hope-Crosby On the Road movies were pretty good too.

[Dustin]

Dumb and Dumber, 40 year old virgin, Bridesmaids, Revenge of the Nerds.

[CaptDave]

Here are a few that crack me up every time...

Blazing Saddles
Office Space
Coming to America
Caddyshack
Christmas Vacation
Best In Show

[Martin]

if i could pick one and only one, it'd surely be airplane. blazing saddles would probably be a close second.

best one i haven't seen mentioned yet... mash, the movie.

-M