Favorite Comedies
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1.
Caddyshack
(1980)
An exclusive golf course has to deal with a brash new member and a destructive dancing gopher. (98 mins.)
Director: Harold Ramis
2.
Kingpin
(1996)
A star bowler whose career was prematurely "cut off" hopes to ride a new prodigy to success and riches. (113 mins.)
Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
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Planes, Trains & Automobiles
(1987)
A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving, with an obnoxious slob of a shower ring salesman his only companion. (93 mins.)
Director: John Hughes
4.
Super Troopers
(2001)
Five Vermont state troopers, avid pranksters with a knack for screwing up, try to save their jobs and out-do the local police department by solving a crime. (100 mins.)
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
5.
Ghostbusters
(1984)
Three unemployed parapsychology professors set up shop as a unique ghost removal service. (105 mins.)
Director: Ivan Reitman
6.
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
(2004)
Ron Burgundy is San Diego's top rated newsman in the male dominated broadcasting of the 1970's, but that's all about to change when a new female employee with ambition to burn arrives in his office. (94 mins.)
Director: Adam McKay
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The Big Lebowski
(1998)
"Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it. (117 mins.)
Director: Joel Coen
8.
The 'Burbs
(1989)
An overstressed suburbanite and his paramilitaric neighbor struggle to prove their paranoid theory that the new family in town is a front for a cannibalistic cult. (101 mins.)
Director: Joe Dante
9.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
(1975)
King Arthur and his knights embark on a low-budget search for the Grail, encountering many very silly obstacles. (91 mins.)
Director: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
10.
Office Space
(1999)
Comedic tale of company workers who hate their jobs and decide to rebel against their greedy boss. (89 mins.)
Director: Mike Judge
11.
Ed Wood
(1994)
The mostly true story of the legendary director of awful movies and his strange group of friends and actors. (127 mins.)
Director: Tim Burton
12.
Clerks.
(1994)
A day in the lives of two convenience clerks named Dante and Randal as they annoy customers, discuss movies, and play hockey on the store roof. (92 mins.)
Director: Kevin Smith
13.
Wayne's World
(1992)
Two slacker friends try to promote their public-access cable show. (94 mins.)
Director: Penelope Spheeris
14.
Wayne's World 2
(1993)
The inseparable duo try to organize a rock concert while Wayne must fend off a record producer who has an eye for his girlfriend. (95 mins.)
Director: Stephen Surjik
15.
Groundhog Day
(1993)
A weatherman finds himself living the same day over and over again. (101 mins.)
Director: Harold Ramis
16.
Role Models
(2008)
Wild behavior forces a pair of energy drink reps to enroll in a Big Brother program. (99 mins.)
Director: David Wain
17.
This Is Spinal Tap
(1984)
Spinal Tap, the world's loudest band, is chronicled by hack documentarian Marti DeBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour. (82 mins.)
Director: Rob Reiner
18.
I Love You, Man
(2009)
Friendless Peter Klaven goes on a series of man-dates to find a Best Man for his wedding. But when his insta-bond with his new B.F.F. puts a strain on his relationship with his fiancée, can the trio learn to live happily ever after? (105 mins.)
Director: John Hamburg
19.
MASH
(1970)
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war. (116 mins.)
Director: Robert Altman
20.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
(2008)
Devastated Peter takes a Hawaii vacation in order to deal with recent break-up with his TV star girlfriend, Sarah. Little does he know Sarah's traveling to the same resort as her ex ... and she's bringing along her new boyfriend. (111 mins.)
Director: Nicholas Stoller
21.
Me, Myself & Irene
(2000)
A nice-guy cop with dissociative identity disorder must protect a woman on the run from a corrupt ex-boyfriend and his associates. (116 mins.)
Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
22.
Billy Madison
(1995)
In order to inherit his fed up father's hotel empire, an immature and lazy man must repeat grades 1-12 all over again. (89 mins.)
Director: Tamra Davis
23.
Risky Business
(1983)
A Chicago teenager is looking for fun at home while his parents are away, but the situation quickly gets out of hand. (98 mins.)
Director: Paul Brickman
24.
(500) Days of Summer
(2009)
An offbeat romantic comedy about a woman who doesn't believe true love exists, and the young man who falls for her. (95 mins.)
Director: Marc Webb
25.
Best in Show
(2000)
A colorful array of characters competes at a national dog show. (90 mins.)
Director: Christopher Guest
26.
Young Frankenstein
(1974)
Dr. Frankenstein's grandson, after years of living down the family reputation, inherits granddad's castle and repeats the experiments. (106 mins.)
Director: Mel Brooks
27.
Clerks II
(2006)
A calamity at Dante and Randall's shops sends them looking for new horizons - but they ultimately settle at Mooby's, a fictional Disney-McDonald's-style fast-food empire. (97 mins.)
Director: Kevin Smith
28.
Beetlejuice
(1988)
A couple of recently deceased ghosts contract the services of a "bio-exorcist" in order to remove the obnoxious new owners of their house. (92 mins.)
Director: Tim Burton
29.
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
(1994)
A goofy detective specializing in animals goes in search of a missing dolphin mascot of a football team. (86 mins.)
Director: Tom Shadyac
30.
The Graduate
(1967)
Recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock is trapped into an affair with Mrs. Robinson, who happens to be the wife of his father's business partner and then finds himself falling in love with her daughter, Elaine. (106 mins.)
Director: Mike Nichols
31.
Hot Fuzz
(2007)
Jealous colleagues conspire to get a top London cop transferred to a small town and paired with a witless new partner. On the beat, the pair stumble upon a series of suspicious accidents and events. (121 mins.)
Director: Edgar Wright
32.
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
(2001)
The comic 'Bluntman and Chronic' is based on real-life stoners Jay and Silent Bob, so when they get no profit from a big-screen adaptation they set out to wreck the movie. (104 mins.)
Director: Kevin Smith
33.
The 40 Year Old Virgin
(2005)
Goaded by his buddies, a nerdy guy who's never "done the deed" only finds the pressure mounting when he meets a single mother. (116 mins.)
Director: Judd Apatow
34.
Christmas Vacation
(1989)
The Griswold family's plans for a big family Christmas predictably turn into a big disaster. (97 mins.)
Director: Jeremiah Chechik
35.
Bubba Ho-Tep
(2002)
Elvis and JFK, both alive and in nursing homes, fight for the souls of their fellow residents as they battle an ancient Egyptian Mummy. (92 mins.)
Director: Don Coscarelli
36.
High Fidelity
(2000)
Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress. (113 mins.)
Director: Stephen Frears
37.
A Mighty Wind
(2003)
Mockumentary captures the reunion of 1960s folk trio the Folksmen as they prepare for a show at The Town Hall to memorialize a recently deceased concert promoter. (91 mins.)
Director: Christopher Guest
38.
Bad Santa
(2003)
A miserable conman and his partner pose as Santa and his Little Helper to rob department stores on Christmas Eve. But they run into problems when the conman befriends a troubled kid, and the security boss discovers the plot. (91 mins.)
Director: Terry Zwigoff
39.
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
(2004)
A group of misfits enter a Las Vegas dodgeball tournament in order to save their cherished local gym from the onslaught of a corporate health fitness chain. (92 mins.)
Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber
40.
MacGruber
(2010)
Ex-special operative MacGruber is called back into action to take down his archenemy, Dieter Von Cunth, who's in possession of a nuclear warhead and bent on destroying Washington, D.C. (90 mins.)
Director: Jorma Taccone
41.
Being There
(1979)
Chance, a simple gardener, has never left the estate until his employer dies. His simple TV-informed utterances are mistaken for profundity. (130 mins.)
Director: Hal Ashby
42.
Lost in America
(1985)
A husband and wife in their 30s decide to quit their jobs, live as free spirits and cruise America in a Winnebago. (91 mins.)
Director: Albert Brooks
43.
Swingers
(1996)
Wannabe actors become regulars in the stylish neo-lounge scene; Trent teaches his friend Mike the unwritten rules of the scene. (96 mins.)
Director: Doug Liman
44.
Sixteen Candles
(1984)
A young girl's "sweet sixteenth" birthday becomes anything but special as she suffers from every embarrassment possible. (93 mins.)
Director: John Hughes
45.
Life of Brian
(1979)
Brian is born on the original Christmas, in the stable next door. He spends his life being mistaken for a messiah. (94 mins.)
Director: Terry Jones
46.
Tommy Boy
(1995)
An incompetent, immature, and dimwitted heir to an auto parts factory must save the business to keep it out of the hands of his new, con-artist relatives and big business. (97 mins.)
Director: Peter Segal
47.
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
(2007)
Singer Dewey Cox overcomes adversity to become a musical legend. (96 mins.)
Director: Jake Kasdan
48.
The Cable Guy
(1996)
A lonely and disturbed cable guy raised on television just wants a new friend, but his target, a designer, rejects him, with bad consequences. (96 mins.)
Director: Ben Stiller
49.
Uncle Buck
(1989)
Bachelor and all round slob, Buck, babysits his brother's rebellious teenage daughter and her cute younger brother and sister. (100 mins.)
Director: John Hughes
50.
Kung Fu Hustle
(2004)
In Shanghai, China in the 1940s, a wannabe gangster aspires to join the notorious "Axe Gang" while residents of a housing complex exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf. (95 mins.)
Director: Stephen Chow
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