Comedy Favorites
Some comedy favorites, underrated, under-the-radar, or otherwise.
For about 25 years I've had the same three favorite high ... more
I skipped this for almost a decade because, even more tha... more
Does everyone know this is fantastic? If not, give it a w... more
The concluding film of Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's firs... more
If you haven't seen this funny, clever take on horror-mov... more
A British cult classic starring a pre-Star Wars John Boye... more
I already separately rec'd the first and third films in E... more
This got panned all over the place when it came out and I... more
The first film of Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's first-rat... more
Jack Black pretends to be a substitute teacher at a prep ... more
So much better and funnier than it has any right to be, a... more
A semi-autobiographical Cameron Crowe movie about a teena... more
Great music-nerd romantic comedy with John Cusack as a re... more
A light, breezy movie written and directed by Tom Hanks, ... more
This flopped on release and often seems to end up near th... more
A lean and often very funny 96 minutes of giant undergrou... more
Whenever anyone mentions The Princess Bride, I get the ur... more
Like anyone into movies in the late 1980s and early 1990s... more
OK, probably no one needs one of the funniest movies of a... more
A musical comedy directed by Vincente Minnelli and starri... more
Judy Holliday plays a belligerent minor shareholder in a ... more
Another romantic comedy directed by George Cukor and star... more
I first saw this romantic comedy at the Stanford Theatre ... more
City Lights notwithstanding, this is my favorite Chaplin,... more
The Tramp falls in love with a blind girl and tries to ge... more
Contains the famous gag where the front of a house falls ... more
A wealthy man accidentally funds a mission without realiz... more
A prospector tries to get rich in Alaska. The fact that t... more
A projectionist is framed for stealing a pocket watch and... more
A young man returns home to the South and ends up enmeshe... more
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