And on a related note...

[jaala]

AFI's 100 Greatest Comedies ("100 Years, 100 Laughs")

I'm surprised how few of these I've seen. I must watch too many British and Canadian comedies!

1) Some Like it Hot (1959)
2) Tootsie (1982)
3) Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
4) Annie Hall (1977)
5) Duck Soup (1933)
6) Blazing Saddles (1974)

(good, but not as good as Young Frankenstein or The Producers IMHO)
7) M*A*S*H (1970)
8) It Happened One Night (1934)
9) The Graduate (1967)
10) Airplane! (1980)
11) The Producers (1968)

(see above)
12) A Night at the Opera (1935)

(saw part of it on television, however)
13) Young Frankenstein (1974)

(see above)
14) Bringing Up Baby (1938)
15) The Philadelphia Story (1940)
16) Singin' in the Rain (1952)
17) The Odd Couple (1968)
18) The General (1927)
19) His Girl Friday (1940)
20) The Apartment (1960)
21) A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

(I can quote this verbatim; unfortunately loses some of its best lines when shown on TV)
22) Adam's Rib (1949)
23) When Harry Met Sally (1989)
24) Born Yesterday (1950)
25) The Gold Rush (1925)
26) Being There (1979)
27) There's Something About Mary (1998)

(no plans to see this one)
28) Ghostbusters (1984)
29) This is Spinal Tap (1984)

(but I've seen Best In Show and FUBAR)
30) Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
31) Raising Arizona (1987)
32) The Thin Man (1934)
33) Modern Times (1936)
34) Groundhog Day (1993)
35) Harvey (1950)
36) National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
37) The Great Dictator (1940)

(I love this movie, even if it does bog down right at the end)
38) City Lights (1931)
39) Sullivan's Travels (1941)
40) It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
41) Moonstruck (1987)
42) Big (1988)
43) American Graffiti (1973)
44) My Man Godfrey (1936)
45) Harold and Maude (1972)
46) Manhattan (1979)
47) Shampoo (1975)
48) A Shot in the Dark (1964)
49) To Be or Not To Be (1942)
50) Cat Ballou (1965)
51) The Seven Year Itch (1955)
52) Ninotchka (1939)
53) Arthur (1981)

(I adore Dudley Moore's work with Peter Cook and/or Beyond the Fringe but his laugh in the Arthur trailer drives me up the wall so I'm not sure if I want to see it)
54) The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
55) The Lady Eve (1941)
56) Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

(I think I've seen at least part of this)
57) Diner (1982)
58) It's a Gift (1934)
59) A Day at the Races (1937)
60) Topper (1937)
61) What's Up, Doc? (1972)
62) Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
63) Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
64) Broadcast News (1987)
65) Horse Feathers (1932)
66) Take the Money and Run (1969)
67) Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)

(the heck? it was awful)
68) The Awful Truth (1937)
69) Bananas (1971)
70) Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
71) Caddyshack (1980)
72) Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
73) Monkey Business (1931)
74) 9 to 5 (1980)
75) She Done Him Wrong (1933)
76) Victor/Victoria (1982)
77) The Palm Beach Story (1942)
78) Road to Morocco (1942)
79) The Freshman (1925)
80) Sleeper (1973)
81) The Navigator (1924)
82) Private Benjamin (1980)
83) Father of the Bride (1950)
84) Lost in America (1985)
85) Dinner At Eight (1933)
86) City Slickers (1991)
87) Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
88) Beetlejuice (1988)
89) The Jerk (1979)
90) Woman of the Year (1942)
91) The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
92) Ball of Fire (1941)
93) Fargo (1996)
94) Auntie Mame (1958)
95) Silver Streak (1976)

(yes, stars my current obsession so I'll probably see it)
96) Sons of the Desert (1933)
97) Bull Durham (1988)
98) The Court Jester (1956)
99) The Nutty Professor (1963)
100) Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)