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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnnie Mack, and today is part two of my look at Variety’s top one hundred best comedy movies of all Time. I guess they didn’t say top, they said the the one hundred best comedy movies of all time. Yesterday I did one hundred through fifty, and I guess I probably should have stopped at fifty one. Right, So today we’re taking a look at the final forty nine.
I guess I messed that up. Oh well, number forty nine Shampoo from nineteen seventy five. I remember there being such a movie. I was a young lad then. I couldn’t tell you a thing about it.
Roddy tells us. It’s one of the great demonstrations of how a seventies movie could tackle so many things, including the sexual revolution, the entertainment industry, and Nixon, and still emerge as a perfect spitting in the air diversion. George is a Beverly Hills hairdresser who’s such a born seducer that he always makes it look like the women are coming after him. George played by Warren Batty Okay number forty eight, bringing up Baby from nineteen thirty eight carry Grant and Catherine Hepburn right there. You know it’s gonna be good because of the cast.
Forty seven from twenty fourteen. The Grand Budapest Hotel number forty six Coming to America from nineteen eighty eight. People really like that film, even though I’m from Queen’s I never really loved it. Forty five Kind Hearts and Coronets from nineteen forty nine, One of the most scathing black comedies ever made, says Variety, tells the story of Lewis, whose mother was disowned by her aristocratic clan after she eloped. Lewis, born poor, is eighth in line to inherit the family royal title on the fortune that goes with it, the situation he decides to rectify by murdering each of the seven relatives who stand in his way.
Each one of those seven relatives is played by Alec Guinness, who knew Kine. Hearts and Coronets number forty four, Missus Doubtfire from nineteen ninety Okay again, nice fun movie. Who doesn’t like Robin Williams? Is it funnier than Airplane? You’re Insane?
Forty three Team America World Police forty two four Weddings and a Funeral from nineteen ninety four. Forty one, The Beatles in a Hard Day’s Night. Yeah, okay, forty I’m gonna throw my laptop across the room. Zoolander from two thousand and one. Just no, just no, I’d actually watch Adam Sandler movies before I’d watch Zoolander.
Ben Stiller’s zeny send up of the fashion industry, Just No. Thirty nine, Clueless from nineteen ninety five, Fine thirty eight, Jerry Lewis and The Nutty Professor from nineteen sixty three, Fine thirty seven, The Princess Bride from nineteen eighty seven, Okay, Cool thirty six, nineteen ninety four’s ed Wood, All right, we’re on a little roll here. School of Rock from two thousand and three. At thirty five again, Airplane was like sixty something. Riddy writes, Jack Black is great at what he does, but he’s not commonly thought of as a great actor.
I guess you can pick up the kind of comedy I don’t like. Number thirty four with Nail and I from nineteen eighty seven. Variety writes no one had heard of Richard Grant when he played with Nail A failed counterculture actor with a lust for adventure, best expressed by his willingness to drink anything in a bottle, including furniture polish. Apparently it’s very footy. Thirty three nineteen eighty Five’s Lost in America.
I don’t even know what to do with this list anymore. Sullivan’s Travels from nineteen forty one. Popular director John L. Sullivan played by Joel McCrae, is hit with an existential crisis, which he believes he can fix by making a star commentary on the problems that confront the average man. The trouble is he’s known mostly for disposable studio comedies.
Is this like an Adam Sandler prequel? I might have to check that out. Number thirty one from nineteen seventy two, Pink Flamingos celebrating John Waters thirty Austin Powers International Man of Mystery. Okay, my kind of movie, but heads ahead against Airplane No. No Oh twenty nine When Harry met Sally.
I saw that in theaters back in nineteen eighty nine and liked it a lot. Nice little film. Sure. Number twenty eight Richard Pryor Live in Concert Now that was out in theaters because we were a little early for an HBO comedy special, and we definitely had Netflix yet, So in modern times we would consider this a quote unquote comedy special, but it was a movie. Briddy writes, there’s no debating that Richard Pryor is the greatest stand up comedian who ever lived.
Time out. You can debate it. I mean, if I went up to you and I said, no, I disagree. I think Richard Pryor is the second greatest and George Carlin is the greatest. I mean, that’s a debate.
You can disagree. You might even win the argument, but you wouldn’t be like, that’s crazy, Johnny Mack. How dare you suggest George Carlin is the greatest comedian of all time? I mean, it’s debatable, Guys. Brody writes, Richard Pryor’s best performance became a landmark concert film in which Prior turned everything he touched into a scaldingly funny theater of truth.
The Philadelphia Story from nineteen forty. This is not the one with the aircraft carrier that goes back in time during World War two, And just when the movie gets interesting, they’re like, oh yeah, then the time warp is back and we’re back into the present. No, that’s the Philadelphia experiment. This is Katherine Hepburn and Carry Grant, totally different movie twenty six Borat And they even use the full title here Borat Cultural Leanings of America for make benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. You know, that’s a great pick.
That’s one of those films that I don’t think I laughed more and I’m a comedy snob watching it. Wow, this probably is ranked criminally low at twenty six. Good pick with that, We’ll take the break here and come back in the top. Twenty five is probably all the Adam Sandler filmography, right, continuing our look at Variety’s best at comedy movies of all time now stunning ley and we’ve gone through seventy five of them and only mentioned one Adam Sandler movie, which means one of two things, either a variety or really tasteful people or b is insane. And I’m about to list like fifteen to the next twenty five being Adam sailor movies, in which case this may be the last episode of Daily Comedy News.
We’re about to find out number twenty five one of my favorite films of All Time from nineteen seventy Mash fantastic film. If you’ve only seen the TV show, it may throw you a little bit. This version of Hawkeye and Trapper are a little darker than the Alan Alda Wayne Rodgers version. Great great film. Nice pick there.
Twenty four Bridesmaids from twenty eleven twenty three from nineteen thirty two Trouble in Paradise. Bridey explains to the extent that any romantic relationship is based on trust, the two party’s fear of betrayals compounded when both are thieves twenty two. Caddy Shack from nineteen eighty I’d probably have that way up there with like, I’m hoping I get to say words to you like stripes and Animal House. I hope these are words that are going to be said soon, Caddy Shack. And I’m looking at a picture of Bill Murray and the Gopher and I’m smiling.
Absolutely fantastic. But now I’m worried, because Variety writes. In the late seventies movie comedy that changed Hollywood and change the culture, not necessarily for the better, was National Lampoon’s Animal House. But even as that showy retro Fratthouse Bash became a classic, it was never as funny as the casually delirious Snobs Versus Slob’s Golf comedy that arrived two years later. Does that mean Animal House is not on this list?
Because that’s gonna make Johnny Mack very sad? Twenty one, The Bank Dick from nineteen forty W. C. Fields all Right, fair enough? Super Bad from two thousand and seven.
Nice movie, a lot of fun? Is it? Forty something? Movies? Better than Airplane?
Of course not nineteen It Happened One Night from nineteen thirty four. Rody says it’s the movie that invented the form of the screwball romantic comedies. Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert eighteen This is Spinal Tap again, really love This is spinal Tap, but eighteen that seems insane to me? I mean, and I really like it seventeen nineteen seventy two is The Heartbreak Kid. Charles Groden plays Lenny, a nice Jewish boy who gets married on impulse and then, while still on his honeymoon, ditches his bread for a more attractive candidate played by Sybil Shephard.
Not familiar with that one from nineteen forty his girl Friday carry Grant again, apparently Cary Grant the greatest comedic actor of the last one hundred and twenty five years. From nineteen sixty seven, It’s playtime, and you’re like, Johnny Mack, what’s playtime? And that is a good question. Here we file Mosieur Hulou, a gauky, mute, pipe smoking overcoat wearing middle aged French geek update of Charlie Chaplin in this movie, Hulo travels through Paris. Okay, are we getting any Pink Panther movies on this list?
Are we getting any Peter Sellers Number fourteen from two thousand and four Sideways. I’m now convinced variety or just film snobs. I mean sideways. I would put Adam Sailor movies. We’ve had one Adam Sailor movie.
Even Johnny Mack, known Adam Sailor comedy hater, is like, really sideways? Stars Paul Giamatti, Fine, okay, thirteen, all right, good pick here? Thank you? Did you hear? They must have heard me yelling into the sky?
Why know Peters Ellers movies? Because number thirteen is Doctor Strangelove. They use the full title Doctor strange love or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb? Yes, thank you who I was worried there for a second? Twelve Tutsi from nineteen eighty two.
One of those movies that if you had HBO in the eighties, if you saw fifty thousand times, haven’t seen it in the twenty first century. I have fond memories of it. I guess it’s good. Stustin Hoffman, How bad could it be? Number eleven from nineteen twenty four Sherlock Junior, Buster Keaton.
I didn’t know this existed. I’m glad we’ve got Buster Keaton on the list. Number ten from nineteen ninety three Groundhog Day. Nice movie? Are there funnier movies?
Sure? But okay? Number nine Young Frankenstein from nineteen seventy four, good pick. I still think Blazing Saddle should have been a lot higher, but get to get more Millbrooks on here. Number eight from nineteen ninety six, Fargo film snobs love the Coen Brothers.
Is Fargo fifty plus better than Airplane? Of course? Not? Seven Duck Soup from nineteen thirty three. Can’t argue with the Marx Brothers.
Sure six Monty Python on the Holy Grail. Now we’re talking. That’s my kind of movie, Variety writes, instead of feeling like disjointed sketches, the jokes assumed epic form. The closer Arthur’s Knights get to the Grail, the more absurd their obstacles become. There’s the Black Knight, the insufferable French, and the bloodthirsty rabbit that awaits them.
Yes, Number five, Waiting for Guffman from nineteen sixty six. The movie snobs at Variety are making optimal use of his mockumentary format that he’d help pioneer on. This is spinal Tap. Christopher Guest makes the top ten for the second time, assembled a dream team of improv comedy talent to poke fun at small town theatrical production. Waiting for Guffman.
Number five on Variety’s list. Okay, Number four The Great Dictator from nineteen forty good film in which to honor Charlie Chaplin, Great Fantastic Three Annie Hall from nineteen seventy seven. It won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the nineteen seventy eight Academy Awards. It beat out The Turning Point, Julia, The Goodbye Girl, and Star Wars Annie Hall. Best Picture.
By the way, we used to have movies back in the day. As I was pulling that up, I pulled up the wrong year. But let me just tell you the nominations for Best Picture in nineteen seventy seven were listen to this set, This is great, Bound for Glory whatever, Okay, All the President’s Men, Rocky Network, and Taxi Driver. The award went to Rocky Network is one of my favorite movies of all time. It is prophetic.
You should watch it. It’s basically somebody invented the Turn of the century. Fox Networks in nineteen seventy seven is basically what it is. And of course All the President’s Men is great, and Taxi Drivers great, and Bound for Glory I’m not really familiar with. But that’s not what we’re talking about.
We’re talking about how Annie Hall is Variety’s number three comedy of all time. Have I still only said the word Sam once or twice? Once? Right? Once?
Number two Some Like It Hot from nineteen fifty nine, which means Adam Sandler’s Jack Jill is going to be number one, okay, but number two Some Like It Hot from nineteen fifty nine. Tony Curtis Jack Lemon. Sure that makes me want to put Operation Petticoat on this list somewhere. How about mister Roberts, Is that a comedy? It’s kind of a comedy.
Why isn’t that on this list? And according to Variety, the number one comedy of all time The Naked Gun from the files of Police Squad. How are you putting that up there? And you have Airplane sixty later, let’s hear a Variety out. They say, there’s a god given right that anyone making a big screen comedy should have, and that is the right to make fun of In The Naked Gun, the team of David Zucker, Jim Abraham’s and Jerry Zucker took that right to a pitch of high hilarity that remains unequaled.
The glory of The Naked Gun is that it’s shamelessly unhimited, a comedy that will make fun of anything. Global Autocrats, Stagy, Film Noir, Dialogue, Safe Sex, a professional baseball game, food left in the refrigerator too long? Somehow they have that at number one an airplanes somewhere in the sixties. They also have put OJ Simpson at number one. O J.
Simpson one of the great comedic actors of all time in clearly the greatest comedy of all time. So we have in the top three there both Woody Allen and OJ Simpson. So that’s Variety’s list. I guess the good thing is that they barely mentioned Adam Sandler. For that, I think it’s a great list.
I’ll see you tomorrow.