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OT: Movies/TV Shows

Don't really have a top comedy list, but my favs are Take the Money and Run, Bananas, Love and Death from Woody Allen before he got serious. Love Quick Change by Bill Murray, so underrated. Step Brothers is AMAZING. Laugh everytime.
I recently rewatched Bananas. Top notch, especially with the Howard Cosell scenes.
 
Two ancient classics

Duck Soup
His Girl Friday

The Marx Brothers are still the OG geniuses and Cary Grant’s comedy still holds up today. The fucking best, that guy.
A couple of other oldies but goodies many may not have heard of...

"Larceny Inc." with Edward G. Robinson (and a cameo by a young Jackie Gleason)

"Born Yesterday", with William Holden, Judy Holliday and Broderick Crawford.

"The Trouble With Harry" by Alfred Hitchcock with Shirley MacLaine and a pre-Leave It To Beaver Jerry Mathers.
 
Not the funniest movie, But 'The Dictator' with Sasha Baron Cohen and that scene on the rope above the building was one of the funniest scenes ever. I laughed and laughed.
 
In no particular order

young frankenstein
Princess bride
The Holy Grail
The Party
Something about Mary

honorable mentions
The Meaning of Life
the Life of Brian
This is spinal Tap
bridesmaids
I was just about to post "The Party." I'm not sure I can list a top 5... But if I did, it would be in there.
 
Comedies are the toughest to name on a top list IMO. I'm much easier to be able to name top action or horror films
Yeah for me it's because there are so many factors that go into how much you enjoy a comedy. From your mood that day to how old you were when you saw it.

There's no doubt that The most and hardest I ever laughed at a movie was Ace Ventura. I saw it in the theater when it came out and had zero expectations because I hadn't even heard of it... I was 19 years old. It was the perfect storm.

Now it's obviously an all-time classic... change the circumstances and I'm sure I don't almost die laughing.
 
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My top 5 Westerns would be:

1. The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford. (One of my top 10 favourite movies, period)

2. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.

3. Lonesome Dove (ultimately for the novel, but the mini-series is just one long movie, and for a TV adaptation was elite af.)

4. Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid (this & The Sting are about as fun as movies can get. Prob the #1 buddy movie of all time too.

5. Silverado/Unforgiven/Rio Bravo
I don't think it possible to have a top five consensus.

Good list though.

Django Unchained hit my top ten like a bullet though.
 
I never really got Jim Carey’s humor. It’s not really my thing. I think my favorite movie of his - where he is really funny and it’s a good movie overall - was Liar Liar.
You have to love randomness to get it. Love that crap. It's not the joke itself is the reaction.
 
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