Favorite comedy movies and TV shows

[stargazer01]

What are your favorite comedy movies and shows?

I really enjoy comedy and fun. One of my fave comedy movies is Scott Pilgrim VS the World. Makes me laugh a lot! It's such a great action-fantasy movie too.

For shows, I love The Nanny. I really like all the characters, especially Niles, he's so sassy and funny.

[caj]

Films:
Airplane (1980)
National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
Sixteen Candles (1984)
Home Alone (1990)

TV Shows:
Mary Tyler Moore
The Golden Girls
Cheers
Frasier
The Andy Griffith Show
Everybody Loves Raymond
Three's Company
The Beverly Hillbillies

[Kirby101]

TV shows:
Monty Python
Kids in the Hall

[LoganAlpha30X33]

Let's see:

Movies:
Yellowbeard
Spaced Invaders
Spies Like Us

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[AndrewCrossett]

Films:

Young Frankenstein
Monty Python & The Holy Grail
Caddyshack
This Is Spinal Tap
The Big Lebowski
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Blues Brothers
Being John Malkovich
O Brother, Where Art Thou
Blazing Saddles
Ed Wood
Ghostbusters
The Producers (original)
Men In Black
Murder By Death
The Princess Bride
The Music Man
Wayne's World
Just about anything by the Marx Brothers

TV shows:

WKRP in Cincinnati
The Simpsons (20th century)
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Arrested Development
SCTV
The Venture Bros.
'Allo 'Allo
As Time Goes By
Barney Miller
Blackadder
Cheers
The Good Place
How I Met Your Mother (excluding final season)
In Living Color
The Kids in the Hall
M*A*S*H
Northern Exposure
The Odd Couple (original)
The good seasons of Saturday Night Live

[Comic-Reader Lad]

I've never been a comedy movie buff. For me, comedy works best in the half-hour sitcom format. It's faster moving and breezier that way.

Even when they do special hour long episodes of sitcoms, they often lose momentum before they're through.

It's hard to sustain the funny stuff for an extended period of time if it's a straight comedy.

If they combine comedic elements with action/adventure/scifi, then it can work better because then it just becomes THAT genre, but done with a lighter tone.

So, movies like Men in Black, Austin Powers, Deadpool, Pirates of the Caribbean, etc. work because they use the tropes of another genre comedically.

Often, Hollywood will make their comedies raunchy to sustain the laughs like Porky's, the Hangover series, etc.

I'm not saying there aren't good comedy movies, but a steady diet of two hour comedies wouldn't feel like I'm watching anything substantial.


As far as TV, I like most of the sitcoms mentioned above, but I have to say that I find most 1960s sitcoms to be rather witless and idiotic.



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[stargazer01]

I've never been a comedy movie buff. For me, comedy works best in the half-hour sitcom format. It's faster moving and breezier that way.

Even when they do special hour long episodes of sitcoms, they often lose momentum before they're through.

It's hard to sustain the funny stuff for an extended period of time if it's a straight comedy.

If they combine comedic elements with action/adventure/scifi, then it can work better because then it just becomes THAT genre, but done with a lighter tone.

So, movies like Men in Black, Austin Powers, Deadpool, Pirates of the Caribbean, etc. work because they use the tropes of another genre comedically.

Often, Hollywood will make their comedies raunchy to sustain the laughs like Porky's, the Hangover series, etc.

I'm not saying there aren't good comedy movies, but a steady diet of two hour comedies wouldn't feel like I'm watching anything substantial.


As far as TV, I like most of the sitcoms mentioned above, but I have to say that I find most 1960s sitcoms to be rather witless and idiotic.



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Good points. I think my favorite movies and shows that have lots of comedy, really are a mix of 2 or 3 genres like action or romance, etc. 2 examples are the spy show CHUCK, which had lots of action and romance. And THE WEDDING SINGER, which also had romance.

Edit: another great example is the animated show AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER. It even had lots of drama, but I guess the rules are different since it's animation geared for kids first. I don't expect a live action version to be as comedic..

I'm not really a fan of slapstick comedy, especially violent one, but there are always some exceptions.

[j9ac9k]

I am going to attempt to keep these short:
MOVIES
-- Get Him to The Greek
-- Forgetting Sarah Marshall
-- Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
-- Anchorman
-- Ghostbusters

TV
-- Silicon Valley
-- Bob's Burgers
-- Arrested Development
-- Barry
-- Parks & Recreation

[Sutekh]

TV
Black Adder
Archer

Movie
Deadpool
Deadpool 2
Fifty First Dates
Oscar
Soapdish
Spaceballs
History of the World, part 1
Airplane
Naked Gun
Caddyshack