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My Favorite Comedies (12 titles)

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Best film the Coen's have made to date.

The Big Lebowski (1997)
Starring: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore
Director: Joel Coen
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The Coen brothers' seventh film is a typically bizarre mix of mistaken identity, hippy philosophy and ten-pin bowling. Jeff 'the Dude' Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) is a bowling buff, laid-back to the point of horizontal, who gets mixed up in a blackmail plot involving a millionaire namesake. Roped into ..read more »
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Will Ferrell at his funniest.

Anchorman on DVD (2004)
Starring: Paul Rudd, Steve Carell, Christina Applegate
Director: Adam McKay
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Goofball comedy directed by former Saturday Night Live writer Adam McKay. Will Ferrell stars as Ron Burgundy, a top-rated 1970s San Diego anchorman who believes women have a place in the newsroom - so long as they stick to covering fashion shows or late-breaking cooking news, that is. So when Ron ..read more »
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In a word...Genius!

Blazing Saddles on DVD (1974)
Starring: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens
Director: Mel Brooks
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Vulgar, crude, and occasionally scandalous in its racial humor, this hilarious bad-taste spoof of Westerns, co-written by Richard Pryor, features Cleavon Little as the first black sheriff of a stunned town scheduled for demolition by an encroaching railroad. Little and co-star Gene Wilder have ..read more »
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Leslie Nielsen doing what he does best.

Naked Gun on DVD (1988)
Starring: O.J. Simpson, Ricardo Montalban, Leslie Nielsen
Director: David Zucker
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We know we're in a 1988 film when we're invited to laugh at O.J. Simpson in an opening slapstick sequence. We can also pinpoint the year of production when hard-nosed cop Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen), during a scuffle with the world's leading dictators, wipes the wine-colored birthmark off the ..read more »
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The best Python film.

Monty Python And The Holy Grail on DVD (1974)
Starring: Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman
Director: Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam
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Classic comedy from the Monty Python team in their second feature. King Arthur and his trusty knights fearlessly (on the most part) travel the length and breadth of the country in search of the mythical Holy Grail. On their way they have to deal with the sarcastic taunts of the French Knight, the ..read more »
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Very funny and very real comedy.

Knocked Up on DVD (2007)
Starring: Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann
Director: Judd Apatow
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A comedy about the fallout from a one-night stand, which, though the participants agree they’re not right for each other, ends with a pregnancy.
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First film written by Seth Rogan and hopefully not his last! Brilliant!

Superbad on DVD (2007)
Starring: Chelsey Dailey, Jonah Hill, Michael Cera
Director: Greg Mottola
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Two co-dependent high school seniors (Hill and Cera) are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry.
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In a word...groovy.

Austin Powers - International Man Of Mystery on DVD (1997)
Starring: Mike Myers, Brian George, Michael York
Director: Jay Roach
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In 1967, fashion photographer and spy Austin Powers (Mike Myers) is on the verge of catching his arch-nemesis Dr Evil (also Myers) when the latter has himself cryogenically frozen. Powers follows suit, only to be revived thirty years later when Evil has emerged to threaten the world once more. ..read more »
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Arguably Peter Sellers' funniest film.

A Shot in the Dark on DVD (1964)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders
Director: Blake Edwards
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The French have a word for a man like Clouseau (Peter Sellers): Idiot! Across Paris, baffled citizens want to know if the Inspector is in hot pursuit of a criminal, or just in love with one! Mistakenly assigned to a high-prestige case in which a millionaire's chauffeur has been murdered. Clouseau ..read more »
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Basically 'The Office Movie' but a hell of a lot funnier.

Office Space on DVD (1999)
Starring: Stephen Root, Ron Livingston, Gary Cole
Director: Mike Judge
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Written and directed by Mike Judge, the creator of Beavis and Butthead, this comedy stars Ron Livingston as Peter Gibbons, a stressed out office junior who decides that he's had enough of the working life. Deciding to spend more time with his sexy waitress girlfriend (Jennifer Aniston), he rarely ..read more »
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