I have a terrific friend who is coming home from the hospital tomorrow to recuperate from heart surgery. Her doctors say that this kind of surgery triggers feelings of sadness and depression. So I want to put together a list of the 20 funniest movies to send her family. I am trying to come up with a truly inspiring list. However, I need your collective genius.

If you got two minutes, would you post the funniest movies you have ever seen?

Here is my first brainstorm:


The Full Monty
Waking Ned Devine
Auntie Mame
Love Actually
Trading Places
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Greenfingers
Calender Girls
Saving Grace
How to Marry a Millionare
Bringing Up Baby
Indiscreet
The Philadelphia Story
The Seven Year Itch
My Favorite Wife

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  1. The Great Race
    Any W. C. Fields
    Any Laurel & Hardy
    Top Secret, Naked Gun, Airplane
    Tight Little Island or Whisky Galore
    Lavender Hill Mob
    Kind Hearts and Coronets

  2. The Gods Must Be Crazy—hilarious in theater but not so on smaller 1970s TV screen
    Fatso—produced by Mel Brook’s wife Anne Bancroft
    The Full Nine Yards
    Men in Black especially the first one
    The Man With Two Brains—Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin
    Arsenic and Old Lace
    Minions (with their made up language is totally understandable)
    Aladdin—Robin Williams’ genie is priceless

    Kathryn

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