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. Dear Catherine,

    Humor is such an individual thing, so my recommendations might not be humorous to your friend, but I’ll give it a go regadless. The Meaning of LIfe, by Monty Python; 40 Days, a movie about a young man who wants to go without sex for 40 days; Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, with Kenau Reeves; Groundhog Day, with Bill Murry; and that’s it. Good luck! Greg

  2. Airplane, Cable Guy, Uncle Buck, Duck Soup, A Day at the Races (or any Marx Bros movie), Thumb Wars (or any of the “Thumb” movies). And here is a list made by friends for a friend suffering from lung cancer:
    Mrs. Doubtfire
    The Gods Must Be Crazy
    A Fish Called Wanda
    Blazing Saddles
    Laurel & Hardy
    My Step-Mother is an Alien
    Caddyshack
    Woody Allen’s Love and Death
    Sleeper
    Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex
    Who Framed Rodger Rabbit?
    The Mask
    Three Amigos
    There’s Something About Mary
    Clueless
    Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail
    The Scalphunters (dir. Sydney Pollock w/BurtLancaster/TellySavalas/ShelleyWinters)
    Cats and Dogs (a wonderful family comedy)
    Army of Darkness (a spoof of sci-fi movies)
    Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
    Home Alone
    Wayne’s World
    Bushman 2
    Carwash
    Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
    Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold

  3. “The Pink Panther Strikes Again”. (not all the pink panther movies are funny, but this one is!) The Marx Brothers “Duck Soup”.

  5. Just a few, in no particular order.

    Young Frankenstein
    Mystery Science Theater 3000 – The Beginning of the End
    Brain Donors
    Duck Soup
    The Big Lebowski
    Captain Ron
    Kingpin
    Something Funny Happened On The Way To The Forum
    The Producers (with Zero Mostel)
    Arsenic And Old Lace
    The Pink Panther Strikes Again
    Over The Hedge
    Easy Money
    Back To School
    Overboard
    A Fish Called Wanda
    Grumpy Old Men
    Bedazzled
    Earth Girls Are Easy
    Ruthless People
    Outrages Fortune
    Money Pit
    Toy Story
    Airplane 1 or 2
    Naked Gun 1,2, or 3

  7. Hi Catherine –

    – Princess Bride
    – Monty Python’s Holy Grail
    – Absolutely Fabulous (Brit TV show you can get on DVD) – if she likes Brit humo(u)r…..

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