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

63 Comments

  1. Little Miss Sunshine is my favorite funny movie, and my entire family loves Arthur (though maybe not so funny if your friend has an alcoholic in the family). Miranda July’s You, Me and Everyone We Know is awfully quirky at times, and a bit uncomfortable at others, but wonderfully endearing and quite funny.

  2. Dear Catherine,

    I’m not sure why my earlier comment was not posted, but here goes again. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life; Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, with Keneau Reeves; 40 Days, about a young man who tries to go 40 days without having sex; Mrs. Doubtfire, with Robin Williams; and finally, Groundhog Day, with Bill Murray. Have fun and hope she/he enjoys them all.

    Love,

    Greg

  4. DESK SET with Tracy and Hepburn (Color)

    UNFAITHFULLY YOURS with Rex Harrison, Kay Kendall, Curt Kruger (Black & White)

    PINK PANTHER with Peter Sellers

  5. What we consider funny seems to change as we get older.
    But here are a few movies that should get some laughs.

    The Marx Brothers Movies.
    They had visual slapstick and clever lines,
    some written by S.J. Perelman.

    Monty Python’s The Life of Brian.
    Some might consider this film a little bit sacreligious,
    but I am religious and didn’t think so; I thought
    it was funny.

    Some of the Pink Panther movies starring
    Peter Sellers and written by Blake Edwards.
    When I was young, they were some of my favorites.
    Peter Sellers was one of the finest film actors
    of all time, I think, and he never got recognition
    for it. In the Pink Panther movies he created
    a perfectly butchered French accent and persona.
    And in Dr. Strangelove, he played three distinct
    characters with different voice inflections and
    different body language: the president of the U.S.,
    a British military man, and a former Nazi scientist.
    I apologize for this ode to Peter Sellers, but he
    deserves it.

    I agree that Trading Places is a good one.

  6. Almost any Steve Martin movie– like The Jerk ! Also, Chevy Chase movies — those are funny too !

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