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
– Little Miss Sunshine
– A Fish Called Wanda
– There’s Something About Mary
– Everybody Says I Love You
– Little Miss Sunshine
– There’s Something about Mary
– A Fish Called Wanda
– Everybody Says I Love You
Regarding movies, I’d suggest three performers in silent films:
* Marx Brothers (I’m partial to Duck Soup)
* Buster Keaton (anything)
* Harold Lloyd (anything)
They’re great, hilarous, and bear re-watching.
Among the more recent movies,
* A Fish Called Wanda
People have such different senses of humor. Some of my friends love Monty Python, Pink Panther, and early Woody Allen films.
I’m with you. I found The Full Monty hysterically funny. Other films that can still get me to laugh:
Sister Act
Miss Congeniality
Liar, Liar
The Dream Team
“A Fish Called Wanda”
For my money, Intolerable Cruelty starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and George Clooney is the new, improved, updated and heartful replacement for How to Marry a Millionaire.
for an oddball favorite she may not have seen, I love Zero Effect starring Bill Pullman, Ben Stiller and more.
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Bruce almighty
National lampoons Christmas Vacation
Home Alone
King Pin
Dumb and Dumber
The great outdoors
Caddy Shack
Harlem nights
Comming to America