Favorite decade for comedy
What is your pick?
For me the 1970s, basically for Peter Sellers. |
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For me it's the 1930's...Marx Brothers, W.C. Fields, The Three Stooges, Mae West, Screwball Comedies, Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy....an amazing decade for comedy.
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Voted 80s, but I suppose a lot of movies I think of as '80s' are actually late 70s.
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1890s
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Originally Posted by Jaymole
(Post 9965824)
For me it's the 1930's...Marx Brothers, W.C. Fields, The Three Stooges, Mae West, Screwball Comedies, Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy....an amazing decade for comedy.
The '30s also gave us Max Fleischer's Betty Boop and Popeye cartoons and the beginnings of Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies. Daffy Duck and Porky Pig got their start in the 1930s, as well as the nascent form of Bugs Bunny ("Hare-um Scare-um," "Porky's Hare Hunt"). Tex Avery made some of his funniest cartoons in the 1930s (e.g. "Hamateur Night"). |
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It was a toss-up between the 1920's and the 1930's for me. I ended up going with the 1930's but if I were to vote tomorrow it could easily go another way.
Very odd to choose the 1970's based on Peter Sellers. He hit his prime in the 1960's, and his comedic output in the 1970's was pretty sketchy IMHO. |
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I'm going with the 1980s simply because my two favorite comedies come from that decade: Airplane! (1980) and The Naked Gun (1988)
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80's - not even close.
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70s: Young Frankenstein, Animal House, Blazing Saddles, The Jerk
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No real interest in films prior to the 60's aside from Japanese classical; so with what I am left with it would easily be the 80's when the humor became raunchier and in some cases, darker.
Better off Dead The Ninth Configuration Fletch The Burbs Real Genius Trading Places Porkys Raising Arizona Night Shift ...all favorites. |
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80's... John Hughes' body of work alone made the decade.
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Originally Posted by Double_Oh_7
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80's... John Hughes' body of work alone made the decade.
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Originally Posted by wm lopez
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I'll take Marx Bros. DUCK SOUP over Hughes teen movies any day.
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Originally Posted by Jaymole
(Post 9965824)
For me it's the 1930's...Marx Brothers, W.C. Fields, The Three Stooges, Mae West, Screwball Comedies, Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy....an amazing decade for comedy.
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1980's:
Caddyshack, Stripes, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Risky Business, Airplane, Fletch, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Ghostbusters, Back to School, Easy Money, Weird Science, Ferris Buellars Day Off, Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Trading Places, 48 Hours, Beverly Hills Cop. That's off the top of my head |
Re: Favorite decade for comedy
Originally Posted by Jaymole
(Post 9965824)
For me it's the 1930's...Marx Brothers, W.C. Fields, The Three Stooges, Mae West, Screwball Comedies, Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy....an amazing decade for comedy.
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I picked the 1930s due primarily to the Marx Bros. and the classic screwball comedies. But it was a toss-up with the 1970s for me, due to Monty Python's movies and Woody Allen's "earlier, funnier" movies, so that decade would be a very close 2nd (so close, it's practically a tie).
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Originally Posted by cleaver
(Post 9966295)
70s: Young Frankenstein, Animal House, Blazing Saddles, The Jerk
Car Wash Play It Again, Sam Life of Brian Monty Python and the Holy Grail The Bad News Bears MASH Being There Slap Shot North Dallas Forty And, of course... Meatballs |
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Because of National Lampoon, the 80's wins easily. The only film that may be in the late 70's might be "Animal House" Between National Lampoon and John Hughes, the 80's ruled for oddball comedies that stand the test of time:
Stripes Caddyshack Vacation Blues Brothers Animal House Sixteen Candles Weird Science Ferris Bueller's Day Off Fletch etc. |
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1930's for sure.
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Originally Posted by Groucho
(Post 9965928)
Very odd to choose the 1970's based on Peter Sellers. He hit his prime in the 1960's, and his comedic output in the 1970's was pretty sketchy IMHO.
Top 3 would be 70s 60s 30s |
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Originally Posted by coli
(Post 9966563)
1980's:
Caddyshack, Stripes, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Risky Business, Airplane, Fletch, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Ghostbusters, Back to School, Easy Money, Weird Science, Ferris Buellars Day Off, Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Trading Places, 48 Hours, Beverly Hills Cop. That's off the top of my head So more talent and artwork goes to the 30's. |
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Originally Posted by Jaymole
(Post 9965824)
For me it's the 1930's...Marx Brothers, W.C. Fields, The Three Stooges, Mae West, Screwball Comedies, Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy....an amazing decade for comedy.
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Originally Posted by wm lopez
(Post 9967038)
None of those movies are rated "G". And all the 30's did their comedy with out bathroom humor which is hard to do.
So more talent and artwork goes to the 30's. |
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It's hard to decide between the 70's and the 80's. My two favorite comedies are Young Frankenstein and Naked Gun. If I have to choose, I'll use The Blues Brothers as my tiebreaker movie, and say the 80's.
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