<p>What are your top laugh out loud movies? In need of some laughter medicine here. Distinction for guys vs. gals appreciated, too. For example, I think the menfolk find the Three Stooges a tad (read lots) funnier than the ladies do. One of my favorite memories is hearing DS guffaw at those guys, tho I just don’t get it myself. What are your tried and true belly laugh inducing / guaranteed medicinal movies?</p>
<p>And if this has been discussed please point to the thread. Thanks!</p>
<p>I am a little older…</p>
<p>Duck Soup with the Marx Brothers and Blazing Saddles with Mel Brooks comes to mind. Young Frankenstein is good too.</p>
<p>Hands down, Woody Allen’s Sleeper, the strap on rocket scene.</p>
<p>For TV, I Love Lucy, the William Holden episode.</p>
<p>I’m not big on physical comedy, but those two do it to me every time.</p>
<p>With the right person watching, episodes of the original Star Trek. My kids and I have laughed at some of those until we couldn’t breathe.</p>
<p>I love Defending Your Life. Albert Brooks and Meryl Streep. It’s about what happens to you after you die. I know, doesn’t sound like a comedy, but it’s really funny.</p>
<p>Love this thread. Guess I really need a good laugh- will check out some of these this weekend, so thanks.
My memory is so bad I cannot remember any to suggest.</p>
<p>Tootsie
The Producers (with Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel)
Some Like It Hot
agree on Blazing Saddles!
The In-Laws (with Peter Falk and Alan Arkin)
To Be or Not to Be (both versions are laugh-out-loud funny; the Mel Brooks version is faster-paced)
Arsenic and Old Lace</p>
<p>I Love Lucy bits - I don’t think anyone has ever been funnier on television than Lucy performing the “Vitameatavegamin” commercial.</p>
<p>I have to admit we laughed for every second of Harold and Kumar go to White Castle. Wedding Crashers was pretty funny too.</p>
<p>More classic:
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Adam’s Rib
M<em>A</em>S*H
Space Balls</p>
<p>I also love all those witty 1930s screwball comedies full of double entendres.</p>
<p>The Thin Man
Philadelphia Story
It Happened One Night
Bringing up Baby
His Girl Friday</p>
<p>Airplane :)</p>
<p>My Big Fat Greek Wedding- my wife’s heritage is Greek, she actually fell out of her seat laughing at the movie theater several times.</p>
<p>Ruthless People…I actually bought it. Don’t know who is funnier…Bette Midler or Danny Devito. I still laugh out loud and I have watched it MANY times.</p>
<p>Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with Steve Martin</p>
<p>Moonstruck</p>
<p>The Full Monty</p>
<p>Victor/Victoria</p>
<p>^My D loves Monty Python and the Holy Grail. She can’t stop laughing.</p>
<p>Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World… 1963</p>
<p>Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas , Jonathan Winters, Don Knotts, Jerry Lewis The Three Stooges, Jimmy Durante, Buster Keaton, Andy Divine, Jim Backus, Peter Falk, Edie Adams, Jack Benny . </p>
<p>Nominated for 6 Oscars(R),</p>
<p>I have to agree with the Full Monty.</p>
<p>I like many of the choices of the other posters. I forgot… It’s a Mad Mad Mad…</p>
<p>Great movie. Great cast.</p>
<p>Agreed with the Marx Brothers. </p>
<p>With me, it’s gotten to the point where they don’t have to DO anything - just appear on the screen - and I’m laughing. Because I know that delicious chaos is about to unfold.</p>
<p>Some of the silent films- Chaplin and Lloyd- are wonderfully funny.</p>
<p>Something about Mary.</p>
<p>Its one of those movies that you tell yourself you can’t believe you are laughing at the raunchy humor while you are laughing out loud at the raunchy humor.</p>
<p>Ditto The Producers, Blazing Saddles and Duck Soup. </p>
<p>Would add Night at the Opera and the lesser known but great film The Gods Must Be Crazy.</p>