In no particular order

Animal House
Life of Brian
Holy Grail
Ghostbusters
Groundhog Day(actually Bill Murray in pretty much anything...)
Spinal Tap
Duck Soup
Raising Arizona
Clerks
The Italian Job
(I know it's a tired old student fave but...) The Blues Brothers
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Burbs
Grosse Point Blank

Another very US biased list I'm afraid - perhaps TV comedy is/was the UK specialism?

Problem is there hasn't been a great British comedy film for some time - I can think of dire recent ones like "Mavis Davis" or (gulp) "Notting Hill".

The Tall Guy was quite funny I suppose, but only *quite* funny, and there lies the problem. You'd have to go back to the 1950s and 1960s to find brilliantly funny British films. Sure, the British film industry has improved during the 1990s (well, some of it), but I think you might be right, Al - comedy is considered to be the stuff of TV and (possibly) stand-up.

Holy grail gets my vote.
Early Carry On, for being subversive and genuinely funny.
despite being increasingly anti-American, Kentucky Fried Movie (recently reshown on Film Four) had me entertained.

>Holy grail gets my vote.
>Early Carry On, for being subversive and genuinely funny.
>despite being increasingly anti-American, Kentucky Fried Movie (recently reshown on Film Four) had me entertained.

Anti-American Sheep? You can fight this. It's a British intellectual disease we must all work together to wipe out. Yes they have racists, and bible-bashers, and use too much petrol (sorry, gas) but anything they've done to the world we've done just as bad - if not worse. And they have produced Mark Twain, the Marx Brothers, J D Salinger, The Beach Boys, Betty Friedan, Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Scorcese, William Gibson, Bill Murray, Seinfeld, Public Enemy, oh I could go on all night.

But I won't. And I suppose there's always Nixon, George Bush, Ruby Wax, Barry Manilow...

This Is Spinal Tap
The Italian Job
Duck Soup
Bedazzled
The Rise And Rise Of Michael Rimmer
Monty Python And The Holy Grail
The Bedsitting Room
Here We Go Round The Mulbery Bush
There's A Girl In My Soup
Carry On Loving/Cruising/At Your Convenience
Don't Just Lie There, Say Something

Dr Strangelove
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The Ladykillers
Withnail & I
The Tall Guy
Eating Raoul
Gregory's Girl

Chasing Amy
The Big Lobowski (Easily the Coen's best, no matter what anyone else says)
The Jerk
Monty Python's Meaning Of Life
Dobermann
Dogma
Being John Malkovich
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
The Odd Job
Delicatessen
The Hudsucker Proxy
Bedazzled
That One Where Peter Cook Was A Politician With John Cleese and Graham Chapman and the Caretaker Out Of Grange Hill That Was On Channel Five A Few Months Ago (Although that might not have been the actual title)

>That One Where Peter Cook Was A Politician With John Cleese and Graham Chapman and the Caretaker Out Of Grange Hill That Was On Channel Five A Few Months Ago (Although that might not have been the actual title)

"The Rise And Rise Of Michael Rimmer". Note the presence of Graham Chapman's name. Be careful how much you quote from it.

Whoops Apocalypse

Mr Jolly Lives Next Door

Not sure if either counts as a film, but was reminded of these when Peter Cook got mentioned.

I can't believe you all forgot the brilliant "A Fish Called Wanda"!!!

One chip up the nose!

On a Thames Cruise the guide pointed to a block of flats and said "that's where they filmed A Fish Called Wanda", no idea whether it really was or not...could have been...it's the block of flats with the red arch design on the front.

The London underground is not a political movement!

>On a Thames Cruise the guide pointed to a block of flats and said "that's where they filmed A Fish Called Wanda", no idea whether it really was or not...could have been...it's the block of flats with the red arch design on the front.

I think I've been on the same cruise. Did you also get "that penthouse flat is owned by fabulous American singing star Cher" and "to the right, The Isle Of Dogs or, to give it its proper name, Millwall - the only football club in England where they don't need interpreters in the dressing room". A real cockernee geezer - gawd bless 'im.

>>On a Thames Cruise the guide pointed to a block of flats and said "that's where they filmed A Fish Called Wanda", no idea whether it really was or not...could have been...it's the block of flats with the red arch design on the front.
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>I think I've been on the same cruise. Did you also get "that penthouse flat is owned by fabulous American singing star Cher" and "to the right, The Isle Of Dogs or, to give it its proper name, Millwall - the only football club in England where they don't need interpreters in the dressing room". A real cockernee geezer - gawd bless 'im.

That's the one! And then he brings around an empty pint glass and you have to fill it up with coins to thank him for his informative commentry and bad jokes.

King Of Comedy
Flying High
Duck Soup
The Castle
Toy Story 2 (best movie of the year in my opinion - no joke)

Films I have found funny and can think of off the top of my head) include:

Muppet's Treasure Island
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
As Good As It Gets
Beetle Juice
American Pie (plebby?)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off

The Breakfast Club

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - ok, maybe a bit ott, but still funny
Life of Brian
Withnail & I
Grosse Point Blank - "thanks for the pen" did it for me :O)

I can probably think of more, but these are the ones in my head right now.

Someone mentioned Carry On At Your Convenience earlier. In my opinion, this is not only the worst Carry On Film, but actually one of the worst films ever made.

It contains one mildly amusing moment when Bernard Bresslaw bangs his head on a low Exit sign but that's yer lot.

>Dr Strangelove
>Kind Hearts and Coronets
>The Ladykillers
>Withnail & I
>The Tall Guy
>Eating Raoul
>Gregory's Girl

All top-notch, apart from Eating Raoul, but only because I've never seen it.
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prospects for plastics