Top Ten Comedies of the '80s

25. The Breakfast Club 1985 John Hughes
24. The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner
23. Beverly Hills Cop 1984 Martin Brest
22. Overboard 1987 Garry Marshall
21. Police Academy 1984 Hugh Wilson


20. Twins 1988 Ivan Reitman
19. Raising Arizona 1987 Joel Coen
18. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation 1989 Jeremiah S. Chechik
17. Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure 1989 Stephen Herek
16. Mystery Train 1989 Jim Jarmusch


15. Spaceballs 1987 Mel Brooks
14. Used Cars 1980 Robert Zemeckis
13. Back to the Future 1985 / Back to the Future Part II 1989 Robert Zemeckis
12. Stir Crazy 1980 Sidney Poitier
11. Midnight Run 1988 Martin Brest

KOC

10. Major League 1989 David S. Ward
09. Top Secret! 1984 Jim Abrahams, David Zucker
08. Crocodile Dundee 1986 Peter Faiman
07. Big Trouble in Little China 1986 John Carpenter
06. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! 1988 David Zucker


5. Fletch 1985 Michael Ritchie
4. Airplane! 1980 Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker
3. Coming to America 1988 John Landis
2. ¡Three Amigos! 1986 John Landis
1. Planes, Trains and Automobiles 1987 John Hughes

No King of Comedy? EEK!

Also Withnail and I.

1. This is Spinal Tap
2. The Marathon Family
3. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
4. The King of Comedy (brilliant, but when I think of it, I wince.... call it uncomfortable comedy?)
5. When Harry Met Sally
6. Airplane
7. Ghostbusters
8. The Naked Gun
9. Better off Dead
10. Planes Trains and Automobiles

What else was there, Raising Arizona, Pee Wees Big Adventure, Weird Science, Caddyshack, Ferris Bueller, Big, The History of the World Part I - I recall watching my nephew for my sister, and took him to see Christmas Vacation, and he howled with laughter, good memory

I see the Aviators Wife listed as a romcom... I can't recall, did I laugh? (Ebert called it a quiet wit), that would go into the 10 if it counted.

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Completed Extant Filmographies: Luis Buñuel, Federico Fellini, Satyajit Ray, Fritz Lang, Andrei Tarkovsky, Buster Keaton, Yasujirō Ozu - (for favorite directors who have passed or retired, 10 minimum)

10.Three Amigos
9. Caddyshack
8. Roxanne
7. National Lampoons Vacation
6. Ghostbusters
5. Beverley Hills Cop
4. When Harry Met Sally
3. Withnail and I
2. The King of Comedy
1. Stranger than Paradise

This is a hard drama actually, kind of a Taxi Driver continuation.

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"Population don't imitate art, population imitate bad television." W.A.
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." M.T.

Holy shit my dudes, some of you have been around here since 2001!

Will probably come back and edit this with a list...for now I wanna say A Fish Called Wanda might be my current #1...I was howling during watching it.

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HEI guys.

Yes I know, but it's about a comedian so I thought that that counted.

1. The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)
2. Midnight Run (1988)
3. Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
4. Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
5. Le gendarme et les gendarmettes [The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes] (1982)
6. Crocodile Dundee (1986)
7. Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
8. When Harry Met Sally… (1989)
9. Coming to America (1988)
10. Crocodile Dundee II (1988)
11. A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

One of my favorites is Top Secret! The guys who did Airplane! did that one as well, I believe. Both are hysterical.

Spaceballs is also hilarious.

Meaning of Life is a riot.

Clue is awesome. One of Tim Curry's best performances/films.

A Fish Called Wanda is rip-roaringly funny. John Cleese's cruel humor shines here.

I love Erik the Viking, the Terry Jones film.

Clockwise is awesome.

Cat City rocks. It's an animated Hungarian film about evil Cats and heroic Mice. I love it.

Curse of the Queerwolf has one of the funniest first-thirty-minutes ever, and the rest is low-budget hilarity too.

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I destroyed the dastardly dairy dame! I made mad milk maid mulch!

To help me remember, I went to Letterboxd used the comedy, then 80s filter, and it was included among the others.

I see IMDB has it listed under Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller - so others out there felt it was darkly amusing.

It's a straight out comedy, and ****ing hilarious in parts, but it's 'dry'/straight (like the actors/characters aren't in on the joke).

So when he called it a drama, I guess he's referring to how the characters think it is.

I've always said Taxi Driver & King of Comedy are like bookends. (Scorsese bookends!)

They do have a lot of similarities and overlap to the point where they could almost meet in the middle. (And I've even done a little crossover conspiracy theorizing by stating that DeNiro's character in Joker was actually supposed to be Rupert Pupkin decades after the end of King of Comedy.)

I would classify King of Comedy as a dark comedy though. Granted, it's largely a crime drama, but there are a lot of chuckles at the characters and absurd situations. There's an aspect of amusement throughout the film despite some of its more serious overtones.

10. Christmas Story
9. Stranger than Paradse (Jarmusch)
8. Mystery Train
7. Down by Law
6. A mid summer Nights sex comedy
5. Crimes and Misdemeanors
4. Stardust memories
3. Brazil
2. Purple Rose of Cairo
1. Hannah and Her Sisters

In no order, and off the top of my head...

UHF
National Lampoon's Vacation
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Vampire's Kiss
Little Shop of Horrors
The Naked Gun
Clue
License to Drive
Raising Arizona
Spaceballs

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1. Who's Singin' Over There
2. Airplane!
3. The Unbelievable Truth
4. Raising Arizona
5. Brazil
6. Re-Animator
7. The King of Comedy
8. Hannah and Her Sisters
9. The Crimson Permanent Assurance
10. Return of the Living Dead

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IMDb
Letterboxd

I think you've gotta go with the cultural juggernauts here.
Airplane
Ghostbusters
Ferris
Beverly Hills
Princess Bride

The King of Comedy is a comedy.

I thought this was a joke.
Do some people seriously not understand that the King of Comedy is meant to be (and is) funny???
wtaf??? lol what on earth???