Top Ten Comedies of the '80s

The King of Comedy is clearly intended as black comedy. There are multiple types of comedy out there.

Like they said in the 80s, These Rock!

Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Back to the Future
Back to the Future Part II
Clue
Invaders From Mars
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
The Blues Brothers
National Lampoon's Vacation
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
Breakfast Club
Sixteen Candles
Pretty in Pink
Earth Girls are Easy
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Big Top Pee-wee
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Can't Buy Me Love
A Christmas Story
Mystery Train
Crocodile Dundee
Summer Rental
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
The Great Outdoors
Uncle Buck

1. A Fish Called Wanda
2. Breakfast Club
3. See No Evil, Hear No Evil
4. Airplane!
5. The King of Comedy
6. Planes, Trains and Automobiles
7. The Naked Gun
8. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
9. Used Cars
10. Midnight Run

Wow I'm the only one who mentioned Top Secret! That is mildly surprising.

If anyone is curious, one of my picks, the wildly hilarious, and hilariously stupid, Curse of the Queerwolf is on Tubi. I have a DVD copy here somewhere, in the garage I think, and I was curious what its IMDb score is, and saw it's on Tubi. It was made for like $10k and it shows. What they lacked in money they made up for in wit and brevity. I enjoy it.

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Oh my. I somehow missed your inclusion. My bad my man. So that makes two mentions that I've seen so far.

IIRC @stillmellow also likes it.. still only three of us.. should be more, I agree, explains all the problems in the world, no sense of silly humor..

I can't say either way. I find it a rip-roaring good time. Top Secret! is hilarious. Yes it's goofy. That's the point. The guy smoking while pretending to be a cow is hilarious.

Okay I want to share. I had forgotten and this reminded me. Here is the story of how I came to watch Top Secret!: I was mindlessly scrolling through Facebook and found a video on how to memorize lines in a scene, and the sample the guy used was when Val Kilmer said his thing about his love interest finding her former love interest in the French resistance movement. Then a day later on Facebook again I saw the clip of the gun battle at the farm between the French resistance and the "Nazi" squad. Then I went looking at Val Kilmer's IMDb page, I recognized him which really isn't tough, and the first thing I saw on his page was a clip from Top Secret! so I knew I had to watch it. Then I looked for a way to watch it, except the library didn't have it, so I checked Amazon. I had a gift card balance of around $11 or $12 and Top Secret! was on sale for $11.30 or so to buy a digital license for the movie from its usual like $15 or $18 or whatever, the exact amounts escape me although those are their essences, so I paid for it and finally watched it. I nearly had a migraine from laughing so hard. I did strain my back in three places though.

i wouldn't even call it black tbh.

Here are my 10 favorite 80’s comedies:
1.Broadcast News
2.Back to the Future
3.After Hours
4.The Princess Bride
5.Working Girl
6.Good Morning, Vietnam
7.Ghostbusters
8.A Christmas Story
9.Diner
10.Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Mark

Roxanne (1987) is worth a mention.

Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Burbs
Midnight Run
Withnail and I
The Money Pit
Clockwise
After Hours
Into The Night
The King of Comedy

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