Top Ten Comedies of the '80s

Big Trouble In Little China.....i used to watch it a lot...but it's been a while. Kurt Russell is perfect in it. i've seen the teen movies mentioned, and found them funny but they didn't hit my funny bone the way Steve Martin, Bill Murray and Chevy Chase did. the Jerk is just so so funny ,IMO, but that's 1979 - oops, so, okay; The Man With Two Brains, All of Me, The Lonely Guy, Fletch, ......maybe not GREAT movies per se but funny entertainment......a comedy's job!

i also like; The Man With One Red Shoe, Tin Men, War of the Roses, Short Time (wait, that's 1990).....and i'm suddenly tired so my list which is a continuation of an earlier list, stops here for now.

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Hey Patti I love Tin Men (1987) it wasn't laugh out loud funny but it definitely put a big smile on my face and it was terrifically written by Barry Levinson.

And yes Steve Martin is a comedic genius IMHO.
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9. (You did say top 9, right?)
8. Student Bodies
7. Earth Girls are Easy
6. Muppets Take Manhattan
5. The Princess Bride
4. A Fish Called Wanda
3. Raising Arizona
2. I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
1. Pee Wee's Big Adventure

Man, how I hate John Hughes movies. The Breakfast Club was a rallying cry for conformity. They only find their identities by being within a clearly defined social group? Bogus. And I liked Ally Sheedy as a black clad "Weirdo," but the so called director of this crap fest decided that she should get a makeover from prom princess Molly Ringwald (who I hated) so she can hook up with the sadistic, butt taping, possible date rapist jock Emilio Estevez. I hated hated HATED this movie. She should have gone with Anthony Michael Hall, who gets NO reward for being the only character in this film who can read. He gets to go home knowing that his status as non-entity remains fully intact, and without a girl, which both sociopathic male leads got. SAD.

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"Withnail and I" definately my favourite from the 80's (1987) - one that stood out the most anyway...

All the rest that are mentioned are also really good and I share most of my top 10, but this has only been mentioned by Holden as a runner up for some reason

"Danny: I don't advise a haircut, man. All hairdressers are in the employment of the government. Hairs are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos, and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight."

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This Is Spinal Tap
A Fish Called Wanda
Naked Gun
Ferris Beuller


Okay...so that wasn't ten..but, it's what I could think of.

This is Spinal Tap
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
A Fish Called Wanda
The Burbs (well, I thought it was funny anyway)
Airplane
Naked Gun (i think this was in the eighties, I'm too lazy to check)

I can't think of any more. I'm not up on my eighties lore. Hey I'm a poet but i don't know it. Hey I rhymed again. . .I'm getting good at this.

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Fletch
A Fish Called Wanda
National Lampoons Vacation
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
Back to the Future
Big Trouble In Little Chine

That's all I can think about at the moment

Top Ten, in no particular order:

The Princess Bride
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Valley Girl
Trading Places
Sixteen Candles
Caddyshack
Used Cars
Neighbors
Stripes

The Following ten, in no particular order:

Vacation
Raising Arizona
Airplane
Back to the Future
The Blues Brothers
When Harry Met Sally
Big
The Hollywood Knights
Better Off Dead
Porky's

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10. Planes trains and Automobiles

"Where's your other hand?"
"Between two pillows."
"THOSE AREN'T PILLOWS!"
"How 'bout them Bears?!!"


9. FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF

"This is my 9th sick day this semester. It's getting pretty tough coming up with new illnesses. If I go for 10, I'm probably gonna have to barf up a lung. So I better make this one count."

8. BETTER OFF DEAD

"It has raisins in it...you like raisins."



7. Can't Buy Me Love


"Do you see a sign on my forehead that says information?"

6. Fast Times at Ridgemont High

All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine.


Sorry have to run...to be continued.....

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“The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton

That's one of my favorite scenes in movie history.

1. RAISING ARIZONA
"Leonard Smalls: Name's Smalls. Leonard Smalls. My friends call me Lenny...only I ain't got no friends."

2. A FISH CALLED WANDA
"Otto: You pompous, stuck-up, snot-nosed, English, giant, twerp, scumbag, ****-face, ****head, *******.
Archie: How very interesting. You're a true vulgarian, aren't you?
Otto: You are the vulgarian, you ****!"

3. CADDYSHACK
"Sandy: Carl I want you to kill all the gophers on the golf course
Carl Spackler: Correct me if I'm wrong Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers they'll lock me up and throw away the key.
Sandy: Not golfers, you great fool! Gophers! THE LITTLE BROWN, FURRY RODENTS!
Carl Spackler: We can do that. We don't even need a reason."

4. FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH
"Stacy Hamilton: When a guy has an orgasm, how much comes out?
Linda Barrett: A quart or so."

5. CLUE
"Colonel Mustard: Wadsworth, am I right in thinking there is no body else in this house?
Wadsworth: Ummm, no.
Colonel Mustard: Then there is someone else in this house?
Wadsworth: No, sorry. I said no meaning yes.
Colonel Mustard: No meaning yes? Look I want a straight answer, is there someone else, or isn't there? Yes or no?
Wadsworth: Ummm, no.
Colonel Mustard: No there is, or no there isn't?
Wadsworth: Yes."

6. History of the World: Part I
"Marcus Vindictus: Don't you know your right flank from your left flank?
Captain Mucus: I'm sorry sir, I flunked flank.
Marcus Vindictus: You flunked flank? Get the flunk out of here!"

7. FLETCH
"Doc: That's an interesting name, Mr...?
Fletch: Babar.
Doc: Is that with one B or two?
Fletch: One. B-A-B-A-R.
Doc: That's two.
Fletch: Yeah, but not right next to each other, that's what I thought you meant.
Doc: Isn't there a children's book about an elephant named Babar.
Fletch: Ha, ha, ha. I wouldn't know. I don't have any.
Doc: No children?
Fletch: No elephant books."

8. VACATION
"Ellen Griswold: I honestly don't think we're going to find the Grand Canyon on this road.
Clark: Jesus, it's only the biggest God-damn hole in the world.
Aunt Edna: Clark, watch your language!
Clark: Make that the second biggest."

9. THIS IS SPINAL TAP
"Marty DiBergi: Do you feel that playing rock 'n' roll music keeps you a child? That is, keeps you in a state of arrested development?
Derek Smalls: No. No. No. I feel it's like, it's more like going, going to a, a national park or something. And there's, you know, they preserve the moose. And that's, that's my childhood up there on stage. That moose, you know.
Marty DiBergi: So when you're playing you feel like a preserved moose on stage?
Derek Smalls: Yeah."

10. USED CARS
"Rudy: We had nuns protesting here this morning. It got so bad Jim here had to turn a fire hose on them."

I WANTED TO ADD THE PRINCESS BRIDE BECAUSE I ADORE THAT MOVIE, BUT I HAVE A HARD TIME CONSIDERING IT AS A TRUE COMEDY.

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A Christmas Story (1983)
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Stripes (1981)
History of the World: Part I (1981)
All of Me (1984)
Victor/Victoria (1982)
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Raising Arizona (1987)
The 'burbs (1989)

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1. The Princess Bride
2. Trading Places
3. Beverly Hills Cop
4. Ghostbusters
5. Back to the Future
6. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
7. A Fish Called Wonda
8. Spaceballs
9. National Lampoon's Vacation
10. The Blues Brothers

They aren't in any particular order of favorites, ten is hard to choose from because there are so many more i would pick.

The Princess Bride
A Fish Called Wanda
Roxanne
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Ghostbusters
Ruthless People
National Lampoons Vacation
Nine to Five
Victor/Victoria

The Princess Bride has to be my fav.

"As you wish" Damnit I would kill to have carry elwes say that to me!

Also Better Off Dead and Real Genious are classics

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Pirates of The Carribean

I need to add a few more,

Big Trouble in Little China: simply the best
Christmas Vacation: simply the second best
Plains Trains and Automobiles: I can't believe I forgot this one
the Blues Brothers: Belushi and Akroyd are friggin hilarious
Coming to America: my luck this was probably in the 70's, if so correct me
Ghostbusters: not one I laugh out loud to, but I still like it.
Raizing Arizona ain't half bad either.

The problem I have with the Princess Bride is that the main character becomes paralyzed throughout most of the movie.

It really annoys me.

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PLANES TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES all the way .. Steve Martin rules ....
Well ... he used to - Bringing Down the House and Cheaper by the Dozen were awful