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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnnie Mack, and today is
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part two of my look at Variety's top one hundred
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best comedy movies of all Time. I guess they didn't
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say top, they said the the one hundred best comedy
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movies of all time. Yesterday I did one hundred through fifty,
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and I guess I probably should have stopped at fifty one. Right,
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So today we're taking a look at the final forty nine.
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I guess I messed that up. Oh well, number forty
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nine Shampoo from nineteen seventy five. I remember there being
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such a movie. I was a young lad then. I
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couldn't tell you a thing about it. Roddy tells us.
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It's one of the great demonstrations of how a seventies
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movie could tackle so many things, including the sexual revolution,
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the entertainment industry, and Nixon, and still emerge as a
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perfect spitting in the air diversion. George is a Beverly
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Hills hairdresser who's such a born seducer that he always
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makes it look like the women are coming after him.
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George played by Warren Batty Okay number forty eight, bringing
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up Baby from nineteen thirty eight carry Grant and Catherine
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Hepburn right there. You know it's gonna be good because
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of the cast. Forty seven from twenty fourteen. The Grand
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Budapest Hotel number forty six Coming to America from nineteen
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eighty eight. People really like that film, even though I'm
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from Queen's I never really loved it. Forty five Kind
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Hearts and Coronets from nineteen forty nine, One of the
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most scathing black comedies ever made, says Variety, tells the
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story of Lewis, whose mother was disowned by her aristocratic
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clan after she eloped. Lewis, born poor, is eighth in
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line to inherit the family royal title on the fortune
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that goes with it, the situation he decides to rectify
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by murdering each of the seven relatives who stand in
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his way. Each one of those seven relatives is played
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by Alec Guinness, who knew Kine. Hearts and Coronets number
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forty four, Missus Doubtfire from nineteen ninety Okay again, nice
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fun movie. Who doesn't like Robin Williams? Is it funnier
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than Airplane? You're Insane? Forty three Team America World Police
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forty two four Weddings and a Funeral from nineteen ninety four.
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Forty one, The Beatles in a Hard Day's Night. Yeah, okay,
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forty I'm gonna throw my laptop across the room. Zoolander
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from two thousand and one. Just no, just no, I'd
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actually watch Adam Sandler movies before I'd watch Zoolander. Ben
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Stiller's zeny send up of the fashion industry, Just No.
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Thirty nine, Clueless from nineteen ninety five, Fine thirty eight,
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Jerry Lewis and The Nutty Professor from nineteen sixty three,
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Fine thirty seven, The Princess Bride from nineteen eighty seven, Okay,
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Cool thirty six, nineteen ninety four's ed Wood, All right,
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we're on a little roll here. School of Rock from
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two thousand and three. At thirty five again, Airplane was
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like sixty something. Riddy writes, Jack Black is great at
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what he does, but he's not commonly thought of as
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a great actor. I guess you can pick up the
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kind of comedy I don't like. Number thirty four with
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Nail and I from nineteen eighty seven. Variety writes no
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one had heard of Richard Grant when he played with
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Nail A failed counterculture actor with a lust for adventure,
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best expressed by his willingness to drink anything in a bottle,
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including furniture polish. Apparently it's very footy. Thirty three nineteen
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eighty Five's Lost in America. I don't even know what
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to do with this list anymore. Sullivan's Travels from nineteen
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forty one. Popular director John L. Sullivan played by Joel McCrae,
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is hit with an existential crisis, which he believes he
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can fix by making a star commentary on the problems
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that confront the average man. The trouble is he's known
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mostly for disposable studio comedies. Is this like an Adam
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Sandler prequel? I might have to check that out. Number
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thirty one from nineteen seventy two, Pink Flamingos celebrating John
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Waters thirty Austin Powers International Man of Mystery. Okay, my
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kind of movie, but heads ahead against Airplane No. No
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Oh twenty nine When Harry met Sally. I saw that
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in theaters back in nineteen eighty nine and liked it
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a lot. Nice little film. Sure. Number twenty eight Richard
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Pryor Live in Concert Now that was out in theaters
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because we were a little early for an HBO comedy special,
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and we definitely had Netflix yet, So in modern times
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we would consider this a quote unquote comedy special, but
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it was a movie. Briddy writes, there's no debating that
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Richard Pryor is the greatest stand up comedian who ever lived.
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Time out. You can debate it. I mean, if I
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went up to you and I said, no, I disagree.
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I think Richard Pryor is the second greatest and George
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Carlin is the greatest. I mean, that's a debate. You
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can disagree. You might even win the argument, but you
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wouldn't be like, that's crazy, Johnny Mack. How dare you
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suggest George Carlin is the greatest comedian of all time?
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I mean, it's debatable, Guys. Brody writes, Richard Pryor's best
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performance became a landmark concert film in which Prior turned
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everything he touched into a scaldingly funny theater of truth.
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The Philadelphia Story from nineteen forty. This is not the
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one with the aircraft carrier that goes back in time
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during World War two, And just when the movie gets interesting,
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they're like, oh yeah, then the time warp is back
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and we're back into the present. No, that's the Philadelphia experiment.
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This is Katherine Hepburn and Carry Grant, totally different movie
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twenty six Borat And they even use the full title
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here Borat Cultural Leanings of America for make benefit Glorious
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Nation of Kazakhstan. You know, that's a great pick. That's
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one of those films that I don't think I laughed
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more and I'm a comedy snob watching it. Wow, this
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probably is ranked criminally low at twenty six. Good pick
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with that, We'll take the break here and come back
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in the top. Twenty five is probably all the Adam
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Sandler filmography, right, continuing our look at Variety's best at
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comedy movies of all time now stunning ley and we've
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gone through seventy five of them and only mentioned one
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Adam Sandler movie, which means one of two things, either
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a variety or really tasteful people or b is insane.
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And I'm about to list like fifteen to the next
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twenty five being Adam sailor movies, in which case this
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may be the last episode of Daily Comedy News. We're
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about to find out number twenty five one of my
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favorite films of All Time from nineteen seventy Mash fantastic film.
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If you've only seen the TV show, it may throw
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you a little bit. This version of Hawkeye and Trapper
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are a little darker than the Alan Alda Wayne Rodgers version.
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Great great film. Nice pick there. Twenty four Bridesmaids from
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twenty eleven twenty three from nineteen thirty two Trouble in Paradise.
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Bridey explains to the extent that any romantic relationship is
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based on trust, the two party's fear of betrayals compounded
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when both are thieves twenty two. Caddy Shack from nineteen
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eighty I'd probably have that way up there with like,
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I'm hoping I get to say words to you like
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stripes and Animal House. I hope these are words that
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are going to be said soon, Caddy Shack. And I'm
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looking at a picture of Bill Murray and the Gopher
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and I'm smiling. Absolutely fantastic. But now I'm worried, because
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Variety writes. In the late seventies movie comedy that changed
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Hollywood and change the culture, not necessarily for the better,
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was National Lampoon's Animal House. But even as that showy
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retro Fratthouse Bash became a classic, it was never as
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funny as the casually delirious Snobs Versus Slob's Golf comedy
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that arrived two years later. Does that mean Animal House
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is not on this list? Because that's gonna make Johnny
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Mack very sad? Twenty one, The Bank Dick from nineteen
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forty W. C. Fields all Right, fair enough? Super Bad
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from two thousand and seven. Nice movie, a lot of fun?
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Is it? Forty something? Movies? Better than Airplane? Of course
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not nineteen It Happened One Night from nineteen thirty four.
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Rody says it's the movie that invented the form of
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the screwball romantic comedies. Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert eighteen This
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is Spinal Tap again, really love This is spinal Tap,
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but eighteen that seems insane to me? I mean, and
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Heartbreak Kid. Charles Groden plays Lenny, a nice Jewish boy
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who gets married on impulse and then, while still on
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his honeymoon, ditches his bread for a more attractive candidate
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played by Sybil Shephard. Not familiar with that one from
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nineteen forty his girl Friday carry Grant again, apparently Cary
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Grant the greatest comedic actor of the last one hundred
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and twenty five years. From nineteen sixty seven, It's playtime,
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and you're like, Johnny Mack, what's playtime? And that is
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a good question. Here we file Mosieur Hulou, a gauky, mute,
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pipe smoking overcoat wearing middle aged French geek update of
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Charlie Chaplin in this movie, Hulo travels through Paris. Okay,
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are we getting any Pink Panther movies on this list?
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Are we getting any Peter Sellers Number fourteen from two
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thousand and four Sideways. I'm now convinced variety or just
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film snobs. I mean sideways. I would put Adam Sailor movies.
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We've had one Adam Sailor movie. Even Johnny Mack, known
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Adam Sailor comedy hater, is like, really sideways? Stars Paul Giamatti, Fine, okay, thirteen,
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all right, good pick here? Thank you? Did you hear?
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They must have heard me yelling into the sky? Why
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know Peters Ellers movies? Because number thirteen is Doctor Strangelove.
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They use the full title Doctor strange love or how
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I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb? Yes,
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thank you who I was worried there for a second?
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Twelve Tutsi from nineteen eighty two. One of those movies
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that if you had HBO in the eighties, if you
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saw fifty thousand times, haven't seen it in the twenty
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first century. I have fond memories of it. I guess
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it's good. Stustin Hoffman, How bad could it be? Number
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eleven from nineteen twenty four Sherlock Junior, Buster Keaton. I
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didn't know this existed. I'm glad we've got Buster Keaton
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on the list. Number ten from nineteen ninety three Groundhog Day.
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Nice movie? Are there funnier movies? Sure? But okay? Number
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nine Young Frankenstein from nineteen seventy four, good pick. I
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still think Blazing Saddle should have been a lot higher,
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but get to get more Millbrooks on here. Number eight
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from nineteen ninety six, Fargo film snobs love the Coen Brothers.
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Is Fargo fifty plus better than Airplane? Of course? Not?
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Seven Duck Soup from nineteen thirty three. Can't argue with
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the Marx Brothers. Sure six Monty Python on the Holy Grail.
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Now we're talking. That's my kind of movie, Variety writes,
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instead of feeling like disjointed sketches, the jokes assumed epic form.
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The closer Arthur's Knights get to the Grail, the more
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absurd their obstacles become. There's the Black Knight, the insufferable French,
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and the bloodthirsty rabbit that awaits them. Yes, Number five,
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Waiting for Guffman from nineteen sixty six. The movie snobs
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that he'd help pioneer on. This is spinal Tap. Christopher
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Guest makes the top ten for the second time, assembled
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a dream team of improv comedy talent to poke fun
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at small town theatrical production. Waiting for Guffman. Number five
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on Variety's list. Okay, Number four The Great Dictator from
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nineteen forty good film in which to honor Charlie Chaplin,
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Great Fantastic Three Annie Hall from nineteen seventy seven. It
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won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the nineteen
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seventy eight Academy Awards. It beat out The Turning Point, Julia,
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The Goodbye Girl, and Star Wars Annie Hall. Best Picture.
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By the way, we used to have movies back in
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the day. As I was pulling that up, I pulled
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up the wrong year. But let me just tell you
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the nominations for Best Picture in nineteen seventy seven were
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listen to this set, This is great, Bound for Glory whatever, Okay,
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All the President's Men, Rocky Network, and Taxi Driver. The
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award went to Rocky Network is one of my favorite
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movies of all time. It is prophetic. You should watch it.
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It's basically somebody invented the Turn of the century. Fox
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Networks in nineteen seventy seven is basically what it is.
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And of course All the President's Men is great, and
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Taxi Drivers great, and Bound for Glory I'm not really
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familiar with. But that's not what we're talking about. We're
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talking about how Annie Hall is Variety's number three comedy
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of all time. Have I still only said the word
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Sam once or twice? Once? Right? Once? Number two Some
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Like It Hot from nineteen fifty nine, which means Adam
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but number two Some Like It Hot from nineteen fifty nine.
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Tony Curtis Jack Lemon. Sure that makes me want to
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put Operation Petticoat on this list somewhere. How about mister Roberts,
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Is that a comedy? It's kind of a comedy. Why
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isn't that on this list? And according to Variety, the
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number one comedy of all time The Naked Gun from
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the files of Police Squad. How are you putting that
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up there? And you have Airplane sixty later, let's hear
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a Variety out. They say, there's a god given right
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that anyone making a big screen comedy should have, and
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that is the right to make fun of In The
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Naked Gun, the team of David Zucker, Jim Abraham's and
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Jerry Zucker took that right to a pitch of high
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hilarity that remains unequaled. The glory of The Naked Gun
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is that it's shamelessly unhimited, a comedy that will make
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fun of anything. Global Autocrats, Stagy, Film Noir, Dialogue, Safe Sex,
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a professional baseball game, food left in the refrigerator too long?
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Somehow they have that at number one an airplanes somewhere
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in the sixties. They also have put OJ Simpson at
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number one. O J. Simpson one of the great comedic
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actors of all time in clearly the greatest comedy of
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all time. So we have in the top three there
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both Woody Allen and OJ Simpson. So that's Variety's list.