The Comedy Canon
It’s movie canon time again. This time, Scalzi presents the list is from The Rough Guide to Comedy Movies. Same drill as the Sci-Fi list: mark movies you’ve seen and movies that you own a copy of*.
- Airplane!
- All About Eve
- Amelie
- Annie Hall
- The Apartment
- Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
- Blazing Saddles *
- Bringing Up Baby
- Broadcast News
- Caddyshack *
- Le diner de con
- Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb * This is my personal favorite movie
- Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
- Duck Soup I’d probably list this as the movie that I’d most like to see again
- Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
- Four Weddings and a Funeral
- The General
- Ghostbusters
- The Gold Rush
- Good Morning Vietnam *
- The Graduate
- Groundhog Day Filmed in Woodstock, IL, home to the overwhelming majority of my father’s family
- A Hard Day’s Night
- His Girl Friday
- Kind Hearts and Coronets
- The Lady Killers
- Local Hero
- Manhattan
- M*A*S*H
- Monty Python’s Life of Brian
- National Lampoon’s Animal House *
- The Odd Couple
- The Producers
- Raising Arizona
- Roxanne
- Rushmore *
- Shaun of the Dead *
- A Shot in the Dark
- Some Like it Hot
- Strictly Ballroom
- Sullivan’s Travels
- There’s Something About Mary
- This is Spinal Tap
- To Be or Not to Be
- Tootsie
- Toy Story *
- Les vacances de M. Hulot
- When Harry Met Sally…
- Withnail and I
Films Whose Presence in the Canon I’m Particularly Gratified to See (pick up to five): Duck Soup, Groundhog Day, Rushmore, Dr. Strangelove, Annie Hall.
Films in the Canon Whose Presence Should Not Be (pick up to five): Four Weddings and a Funeral, Dodgeball, When Harry Met Sally.
Films I’d Pick to Replace Them (pick up to five): The Big Lebowski, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Fletch.