Best Comedy by Decade
Submitted by jblack on Sun, 03/25/2001 - 05:15
Tags:
- 1930's It Happened One Night
- Bringing Up Baby
- 1940's Rope*
- 1950's Some Like It Hot
- 1960's Dr. Strangelove
- The Producers
- 1970's Blazing Saddles
- 1980's Stripes
- 1990's Kingpin
Author Comments:
* "Rope" in a way may not be classified as a comedy, but it stills has some of the darkest witty comedy I've seen in a long time. So I give it the decade. A pretty weak decade for comedies.
I agree with many of your selections - Bringing Up Baby, Some Like It Hot, and Dr. Strangelove are among my very favorites, and the rest are good too.
But 1940's a weak decade for comedy? How can you say that? What about all the great Preston Sturges comedies (The Lady Eve, Palm Beach Story, Sullivan's Travels, Unfaithfully Yours, Hail the Conquering Hero, Miracle of Morgan's Creek)? What about all the great Cary Grant comedies (His Girl Friday, Arsenic and Old Lace, My Favorite Wife)? And what about the Road to... series, and Ball of Fire, and To Be Or Not To Be, and Adam's Rib, and The Bank Dick? All of these are worthy contenders.
Adams Rib I believe is a 1950 release.