Top 5 Time: 80's Comedies

[ChocolateChipCharlie]

1. Ghostbusters
2. Feltch FLETCH
3. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
4. Trading Places
5t. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
5t. Three Amigos
5t. Spies Like Us
5t. Vacation series
5t. A Fish Called Wanda
5t. Airplane!
5t. Spaceballs
5t. The Great Outdoors

[Allhallowsday]

EASY MONEY
BACK TO SCHOOL
MONTY PYTHON'S MEANING OF LIFE (though I'd like to include MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN - but it's 1979)
OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE
FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH  

[Leah]

The Princess Bride- I even own a "Hello, Mu name is Inigo Montoya" T-Shirt!
The Blues Brothers
Airplane!
Animal House
GhostBusters

[major jay]

I enjoy the unintentional kind more these days, but...

1 VACATION
2 USED CARS
3 SIXTEEN CANDLES
4 BLIND DATE
5 MIDNIGHT RUN

[zombie no.one]

naked gun
spinal tap
pee wee's big adventure
withnail and I
roadhouse (its a comedy to me)

[Flick James]

naked gun
spinal tap
pee wee's big adventure
withnail and I
roadhouse (its a comedy to me)

Wow. Not too many people are hip to Withnail and I. I saw it in 1987 at a theatre in L.A. I saw it because the movie poster looked interesting. I liked it so much I went back and saw it again.

[crackers]

naked gun
spinal tap
pee wee's big adventure
withnail and I
roadhouse (its a comedy to me)

Wow. Not too many people are hip to Withnail and I. I saw it in 1987 at a theatre in L.A. I saw it because the movie poster looked interesting. I liked it so much I went back and saw it again.

Have either of you done the Withnail drinking game? i did when I was a student. It's pretty tough.

[ChaosTheory]

Oh man, this is tough.....here goes....

Ghostbusters
Airplane!
Spaceballs
Coming to America
The Princess Bride

[venomx]

Let's not forget...

National Lampoon's Vacation
National Lampoon's European Vacation
Revenge of the Nerds
A Christmas Story
The Toxic Avenger

[zombie no.one]

Wow. Not too many people are hip to Withnail and I. I saw it in 1987 at a theatre in L.A. I saw it because the movie poster looked interesting. I liked it so much I went back and saw it again.

I'd say most people over 30 in England have seen it at least once, pretty much. bigger than the 'cult' status I'm guessing it has in the states and elsewhere.

Have either of you done the Withnail drinking game? i did when I was a student. It's pretty tough.

if you mean the game where you have to match them drink for drink as the film goes on,then no. I've heard it is very difficult lol

[Flick James]

naked gun
spinal tap
pee wee's big adventure
withnail and I
roadhouse (its a comedy to me)

Wow. Not too many people are hip to Withnail and I. I saw it in 1987 at a theatre in L.A. I saw it because the movie poster looked interesting. I liked it so much I went back and saw it again.

Have either of you done the Withnail drinking game? i did when I was a student. It's pretty tough.

I've read about it. I understand that Rum is typically substituted for the lighter fluid. I think keeping up with Withnail throughout the runtime of that film would be fatal to most people.

[Flick James]

Wow. Not too many people are hip to Withnail and I. I saw it in 1987 at a theatre in L.A. I saw it because the movie poster looked interesting. I liked it so much I went back and saw it again.

I'd say most people over 30 in England have seen it at least once, pretty much. bigger than the 'cult' status I'm guessing it has in the states and elsewhere.

Have either of you done the Withnail drinking game? i did when I was a student. It's pretty tough.

if you mean the game where you have to match them drink for drink as the film goes on,then no. I've heard it is very difficult lol

Withnail and I is considered an important piece of English film history from what I understand, while here in the States it is considerably more obscure. I saw it when I was 19 years old, living in the suburbs of Los Angeles, and had just discovered all the indy film venues that were just a 30-minute drive away. Come to think of it, I think I saw Withnail and I three times in the theatre, twice on two different dates. I think I was trying to impress them with how worldly I was by taking them to see a foreign film.   

[Hammock Rider]

  I saw Whitnail & I on tape a few years after it was released so I guess I don't think of it as an 80's film. But it was brilliant. I don't know why Richard Grant hasn't become a bigger star.

  Looking at this list it's pretty obvious that the 80's was a good decade for comedies. I'd even go so far to say that as far as comedies are concerned, it was the Best Decade.

[Umaril The Unfeathered]

This is a tough one.

Not in any particular order.

1) Uncle Buck (1989)
2) Back To School (1986)
3) Stripes (1981)
4) Sixteen Candles (1984)
5) Pee wee' Big Adventure (1985)

There are so many to choose from:

Fletch
The Man with Two Brains
Revenge Of The Nerds
Scrooged

I could go on and on.

Sixteen Candles and Revenge Of The Nerds. You definitely couldn't have had the 80's w\o these two! 

[crackers]

naked gun
spinal tap
pee wee's big adventure
withnail and I
roadhouse (its a comedy to me)

Wow. Not too many people are hip to Withnail and I. I saw it in 1987 at a theatre in L.A. I saw it because the movie poster looked interesting. I liked it so much I went back and saw it again.

Have either of you done the Withnail drinking game? i did when I was a student. It's pretty tough.

I've read about it. I understand that Rum is typically substituted for the lighter fluid. I think keeping up with Withnail throughout the runtime of that film would be fatal to most people.

Some substitute the lighter fuel with vinegar as the director did in the film, without telling Richard E Grant, who thought it was going to be water.