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The Rough Guide to Comedy: The Comedy Canon - 50 Seriously Funny Films

From the book The Rough Guide to Comedy Movies by Bob McCabe.
1. Airplane! (Special Collector's Edition)
by David Zucker
  
2. All About Eve
by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  
3. Amelie
by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
  
4. Annie Hall  
5. The Apartment  
6. Austin Powers - International Man of Mystery (New Line Platinum Series)
by Jay Roach
  
7. Blazing Saddles (30th Anniversary Special Edition)  
8. Bringing Up Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Howard Hawks
  
9. Broadcast News
by James L. Brooks
  
10. Caddyshack - 20th Anniversary Edition
by Harold Ramis
  
11. Le Diner de Cons (Original French Version with English Subtitles
by Francis Veber
  
12. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Special Edition)
by Stanley Kubrick
  
13. Dodgeball - A True Underdog Story (Widescreen Edition)  
14. Duck Soup
by Leo McCarey
  
15. Ferris Bueller's Day Off  
16. Four Weddings and a Funeral
by Mike Newell
  
17. The General
by Clyde Bruckman
  
18. Ghostbusters (Widescreen Edition)  
19. The Gold Rush (2 Disc Special Edition)  
20. Good Morning, Vietnam
by Barry Levinson
  
21. The Graduate (40th Anniversary Collector's Edition)
by Mike Nichols
  
22. Groundhog Day (Special Edition)  
23. A Hard Day's Night
by Richard Lester
  
24. His Girl Friday
by Howard Hawks
  
25. It Happened One Night
by Frank Capra
  
26. Kind Hearts and Coronets
by Robert Hamer
  
27. The Ladykillers
by Alexander Mackendrick
  
28. Local Hero
by Bill Forsyth
  
29. Manhattan
by Woody Allen
  
30.
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 MASH Collector's Edition (Restored, Uncut Original Version!)
by Robert Altman
  
31. Monty Python's Life of Brian - Criterion Collection  
32. National Lampoon's Animal House (Widescreen Double Secret Probation Edition)
by John Landis
  
33. The Odd Couple
by Gene Saks
  
34. The Producers (Special Edition)  
35. Raising Arizona
by Joel Coen
  
36. Roxanne
by Fred Schepisi
  
37. Rushmore
by Wes Anderson
  
38. Shaun of the Dead
by Edgar Wright
  
39. A Shot in the Dark
by Blake Edwards
  
40. Some Like It Hot
by Billy Wilder
  
41. Strictly Ballroom
by Baz Luhrmann
  
42. Sullivan's Travels - Criterion Collection  
43. There's Something About Mary (Widescreen Edition)
by Bobby Farrelly
  
44. This Is Spinal Tap (Special Edition)  
45. To Be or Not to Be
by Ernst Lubitsch
  
46. Tootsie  
47. Toy Story (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
by John Lasseter
  
48.
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 Les Vacances de M. Hulot  
49. When Harry Met Sally...  
50. Withnail and I - Criterion Collection  
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Created by Jess on Sep 25, 2007.