My Comedy Movie Collection... In A Nutshell

Time to tackle another genre of films within my personal movie collection. Today I'd like to look at comedy, an area I've always enjoyed, yet I never went out of my way to amass a lot of titles on my shelves. So this wee bunch would actually fit in a nutshell. 

As you scan my list below, you'll quickly identify my tastes in comedy: silly, absurd, campy, and mostly mainstream, with just a couple of "arty" films tossed in there for good measure.

Jim Carrey sports a tutu for Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

I made a point of getting some childhood favourites, like the Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, and Abbott and Costello flicks. As a teen, I began to appreciate the Monty Python style of humour, plus the slightly similar Beatles movies. Not to mention the original stoner comedies of Cheech and Chong. I think I've touched upon at least a few key comedy classics, though I have no intention of building much on those. I'm content with timeless stuff like Caddy Shack, Blues Brothers, Airplane, and The Naked Gun.

There was a time when I owned very few comedy movies, just a handful of favourites, but now that I've expanded on those a bit, I'm pleased to have just about everything, to date, that I want. While it's always hard to narrow down to my Top 10, I can safely say that a few of my faves are: The Blues Brothers, Wayne's World, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Amelie, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Up in Smoke, and Frances Ha. If you're willing to include horror-comedy shockers, then I'd add An American Werewolf in London and The Howling.

There are not a lot of comedies in my mostly horror and sci-fi-oriented home video collection, so I might as well list them all. I do have a lot more than these on DVDs I recorded off TV years ago, all stuffed into binders, but here I'll stick to the legit videos on my display shelves.

Here is my small bunch of funny flicks, some on Blu-ray and some on DVD:

Caddyshack
Monty Python and The Holy Grail
Wayne's World
Wayne's World 2
The Blues Brothers
A Hard Day's Night
Help!
Fever Pitch
Get Smart
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Adventures of Power
Abbott and Costello in African Screams
Amelie
Batman The Movie (1966)
Big Top Pee-Wee
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
Casino Royal (1967)
Cheech and Chong movies: Up in Smoke, Next Movie, Nice Dreams, Things are Tough all Over
A Christmas Story
Jerry Lewis movies: The Nutty Professor, The Bellboy, The Ladies' Man, The Delicate Delinquent, The Errand Boy, The Patsy
Dr. Strangelove
Frances Ha
Legally Blonde
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde
The Odd Couple (1968)
The Naked Gun
Top Secret!
Airplane
Matt Helm spy movies starring Dean Martin: Murderers' Row, The Silencers, The Ambushers, The Wrecking Crew


And how about a little horror-comedy?

Young Frankenstein
Return of the Living Dead
Drag Me to Hell
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Abbott and Costello Meet The Mummy
An American Werewolf in London (very dark and bloody satire)
The Howling movie (again, very dark satire... and far better than all its sequels)
Bride of Frankenstein (dark comedy, even by today's standards)
The Raven (1963)
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)