 | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $4.71 Director Richard Lester ('A Hard Day's Night') laid the groundwork for all those later Monty Python epics by placing delirious, libidinous farce in a very historically-accurate setting. Something for everyone!
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 | Rushmore - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $28.49 |
 | Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $6.97 |
 | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $3.82 This should have been the worst sort of Hollywood product, so I can't stress how artful it is: even the sound effects are consistently, subtly funny. (The business with the bushes sets me giggling every time.) Michael Caine was clearly having the time of his life, and the inspired joy of the entire project is infectuous.
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 | The Producers (Deluxe Edition)
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $3.98 The 35-minute set piece that opens the film -- essentially a long conversation between Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder -- is one of the funniest scenes in all of cinema.
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 | Scoop
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.97 Woody's made so many great comedies (Love and Death leaps immediately to mind), but I love how this one works beneath the radar, all the more amusing for being so inconsequential, like a 'scoop' of ice cream.
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 | Ghost World
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $3.09 This film is really a wistful drama at heart, but it is also one of the funniest depictions of American social dysfunction ever.
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 | Beetlejuice (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $6.39 |
 | The Ladykillers
Buy used from: $5.00 |
 | Eurotrip (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $1.74 I have never approached a film with such low expectations only to be rewarded so lavishly with a film of real wit and comic inspiration. The humour, in the best comic tradition, is frequently character-driven, and all the gags about travel hit home brilliantly.
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 | Born Yesterday
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $5.81 Maybe the funniest thing of all about this film is that it was controversial in the "red scare" 1950s for suggesting that American politicians might be corrupt. Imagine! But what makes it watchable is Judy Holliday, whose wordless sequence defeating her husband at gin rummy is comic gold and was probably studied endlessly by Lucille Ball.
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 | The Party
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $5.50 Peter Sellers made so many classics, from World of Henry Orient to the Pink Panther films, that it's hard to pick just one, but Blake Edwards pure slapstick farce about an Indian actor who crashes a swank Hollywood party is one of his funnier turns.
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 | The Seven Year Itch
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $5.94 |
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