Comedy
Q: How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb? A: The fish. Much like that joke, comedy comes down to personal taste and what one finds funny or not. Some like their humour light and frothy and very generalised, while others like it to have an edge and go for a more twisted, darker humour. The motherlode of this genre can be scrolled below. Either way, we're sure there will be something for everybody in the subsections on the left.
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House Party (1990)
6.4/10
Director: Reginald Hudlin
Starring: Christopher Martin, Christopher Reid, Martin Lawrence, Robin Harris, Tisha Campb...
A rambunctious comic rap-attack that turns teenage movie conventions upside-down. After his father grounds him for brawling with a bruiser, a high sch... Read more
King Ralph (1990)
5.2/10
Director: David S Ward
Starring: John Goodman, Peter O'Toole, John Hurt
John Goodman plays a Las Vegas lounge singer who, after an incident wipes out the entire royal family, becomes the King of England. This 'fish out of... Read more
Mr Saturday Night (1992)
5.8/10
Director: Billy Crystal
Starring: Billy Crystal, David Paymer, Julie Warner
Billy Crystal makes his directorial debut in this bittersweet chronicle of 50 years in the sometimes hilarious, sometimes sad life of acid--tongued co... Read more
Def Comedy Jam Allstars Vol. 3 (2002)
Starring: Martin Lawrence, Cedric The Entertainer, Joe Torry, J Anthony Brown, Sommore
Throughout the 1990's Russell Simmons' 'Def Comedy Jam' on HBO exposed hilarious, predominantly African-American comedians to the public, creating man... Read more
Continental Divide (1981)
6.1/10
Director: Michael Apted
Starring: John Belushi, Blair Brown, Allen Goorwitz, Carlin Glynn
Ernie Souchak (John Belushi) is a hard-nosed Chicago journalist who has put his feet a little too close to the fire and now has the mob after him. Hi... Read more
A-Haunting We Will Go (1942)
6.4/10
Director: Alfred L Werker
Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
Stan and Ollie are recruited to transport a coffin containing a not-so-dead corpse, but things really go wrong when it gets switched with one of the p... Read more
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926)
5.8/10
Director: Frank Capra, Harry Edwards
Starring: Harry Langdon, Joan Crawford
When baby-faced comedian Harry Langdon left Mack Sennett Studios to make features for First National, he wisely brought along the two Sennett staffers... Read more
The Return of Swamp Thing (1988)
4.5/10
Director: Jim Wynorski
Starring: Heather Locklear, Louis Jourdan, Sara Douglas, Dick Durock
Everyone's favourite muck-encrusted plant-man is back and once again fighting the evil Dr Arcane, in this tongue-in-cheek action-adventure. But this t... Read more
Poker Alice (1987)
6.3/10
Director: Arthur Seidelman
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Tom Skerritt, George Hamilton, Susan Tyrrell
This Wild West comedy stars Elizabeth Taylor as a New Orleans gambling queen who becomes a business woman of questionable ethics when she wins a front... Read more
Semi-Pro (2007)
5.8/10
Director: Kent Alterman
Starring: Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson, Andre Benjamin, Maura Tierney, Will Arnett, David...
After racing in 'Talladega Nights' and skating in 'Blades of Glory', Will Farrell caps off his sports comedy trilogy with this ode to the now-defunct... Read more