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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Rustler's Rhapsody (1985)
Director: Hugh Wilson
Starring: Tom Berenger, G W Bailey, Marilu Henner, Sela Ward
When a dressed-in-white singing cowboy tries to clean up the real Old West, the results are hilarious comedy and a riotous send-up of the 40s Saturday... Read more
Utopia (1950)
8.5/10
Director: Leo Joannon
Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Suzy Delair, Max Elloy
Aka 'Atoll K'. Laurel and Hardy's last film has the boys inheriting a South Seas island, only to discover that their paradise is rich in uranium. Read more
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (1990)
5.9/10
Director: Jim Abrahams
Starring: Winona Ryder, Jeff Daniels, Laila Robins
A small American town is reluctantly preparing for a visit from a local woman who left years ago and became a national celebrity. Teen outcast Dinky B... Read more
Eddie Izzard: Dress To Kill (1998)
8.7/10
Director: Larry Jordan
Starring: Eddie Izzard
Eddie Izzard's unique ability in looping topics such as pop culture and human behaviour into bizarre chains of association has catapulted him into one... Read more
Roadie (1980)
5.1/10
Director: Alan Rudolph
Starring: Art Carney, Alice Cooper, Kaki Hunter, Meat Loaf, Roy Orbison, Hank Williams, Jr...
Down-home Texas boy Travis Redfish (Meat Loaf) falls hard for Lola, a glitter-spangled groupie determined to lose her virginity to Alice Cooper. Hopin... Read more
Eddie Izzard: Circle (2000)
7.9/10
Starring: Eddie Izzard
Live comedy with the master of sublime weirdness, recorded in New York, June 26, 2000. Eddie discusses such topics as the Crusades, mad European cows,... Read more
Doctor in Trouble (1970)
5.4/10
Director: Ralph Thomas
Starring: Leslie Phillips, Harry Secombe, James Robertson Justice, Robert Morley
Our hero, Dr Burke, greatly resents the success of the heart-throb television doctor, Basil Beauchamp (alias Dr Dare). When Basil is admitted to hospi... Read more
Def Comedy Jam Allstars Vol. 1 (2002)
Starring: Martin Lawrence, Chris Rock, Bernie Mac, Chris Tucker
Throughout the 1990's Russell Simmons' 'Def Comedy Jam' on HBO exposed hilarious, predominantly African-American comedians to the public, creating man... Read more
Eternally Yours (1939)
5.8/10
Director: Tay Garnett
Starring: David Nixon, Loretta Young, Broderick Crawford, Zasu Pitts
Lovely Loretta Young discovers that being a magician's wife can be tricky. She's jealous of hubby David Niven's professional status, and believes that... Read more
Laurel and Hardy: Kid Speed (1924)
7/10
Director: Stan Laurel
Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Larry Semon
Oliver Hardy, Larry Semon and Dorothy Dwan participate in a side-splitting love triangle in 'Kid Speed' (1924); Stan Laurel co-directs 'Yes, Yes, Nane... Read more