Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Does it qualify? Some great films (comedy or otherwise) have original source material other than an original screenplay.

Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein

Blazing Saddles may be the worst movie I've every seen in my entire life. Sorry, Draug...

And whoever names all three films spoofed in the title...

You're a nerd, do you know that? :p

OK, my picks:

-Duck Soup, 1934, starring: The Marx Brothers (complete with Zeppo)
-Monty Python and The Quest For The Holy Grail, 1975, starring The Monty Python crew
-The Producers (yes, the film came first), 1968, Mel Brooks

And to close...

Obiwanobiwan wishes to voice his outrage at the discovery that the AFI (American Film Institute), in their list of Top 100 Comedies, has no works by Mel Brooks in the Top 10, but leaves "The Producers" at #11...give me a BREAK, I know I'd at least sub out "Annie Hall" (#4!) for most any Mel Brooks movie, especially that one...and DOUBLE outrage that the aforementioned "Annie hall" tops "Duck Soup," which comes in at #6! (For those who are curious, Some Like It Hot, Tootise, and Dr. Strangelove are #1, 2, and 3 respectively, so not too bad there, could've picked worse...but really Duck Soup should then at least be #4 for at least Aemican movies, and Mel deserves a spot...and before anyone mentions the name "Python," it's the AMERICAN Film Institute's list, so it was only of American films; throw in Monty Python and arguably a certain mistaken Messiah could be battling with the new President of Freedonia for the top spot...)

Hmmm. I just lost all respect for abgemacht when it comes to his taste in comedy.

If R&GareD doesn't count, then Sleeper (Woody Allen) will be my #3.

The Hangover--I was literally in tears for almost the entire movie.

I assume 42 is a reference to Hitchhiker's, but it was a book, radio program, and TV series before they ever made a movie from it.

@Draugnar:

R&G...I LOVE IT! Unfortunately it's a play, or, rather, it was a play first...part of the reason I like it so much (I might even go so far as to call it the last true masterpiece, at least for theatre, thus far, I can't think of any single play since 1968 that's been more meaningful than this great followup to not one but TWO great plays, Hamlet and Waiting For Godot, which might be my two favorite plays period and definitely Top 10 for my personal Best Literature of All-Time, and I acted ina production of R&G, was Polonius, my friends were great, four girls played R, G, the Player and Hamlet--and we WON the competition between So. Cal schools back in High School! But I digress, I could and probably would go on forever about R&G if I could...bottom line is it can't count, otherwise *I* would've nominated it!) ;)

@abgemacht:

How is that not understandable? ;)

Films nominated so far:

-Duck Soup
-Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail
-The Producers
-Young Frankenstein (GREAT pick, btw!)
-Blazing Saddles (Never seen it...)

How about the In-Laws, abgemacht? Or Murder By Death?

-Sleeper
-The Hangover

And yep, 42 from HitchHiker's what else? :p

@Draug

Haven't seen them.

You forgot my mention of Woody Allen's Sleeper

The Italian Job (1969)
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Monty Python's Life of Brian

Obviously the title is Dr. Strangelove

Duck Soup
-Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail
-The Producers
-Young Frankenstein (GREAT pick, btw!)
-Blazing Saddles (Never seen it...)
-Sleeper
-The Hangover

BTW, if "Animal Crackers" and "Life of Brian" don't get nominated...tragedy!

PS. It's called Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

@Draugnar:

The title of the thread actually has references to 3 movies, though Dr. Stangelove being the most prominent (a bit ironic, as it's the film of the three I'm least familiar with...)

And noted on Grail (anyway, my posting was only a model!) :p

Just in case it got lost:

The Italian Job (1969)
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Monty Python's Life of Brian

Bright Side of Life is from Life of Brian.

And Stop Worrying goes well with Don't Panic I guess from Hitchikers.

No, that's part of Dr. Strangelove: or, how I learned to stop worrying an love the bomb

Just for the record:

I found The Producers very painful to watch. I think it would have been very enjoyable on stage, though.

Also, I hate Monty Python : )

Dr. HACKENBUSH is Groucho's character from one of the "Golden Age" Marx Brothers films, "A Day At The Races." (A note since I'm a Groucho geek--Groucho actually said at one point in older yearas this was the character of all his roles he most identified with and even went so far as to refer to himself occasionally as "Hackenbush," which is a bit sad since the character's a classic comedic phony, he's a horse doctor who makes people believe he's a real human doctor and a great one, and the character actually has some moments where he feels bad for being a con artist in the beginning...so maybe a peek into Groucho's mind in later years, how he felt about himself?)

So Dr. Strangelove, A Day At The Races, and Life of Brian in the title, and The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy as well as Monty Python and the Holy Grail (the part where they confuse the fuse for the Holy Hand Grenade, ie, "count to three" five" five") in the below text.

I should have realized is was the direct quote, but it's now going on 2 AM and I'm brainfried.

Stranger Than Fiction has been one of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time. I'm not a big fan of Will Ferrel because most of the movies he does are a bit low brow for my tastes. But STF was definitely not low brow. Great movie, IMHO.

-Duck Soup
-Monty Python and the Holy Grail
-The Producers
-Young Frankenstein
-Blazing Saddles
-Sleeper
-The Hangover
-The Italian Job (1969)
-Four Weddings and a Funeral
-Monty Python's Life of Brian

And abgemacht...you hate Monty Python and you don't like (EITHER VERSION?) "The Producers" as a film?

I simply do not know what to say, or THINK... ;) (Why do you hate those two, the film and MP overall, those are two icons right there...three if you count Gene Wilder as the original Leo Bloom in the original, 1968 version of "The Producers.")

THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY

and honorable mention to Jackie Chan's Around the World in 80 Days and yes I know I'm the only one who liked that.