Bill Murray gives his most iconic performance as a grumpy, self-absorbed Pennsylvania weatherman who, by some inexplicable cosmic glitch, is forced to live the same day over and over and over and over (and over and over and over and over…) until he learns to look outside himself and let a little love into his heart. It’s not too late to correct that mistake, in the same way poor Phil Connors discovers that it’s not too late to become a better person – in fact, he’s got all the time in the world. Worldwide, however, the words ‘Groundhog Day’ are best known as shorthand for history repeating itself – in fact, there’s probably a not-insignificant population who know the phrase but not the film. The faux-meteorological American tradition known as Groundhog Day predates the movie Groundhog Day by a good century and a half. ‘I'll give you a winter prediction: It's gonna be cold, it's gonna be grey, and it's gonna last you for the rest of your life.’

Spinal Tap: for those about to rock, we salute you. Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer would keep gigging as Spinal Tap for three decades – proof that they were so much more than just a joke band in a funny movie. It also, lest we forget, defined an entire genre, accidentally inventing everything from The Office to The Blair Witch Project (not to mention lead axe-man Christopher Guest's entire subsequent career).

these ones go to eleven') and some of the meatiest metal melodies this side of Bon Scott-era AC/DC, this is simply a perfect film: from the first chord of 'Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight' to the very final line ('I dunno, what are the hours?'), there's literally nothing about it that could be improved. Sporting arguably the most quotable script in movie history ('no. Yes, our experts have cast their votes and the winner by a clear margin is Rob Reiner's genre-setting mockumentary – or, if you will, rockumentary – about England's largest-livin', heaviest-riffin', filthiest-lyric-singin', biggest-hair-havin', fluffiest-jumper-ownin' heavy rock combo. You're asking, how much more funny could this be? And the answer is none. 🥰 The greatest romantic comedies of all time No matter what tickles your funny bone – silly or sophisticated, light or dark, surreal or broad – you’ll find it represented here.

To put together this list of the greatest movie comedies ever, we asked those who know just how difficult it is to make people laugh, such as comedians like Diane Morgan and Russell Howard, along with actors like John Boyega and Jodie Whittaker – plus a cadre of Time Out writers – about the movies that have made them LOL the hardest for longest. What causes an audience to nearly hyperventilate in 2023 might be met with stony stares just a few years later, let alone a half-century.Īnd so, those movies that have kept us cracking up for decades are truly special. After all, is there anything harder than getting a whole theater to erupt with laughter? Not just that, but comedy is also the least durable genre in all of cinema. But when it comes to critical adoration and awards contention, more often than not, comedy gets the shaft. Actually, that’s not entirely true: audiences love them, and a great comedy will get rewatched more than any stuffy drama. Comedy movies get no respect, no respect at all.

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