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I'm in love with the comedy of the 1960s and older

HomokHarcos

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Jul 11, 2018
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I love to watch comedy from the silent era up to the 1960s. I like just about everything, except for standup comedy.

Silent greats: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Marbel Normand
Groups acts: Abbott and Costello, The Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Brothers, Our Gang
Animation: Looney Tunes, Mickey Mouse and friends, Tom and Jerry, Felix the Cat, Popeye the Sailor
Sitcoms: I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, Our Miss Brooks, The Dick Van Dyke Show

There's much, much more. What's your opinion on old comedy like this? I know there are several valid complaints such as the stereotyping from the era.
 

nitewulf

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I do like the silent slapstick stuff, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd we're not only comedians, they performed highly risky stunts. Older sitcoms, not sure those aged well.
 
Oozer

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The Dick Van Dyke Show is really good. The episodes about Richie's birth are classics.
 

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The only films I regularly watch and, to be honest, even really enjoy from that era (more 60s-70s tbf) are the Pink Panther films.

A Shot in the Dark is still one of the funniest movies ever, and almost all of the sequels have redeeming scenes that never fail to make me laugh.
 
kirbyfan407

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I Love Lucy and The Dick Van Dyke show are two shows that I love watching. There are more from that era that I want to check out but haven't yet. Something about the humor just hits me.
 
devenger

devenger

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The Three Stooges still make me laugh, even when I know whats coming. And I feel like Chaplin is timeless, always funny. But Ive watched two full Marx Bros movies and never cracked a smile.

And Looney Tunes? Never seen anything top Bob McKimson /Chuck Jones.
 
sir_crocodile

sir_crocodile

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HomokHarcos said:
I love to watch comedy from the silent era up to the 1960s. I like just about everything, except for standup comedy.

Silent greats: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Marbel Normand
Groups acts: Abbott and Costello, The Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Brothers, Our Gang
Animation: Looney Tunes, Mickey Mouse and friends, Tom and Jerry, Felix the Cat, Popeye the Sailor
Sitcoms: I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, Our Miss Brooks, The Dick Van Dyke Show

There's much, much more. What's your opinion on old comedy like this? I know there are several valid complaints such as the stereotyping from the era.
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Of those I like Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Brothers,, Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, Felix the Cat & Popeye the Sailor (especially the early Fleischer stuff).

Do you watch The Phil Silvers Show, Dads Army & Betty Boop? I enjoy those too. The Likely Lads is great too, but only ten eps remain.
 
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HomokHarcos

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sir_crocodile said:
Of those I like Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Brothers,, Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, Felix the Cat & Popeye the Sailor (especially the early Fleischer stuff).

Do you watch The Phil Silvers Show, Dads Army & Betty Boop? I enjoy those too.
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I've watched some Betty Boop. Fleischer Studios was great. I've heard of The Phil Silvers Show, but never heard of Dad's Army.
 
makonero

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Get Smart, outside some awful yellowface episodes, is incredible. The movie is not like the show at all, so don't let that confuse you.
 
meowdi gras

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American screen comedy was best before WWII. Since then, it has suffered from a gradual (if not precisely linear) decline.
 
ClivePwned

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The oldest TV comedy I still enjoy is Get Smart (mid to late 60s)
but for movies things like Stalag 17, and any of the Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis movies.
Some of Lewis' early solo movies are decent like The Geisha Boy and the one where he's training to be a cop (edit: The Delicate Delinquent).

Dr Strangelove, Mr Roberts, It's a Mad, Mad World, Bedtime Story (later remade as Dirty Rotten Scoundrels).
 
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Garlador

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Bringing Up Baby is still one of the funniest movies ever created.

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Check it out if you haven't.
 
OnPorpoise

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I'll always be a fan of Bob Hope's "My Favorite Brunette", it feels a bit like Steve Martin's "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" as well.
 
lunarworks

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makonero said:
Get Smart, outside some awful yellowface episodes, is incredible. The movie is not like the show at all, so don't let that confuse you.
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I used to stay up late to watch that on YTV whenever I could. Such a good show. I was stunned when I found out that Don Adams was the voice of Inspector Gadget, which was so obvious.

Peter Sellers was great in the Pink Panther movies and Dr. Strangelove.
 
sir_crocodile

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Oh, another thing I really like is the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films. They are basically comedies, thanks to Nigel Bruce's masterful performance playing Watson as an utter buffoon. "Terror by Night" is particularly fun.
 
ConVito

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Check out the recent film Stan & Ollie if you haven't already. An excellent portrayal of an oddly specific moment near the end of Laurel & Hardy's careers.

Personally, aside from the classics you mentioned (I'm big into Abbott & Costello, Laurel & Hardy, and the Marx Brothers), I have to also recommend almost anything with Cary Grant. His dry deliveries and borderline unidentifiable accent are just instantly charming. "I Was A Male Warbride" might be my favorite, since it pairs him with the hilarious (and underappreciated) Ann Sheridan.
 
retroman

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Here's a few I thoroughly enjoyed:

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Witness For The Prosecution might not be a full-blown comedy, but there's enough funny bits to make it worthwhile for comedy fans.
 
Blader

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I've been watching bits and pieces of Jack Benny's show lately and it holds up
rewllly well, still really funny today.
 
Kernel

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Switch Back 9 said:
The only films I regularly watch and, to be honest, even really enjoy from that era (more 60s-70s tbf) are the Pink Panther films.

A Shot in the Dark is still one of the funniest movies ever, and almost all of the sequels have redeeming scenes that never fail to make me laugh.
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I thought I was the only one. A Shot in the Dark is my favorite.

Peter Sellers was a comic genius.
 
Mandos

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ClivePwned said:
The oldest TV comedy I still enjoy is Get Smart (mid to late 60s)
but for movies things like Stalag 17, and any of the Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis movies.
Some of Lewis' early solo movies are decent like The Geisha Boy and the one where he's training to be a cop (edit: The Delicate Delinquent).

Dr Strangelove, Mr Roberts, It's a Mad, Mad World, Bedtime Story (later remade as Dirty Rotten Scoundrels).
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Hi five! Get Smart is one of my all time faves, Don Adams was a treasure.
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The Avengers: Endgame of comedies. The amount of people that showed up for this was nuts.

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This was good stuff too
 
Yerffej

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I grew up on Laurel and Hardy, Honeymooners, and Three Stooges. All problematic in their own ways but still...classics I can laugh at any time. So good.
 
Sai

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I love basically all the Marx Brothers films. They've def got some questionable stuff from my memory, but I never mind going back to them. Groucho makes me crack the fuck up, constantly.
 
Grug

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Buster Keaton is the GOAT of all GOATS.

Physical comedy doesn't normally do it for me, but he hacks me on some secret humour frequency.
 
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