I never get upset over "Top 10" or "Top 100" or "Top Any Number" lists and you shouldn't be bothered by a survey conducted by a website called College Humor to determine the 100 Best Comedies of All Time. I am kinda curious if the respondents just haven't seen any movie made before 1974 (I think the oldest one on there is Blazing Saddles) or if they really think five Adam Sandler movies are better than anything the Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, Billy Wilder, Charlie Chaplin, Jack Lemmon, W.C. Fields, Peter Sellers, Buster Keaton or Woody Allen ever did. Those folks are unrepresented but Will Ferrell has four on the list, two of them in the top ten.
Does anyone really think Spaceballs is one of the greatest comedies of all time and The Producers isn't in the top hundred? I'll bet there wasn't even a single person who worked on Spaceballs who thinks that. Hey, does anyone even think that National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is better than National Lampoon's Vacation?
I do like the part that says Anchorman is Will Ferrell's Citizen Kane. Yeah, I can see the parallels. And it is interesting to me that even Chevy Chase, Eddie Murphy and Steve Martin are somewhat passé with these voters. Each got but one or two films on the list, far from the top.
Oddly, the top pick is Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which is at least a few decades back and a reasonable choice…though I personally think The Life of Brian (which they have at #45) is a much better movie.
Life of Brian might have been my pick for Numero Uno…or maybe The Producers, A Night at the Opera, The General or one of around ten other movies that are absent from this list. Phil Conley sent me this link and said, "At least half of the movies on this list are ones I'd have to be paid to watch." Admittedly, I haven't seen all of them either but apparently none of the voters have seen anything made prior to Richard Nixon's resignation. And come to think of it, if they'd released that as a feature, it would have been my first choice.