Latest / The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of / List Cont. - Best Comedies of All Time From November 25th, 2025
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- 0:01Speaker 1: It's Radio from Hell with another list, because people love
- 0:05Speaker 1: a good list. X ninety six.
- 0:08Speaker 2: When we last left off the list of varieties one
- 0:11Speaker 2: hundred best comedies of all time, we were on number seventy.
- 0:15Speaker 2: I will post this list so you can go back
- 0:17Speaker 2: and revisit it, or you can listen to our podcast
- 0:21Speaker 2: we Got it there, or you can and you can
- 0:23Speaker 2: watch all of the movies. Number sixty nine ace Ventura
- 0:28Speaker 2: Pet Detective.
- 0:31Speaker 3: Shouldn't be that high on the list.
- 0:32Speaker 4: Either love it or you hate it? I guess.
- 0:36Speaker 2: Sixty eight In the Loop a movie I have not
- 0:41Speaker 2: let's see adapting his scalding political satire In the Thick
- 0:44Speaker 2: of It to the big screen, British television vet Armando
- 0:48Speaker 2: Yanucci pioneered a profane style of insult comedy.
- 0:51Speaker 1: He's the guy who did you know Veep? And yeah,
- 0:56Speaker 1: you know all of that stuff. So this is what
- 0:58Speaker 1: he's doing.
- 0:59Speaker 4: This is a so maybe if you like those shows,
- 1:02Speaker 4: check it out. Sixty seven Hell's a Poppin' Oh that's.
- 1:08Speaker 1: An old one, real old old.
- 1:12Speaker 4: Who are these people in it?
- 1:13Speaker 1: Name it?
- 1:15Speaker 4: Let's see?
- 1:16Speaker 2: Less well remembered than Laurel and Hardy or Abbott and Costello.
- 1:19Speaker 2: The comedy duo of Olson and Johnson had a huge
- 1:23Speaker 2: stage hit with Hell's a Poppin.
- 1:25Speaker 4: It's from nineteen forty.
- 1:26Speaker 5: One that it was first done a live show on
- 1:29Speaker 5: stage and then they filmed it.
- 1:31Speaker 4: Now.
- 1:31Speaker 2: I don't think that stand up concert films should be
- 1:36Speaker 2: in this cat That should be a separate category.
- 1:39Speaker 3: I would agree, But what do they have there?
- 1:42Speaker 2: They have Eddie Murphy Raw, which is great in nineteen
- 1:45Speaker 2: I'm not saying, and there's a few of them in
- 1:47Speaker 2: here I've noticed. I kind of think that should be
- 1:49Speaker 2: a different list. But Eddie Murphy Raw sixty six, sixty five,
- 1:57Speaker 2: poor things.
- 2:00Speaker 4: This is this is the your Ghost Lanthemos.
- 2:03Speaker 1: It's reasonably new. I liked that movie a lot.
- 2:06Speaker 2: Emma Stone won didn't she win an oscar for that? Yeah?
- 2:10Speaker 2: This is this is like the Frankenstein girl thing.
- 2:14Speaker 1: They put a brain, a child's brain in a woman's body.
- 2:20Speaker 4: Number sixty four a fish called Wanda. Very funny. Yeah,
- 2:25Speaker 4: you know, Jamie Lee, Curtis, John Cleese, Kevin Klein.
- 2:28Speaker 2: Often I forgot sixty three going places. This is a
- 2:37Speaker 2: French if it's got Gerard Dipardi. That's where number sixty
- 2:46Speaker 2: two airplane from nineteen eighty.
- 2:48Speaker 3: I should be higher.
- 2:52Speaker 4: Sixty one The Bird Cage. I love The Bird Cage Great.
- 2:55Speaker 2: Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman.
- 2:59Speaker 4: Diane Weast, Jane Hackman and Drag. Yeah, so good. I love.
- 3:04Speaker 4: I love.
- 3:04Speaker 1: That's one that is I didn't want to do it.
- 3:07Speaker 4: That's one that.
- 3:07Speaker 2: If I run across it playing it kind of doesn't
- 3:09Speaker 2: matter where it isn't It'll stop and watch it. Sixty
- 3:13Speaker 2: another one I love Big Tom Hanks, Penny Marshall's seminal comedy.
- 3:21Speaker 2: Fifty nine Pillow Talk, Rock Hudson and Doris j.
- 3:26Speaker 1: It's It's good, It's sexy.
- 3:29Speaker 4: Fifty eight house Party. Oh really, this is Kidden playing
- 3:34Speaker 4: that's tough. High on the one. Yeah, that's you know
- 3:36Speaker 4: what I thought.
- 3:38Speaker 2: Fifty seven of my best Friend's wedding, Julia Roberts's.
- 3:45Speaker 4: Would You Stop?
- 3:46Speaker 1: Never saw that? One?
- 3:47Speaker 4: You did?
- 3:47Speaker 1: I did? That's okay.
- 3:50Speaker 4: Fifty six The Odd Couple, Very good?
- 3:52Speaker 1: Which version?
- 3:54Speaker 4: Jack Lemon, Walter matth aw All right, Barry.
- 3:58Speaker 2: Simon's fifty five Safety Last I don't know it.
- 4:05Speaker 4: It is from nineteen twenty three.
- 4:07Speaker 1: Oh, I bet it's like a Laurel and Harden.
- 4:10Speaker 2: In the Silent era, long before visual effects was original.
- 4:14Speaker 2: Harold Lloyd got big laughs performing his own stunt.
- 4:18Speaker 5: That's the one where he's hanged. You've seen pictures of that.
- 4:20Speaker 5: He's hanging off of a.
- 4:21Speaker 4: Hangout of That's the picture they have.
- 4:23Speaker 1: Over the streets of Manhattan. Yeah.
- 4:26Speaker 4: But I mean, I wonder and less like this.
- 4:28Speaker 2: Are they just trying to get you to watch old
- 4:30Speaker 2: movies or do I really believe that that's funnier?
- 4:33Speaker 1: If you watch that movie, it's really funny.
- 4:37Speaker 3: And when you consider the time that it was made,
- 4:39Speaker 3: and you know how it inspired so many people, and
- 4:43Speaker 3: you know, Okay, I guess.
- 4:45Speaker 2: Fifty four elf, that's very funny, very quotable, lots of.
- 4:51Speaker 1: Lots of quotes, a little too smallty, but there.
- 4:54Speaker 2: Are people that watch it everywhere. This is one of
- 4:56Speaker 2: my top ten favorite movies. Number fifty three Broadcast News.
- 5:00Speaker 1: That's good movie.
- 5:01Speaker 2: Holly Hunter, Albert Brooks, William Hurt, great, great, great movie.
- 5:07Speaker 4: Fifty two.
- 5:08Speaker 2: I don't know this one, The Tall Blonde Man with
- 5:11Speaker 2: One Black Shoe.
- 5:12Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a foreign director.
- 5:14Speaker 4: It's a French spy comedy.
- 5:17Speaker 5: I don't know it got great. I never saw it,
- 5:20Speaker 5: but I know it got great reviews.
- 5:22Speaker 2: Fifty one being John Malkovich was strange, but I would
- 5:26Speaker 2: touch some of those other I would put this below some.
- 5:29Speaker 1: Of that a little lower.
- 5:30Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I wouldn't call it. I wouldn't call
- 5:32Speaker 3: it necessarily a comedy.
- 5:34Speaker 4: Even it's dark.
- 5:35Speaker 1: It's strange. Yeah, it's good.
- 5:39Speaker 4: Fifty Adam Sandler's water Boy.
- 5:43Speaker 1: No, I never saw it too high on the list.
- 5:47Speaker 2: Yeah, they're better Adam Sandler. Maybe they'll be higher on
- 5:50Speaker 2: the list. I don't know.
- 5:51Speaker 4: That's where you can do. That's where that comes.
- 5:55Speaker 2: Forty nine. I've never seen this, but I probably should.
- 5:58Speaker 2: Shampoo from nineteen seven.
- 6:00Speaker 1: It's good, it's good.
- 6:01Speaker 3: I wouldn't put it in comedy necessarily, Yeah, it's yeah.
- 6:04Speaker 1: I mean it has comedic elements. Yeah, it's a comedy.
- 6:07Speaker 2: It's warm baby, yeah, Goldie Hawn. Let's see forty eight
- 6:14Speaker 2: bringing up baby.
- 6:15Speaker 5: That is one of my all time favorite Oh, and
- 6:21Speaker 5: I got it's good.
- 6:22Speaker 4: I don't know the story.
- 6:24Speaker 5: He's this nebshy archaeologist, and I forget how they get
- 6:30Speaker 5: involved with a tiger on the loose, and the tiger.
- 6:33Speaker 5: The only thing that will calm it down is if
- 6:35Speaker 5: you sing. I can't give you anything but love baby,
- 6:39Speaker 5: and the tiger will calm down. But it's on the
- 6:41Speaker 5: loose in the town and they're trying to corral it
- 6:44Speaker 5: and it's just hilarious. And the final scene, Kerry Grant
- 6:49Speaker 5: is and he wants to get rid of her because
- 6:51Speaker 5: she's just gooky and he's you know, laced up, but
- 6:55Speaker 5: of course he's slowly falling in love with her even
- 6:58Speaker 5: though he wants to get rid of her. I won't
- 7:00Speaker 5: tell you what the final seaton.
- 7:01Speaker 2: Okay, forty seven, it's weird, Grand Budapest Hotel.
- 7:07Speaker 1: That movie's weird.
- 7:08Speaker 4: Yah, what some of the ones we've read already? This
- 7:11Speaker 4: should not be airing them.
- 7:13Speaker 1: It's very funny. Yeah, did you see it?
- 7:17Speaker 2: No?
- 7:18Speaker 1: I didn't think so, you know what.
- 7:20Speaker 4: I did see Number forty six coming to America.
- 7:23Speaker 3: That's fine, addie Munny. Let's do forty five and call
- 7:29Speaker 3: it there.
- 7:29Speaker 4: Okay, forty five? Another one I haven't heard of kind hearts.
- 7:34Speaker 2: And cornets, coronets, coronets like as a musical instrument.
- 7:39Speaker 4: From nineteen forty nine. Do you know this?
- 7:43Speaker 5: I do, Yes, I've seen it a long time ago,
- 7:48Speaker 5: and I know it's a comedy, but I don't remember
- 7:51Speaker 5: anything specific about.
- 7:52Speaker 4: It other than well it guinness, isn't it.
- 7:54Speaker 5: It was pleasurable, It was pleasurable. But oh he plays
- 7:58Speaker 5: a killer. But it's a comedy. Yeah yeah, yeah, oh
- 8:03Speaker 5: it is. It's a dark, dark comedy, but it's really funny.
- 8:06Speaker 3: Okay, Well, there's a good place to pause on the list.
- 8:09Speaker 1: We've hoped you'd enjoyed. Another list with Radio from Hell
- 8:13Speaker 1: on X ninety six