Humor is what keeps us going and makes the daily grind bearable. People who can see the funny side of things everyday are truly blessed. For other unfortunates like us, we have to lean on the crutch of funny movies to laugh out loud every now and then.
So let us celebrate humor and plan a week of fun and laughter with some amazing comedy classics from Hollywood.
1. Jerry Lewis in Rock a Bye Baby
I wouldn’t have come across this actor in a million years had it not been for my father to suggest this movie one boring summer. From that time on, I have never missed a Jerry Lewis movie on the TV.
If one baby in Baby’s Day Out could create so much trouble, imagine what quintuplets could do?
2. A Chump at Oxford
You hardly hear about the Laurel & Hardy pair these days. Once a mainstay of local TV broadcast, the pair has vanished with invasion of channels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slm2kcCcH3Q
Guess what Stan and Ollie get for catching a bank robber? A scholarship to the prestigious Oxford college. I don’t need to tell you what to expect when these two blokes try to make a place and get along with other students.
3. Modern Times
No classic comedy line-up can be complete without this great guy. In Modern Times, the Little Tramp tries to adjust with the rapidly changing industrialized world. The movie depicts the uneasy romance between Ellen and Chaplin and their continuous trysts with the police.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABZGzZkqKN0
4. Cheaper by the Dozen
We know families used to be big in those old days, but 12 children! Welcome to the Gilbreth household. Based on the autobiographical book by the same name, the movie gives you an inside view of funny situations and amusing anecdotes as Fran Gilbreth juggles his passion for motion study and uses his kids as guinea pigs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBEsKacJSFI
5. Angles in the Outfield
A struggling baseball team and an abusive coach are at loggerheads as the team struggles to move from the bottom of the charts. Desperate times need desperate measures – and angels, when you need a miracle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS6SZtBYajk
6. Have Rocket Will Travel
Just as Laurel Hardy and Charlie Chaplin, no Hollywood Classic Comedy list can be complete without The Three Stooges. Also dubbed as their comeback film, Have Rocket Will Travel combines the Sci-Fi and comedy genre as the three stooges travel to planet Venus and must overpower an evil computer to return to Earth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgPDYFwiziI
7. It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Utter chaos and confusion ensue as travelers along the State Highway 74 come to know of the $350,000 buried near the Mexican border from a dying accident victim.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4HQUOms1iU
8. Carry On Again Doctor
Carry On Again Doctor is the eighteenth movie in the Carry On series, and it doesn’t get boring. A disgraced doctor stumbles upon a miracle slimming potion on a remote tropical island. Back in England to make profit from his new discovery, he realizes that people who sent him there now want a slice of the profits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCEVbnoa9Rs
9. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Back To The Future is the ultimate cult movie in time travel. But this literary masterpiece came at least a century before Back To The Future. Based on the novel by Mark Twain, a singing mechanic from 1912 find himself in the medieval times in the court of King Arthur. He falls in love with none other than King Arthur’s niece and must now face-off with her fiance, sir Lancelot!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRWoE9ssfhk
10. How to Murder Your Wife
Starring Jack Lemmon, How to Murder Your Wife is a laugh riot. Getting drink and married might be the usual theme of movies set in Las Vegas, but not in the 60s. Great disasters happen when people are drunk. Stanley Ford, a happily unmarried cartoonist finds that the hard way when he marries Lisi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU1CYiNGaL0