Greatest comedy films

Grab the popcorn, park yourself on the couch and prepare for a night of belly-aching laughter as we bring you the top ten comedy films of all time!

1: Airplane

The original spoof of disaster movies, Airplane is filled with belly-ache inducing, hilarious gags. When an aeroplane crew is taken ill, Ted Striker is surely the only man who can save the day, but don’t call him Shirley. Starring Leslie Neilson….

2: Life of Brian

When the Messiah comes to earth in Kevin Colley’s body all hilarity breaks loose in this 1979 Monty Python experience. Known for such classic lines as “Who threw that stone?” “She did it, She did it…(and when it dawns on the crowd that women are not allowed at stonings)... He did it… He did it.” One not to be missed.

3: Groundhog Day

What will it take to teach Phil Connors (Bill Murray) a lesson? When the sarcastic weather man finds himself trapped in the worst day of his life, over and over, he learns — eventually — how to become a better person. A hilarious insight into the traits of human nature.

4: Trains, Plains and Automobiles

What Neal Page (Steve Martin) really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he got was three days with the turkey (John Candy). How do you cope when you’re desperate to get home and a blabbering curtain-ring salesman decides to go the same way? You don’t.

5: National Lampoons’ Vacations

Yule crack up (sorry) at Chevy Chase’s desperate attempts to create the most perfect Christmas ever for his family. Nothing can run smoothly for this man, who’s paycheck is overdue, who’s lights can’t be rigged and who’s just about holding it together.

6: Brewster’s Millions

Starring Richard Pryer and John Candy, a major league basketball player stands to inherit $300million, if he can spend $30million without gaining any assets. All hell breaks loose as he goes nearly insane trying.

7: Coming to America

When Prince Akeem (Eddie Murphy) decides he’s not quite ready to fulfil his parents’ dream of an arranged marriage, he goes Queens, New York City to find a wife whom he can respect for her intelligence and will When he meets the girl of his dreams, she is told nothing of his fortunes, because he wants him to love her purely for him. Aaaaah. Great feel-good stuff.

8: Spaceballs

If only for that scene where an Alien erupts from John Hurt’s stomach to begin tap-dancing the cabaret, Mel Brooks’ Spaceballs is up there with the greats.

9: Withnail and I

London 1969 - two 'resting' (unemployed and unemployable) actors, Withnail and Marwood, fed up with damp, cold, piles of washing-up, mad drug dealers and psychotic Irishmen, decide to leave their squalid Camden flat for an idyllic holiday in the countryside. But all is not as wonderful as they hoped.