The Jokezine DVD comedy review

Jokezine Book Guide for humorous fiction/non-fiction: Click link for list of humorous fiction and nonfiction books.Jokezine Movie Guide for Comedies: (for DVD movie rental/purchase):

Jokezine Movie Guide for Comedies: A-E (for DVD movie rental/purchase):

Abbott and Costello:

Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

Woody Allen:

Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
Wild Man Blues (1997) (documentary directed by Barbara Kopple).
Everyone Says I Love You (1996) (certain scenes)
Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
Bullets over Broadway (1994)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Radio Days (1987)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
Zelig (1983)
Stardust Memories (1980)
Manhattan (1979)
Annie Hall (1977)
Love and Death (1975)
Sleeper (1973)
Bananas (1971)
Take the Money and Run (1969)
What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)

Wes Anderson/ Owen Wilson:

Bottle Rocket (1996)
Rushmore (1998)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

Hal Ashby:

Harold and Maude (1971)
Last Detail, The (1973)
Shampoo (1975)

Andrew Bergman screenplays/films:

Blazing Saddles (1974)
The In-Laws (1979)
The Freshman (1990)
Honeymoon in Vegas (1992)

John and Roy Boulting :

Private's Progress (1956)
I'm All Right, Jack (1959)

Albert Brooks:

Real Life (1979)
Modern Romance (1981)
Lost in America (1985)
Defending Your Life (1991)
Broadcast News (1987) (as an actor)

James Brooks:

Broadcast News (1987)
As Good as It Gets (1997)

Mel Brooks:

Producers, The (1968)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Silent Movie (certain scenes)
History of the World: Part I (1981)
Spaceballs (certain scenes)

Frank Capra/Robert Riskin:

It Happened One Night (1934)

Frank Capra/Joseph Kesselring (play)/
Julius J. Epstein (screenplay):

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

Jim Carrey:

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
Dumb & Dumber (1994)
Cable Guy, The (1996)
Liar Liar (1997)
Me, Myself & Irene (2000) (certain scenes)


Chaplin:

Gold Rush, The (1925)
Circus, The (1928)
City Lights (1931)
Modern Times (1936)

Chevy Chase

Caddyshack (1980)
Vacation (1983)
Fletch (1985)
Spies Like Us (1985) (certain scenes)
Funny Farm (1988)
Christmas Vacation (1989)
Dirty Work (1998)

Bob Clark (director)/Jean Shepherd (writer):

A Christmas Story (1983)

Ethan and Joel Coen:

Raising Arizona (1987)
Barton Fink (1991) (satirical aspects)
Hudsucker Proxy, The (1994) (certain scenes)
Big Lebowski, The (1998)
Fargo (1996)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) (certain scenes)
Intolerable Cruelty (2003)

Cameron Crowe:

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Say Anything... (1989)
Jerry Maguire (1996)
Almost Famous (2000)

Michael Curtiz, Murray Burnett, Joan Alison, (play), Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch (screenplay):

Casablanca (1942)
(Capt. Louis Renault [Claude Rains]: "Realizing the importance of the case, we rounded up twice the number of suspects as usual.")

Billy Crystal:

When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
City Slickers (1991)
Forget Paris (1995)

George Cukor/ Phillip Barry (stage play):

Philadelphia Story, The (1940)
Holiday (1938)

Richard Curtis

Tall Guy, The (1989)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)

Danny Devito:

Romancing the Stone (1984)
Wise Guys (1986)
Tin Men (1987)
The War of the Roses (1989)


Ealing Comedies:
(T.E.B. ('Tibby') Clarke and William Rose scripted many of the comedies)

Hue and Cry (1946)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Passport to Pimlico (1949)
Whisky Galore! (1949)
Man in the White Suit (1951)
Lavender Hill Mob, The (1951)
Ladykillers, The (1955)

Charles Crichton/John Cleese's masterpiece
is the ideal of Ealing:

A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

Blake Edwards:

Pink Panther, The (1963)
Shot in the Dark, A (1964)
Party, The (1968) (certain scenes)
The Return of the Pink Panther (1974)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)