What is your favorite COMEDY??

I want to get a comedy for my cousin who is going through a difficult time just now.

She is 50 her husband is 52. He has cancer -- third time. He was a chain smoker from age 15 until last year.

Four years ago he had mouth cancer and lost part of his jaw.
Last year he had throat cancer and lost his voice box.
Now the cancer is back in his throat. The tumor is wrapped around his esophagus (so he is on a feeding tube) and around one carotid artery (so surgery is not an option.) He will be getting either radiation or chemo, but his chances are less than 20% for survival.

He may be able to return to work for 3 or 4 hours 2 or 3 days per week for a while, just to get him out of the house. He is getting bored and depressed. (who wouldn't be!) He works at the post office, just started there 3 years ago. So he could go in for the mornings for sorting mail.


Her mom (my aunt, Dad's sister) is 84 and has cancer -- third time. Also a chain smoker for years.
Ten years ago she lost a breast to cancer.
Six years ago she lost 1/4 of a lung lobe to cancer.
Now the cancer is in the other lung. She is 84 and has decided she is not having ANY treatment. No biopsy; no surgery; no radiation; no chemo.

My cousin started a new job, changing after 18 years, where she had tons of sick time, vacation time, personal time, to get off for doctor visits. She changed jobs a week before all of this was discovered. So now she has extended family and friends taking these two to doctor visits.

They have twin daughters age 22, who have just graduated college each has her first job and first apartment and my cousin is trying not to involve them in all of this, so they can get themselves established.


So I thought a nice comedy would be something they can both enjoy!

Got any suggestions? What's your fav funny?

I would get some old classic comedy like Trains, Planes, and Automobiles or the Blue Brothers.

Trying to think of a newer good one, but my mind always goes blank.


It sounds like your cousin is going through an incredibly tough time, and I hope things start to improve for her.

Redneck Comedy is my all time FAVORITE!!!

Austin Powers is my all-time favorite.

Friends it is a great funny show.

I guess it all depends on what kind of Humour they like --

If they like British humour, maybe Monty Pyton, Fawlty Towers, 'Allo 'Allo - things like that

For American Humour, I always liked Frasier, Night Court and such.

For Canadian Humour, probabally Red Green (and unlimited things to do with Duct Tape :))

Thats all I can think of off the top of my head. Again, its up to what they like -- what my Dad finds funny is completely different than what my Mom does, and both are different from what I like :)

"Airplane" ... 'I am serious ... And don't call me Shirley!'
"Some Like It Hot" with Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe - movies are just not made like that anymore.

Either the BBC or the Drew Carey version of "Whose Line Is It Anyway"
DVD or VHS of the Carol Burnett show, especially any scene in which Tim Conway and/or Harvey Korman are trying not to laugh.

The series My Name Is Earl.... Kills me everytime.... I LOVE IT!!

I like Friends, How I Met Your Mother, Everybody Loves Raymond, and Grounded For Life. :) Great comedy shows!!

Right now I am very much into Friends, its such a great show!:D

I have been into "Queen of Kings" lately, before I am also a bit obsessed with "everybody loves Raymond"

Seinfeld, Roseanne, Mash for sitcoms. For movies,one of mine is already mentioned (Planes, Trains and Automobiles) Also, Uncle Buck, The Great Outdoors. All have John Candy in them. Scrooged with Bill Murray is also one of my favorite movies. Hope these help!

I really enjoy all the Blue Collar Comedy Tour movies. :)

Monty Python is pretty funny, too!

'Johnny English' is a film sure to have everyone in stitches! :D

My two favorite comedy movies of all time are the Blues Brothers, great comedy with a great Motown soundtrack, and It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world, which features a lot of the funniest comedians then in 1963.

My two favoritefunny movies are "The Birdcage" with Robin Williams & Gene Hackman, and "Rat Race" - omg, that is one funny movie - I haven't laughed so hard in a long time.

Favorite TV comedies: Dick Van Dyke Show, Designing Women, I Love Lucy, Mary Tyler Moore Show, 3rd Rock from the Sun, King of the Hill, Mama's Family

Favorite Movie comedies: What's Up Doc?, A League of their Own, Tootsie, Arsenic and Old Lace, Thin Man series, Ninotchka, Best in Show

I also really like "Two and a Half Men" - it's rated TV-14 in the US and I can see why, but it rarely fails to make me laugh. (Charlie to a cosmetics salesperson, trying to buy a gift for his mom: "Do you have Chanel #666?)