Rich Eisen reveals his ten favorite comedy movies from the 1980s including ‘Caddyshack,’ ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High,’ ‘Trading Places,’ and others.
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List is god awful. Fketch, Fas Times etc are dogshit. No Ghostbusters, Revenge of the Nerds, Great Outdoors, Uncle Buck, Stripes?
Id take Major League or Back to the Future over a majority of that list
Norberg: Frank….Frank!!
Frank: What is it Norberg? What are you trying to say?
Norberg: Heroin….heroin!!
Frank: Well, I'll see what I can do, but that might take some time…
Thank god Fletch made the list….totally an underrated and forgotten bit of brilliance.
I'm assuming The Princess Bride was removed as it could be considered fantasy and comedy? Because it's easily better than almost any of the movies on the list.
I clicked the link to see if Porky's is on the list plain and simple
Great list. Hard to argue all low stripes is up there in my opinion. But yeah, these are all great movies. The amazing thing about Caddyshack is, as I realized when someone posted a video on YouTube of all of Rodney Dangerfield’s scenes in Caddyshack. it was only around 10 1/2 minutes. It sure seemed like more than that. But still a great performance.
Planes Trains and Automobiles…
So glad airplane isn't on here
Id take space balls over fast times
Id put Uncle buck in there
No space balls?
The top 3 is good but Airplane, Coming to America, Ghostbusters, and Stripes off the list is criminal.
You forgot Forrest Whittaker in Fast times as well. Great movie
Hispanic waiter: Muchas gracious, señior
Fletch: Sierra del Fuego
Better Off Dead
Just to add a few I did not see in the comments:
History of The World
Major League
Sixteen Candles
Weird Science
Cheech n Chong Still Smoking
Last American Virgin
Revenge of the Nerds!
"Midnight Run" is my #1 Rich. The relationship and banter between DeNiro and Grodin is GOLD, JERRY, GOLD! "Are you doing the Litmus Cofiguration?"
Totally agree with your top pick, but as someone who saw these movies when they came out, I have to have Animal House and Stripes on this list.
No Jerk? List fail
Weekend at Brenies, breakfast club, national lampoon's Christmas vacation??
VACATION!!!
Any John Candy movie?
’80s* …apostrophes are for contractions & possession; you are contracting the 19 off of 1980s where the ‘s’ is just plural for each year in the decade.
i would replace Back To School with Easy Money
Police Academy would be high on mine. A personal favorite
John Candy was from SCTV not SNL.
I will pardon certain things that maybe aren't direcly comedies – Back to the Future, Breakfast Club and many more that are dramadies or action ,etc, but Vacation, Ferris Bueller – better than most of the list.
My off the cuff Top 10 and 2nd Top 10, 1st Top 10 Grouped by personnel, not ranking
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
National Lampoon's Vacation
Fletch
Caddyshack
Stripes
Ghostbusters
Airplane
Top Secret
The Naked Gun
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
2nd 10
Bachelor Party
Major League
Monty Python and the Meaning of Life
The Blues Brothers
Johnny Dangerously
A Fish Called Wanda
Weekend at Bernie's
Mel Brooks History of the World Part 1
National Lampoon's European Vacation
Coming to America
I had to go watch Midnight Run after seeing thus. Great movie
No Ferris Bueller?
I love Axel Foley, but I would be able to make an argument for Harlem Nights being his best movie. Love your list sir, Go Blue.
"Nothing but Trouble" ? Chevy, Akryoid, Candy, Demi, Tupac lol
Out of respect for you Rich I watched Mr. Mom for the 1st time and it was not comical at all. Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a classic & for you not to have it in the top 10 or even an honorable mention is ludicrous at best.
Great list. There are a lot of movies I would have put on it. The Princess Bride; Planes, Trains, and Automobiles; Stripes; See No Evil Hear No Evil; The Three Amigos; Raising Arizona; Spies Like Us; Spinal Tap. But every list will miss something.
"I have the power!!" Thanx for putting He-Man in the intro. 😅
Omitting The Jerk and Coming to America is criminal
Where is Ghostbusters, Major League, Spaceballs, Princess Bride, Brewsters Millions? That's my personal top 5 and none made your list
The Burbs is one of the most underrated 80's comedies, love that movie, Sixteen Candles, Weird Science?. The 80's might have been the best decade for comedies.
Leaving off "Animal House" and "Airplane" is a crime against humanity.
What no National Lampoon Vacation. ??
Yes Rich agree do top 10
90’s Comedy and Top 10 all time Action Movies
“Ruthless People” definitely deserves to be on any top comedy list of 80s. Another Judge Reinhold movie.
Raising Arizona, Spinal Tap, Repo Man and Airplane. Thank you for including Fast Times. Naked Gun and Caddy Shack can drop off. When Harry Met Sally and Say Anything are two best rom-coms.
No This is Spinal Tap! makes this list erroneous
Sports talk show and you don’t include bull Durham? Rich must be breathing out of the wrong eyelid again..
Not having Spaceballs on this list is a travesty
Man, 80s was the golden age of comedies, wasn’t it? There are a lot of movies that you can’t believe aren’t in the top 10. Simply too many great comedies.
Great list. Missed a few I would’ve expected but biggest surprise was no Major League. Best baseball comedy ever.