I'm Depressed.Can you recommend a good comedy DVD to cheer me up (1 Viewer)

[Scott Shanks]

It's A Wonderful Life
and
A Fish Called Wanda

 

[Charles H]

THE OFFICE, an Emmy award winning BBC comedy series that is the first--and final--word ON depression. Good comedy is about stepping up to the problem, not escaping from it.

 

[BrionL]

How about This is Spinal Tap. One of the funniest movies I've ever seen.

Also, if you like BBC stuff check out a comedy series called Bottom. It is one of the funniest UK comedy series I've ever seen. Another good BBC series that Charles H brought up is The Office.

Brion

 

[Jack Theakston]

I would definitely recommend some good adventure films.

Perhaps the best feel-good movie of the silent era is THE MARK OF ZORRO, or really any Douglas Fairbanks movie.

You also can't go wrong with Harold Lloyd or Buster Keaton (or even early Chaplin before he started mixing in melodrama).

Stan and Ollie also cure the blues.

 

[Dom]

I'd rent Absolutely Fabulous..darn funny.

Also, Dame Edna puts me in stiches as well.


Don't go on prozak now...your weenie won't like it..hehe

 

[Werner_R]

Blackadder works every time, just like Monty Python and Bottom, the BBC just has the funniest stuff in my opinion...

 

[Jeffrey]

Hey Mike,

As Agent Cooper on Twin Peaks would say, "Chin up!"

I can relate to your situation big time....I thought I was immune to the blues and found out otherwise last year. Without getting into details, thanks to wonderful friends, family, spirituality and help, I'm laughing and smiling again...and on your way back to doing the same, I highly recommend these cinematic joy inducers:

A Hard Day's Night
The Party (classic Peter Sellers movie--"num-num")
Box Of Moonlight (obscure Sam Rockwell movie well worth hunting up)
Singing in the Rain
American Graffiti
SCTV Network 90-Volume 1 (You're close to my age, so I know you'll adore this; hardest I've laughed in ages...It was like going back to my late teens)
Toy Story
Dr. Strangelove

Good luck on your journey,

Jeffrey

 

[Eric F]

I'll second What About Bob?

Baby steps to the door. Baby steps to the hall. Baby steps to the elevator...Baby steps to the videostore...

 

[Rob P S]

Revenge of the Nerds
Weekend at Bernie's
A Christmas Story
Ghostbusters
Billy Madison
Happy Gilmore
The Waterboy
Airheads
Blazing Saddles
Airplane!

 

[Mark Cappelletty]

The SCTV box set. Office Space and Old School are good too.

 

[Bobby Garfield]

When I was going through a hard time last year, Rat Race was a Godsend. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time.

 

[DougFND]

Meet the Parents. Makes me laugh every time. Funniest movie I've seen in many years.

No, that's not to say it's the funniest movie in years period, just the funniest that I've seen.

 

[Tim Glover]

National Lampoons' Vacation
Airplane
Trading Places
Animal House

on August 10, 2004 one of the funniest event films ever made is being released. Bill Cosby Himself

Maybe the funniest thing I've ever seen.

Hope things are working out for you Mike.

 

[Tim Ke]

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

 

[Tim_C]

The Producers - Mel Brooks' best film, in my opinion.
A Night at the Opera
Dr. Strangelove
Singin' in the Rain - as others mentioned, it's just a very happy film
Young Frankenstein
Happy Gilmore - More of a "turn your brain off" type of film, but I'll admit I was laughing quite hard during several parts

 

[Zen Butler]

"In my office, you can call me Leo, in my home...... you call me Dr. Marvin"

I must add the very funny
Midnight Run , great dialog

 

[Jack Briggs]

Persona, by Bergman. For when you feel better, of course.

 

[Steve Schaffer]

One, Two, Three-- 1961 Jimmy Cagney comedy directed by Billy Wilder. Cagney is a Coca Cola exec. stationned in West Berlin at the hieght of the cold war when his bosse's daughter visits from Atlanta and gets romantically embroiled with an East German red.

The Great Race-- Epic Blake Edwards comedy about a 1907ish round the world auto race with Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon and Peter Falk. Lemmon and Falk are priceless as the Snidely Whiplash villain and his hapless assistant.

 

[Larry P]

SCARY MOVIE 3. It hits all the marks that the original Naked Gun hit, or at least came close, IMO. Funny as hell, but very cheerful and emotionally honest, and never mean spirited.

 

[Darren Haycock]

On a serious note, I know depression can be hard. I've only had it mildly at times, and it was physically painful in a way. Best of luck to get outta there, it's not a fun place to be.

I recently had a birthday and got Wayne's World as a present. It's as funny as I remember it. As a Mike Myers fan, I'd also recommend the Austin Powers Trilogy and So I Married an Axe Murderer.

Good luck!