{"id":24776,"date":"2020-11-19T11:25:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T15:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=24776"},"modified":"2020-11-19T11:25:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T15:25:29","slug":"the-all-time-best-comedies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=24776","title":{"rendered":"The All-Time Best Comedies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2020\/z111920best_comedies.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"632\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Matthew Jackson at Mental Floss posted his choices for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/article\/635678\/best-comedy-movies-all-time\">The 30 Best Comedy Movies of All Time<\/a>.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a big fan of lists, more for the discussion they create than any definitive ranking.\u00a0 Jackson&#8217;s list is what resonates with him.\u00a0 My list, or your list would be different.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ve seen 23 of Jackson&#8217;s 30 listed films.\u00a0 My favorites from his top 30 are <em>Dr. Strangelove<\/em>, <em>Blazing Saddles<\/em> and <em>Young Frankenstein<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Movies that didn&#8217;t make his list but would have made mine include&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Arsenic and Old Lace<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Christmas Vacation<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>A Christmas Story<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Great Race<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that&#8217;s just off the top of my head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Jackson at Mental Floss posted his choices for The 30 Best Comedy Movies of All Time.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a big<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24777,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24776\/revisions\/24777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}