And Holy Grail the top Brit flick

Annie Hall is the funniest movie script ever, according to the Writers Guild of America.

Woody Allen’s Oscar-winning screenplay topped a list of the 101 best-written comedy movies compiled by the organisation.

Allen also had six other scripts on the list: Sleeper, Bananas, Take the Money and Run, Broadway Danny Rose, Love and Death, and Manhattan.

The next most featured screenwriter was Harold Ramis with five: Groundhog Day, National Lampoon’s Animal House, Ghostbusters and Caddyshack and Stripes.

The top 20 is as follows:

1. Annie Hall (Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman, 1977)
2.Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder & I.A. L. Diamond, 1959)
3. Groundhog Day (Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis, 1993)
4. Airplane! (James Abrahams & David Zucker & Jerry Zucker, 1980)
5. Tootsie (Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal, 1982)
6. Young Frankenstein (Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks, 1974)
7. Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick and Peter George and Terry Southern, 1964)
8. Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Alan Uger, 1974)
9. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, 1975)
10. National Lampoon’s Animal House (Harold Ramis & Douglas Kenney & Chris Miller, 1978)
11. This is Spinal Tap (Christopher Guest & Michael McKean & Rob Reiner & Harry Shearer, 1984)
12. The Producers (Mel Brooks, 1967)
13. The Big Lebowski (Ethan Coen & Joel Coen, 1998)
14. Ghostbusters (Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, 1984)
15. When Harry Met Sally (Nora Ephron, 1989(
16. Bridesmaids (Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig, 2011)
17. Duck Soup Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, 1933)
18. There’s Something About Mary (John J. Strauss & Ed Decter and Peter Farrelly & Bobby Farrelly, 1998)
19. The Jerk (Steve Martin, Carl Gottlieb, Michael Elias, 1979)
20. A Fish Called Wanda (John Cleese, 1988)

Seven British scriptss made the top 101,

9. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, 1975)
20. A Fish Called Wanda (John Cleese, 1988)
26. Monty Python’s Life Of Brian (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, 1979)
29. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Peter Baynham & Dan Maze, 2006)
50. Shaun of the Dead (Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright, 2004 )
53. Four Weddings and a Funeral (Richard Curtis, 1994)
101. Shakespeare in Love (Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard,1988)

Published: 13 Nov 2015