Following up on the SciFi Movie Canon meme, here's the list of The 50 Most Significant Comedy Films of All Time, as selected by Bob McCabe in The Rough Guide to Comedy Movies. Ones I've seen in bold, DVDs I own signified with an asterix.

• Airplane!
• All About Eve
• Amelie*
• Annie Hall
• The Apartment
• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
• Blazing Saddles
• Bringing Up Baby
• Broadcast News
• Caddyshack*
• Le diner de con
• Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
• Duck Soup*
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off*
• Four Weddings and a Funeral
• The General
• Ghostbusters
• The Gold Rush
• Good Morning Vietnam
• The Graduate
• Groundhog Day
• A Hard Day's Night
• His Girl Friday
• Kind Hearts and Coronets
• The Lady Killers*
• Local Hero
• Manhattan
• M*A*S*H
• Monty Python's Life of Brian
• National Lampoon's Animal House
• The Odd Couple
• The Producers
• Raising Arizona*
• Roxanne
• Rushmore*
• Shaun of the Dead
• A Shot in the Dark
• Some Like it Hot
• Strictly Ballroom*
• Sullivan's Travels
• There's Something About Mary
• This is Spinal Tap*
• To Be or Not to Be
• Tootsie
• Toy Story
• Les vacances de M. Hulot
• When Harry Met Sally...
• Withnail and I

Weird -- 34 of 50, the exact same number as the SciFi movie canon. Have I seen 68% of all significant movies?

(via Whatever)