What's the best smart comedy film you've seen?

I really like “The 40 year old virgin”. Perhaps because it deals with a human kind of issue that many can relate to and yet with great deal of maturity and humour without banalizing or petronizing.

Grumpy Old Men
Waking Ned Devine
Eagle vs. Shark
The Big Lebowski
Clerks
Dogma
Secondhand Lions
Office Space
Raising Arizona

Oh, d00d. You want Christopher Guest, then. All but his last mockumentary had me rolling.

This Is Spinal Tap (thought he only acted in this one)
The Princess Bride (ditto)
Waiting For Guffman
Best In Show
A Mighty Wind

Anything Woody Allen has done.

“Sleeper” is on the top of my list followed with “What’s Up, Tiger Lily?”

I really enjoyed Ghost Town. I’m thoroughly convinced that Ricky Gervais is the funniest man on the planet, and he does it all without dick jokes or the stupid humor that Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler, Jim Carrey etc., etc. use.

@aprilsimnel – Yes, all those movies with Christopher Guest are great!!

My second vote is for The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and no, not just because Jeff Goldblum is in it.

The Life Aquatic is good.

Wes Anderson’s movies inn general might be a good choice. I personally love The Royal Tenenbaums but they’re all well done.

Every movie that W.C. Fields ever made, without exception.
Duck Soup
A Night At The Opera
The Odd Couple

Yes, Duck Soup! Marx Brothers all the way.

By far the best smart comedy is Being There.

Also:
The Twelve Chairs
Young Frankenstein
The Princess Bride

See No Evil Hear No Evil

Odd,I loved “Being There” and I walked out on “The Twelve Chairs.” De gustibus…

@pdworkin I can actually see that. I wasn’t sure about The Twelve Chairs at first, it took a while to get into. It definitely wasn’t what I expected.

Sleeper, Banannas, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, The Producers, Animal House, Being There, Space Balls.

Many of my favorites have already been suggested. A few other classic black and white movies:
My Man Godfrey
Brining Up baby
Ninotchka
Some Like It Hot
The Lady Eve

More recent films:
Tropic Thunder
Thank You For Smoking
Oh Brother Where Art Thou
Groundhog Day
Dr Strangelove

@MagsRags thanks for reminding me about “Strangelove”. +GA

I agree with ChazMaz Sleeper is fantastic, but so are these:
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Modern Times
The Philadelphia Story
City Lights
Husbands and Wives
Bob Roberts
Before Sunrise
Live-In Maid
The Odd Couple
The Gold Rush
Sullivan’s Travels
The Lady Eve
Roger & Me
My Man Godfrey
Broadway Danny Rose
Midnight Run
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
The Great Dictator
Adam’s Rib
Local Hero
Ninotchka
Ball of Fire
My Favorite Year
The Bank Dick
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The Palm Beach Story
A Room with a View
The Shop Around the Corner

“Two for the Road” with Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney—a wonderful film about the ups and downs of love and marriage.

Time Bandits is not very well known but it stars some big names like John Cleese, David Rappaport, Ian Holm and Sean Connery, and it’s probably more age-appropriate than The 40 Year Old Virgin for a 14 year old. It’s a fun comedic-adventure story.

“The Shop Around the Corner” with James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan. It’s set at Christmas, but it’s worth watching year-round.

“The Aristocrats” is one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen, but it’s not a comedy. It’s a documentary about the history and telling of one joke. The joke itself can be outrageously stupid.

“Get Smart” was pretty cool..
“Live Free or Die Hard”

I’d say “The Invention Of Lying”.

can’t believe no one though this out yet….wet hot american summer

“Office Space” is hilarious, and “Take the Money and Run” is a great Woody Allen film.
“Funny People” is also a good one. Adam Sandler is in it, but he’s much more… mature, I guess, than his past roles.

9 to 5!

Ruthless People
Manhattan
Team America: World Police
Dr. Strangelove
Some Like It Hot
Juno

and for really smart comedy, the TV show SportsNight

Office Space is really one of the funniest movies I’ve seen in a long time. Also, Spinal Tap, like mentioned above also gets my vote.

The original Death At A Funeral

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

Airplane (When you watch it you realize how they took absolutely every opportunity for puns and joke, like no one had before)

The Jerk! It’s classic!