Comedy Movies of 1976
Murder by Death
As penned by Neil Simon, this satire of movie mysteries is set in motion when several prominent detectives are invited to the mansion of the reclusive Lionel Twain (Truman Capote). In ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
Harry and Walter Go to New York
Harry and Walter Go to New York was born of the theory that, the more stars and money that you throw into a film, the better the film will be. The theory has seldom been proven true, and it ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
Silver Streak
While taking a train trip from L.A. to Chicago, mild-mannered George Caldwell (Gene Wilder) makes the ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
Swashbuckler
A latter-day attempt to update the swordplay success of Errol Flynn movies, this film is part burlesque, part homage to old-fashioned pirate films. James Earl ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
Mother, Jugs & Speed
In this frantic black comedy, Harry Fishbine (Allen Garfield) is the proprietor of the F&B Ambulance Service, a low-budget free-lance rescue service which is ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
No Deposit, No Return
In this Disney comedy, a pair of spoiled kids, bored by their filthy rich grandfather, decide they'd rather be with their mom who is in Hong Kong. In order to get her attention, ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood
This spoof makes fun of a certain famous German shepherd movie star from the 1920s. The mayhem ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
The Holy Year
In this caper comedy, Jean Gabin plays Lambert, an escaped convict in search ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
Freaky Friday
Prolific television director Gary Nelson made the Walt Disney live-action comedy Freaky Friday, based on the novel by Mary Rodgers. Barbara Harris stars as suburban housewife Ellen Andrews, the wife of Bill (John ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
Saturday Night Live: Season 02
[ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
The Big Bus
The Big Bus is set aboard a nonstop, nuclear-powered luxury bus commandeered by Joseph Bologna. Naturally, Bologna is a tortured hero with a deep dark secret (he keeps insisting he didn't eat all those passengers on his last ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Most Inspector Clouseau fans regard The Pink Panther Strikes Again as the best of the clumsy Parisian detective's "comeback" films of the 1970s. Driven insane by the stupidities of Clouseau (Peter ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
The Bad News Bears
The success this underdog comedy from director Michael Ritchie almost single-handedly spawned the kids' sports film boom of the 1980s and '90s. When beer-breathed ex-minor-league ball player and professional pool cleaner Morris Buttermaker ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
The Ritz
With The Ritz, Terrence McNally's hit Broadway play of the same ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
The Great Smokey Roadblock
Not everything Henry Fonda did was Grapes of Wrath or Mister Roberts. In the enjoyable low-budget "road" flick The Great Smokey Roadblock, Fonda plays a worn-out trucker named Elegant John. Anxious to make one last, ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
Sex on the Run
In a way, the title of Some Like It Cool was a piquant comment on the career of star Tony Curtis, whose ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
The Con Artists
Sergio Corbucci directs the 1976 caper Il Grande Bluff, an Italian crime comedy inspired by he Sting, which has been released under several different titles. Bang (Anthony Quinn) gets out of prison and joins with young protege Félix (Adriano ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
M*A*S*H: Season 05
Although M*A*S*H entered its fifth season with the cast from season four intact--including relative newcomers Mike Farrell as B.J. Hunnicut and ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
What's Happening!!: Season 01
The urban sitcom What's Happening!! was introduced in August of 1976, with a four-episode trial run. In the opener "The Runaway," Raj Thomas (Ernest Thomas) hires a babysitter for his kid sister Dee (Danielle ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
The Shaggy D.A.
Robert Stevenson, Walt Disney Productions' house director, cobbled together his 19th family film for the organization with this slapstick sequel to the Disney comedy The Shaggy Dog (produced 17 years after the fact). Dean Jones plays Wilby ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
Gus
In this Disney film, Hank Cooper (Ed Asner) the owner of a ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
Cannonball
Paul Bartel rips off his own Death Race 2000 in this mindless car-crash saga, ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
Happy Days: Season 03
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Hawmps!
Joe Camp, the writer and director of Benji, tried his hand with another breed of animal in this comedy. A U.S. Cavalry unit in Texas is having a hard time dealing with horses who aren't acclimated to the hot, dry weather, so it becomes the ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
Maîtresse
For a change, the character portrayed by Gérard Depardieu in Maîtresse is relatively normal; it is the world around him which has gone slightly mad. Looking for a measure of affection and companionship, Olivier (Depardieu) ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
Laverne & Shirley: Season 01
Exploiting the overwhelmingly positive audience response to the 1975 Happy Days episode in which Richie (Ron Howard) and Potsie (Anson Williams) found themselves on a riotous date with brash but lovable "older women" ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
The Gumball Rally
For better or worse, The Gumball Rally was the catalyst for ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
The Monkey Hustle
An inner-city Chicago community comes together to save their neighborhood from destruction in this '70s ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
Black and White in Color
The inaugural film effort of French director Jean-Jacques Annaud, Black and White in Color is set during World War I. Upon the outbreak of hostilities, a French trading post in West Central Africa finds itself at odds with ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
Hollywood Boulevard
Allan Arkush and Joe Dante co-directed this campy spoof of exploitation films -- Roger Corman's schlock factory in particular. Candice Rialson ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
Car Wash
Michael Schultz directed this kinetic, hyperventilating ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
The Jeffersons: Season 03
Still in its regular Saturday-night time slot, The Jeffersons entered its third season on CBS. Although the cast had not undergone any radical changes since season two, there were a few differences. For one, Marla Gibbs, who'd ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
Chesty Anderson - U.S. Navy
Sequel to the 1970 Chesty Anderson sex comedy by the same director, this lame story with jokes to match focuses on the aptly-named Chesty (Shari Eubank), still a WAVE in the U.S. Navy, but ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
Sanford and Son: Season 06
Season six of Sanford and Son was launched on September 24, 1976, with the series' only two-part episode -- and also one of its funniest -- "The Hawaiian Connection," largely filmed on ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
Don's Party
Early in his career, Australian director Bruce Beresford helmed Don's Party, which closely mirrors Shampoo in its basic premise and its edgy correlations between sex and politics. One pivotal election night, Don, played by John ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
Love by Appointment
Ernest Borgnine and Robert Alda are the sole "name" actors in the Italian Love by Appointment. Ernie and Bob play a couple of oddball American businessmen who begin frequenting a busy suburban brothel. Spending ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
Nuts in May
Keith (Roger Sloman) and Candice Marie (Alison Steadman) take a trip to a campsite in the English ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
L'Infermiera
In this Italian sex comedy, a wealthy, widowed count has a heart attack and must have bed rest and no stress to recover. His avaricious relatives would rather see him dead. Knowing that he is a lusty ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
Superbug Super Agent
A blatant knock-off of Disney's The Love Bug, this German ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
El Guia De Turistas
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The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
The third and final TV-movie in the "Joshua Cabe" saga, this ABC effort stars John McIntire as rascally rancher-turned-sheriff Joshua Cabe, a role played by Buddy Ebsen in the original The Daughters of Joshua Cabe) and by Dan Dailey in ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
The Taming of the Shrew
This made-for-television adaptation of the American Conservatory Theater of San Francisco's acclaimed production of William Shakespeare's ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
Good Times: Season 04
Season four of Good Times marked the first of the series' significant cast changes -- or, to be more precise, cast deletions. Long disenchanted with the way in which the series had devolved from the ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
El Miedo no Anda en Burro
A greedy family schemes to find a means of wrestling a hearty inheritance from the ailing family matriarch, only to discover that ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
Are You Being Served?: Season 04
[ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
Lovely Troubles
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The Muppet Show: Season 01
[ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
On Location With Pat Cooper
Italian-American standup comic Pat Cooper -- best known for the two popularly acclaimed comedy LPs Spaghetti ... [ Comedy movie - 1976 ]
