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Comedy Movies of 1977

Oh, God!

Adapted by Larry Gelbart from the novel by Avery Corman, the film stars John Denver as Jerry Landers, the assistant manager of a grocery store who is chosen by God ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

Smokey and the Bandit

"Smokey," aka Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Jackie Gleason), is the prospective father-in-law of unwilling bride Carrie (Sally Field). The Bandit (Burt Reynolds), a maverick racecar driver, makes an 80,000-dollar bet ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

Which Way Is Up?

This Americanized remake of Lina Wertmuller's The Seduction ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

Annie Hall

Woody Allen's romantic comedy of the Me Decade follows the up and down relationship of two mismatched New York neurotics. Jewish comedy writer Alvy Singer (Allen) ponders the modern quest for love and his past romance with tightly-wound WASP ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

Fun with Dick and Jane

Dick Harper (George Segal) and his wife Jane (Jane Fonda) have always lived way beyond their means. Just because Dick has ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

The World's Greatest Lover

After writing, directing, and starring in The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, Gene Wilder added the producer's hat to his three-headed beast in The World's Greatest Lover. Wilder plays Rudy Valentine, a ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

Mr. Billion

An Italian mechanic (Terence Hill) finds that he has inherited a billion-dollar company from his dead uncle, but he needs to ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

Saturday Night Live: Season 03

[ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

A Little Night Music

Beginning its several incarnations as an Ingmar Bergman film named Smiles of a Summer Night, the story was adapted by composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim into a successful Broadway musical directed by Harold ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

Slap Shot

Paul Newman plays Reggie Dunlop, the coach of a pathetic ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

The Goodbye Girl

Marsha Mason is known as "The Goodbye Girl" because of all the ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

M*A*S*H: Season 06

Season six of M*A*S*H was noteworthy for yet another defection from its regular-cast ranks. Long dissatisfied with the artistic limitations of the role of obnoxious Major Frank Burns, actor Larry Linville followed ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

What's Happening!!: Season 02

The second-season opener of What's Happening focuses on the series' most popular character, corpulent high schooler Freddie "Rerun" Tubbs (Fred Berry), who astonishes his pals Raj ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

The Kentucky Fried Movie

Comedy writers David and Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams of Airplane and The Naked Gun fame got their start at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, when they formed a theatrical group known as The Kentucky Fried Theater. The Kentucky ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

Welcome Back, Kotter: Season 03

As Season Three of Welcome Back, Kotter gets under way, Julie Kotter (Marcia Strassman), the wife of Buchanan High School's funniest teacher Gabe Kotter (Gabriel Kaplan), gives birth to twin daughters. Before long, the ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo

It's love at first spark plug for Herbie, the spunky Disney Volkswagen, in Herbie Goes To Monte Carlo. Herbie reunites with Jim Douglas (Dean Jones), his driver from the original The Love Bug, as they ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

That Obscure Object of Desire

Adapted from Pierre Louys' 1898 novel La Femme et le Pantin, That Obscure Object of Desire is the 30th and final film from the great Luis Buņuel. ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

Grand Theft Auto

In exchange for being allowed to make his directorial debut in Grand Theft Auto, Ron Howard agreed to take no salary as a director, merely as star and co-screenwriter (with his dad Rance). The plot finds Sam Freeman (Howard) eloping ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

Laverne & Shirley: Season 02

Ending its first season as America's second most popular TV series (its "inspiration," Happy Days, was the first), Laverne & Shirley held fast to the second-place slot throughout season two. ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

Three's Company: Season 01

Based on the British sitcom Man About the House, Three's Company was given a ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

Three's Company: Season 02

Having quickly climbed to 11th place during its six-week tryout in the spring of 1977, Three's Company was assured a full-season run ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

Jabberwocky

An innocent country farmer experiences a number of improbable misadventures that culminate in a battle against the titular beast in this broadly comic fantasy. ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training

The misfit kiddie baseball team from the first film is given the opportunity to ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

Andy Warhol's Bad

The final film released under the Andy Warhol moniker (which Warhol executive produced) is a much more polished affair than Flesh, Trash or Heat, but preserves the ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

Mimino

A much beloved comedy, Mimino tells the story of a Soviet Georgian helicopter pilot who is called Mimino (Vakhtang Kikabidze), which means "falcon" in that language. ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

The Love Boat: Season 01

[ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

A Piece of the Action

Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier, co-stars of the comic capers Uptown Saturday ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

Desperate Living

Divine was touring as a cabaret singer when director John Waters made this comedy of the grotesque, but he filled ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

The Jeffersons: Season 04

Even though its ratings had dropped precipitously since its January 1975 debut, The Jeffersons remained on the CBS prime time schedule during the 1977-1978 season, if for no ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

Abigail's Party

Abigail's Party originally aired as part of the BBC's influential Play for Today series. Writer/director Mike Leigh was responsible for several productions for the series, as ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

Are You Being Served?: The Movie

Are You Being Served? was a popular British TV sitcom all about the balmy employees of a department store clothing ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

Can I Do It... Till I Need Glasses?

Sex is the basis for this randy revue which features jokes, bedroom vignettes, and courtroom scenes. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

The Charge of the Model-T's

A WW I German spy attempts to drive an artillery-adorned automobile into the States in this ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

Petey Wheatstraw

In this slapstick blaxploitation feature, Petey Wheatstraw (Rudy Ray Moore, aka "Mr. ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

Dios los Cria

Two avaricious buddies endeavor to swindle a lovely seņorita out of her inheritance. But the sting backfires when the lady proves ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

Fat Albert's Halloween Special

Rudy and his new pal Devray get the fright of their lives while playing Halloween pranks on the elderly as the rest of the kids set their sights on Searchlight Johnson and Mudfoot Brown. Little do the kids realize that the little old lady who ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

The Troupe

The time is just after the 1967 Six-day War when a group of Israeli soldiers travel around the country entertaining their fellow servicemen and women in ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

The Van

A teenager tries to win the girl of his dreams with the hottest van in town in this '70s sex comedy. Bobby (Stuart ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West

This comical western chronicles the silly adventures of a bumbling wagonmaster and his clutzy assistant as they attempt to take seven passengers across the prairie. Among the passengers are two wealthy Bostonians, an aspiring ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

George Carlin: On Location with George Carlin

Appearances on network television in the 1960s led ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

The Strange Case of the End of Civilization As We Know it

John Cleese co-wrote and stars in this satiric comedy as the less-than-spectacular progeny of the world's greatest detective. A mysterious super-villain announces across the globe that the world will come to an ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

Berlinguer Ti Voglio Bene

[ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

Good Times: Season 05

Just as season four of Good Times was marked by ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

The Richard Pryor Show [TV Series]

[ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

Soap: Season 01

The endless intrigues (sexual and otherwise) involving the Campbells and the Tates are ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

Lupin the 3rd: TV 2 [Anime Series]

Three separate series with the same characters and premise have ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

Are You Being Served?: Season 05

[ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

The Muppet Show: Season 02

[ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

On Location with Frank Gorshin

Charismatic stage and screen actor Frank Gorshin takes the stage of San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel for a special HBO presentation that finds the ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

On Location with Phyllis Diller

HBO films Phyllis Diller in a live stand-up performance - ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

On Location with Totie Fields

Famed comedienne Tootie Fields returns to the stage for a special HBO presentation in which she offers a good-humored look at her ... [ Comedy movie - 1977 ]

Mind Your Language [TV Series]

[ Comedy movie - 1977 ]


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