Comedy Movies of 1991
Shadows and Fog
Woody Allen's black-and-white curiosity piece is a mixture of influences -- from German silent film expressionism to Franz Kafka's nightmare worlds to the contemporary fables of Wim Wenders. ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Defending Your Life
Albert Brooks wrote, directed, and stars in this philosophical comedy about a man having a hard time making a case for himself in the ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
The Very Best of the Ed Sullivan Show, Vol. 2: The Greatest Entertainers
The Very Best of the Ed Sullivan Show, Vol. 2: The Greatest Entertainers is a collection of highlights from the popular television variety series. Performers include Richard Pryor, the Beatles, Tina ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Soapdish
In the comedic farce Soapdish, the behind-the-scenes lives of several soap opera actors are just as melodramatic as those of their television counterparts. Sally Field stars as Celeste Talbert, the star of a declining TV show. ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Other People's Money
Norman Jewison directed Alvin Sargent's adaptation of Jerry Sterner's off-Broadway satire of the excess of the '80s, with Danny DeVito as corporate raider Lawrence Garfield -- or, as he is better known, Larry the Liquidator. Larry spends his ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Hudson Hawk
Michael Lehmann directed this post-modernist hash of To Catch a ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Oscar
Sylvester Stallone gives comedy another try in this farce set in the 1930s. Angelo "Snaps" Provelone (Stallone) is the wealthy and powerful ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Another You
When con man Eddie Dash (Richard Pryor) is released from prison he's told to fulfill the required 100 hours of ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
The Marrying Man
Neil Simon forgoes his typical urban East Coast kvetchers and replaces them with sunny Californian kvetchers in The Marrying Man, a film ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Night on Earth
Jim Jarmusch's deadpan comedy-of-the-night is a ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
King Ralph
Sometimes a family title, among the nobility of England, goes to the "collateral" heirs -- people not in the direct line of decent, like cousins, great-nephews and the like. On rare occasions, these people are not even aware that ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
What About Bob?
In this comedy about a doctor-patient relationship pushed way beyond the office, Bill Murray plays Bob Wiley, a neurotic New Yorker struggling with a ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
The Addams Family
Inspired more by the 1960s TV series than by the original Charles ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
L.A. Story
Steve Martin wrote and stars in this look at the promise and dreamtime of Los Angeles culture. ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey find the two obtuse pals battling The Grim Reaper, God, robots, great philosophical questions, and girls ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Life Stinks
If a comedy is to be made from the plight of the homeless, who have to scrape through their days returning deposit bottles and cleaning car windshields to get their daily bread as the rich get richer and more heartless, ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Delirious
John Candy plays Jack Gable, a soap-opera writer who finds himself trapped inside his own television program with a magic typewriter in this toothless comedy. Jack finds himself embroiled in protecting his beloved Laura (Emma Samms), an actress ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
The Hard Way
Action film director John Badham bites the hand that feeds him in this action movie spoof that features ribbing of pretty-boy Hollywood action stars by Michael J. Fox and a parody of colorful, hair-trigger James Woods types by the man himself. ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
In Living Color: Season 02
The Wayans Brothers -- Keenen Ivory, Damon, Kim, and Shawn -- continue to dominate the proceedings on the cutting-edge comedy variety series In Living Color as the show begins its second season on Fox. Still, the ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Hot Shots!
From director Jim Abrahams, one of the minds behind the Airplane! and Naked Gun films, comes another ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Backfield in Motion
Roseanne Arnold, her then-husband Tom Arnold and Shelley Duvall teamed up to produce the made-for-TV Backfield in Motion. Roseanne plays a widowed real-estate agent who lives with her teenaged ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
The Dark Backward
Writer/director Adam Rifkin's The Dark Backward is set in a dark, grimy, garbage-strewn urban netherworld, where a company named "Blump's" apparently owns everything. Marty Malt (Judd Nelson of The Breakfast Club) is an ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Doc Hollywood
A big city doctor is stranded in a small rural town, where he finds love, professional challenges, and a pet pig, in this comedy. ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Drop Dead Fred
Phoebe Cates stars in this bizarre comedy that wants to be the kind of stylish comic fable the ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear
Leslie Nielsen returns as the intrepid (and accident-prone) Lt. Frank Drebin in Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear, "un film de David Zucker." This second feature film from the "Police ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
The Golden Girls: Season 07
With series star Bea Arthur announcing that she did not wish to continue playing fiftysomething teacher Dorothy Zbornak any ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Necessary Roughness
After a recruitment scandal, a struggling college football team is forced to turn to a rag-tag group ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Father of the Bride
Steve Martin stars in this remake of the 1950 Vincente Minnelli classic as ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Monster in a Box
Gray's third performance film is a document of his experiences as a procrastinating novelist; the title refers to Gray's ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Nothing But Trouble
Actor Dan Aykroyd made his directorial debut with this bizarre comic fantasy. Financier Chris Thorne (Chevy Chase) hopes to impress beautiful Diane Lightson (Demi Moore), so he invites her along for a trip to Atlantic City, ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
The Object of Beauty
Michael Lindsay-Hogg wrote and directed this cool and sleek comedy about a seemingly perfect combination -- an American couple staying at a chic London hotel whose pride doesn't permit them to recognize that they are ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Switch
Ellen Barkin stars in this mystical comedy about a ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Mortuary Academy
Sam Grimm (Perry Lang) and his brother Max (Christopher Atkins) stand to inherit the mortuary academy that bears their family name in this black comedy. The two ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
The Super
Joe Pesci stars as Louie Kritski, a heartless landlord who has been so negligent in keeping up his ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Wisecracks
This concert and interview documentary features the racy wit of Canada and the U.S.'s most popular female comedians, including Jenny Jones, Whoopi Goldberg, Phyllis Diller, Ellen DeGeneres, and ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Baby of the Bride
This made-for-TV domestic drama is a follow-up to 1990's Children of the Bride. Rue McClanahan plays a ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Suburban Commando
A vehicle for popular wrestling celebrity Hulk Hogan, Suburban Commando is an inoffensive science-fiction fantasy. Hogan plays Shep Ramsey, a ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Career Opportunities
John Hughes strip-mines familiar terrain -- in this case his ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Curly Sue
John Hughes dishes out the sentiment by the ladle-full in Curly Sue. The film stars James Belushi as Bill Dancer, a down-on-his-luck drifter ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Motorama
This black comedy offers a rather twisted version of the classic road movie, as it tells the story of a ten-year-old boy who is determined to win the "Motorama" road game, a promotional ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Roseanne: Season 04
Season four of Roseanne starts with the opening up of Lanford Custom Cycle, Dan's (John Goodman) new bike shop, while ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Christina Applegate stars in this convoluted comedy that comes across as a teen fantasy combination of Home Alone and Working Girl. The premise is all in the title -- when the mother (Concetta Tomei) of a sniveling group of surly ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Married... With Children: Season 06
Season six is "the year of the babies" on Married...With Children. To accommodate the real-life pregnancy of series star Katey Sagal ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
The Shaolin Idiot
When an incompetent cop continually fails to clean up the streets, it takes a little assistance from ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Dutch
John Hughes re-works his already over-used formulas from Planes, Trains, and ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Evil Spirits
An interesting bit of casting enlivens this psycho-thriller set in a California boarding house run by eccentric Karen Black with ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Mystery Date
In this black teen comedy, a young man is thrilled that his kindly older brother ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Earth Angel
The made-for-TV Earth Angel stars Cathy Bodewell as Angela, a prom queen who dies in 1962. Unfortunately, Angela has not always lived up to her name, and her entry into ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
God of Gamblers II
At one time there was a special genre of Hong Kong entertainment films which focused on gamblers and their like. In 1989, that genre was decisively revived thanks to the very successful release God of Gamblers. In ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Sweet Talker
In Sweet Talker, an amiable, charming ex-convict (Bryan Brown) ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Strictly Business
In this lively comedy, an African American yuppie rethinks life on the corporate ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Full House: Season 05
The recurring role of 14-year-old Kimmy Gibbler graduates to co-star status as actress Andrea Barber is finally billed among the regulars at the beginning of each ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Home Improvement: Season 01
The first season of Home Improvement drew heavily upon the standup comedy routines of series co-creator Tim Allen, herein cast as Tim Taylor, star of the Detroit cable-TV series "Tool Time" -- sort of a ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
The Cosby Show: Season 08
The eighth and final season of The Cosby Show opens with a shocker for obstetrician Cliff Huxtable (Bill Cosby) and his attorney wife, Clair (Phylicia Rashad). It seems that the couple's ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
House Party 2
Robin Harris, Christopher Reid's foul-mouthed and irascible father from the original House Party film, died in the interim, but he has a university named after him in this follow-the-dots sequel. Kid (Christopher Reid) has ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Season 02
West Philly teenager Will Smith (played by rap star Will Smith) enters his second year as permanent house guest in the magnificent California mansion of ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Touch and Go
After making a name for himself with the gritty action spectacular City on Fire, Ringo Lam returns to directing comedies with his film featuring Sammo ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Kathy & Mo Show: Parallel Lives
Kathy Najimy and Mo Gaffney bring their award-winning off-Broadway revue to the screen in this video adaptation. The Kathy and Mo Show: Parallel Lives was written by its stars, Najimy and Gaffney; they play a ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
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The People Under the Stairs
Wes Craven wrote and directed this surrealistic horror-comedy, which was inspired by a true story of parents keeping their children locked in a basement for years. Fool (Brandon Adams), an African-American teen, ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Bingo
A boy saves and befriends a mangy ex-circus dog and adopts him as a pet--without his father's knowledge. As the family moves across ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Ernest Scared Stupid
Ernest (Jim Varney) gets into deep trouble when he decides to ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Highway 61
Highway 61 is an offbeat, comedic road movie about a small-town Canadian barber (Don McKellar) who finds a dead body. When a woman ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Talkin' Dirty After Dark
Starring Martin Lawrence and including Mark Curry, Tone Loc, Inez Edwards, John ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Delicatessen
A post-apocalyptic future becomes the setting for pitch black humor in ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Slacker
One of the key American independent films of the 1990s, Richard Linklater's feature debut is an audacious look ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Daiyukai
Kihachi Okamoto directs his 37th film with this sweet-natured satire about bungling cops and tax scams. The story opens ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Bikini Summer
When some land developers threaten to get their hands on the public California beach, a couple of dudes and a few scantily-clad ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
GWAR: Live from Antarctica
Gwar is a rock band whose members dress up in elaborate monster costumes and stage mock battles complete with spewing ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Iceman Cometh
In this adventure story with a comic touch from Hong Kong, Ching ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Killer Tomatoes Eat France!
The dorky low-budget "Killer Tomatoes" series closed with this fourth chapter -- about one chapter too late. ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Livin' Large
After getting his big break, an aspiring TV reporter (Terrence 'T.C.' Carson) finds that ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Otaku No Video
This comedy is a parody of Japanese animated films. Told in a faux-documentary fashion, a college student named Kobu catches up with Tanaka, a high ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
This filmed version of Lily Tomlin's successful one-woman performance piece is sometimes classified as a ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Ski School
In this adolescent comedy, a group of ski instructors spend their time sliding on the slopes, drinking too much, and trying to beat a rival ski school during the annual spring festival. The movie was filmed on ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Spies, Lies and Naked Thighs
In this lively made-for-TV espionage comedy, an off-the-wall CIA agent involves an ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Bloodsucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh
This daffy, hit-and-miss gore comedy was apparently conceived as a parody of Herschell Gordon Lewis' splatter landmark Blood Feast, which, frankly, represents too easy a target. There are no actual Pharaohs ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
NBA: Comic Relief - The Great Blooper Caper
An unusual sports event takes place when a new commissioner decrees that basketball will no longer be a serious sport -- and some of the greatest players in the NBA compete against an All-Star team of ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Las Travesuras Del Superchido
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Red
Movie tough-guy Lawrence Tierney stars in this film version of the famous Red Tapes. A young prankster repeatedly telephones a local bar where Red is the bartender. He asks to speak to such non-existent people as "Ben Dover", "Stu Pidd," ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Tribulation 99 - Alien Anomalies Under America
Tribulation 99 is a satirical pastiche of stock footage, propaganda films and newsreels, culled from archives all over Canada. The clips are arranged in a sort of continuity to "prove" ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Burn Up! [Anime OVA]
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Sgt. Kabukiman, N.Y.P.D.
This comical sci-fi cop adventure is set in the future and follows ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Sólo Con Tu Pareja
Tomas is a very busy fellow and is about to grow much, much busier. He has his current girlfriend in bed in one ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Urusei Yatsura Movie 6: Always My Darling
Always My Darling is the sixth feature-length entry in the Japanese anime series Urusei Yatsura. As before, Lum, the bikini-clad extraterrestrial "Princess of the Oni" is the house guest of ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Tel Aviv Stories
The stories of three Israeli women in varying stages of desperation and hysteria are depicted in this anthology. The first ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
The Kids in the Hall: Season 03
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The Architects
This is a social satire made in the last days of East Germany's existence. It pokes fun at the elephantine and humorless way the ever-present bureaucracy thwarted even ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Blobermouth
The original Blob was a good-hearted romp of a horror movie: even quite young children are unlikely to have ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Over the Ocean
When Morris, a fellow survivor of the Nazi concentration ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
The Red Green Show [TV Series]
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Robert Townsend: Partners in Crime, Vol. 1
From comedian and filmmaker Robert Townsend (Hollywood Shuffle) comes this collection of comedy sketches starring some of the biggest names in show business. Featuring Keenan Ivory Wayans, Damon Wayans, and Paul Mooney among others ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
The Simpsons: Season 03
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Hembra O Macho
Victor Manuel Castro's gender bending romantic comedy Hembra o Macho ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Loca Academia de Placer
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Narcosatanicos Diabolicos
The main character in Narcosatanicos Asesinos is Alonso, a man who has ... [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
Las Nachas
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Wings: Season 03
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Television's Funniest Foul-Ups
Television's Funniest Foul-Ups collects a number of moments where actors messed lines, or when live news reporters had comically unexpected events occur while they were on the air. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide [ Comedy movie - 1991 ]
