Bill Weber's top ten comedy duos...
Our old pal Bill Weber is a film writer for the online magazine Stylus, and he just compiled a very interesting guide to the top ten comedy duos of all time. You can find the full list, with thoughtful and insightful commentary, here, but I've reproduced the ranking below. I'm happy somebody else is prepared to defend Owen Wilson and Jackie Chan. I loved that movie.
Laurel & Hardy in Sons of the Desert (1933)
Loy & Powell in The Thin Man (1934)
Olsen & Johnson in Hellzapoppin’ (1941)
Hope & Crosby in Road to Utopia (1946)
Abbott & Costello in Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Martin & Lewis in Living It Up (1954)
Cook & Moore in Bedazzled (1967)
Allen & Keaton in Sleeper (1973)
Arkin & Falk in The In-Laws (1979)
Chan & Wilson in Shanghai Noon (2000)
Bill seems to be making an argument for the comic duos of bygone days... what are some of your favorites? I might nominate Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte, off the top of my head.
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posted by Jesse Thorn at Wednesday, October 24, 2007
4 Comments:
Lemmon and Curtis in Some Like it Hot?
Lemmon and Matthau in several things?
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in Hot Fuzz?
poitier and cosby, for sure. pryor and wilder had their moments. hall and murphy on the basis of the magnificence that was coming to america.
Grant & Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby
Grant & Russell in His Girl Friday
Henson & Oz, in Sesame Street, as: Ernie/Bert, Ernie/Harvey Kneeslapper, Kermit/Grover.
Steve Martin and John Candy: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. Put that in your Netflix queue!!
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