“Pick a volunteer Jerome”
I’m sitting here at my desk at work just laughing. All I can hear is Walken’s voice in my head.
You must have been in the FIRST world war!
Eric
Danger 5 it’s a TV show, 2 seasons on netflix
…and as always find and kill Hitler.
There were a couple of Bill Mauldin’s Willy and Joe movies. I cant remember their titles.
But Biloxi Blues is right up there.
I’ll toss in a 50’s movie ‘Hitler: Dead or Alive’ which I think was also released under the name ‘Cowboy Commandos’ (not sure if it’s the same film though). Not sure if it was supposed to be a comedy though, it’s so gawd-awful insane it’s hard to tell.
A tycoon puts out a million dollar bounty on Hitler and three gangsters show up to collect it. It leads to this insane plan to parachute into occupied Europe and ‘whack’ him. It’s one of those movies where you don’t need to speak German to pass yourself off as Wehrmacht officers- just speak English with a really bad German accent.
Highlights include one of the gangsters asking if there’s a bonus for knocking off Mussolini since ‘we’ll already be over there’. And the ending- which I have to give away - where they shave off Hitler’s mustache and the Gestapo not recognizing their own leader gun him down in the street. [:|]
Edit: Now that I think about it I believe the movie was actually made in the late’s 30’s before the US entered the war.
How about “Situation Hopeless…But Not Serious”.
Jay
Pretty sure Jerry Lewis had at least one movie in this genre, question is would it be funny enough to qualify?
There was the old TV series The Phil Silvers Show, which lasted four seasons. The main character Sgt. Bilko, was remade into a recent movie starring Steve Martin - but wiki rates it a failure at the box office.
regards,
Jack
Just remembered inglorious bastards, which I consider a comedy.brad Pitt was hilarious
While not exactly a war comedy, “A League of Their Own” combines many of the elements… WWII home front USA, many light hearted comedic moments, etc. Yeah it’s a sports movie, but with war elements and a lot of humor too…
I thought the Great Escape was kinda comical, “back in the hole Fritz?” Got a real chuckle how main character poked fun at the Germans, just forgot actors name was it Paul Newman or Peter Fonda?
Stalag 17
Stalag 17 is a WW2 comedy? I don’t think so. LOL!
I can think of comedic moments in most every war movie that I’ve seen… humor is part of life. But I gotta second Black Sheep about Stalag 17. But I am pretty sure that it and The Great Escape were the “inspiration” for Hogan’s Heroes 
Both had humerous moments. Mike
Actually, it was Steve McQueen, James Garner, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Richard Attenborough, Donald Pleaseance, among others…
Sorry, but if you’re counting a few humorous moments in a drama as constituting a comedy film, then pretty much every ever made movie is a comedy. Saving Private Ryan, a dramatic film with with as grim a war scene as any I’ve ever seen, had some humorous moments. By this new broad definition, it was therefore in fact a comedy.
Awww, come on… He was just suggesting that there were some funny scenes in those movies, not saying that because of those scenes, the movies should be classified as “comedies”. I don’t think a new definition of “war comedy” was being suggested.
all 3 of those. WACKIEST SHIP IN THE ARMY, someone already mentioned MR ROBERTS
Thank you for the suggestions gentlemen.
Now, if somebody could ID these two:
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A B-17 is shot down over Paris, the crew bails and is taken in by the French resistance. They agree to meet in at a certain steam-bath and there is where all the laugh starts. I think Odry Hepburn plays in this one.
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A US unit surrounds an Italian village and offers the Italian soldiers to surrender to avoid unnecessary loss of life etc etc. The Italian commander would accept but he says to his US counterpart that if they surrender they will just go to the US POW camp while the US soldiers will continue to fight and die. So they stage a prolonged “battle”, bombarding in advanced agreed empty positions, burn haystacks in the village to create smoke and doing all they can to appear that they are fighting all the wile enjoying Italian food and vine.
No idea about the second movie, but the B-17 one seems to be 'Don’t Look Now… We’re Being Shot At!’
It starred Terry Thomas, so it could not be anything else but a comedy.
I found this list which might be interesting to some, there is a lot of movies:
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls057372098/
regards,
Jack