Who were the best comedy duo?

I enjoyed Steve Martin and Michael Caine in "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels".

eric morecambe and ernie wise.

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Belushi and Ackroyd. (one time only, but great)
We're on a mission from Gad.

Laurel and Hardy

Bush and Cheney.

Hiccup!

I was actually thinking Bush Sr. and Quayle

Nichols and May

...or Rove and Rumsfeld, and in vaudeville the bad comics get pulled off the stage after the veggies start flying.

hmmm, shouldn't it be "comedy duo was?"

My first thought was Laurel and Hardy, but I wanna nominate "Bob and Ray"

Good un, then there is WC Fields and Mae West, a lot of people tell me I remind them of Mae West LOL

W.C. Fields and Mae West appeared in only one movie together -- My Little Chickadee -- and they were in very few scenes together.

Bob and Ray, sadly, appeared in only two movies together. They are great in Cold Turkey (which, unfortunately, has never been released on DVD), and they're in Author, Author! (which I've never seen, so I can't comment on it).

George Burns and Gracie Allen had a long movie career in addition to their work in vaudeville and on radio. Often, they were the only good thing in a movie, like in College Swing and We're Not Dressing.

And let's not forget Clark & McCullough or Wheeler & Woolsey (with the inimitable Edgar Kennedy). What am I saying? How could you forget them? You folks have never even heard of them.

Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks

Groucho Marx and whomever he is talking to at the time.

Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball

Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder

I was going to say Lucy and Ethel. They were funny as hell when Lucy would get them into **** and Ethel would want to kick herself for not knowing any better. Again.

Tommy and Dicky Smothers were a hoot. So were Rowan & Martin back in the day.

Carol Burnett as Eunice and Vickie Lawrence as Mama.

So what?

The original post clearly was seeking the best film comedy teams. As thiefoflight wrote:

I'm an Abbott and Costello Fan myself. What does anyone else think? Is It Laurel and Hardy Olsen and Johnson Martin and Lewis

Those aren't just a couple of actors who may have happened to be in some movies together. Those are comedy teams that appear together as a team. In contrast, Fields and West were never a comedy team, although they appeared in one movie together. You might as well say that Peter Sellers and George C. Scott were the greatest comedy duo because they appeared together in the greatest comedy, Dr. Strangelove. I wouldn't, but you might.

I nominate Moe and Curly. Larry was incidental.

Lamont and Fred G. Sanford

Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor made some films together that were hilarious.