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Christian Slater's first movie role, if I remember rightly. A dark comedy set on a school campus perfectly nailing a lot of John Hughes-type movies of the 80's. Check it out over at IMDb.
 
Airplane! isn't the kind of witty you mean, but it's still hilarious.
 
Office Space isn't as much witty, as it is blunt force trauma at times, but its still one of my all time favourite movies - I'll put it in a top 5 if I'm forced to. Even though it's 10 years old this year, it lampoons office life down to a tee - I'm glad things don't seem much different across the pond!
 
Many of the best 30's films were based on stage plays (like Stage Door, Dinner at Eight, etc.). You can usually apply that litmus test to modern films too, if you're looking for good dialogue.

The Dresser and The Lion in Winter are two examples above.
 
^funny, cos I adore both those films [and never made the play-first connection!]
 
Go to one of those movies at IMDb, and see if there's a keyword like "Film Based on Stage Play" and follow the keyword. You'll strike gold. ;)
 
Three Kings
Bowling for Columbine
 
I'll swear up and down that Mel Brooks' History of the World, Part 1 is by far one of the funniest, wittiest, most rambunctious movies ever made. The scene where Brooks is doing his stand up philosophy in front of Caesar is absolutely hysterical. Dom DeLuise does a fantastic job as the gluttonous Caesar. He really sells the scene.

In fact, many of Brooks' movies are solid gold. More recently, of note, is The Producers. I had the wonderful opportunity to see it on stage. I have to say not much is lost in translation from stage to film. Nathan Lane's dialogue alone is why it's worth watching.

Some others to watch:
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (if for nothing else but the Prince Ruprecht scenes)
Johnny Dangerously
Superbad (mostly toilet humor, but it's really fast-paced)
Chasing Amy
Clerks 2

Other good color films with witty dialogue mostly have to be musicals.
The Music Man (a real treat, it combines visual and verbal wit)
Mary Poppins
My Fair Lady
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
 
Pulp Fiction
 
Desk Set.
 
lock, stock, and two smoking barrels
anchorman

um...

kentucky fried movie
 
Anything by terry gilliam.
Brazil, the Adventures of Baron Munchuasen, ....
 
Dogma
 
oh my!

you may be right.
 
what I recall liking was the the timing of the delivery of the lines: cha cha cha!

he was born to do comedy even as he was typecast as the romantic lead. Cary Grant was like that too.
 
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