Looks like Lynne has you headed in the right direction PFrank. Check out this page in the WordPress Codex for more info on sorting queries and sorting by ‘comment_count’.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts#Order_.26_Orderby_Parameters
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