Crave's 100 Funniest Comedies of All Time
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Comedy is a little bit like pornography. If it does its job, it doesn’t matter how “good” it really is. So critics sometimes have trouble with motion picture comedies, because little things like story and character development don’t really matter if the film just makes you guffaw.
That’s why, when putting together CraveOnline’s list of The Top 50 Funniest Comedies of All Time, we didn’t ask our critics to pick the “best” comedies of all time. We asked them to pick the funniest comedies of all time that make them laugh the most. That’s why some so-called “classic” comedies don’t rank as high on the list as some of the goofiest films ever produced. But that doesn’t mean the classiest comedies on record didn’t make a decent showing.
We asked our film critics – William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold (CraveOnline and The B-Movies Podcast), Brian Formo (Collider), Alonso Duralde (The Wrap) and Dave White (Linoleum Knife) – to come up with a ranked list of their picks for the top 50 Funniest Comedies of All Time. Their #1 votes got 50 points, their #50 points got 1 point, and so on in between. We then tabulated the votes and let each critic chime in about 10 of their favorite comedies that cracked the Top 50, and we also listed their 50 runners up below.
List Published June 2015
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It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
1963, in 6 top lists Check -
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Playtime
1967, in 19 top lists Check -
81 new
Victor/Victoria
1982, in 4 top lists Check -
49 new
The Blues Brothers
1980, in 11 top lists Check -
58 new
Bridesmaids
2011, in 8 top lists Check -
98 new
Wild at Heart
1990, in 6 top lists Check -
53 new
Monsieur Verdoux
1947, in 11 top lists Check -
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Some Like It Hot
1959, in 35 top lists Check -
17 new
The Big Lebowski
1998, in 26 top lists Check -
28 new
Tootsie
1982, in 17 top lists Check -
66 new
Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot
1953 — a.k.a. Monsieur Hulot's Holiday, in 22 top lists Check -
43 new
Being John Malkovich
1999, in 14 top lists Check -
59 new
Superbad
2007, in 5 top lists Check -
50 new
22 Jump Street
2014, in 2 top lists Check -
9 new
The Philadelphia Story
1940, in 22 top lists Check -
61 new
Ball of Fire
1941, in 6 top lists Check -
57 new
Ghost World
2001, in 8 top lists Check -
77 new
Pineapple Express
2008, in 0 top lists Check -
32 new
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
1988, in 1 top list Check -
75 new
Ninotchka
1939, in 20 top lists Check -
30 new
A Fish Called Wanda
1988, in 8 top lists Check -
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Little Murders
1971, in 0 top lists Check -
69 new
Real Genius
1985, in 1 top list Check -
92 new
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
2006, in 1 top list Check -
94 new
Roxanne
1987, in 2 top lists Check -
91 new
The Heartbreak Kid
1972, in 6 top lists Check -
33 new
In the Loop
2009, in 2 top lists Check -
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Young Frankenstein
1974, in 14 top lists Check -
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Ghostbusters
1984, in 13 top lists Check -
82 new
It Happened One Night
1934, in 29 top lists Check -
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Three Amigos!
1986, in 1 top list Check -
35 new
Bedazzled
1967, in 0 top lists Check -
38 new
Election
1999, in 7 top lists Check -
19 new
Heathers
1988, in 7 top lists Check -
70 new
Singin' in the Rain
1952, in 37 top lists Check -
44 new
Bringing Up Baby
1938, in 23 top lists Check -
65 new
A Shot in the Dark
1964, in 2 top lists Check -
97 new
Everyone Says I Love You
1996, in 0 top lists Check -
7 new
Groundhog Day
1993, in 22 top lists Check -
63 new
Noises Off...
1992, in 0 top lists Check -
67 new
Super Troopers
2001, in 0 top lists Check -
79 new
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
1966, in 0 top lists Check -
34 new
The Party
1968, in 4 top lists Check -
95 new
Shaun of the Dead
2004, in 13 top lists Check -
45 new
To Be or Not to Be
1942, in 24 top lists Check -
90 new
What About Bob?
1991, in 1 top list Check -
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Caddyshack
1980, in 5 top lists Check -
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Step Brothers
2008, in 3 top lists Check -
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Arthur
1981, in 4 top lists Check -
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Clueless
1995, in 8 top lists Check
Last updated on Jul 20, 2017; source