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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Safety Last!
1923, in 16 top lists Check -
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The General
1926, in 33 top lists Check -
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The Cameraman
1928, in 13 top lists Check -
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Monkey Business
1931, in 1 top list Check -
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Design for Living
1933, in 6 top lists Check -
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Duck Soup
1933, in 24 top lists Check -
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It Happened One Night
1934, in 29 top lists Check -
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The Thin Man
1934, in 14 top lists Check -
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A Night at the Opera
1935, in 17 top lists Check -
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My Man Godfrey
1936, in 12 top lists Check -
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Bringing Up Baby
1938, in 23 top lists Check -
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Midnight
1939, in 7 top lists Check -
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Ninotchka
1939, in 20 top lists Check -
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His Girl Friday
1940, in 21 top lists Check -
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The Philadelphia Story
1940, in 22 top lists Check -
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Ball of Fire
1941, in 6 top lists Check -
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The Lady Eve
1941, in 20 top lists Check -
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Sullivan's Travels
1941, in 24 top lists Check -
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The Palm Beach Story
1942, in 14 top lists Check -
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To Be or Not to Be
1942, in 24 top lists Check -
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Monsieur Verdoux
1947, in 11 top lists Check -
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Singin' in the Rain
1952, in 37 top lists Check -
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1953, in 11 top lists Check -
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Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot
1953 — a.k.a. Monsieur Hulot's Holiday, in 22 top lists Check -
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Some Like It Hot
1959, in 35 top lists Check -
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It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
1963, in 6 top lists Check -
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop...
1964, in 37 top lists Check -
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A Shot in the Dark
1964, in 2 top lists Check -
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
1966, in 0 top lists Check -
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Bedazzled
1967, in 0 top lists Check -
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Playtime
1967, in 19 top lists Check -
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The Producers
1967, in 14 top lists Check -
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The Party
1968, in 4 top lists Check -
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Harold and Maude
1971, in 22 top lists Check -
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Little Murders
1971, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Heartbreak Kid
1972, in 6 top lists Check -
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What's Up, Doc?
1972, in 9 top lists Check -
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Blazing Saddles
1974, in 14 top lists Check -
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Young Frankenstein
1974, in 14 top lists Check -
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1975, in 23 top lists Check -
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Annie Hall
1977, in 34 top lists Check -
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The Jerk
1979, in 6 top lists Check -
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Life of Brian
1979 — a.k.a. Monty Python's Life of Brian, in 18 top lists Check -
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Manhattan
1979, in 20 top lists Check -
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Airplane!
1980, in 14 top lists Check -
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The Blues Brothers
1980, in 11 top lists Check -
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Caddyshack
1980, in 5 top lists Check -
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Arthur
1981, in 4 top lists Check -
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Tootsie
1982, in 17 top lists Check -
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Victor/Victoria
1982, in 4 top lists Check
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