IMDB's top 50 comedies of all time

[Guest tank_abbott]

Rank Title

1 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 8.7/10 (40396 votes)

2 Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) 8.6/10 (31142 votes)

3 Some Like It Hot (1959) 8.5/10 (15520 votes)

4 Singin' in the Rain (1952) 8.4/10 (13197 votes)

5 General, The (1927) 8.4/10 (4260 votes)

6 City Lights (1931) 8.4/10 (4781 votes)

7 Modern Times (1936) 8.3/10 (5994 votes)

8 Apartment, The (1960) 8.3/10 (6867 votes)

9 To Be or Not to Be (1942) 8.3/10 (2051 votes)

10 Duck Soup (1933) 8.3/10 (6409 votes)

11 Sting, The (1973) 8.3/10 (15454 votes)

12 Annie Hall (1977) 8.3/10 (13447 votes)

13 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 8.3/10 (38449 votes)

14 Vita è bella, La (1997) 8.3/10 (25565 votes)

15 It Happened One Night (1934) 8.3/10 (4831 votes)

16 Great Dictator, The (1940) 8.2/10 (5668 votes)

17 Sullivan's Travels (1941) 8.2/10 (1560 votes)

18 Stalag 17 (1953) 8.2/10 (4243 votes)

19 Bringing Up Baby (1938) 8.2/10 (5719 votes)

20 Manhattan (1979) 8.2/10 (8043 votes)

21 His Girl Friday (1940) 8.2/10 (4078 votes)

22 Gold Rush, The (1925) 8.2/10 (3828 votes)

23 Philadelphia Story, The (1940) 8.2/10 (6836 votes)

24 Hable con ella (2002) 8.2/10 (4620 votes)

25 Toy Story 2 (1999) 8.2/10 (24971 votes)

26 Night at the Opera, A (1935) 8.2/10 (3779 votes)

27 Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) 8.1/10 (7327 votes)

28 Princess Bride, The (1987) 8.1/10 (36877 votes)

29 Graduate, The (1967) 8.1/10 (17837 votes)

30 Charade (1963) 8.1/10 (5250 votes)

31 Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) 8.1/10 (1952 votes)

32 Thin Man, The (1934) 8.0/10 (2796 votes)

33 Shrek (2001) 8.0/10 (35023 votes)

34 Christmas Story, A (1983) 8.0/10 (12549 votes)

35 Harvey (1950) 8.0/10 (4916 votes)

36 Lady Eve, The (1941) 8.0/10 (1196 votes)

37 Roman Holiday (1953) 8.0/10 (5632 votes)

38 Young Frankenstein (1974) 8.0/10 (14127 votes)

39 My Man Godfrey (1936) 8.0/10 (1382 votes)

40 Almost Famous (2000) 8.0/10 (23382 votes)

41 Monsters, Inc. (2001) 8.0/10 (20379 votes)

42 Mister Roberts (1955) 8.0/10 (2702 votes)

43 Lady Vanishes, The (1938) 8.0/10 (2421 votes)

44 Forrest Gump (1994) 8.0/10 (56816 votes)

45 Network (1976) 8.0/10 (5837 votes)

46 Ninotchka (1939) 7.9/10 (1493 votes)

47 Trouble in Paradise (1932) 7.9/10 (651 votes)

48 Being John Malkovich (1999) 7.9/10 (33686 votes)

49 Kid, The (1921) 7.9/10 (1174 votes)

50 Règle du jeu, La (1939) 7.9/10 (1435 votes)

 

 

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I've seen literaly only 5 of these... and Dr.Strangelove is a comedy? Hmmmm....

[Guest DawnBTVS]

Forrest Gump's a comedy? WTF are those people smoking...I thought it more a drama or something

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

Yeah, Dr. Strangelove is a comedy, satire more to it, but a lot of those other ones are not. Charade is a light mystery caper, Singing in the Rain is a musical. I wouldn't consider Roman Holiday, The Philidelphia Story or The Sting to be comedies in the slightest.

 

There are some good ones on there; Harvey, Some Like it Hot, the Apartment, Bringing Up Baby, the Chaplin and Marx Brother Stuff.

 

I find the lack of Mel Brooks and Coen Brothers to be odd. Raising Arizona and Blazing Saddles should be on there at the very least.

[Guest IDrinkRatsMilk]

That's exactly the kind of list I would expect an asshole to make.

[Guest Galactic Gigolo]

What the hell is The Kid doing on that list? It was cute, but not a great movie.

[Guest El Satanico]

Dr. Strangelove is a total comedy, but a very very dark comedy.

 

 

You have to take IMDB's rankings with a grain of salt because the readers vote on rankings, which means people with no lives can manipulate the rankings by voting up a movie.

[Guest MaxPower27]

The lack of Fletch makes me question their use of the word "comedy"

[Guest Human Fly]

What the hell is The Kid doing on that list? It was cute, but not a great movie.

It's not "The Kid" with Bruce Willis. It's "The Kid" from 1921.

[Guest KanadianKrusty]

The Princess Bride ain't funny, and where the fuck is Wayne's World?

[Guest MaxPower27]

Wayne's World?! Over Princess Bride!? You're mad. Mad I say.

[Guest El Satanico]

What do you mean The Princess Bride isn't funny?

 

Besides TPB is better than Wayne's World in every way.

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

I've got to back Satanico there. Not that I'm dissing Wayne's World, but the Princess Bride is the type of magical, funny captivating family movie that no one makes anymore. In Wayne's World favor it does have a bitching cover of Ballroom Blitz and is the best SNL based movie after the Blues Brothers. Where is that on the list? "Hmm...Disco pants and hair cuts."

[Guest Retro Rob]

IMDB lists several genres for movies, which explains why The Kid and Forrest Gump would be on the list. For instance, Gump is probably Drama, Comedy, War.

[Guest IDrinkRatsMilk]

Airplane and Naked Gun should be there.

[Guest KanadianKrusty]

I've got to back Satanico there. Not that I'm dissing Wayne's World, but the Princess Bride is the type of magical, funny captivating family movie

By definition, family movies aren't funny, or at least 99% of them.

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

The lack of Ghostbusters makes me angry...very angry...

[Guest tank_abbott]

That's exactly the kind of list I would expect an asshole to make.

Was that a not so subtle jab at me?

[Guest Anglesault]

The Princess Bride ain't funny, and where the fuck is Wayne's World?

Wayne's World really hasn't aged well at all.

[Guest IDrinkRatsMilk]

That's exactly the kind of list I would expect an asshole to make.

Was that a not so subtle jab at me?

No, but I can mock you mercilessly if it would make you feel better.

[Guest JHawk]

How the hell is Singin' In The Rain a comedy?

 

I'm pleasantly surprised that Monty Python and the Holy Grail is that high, but I think it should be even higher than that.

 

Blazing Saddles is one of the three funniest movies ever, and it not being on the list shows how asinine this one really is!

 

The Princess Bride is a really good movie with some humor in it, but calling it a "comedy" might be stretching it. I can maybe see it if it's a romantic comedy, but it's still a bit of a stretch.

 

What is with the foreign shit that none of us are ever going to see making the list? How the hell can you understand what's going on aside from subtitles, which make the jokes not funny because the delivery is shot.

[Guest El Satanico]

Why can't foreign films make the list? After all, the site isn't called the American Movie Database.

 

Besides good comedy transcends language, funny is funny regardless of language and subtitles.

[Guest Marshall]

The list is fucked. The voting is based on the films greatness as a film. Because most films have comedy elements, they will be listed under comedy. So people are voting for the film and not the comedy. Forsest Gump was a great film and it have some funny moments, thus it's on this list. If something funny happened in Schindler's List, then that'd be up there too.

[Guest El Satanico]

So when someone votes for a film on IMDB...it counts for every genre the film is listed under?

 

Wasn't sure of how it worked, but it makes sense now.

[Guest godthedog]

What is with the foreign shit that none of us are ever going to see making the list?  How the hell can you understand what's going on aside from subtitles, which make the jokes not funny because the delivery is shot.

this just negated anything intelligent you might have had to say earlier. that you can't understand the idea of anything with subtitles being funny, makes me think you've never watched a movie with subtitles--much less a funny movie with subtitles, like 'amelie' or 'life is beautiful'.

 

this is exactly the kind of dumbass argument that the mindless WWF-heads would make when puro fans would talk about people they'd never heard of. i'm NOT saying that foreign movies are inherently better than american ones, but an "i've never even heard of it, it's not in english, how could i understand it, nah nah nah" argument like this is just really stupid. don't put down the list for your lack of motivation to see anything outside hollywood.

 

kudos for 'amelie' being so high on the list. the coen brothers should be up there somewhere (with 'raising arizona' or 'fargo'), i hate 'the apartment', & 'duck soup' should be #2, but a decent list other than that.

[Guest CanadianChris]

If something funny happened in Schindler's List, then that'd be up there too.

Which is exactly how Life Is Beautiful (La vita e bella) made the list. While there are many comedic moments to the film, there is no way I would ever classify it as a comedy.

 

When you think comedy, you think Caddyshack, or Ghostbusters, or American Pie...something like that.

[Guest godthedog]

the part in 'schindler's list' where ralph fiennes was trying to shoot the old jewish guy & the gun kept jamming...that was pretty funny.

[Guest El Satanico]

the part in 'schindler's list' where ralph fiennes was trying to shoot the old jewish guy & the gun kept jamming...that was pretty funny.

oh great now i'm imaging Stewie(from Family Guy) as Ralph Fiennes in that scene.

 

 

:gun jams:

 

"Damn!"

 

:gun jams again:

 

"Damn!"

 

:gun jams once more:

 

"To hell with this cursed deviiiice"

[Guest JHawk]

What is with the foreign shit that none of us are ever going to see making the list?  How the hell can you understand what's going on aside from subtitles, which make the jokes not funny because the delivery is shot.

this just negated anything intelligent you might have had to say earlier. that you can't understand the idea of anything with subtitles being funny, makes me think you've never watched a movie with subtitles--much less a funny movie with subtitles, like 'amelie' or 'life is beautiful'.

 

this is exactly the kind of dumbass argument that the mindless WWF-heads would make when puro fans would talk about people they'd never heard of. i'm NOT saying that foreign movies are inherently better than american ones, but an "i've never even heard of it, it's not in english, how could i understand it, nah nah nah" argument like this is just really stupid. don't put down the list for your lack of motivation to see anything outside hollywood.

 

kudos for 'amelie' being so high on the list. the coen brothers should be up there somewhere (with 'raising arizona' or 'fargo'), i hate 'the apartment', & 'duck soup' should be #2, but a decent list other than that.

I didn't necessarily say that foriegn films couldn't be funny. But to me (and only in my opinion), if I'm reading subtitles, often I find myself trying to make sure I read everything in the time allotted rather than trying to make sense of the jokes. It's like reading transcripts of comedy routines. It could be funny, but it's funnier if you're hearing the delivery because you're getting it in the proper context. Sometimes it isn't the joke that makes the joke, but the delivery that makes the joke, which could make a huge difference.

 

Of course, if these are movies that are heavy on physical comedy, then the subtitle argument becomes meaningless anyway.

[Guest Slapnuts00]

We just watched "Some Like It Hot" in my film studies class, that was pretty funny. In fact my teacher said it was listed as the #1 on the list...I guess it changed...

[Guest Vern Gagne]

One of the worst list ever.