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Dec 18, 2023 · Explore this curated list of the best comedy movies of all time. From timeless classics to modern gems, we've got the ultimate collection of funny films.
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- Blazing Saddles’ The Hollywood Western as on its last legs in 1974 when Mel Brooks decided to create this spoof, which took all the cliches from the genre and totally subverted them.
- Airplane!’ Leslie Nielsen was a dramatic actor before he took on the role of Dr. Rumack in this slapstick film, which forever changed his career and the face of comedy in general.
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail’ British comedy troupe Monty Python were near the peak of their popularity when they decided to shoot a film parodying King Arthur's quest to find the Holy Grail during a break between seasons of their BBC sketch show.
- Animal House’ Long before the title "National Lampoon's" signified a low budget, crap fest of a movie like National Lampoon Presents Dorm Doze or National Lampoon's Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj, it was a mark of impeccable quality.
- 10 Monty Python and The Holy Grail
- 9 Airplane!
- 8 Caddyshack
- 7 The Naked Gun
- 6 National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
- 5 Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
- 4 South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
- 3 Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
- 2 Borat
- 1 Superbad
No, it’s not just a flesh wound.It’s comedic genius and a no-brainer addition to this list. No comedy group does “morons on a mission” better than Monty Python. Half a dozen knights crouching dutifully behind a boulder, cautiously peering out at “the beast” that ends up being a bunny (“That’s the most foul, cruel and bad-tempered rodent you ever se...
Surely you didn’t thinkI’d leave Airplane! off this list. Produced for what even 40 years ago was the astoundingly low budget of $3.5 million, the ensemble-cast laugh-fest gets my vote for funniest film ever. If comedy were boxing, Airplane! is a lightning-fast bantamweight that peppers rapid-fire jabs. Airplane! is spaghetti at a wall shot with a ...
Any movie that ridicules golf – per George Carlin,an “arrogant, elitist game which takes up entirely too much room in this country” – is OK in my book. Riding Rodney Dangerfield’s boorish irreverence, 1980’s Caddyshack does so with a style that smacks the smarm right off a country club member’s face. As brash, obnoxious nouveau riche protagonist Al...
No, that’s not Enrico Palazzo.It’s Leslie Nielsen again, deservedly making his second appearance on this list. A side-splitting big screen follow-up to the comedy series Police Squad!, The Naked Gun is the funniest TV-to-movie adaptation ever. The highly unorthodox foursome of Nielsen, Ed Williams, Priscilla Presley and a pre-alleged-double-homicid...
The question wasn’t whether National Lampoon’s would make the cut, it was which movie. I went with Christmas Vacation, which holds the distinction of funniest holiday movie ever (honorable mention to Will Ferrell’s deranged classic, Elf). This movie has so many quotable lines it’s impossible to know where to start, but how about Randy Quaid, playin...
Yeah baby. Mike Myers’ James Bond parody was the funniest live-action movie of the 1990s (an honorable mention to Tommy Boy, starring the late great Chris Farley). The film works on so many levels – the bad spy movie-mocking fight scenes (“Judo CHOP!”) and Myers’ impeccable comedic character development, to name just two. But perhaps the most succe...
By far, the funniest animated movie ever is Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s adaptation of their envelope-pushing cartoon series, South Park. At a time when musical acts like Eminem and Marilyn Manson were causing parental uproar, Parker and Stone decided to troll the audience and society at large with one of the most subversive comedies ever. I was in...
“I’m Ron Burgundy?” His 2004 portrayal of a cluelessly misogynistic 1970s newscaster is the highlight of Will Ferrell’s comedic career – and that’s saying a lot. Like Austin Powers before it, you get the feeling ten minutes in that Anchorman is going to be a really stupid movie. And it is – it’s just stupidly terrific, a feat only pulled off with a...
Officially titled “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” Sacha Baron Cohen’s brilliantly offensive depiction of a foreigner exploring American society is the most side-splitting mockumentary ever (honorable mention to 2000’s Best in Show). Like his groundbreaking TV series Da Ali G Show, the movie’s g...
Moving into the most recent set of big-screen comedians, we’d be remiss not to include Seth Rogan somewhere on this list. And while The 40-Year-Old Virgin gets due consideration (and has Paul Rudd – whom everyone loves), 2007’s Superbad beats it out by the tip of an obsessively-drawn penisfrom a grade-school Jonah Hill. Superbad is one of the rare ...
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1. National Lampoon's Animal House. 2. Caddyshack. 3. Blazing Saddles. 4. The Blues Brothers. 5. Vacation. 6. The Jerk. 7. Stripes. 8. Young Frankenstein. 9. Ghostbusters. 10. The Hangover. 11. Superbad. 12. Cheech and Chong's Next Movie. 13. The Cable Guy. 14. Ghostbusters II.
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