Comedy film

A comedy film is a film laced with humor or that may seek to provoke laughter from the audience. Along with drama, horror and science fiction, comedy is one of the largest genres of the medium.

Other sub-genres

Comedy films can be further divided into several other sub-genres. Some of these include:

• Silent comedy film
• Gross-out film
• Parody film
• Romantic comedy film
• Screwball comedy film
• Slapstick film
• Splatstick film
• Tragicomedy and related Black comedy
• Anarchic comedy film
• Fish out of water comedy film

American comedy films

History

Early films

1910s

• The Adventure Shop (1919)
• After His Own Heart (1919)
• All Night (1918)
• Amarilly of Clothes-Line (1918)
• Daddy-Long-Legs (1919)
• Fair Enough (1918)
• The Hoodlum (1919)
• The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
• Neighbors (1918)
• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917)
• Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)

1920s

• The Eagle (1925)
• Easy to Get (1920)
• Eden and Return (1921)
• The Freshman (1925)
• Happiness (1924)
• Lover's Lane (1924)
• Navy Blues (1929)
• Our Hospitality (1923)
• Pollyanna (1920)
• Suds (1920)
• Three Ages (1923)
• The Goat (1921)
• The Cocoanuts (1929)

1930s

• The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
• At the Circus (1939)
• Bachelor Mother (1939)
• City Lights (1931)
• A Day at the Races (1937)
• Duck Soup (1933)
• East Side of Heaven (1939)
• Horse Feathers (1932)
• It Happened One Night (1934)
• Modern Times (1936)
• Monkey Business (1931)
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
• A Night at the Opera (1935)
• Room Service (1938)

1940s

• Adam's Rib (1949)
• Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
• The Big Store (1941)
• The Bride Came (1941)
• Christmas Eve (movie) (1947)
• The Egg and I (1947)
• Go West (1940)
• Heaven Can Wait (1943)
• June Bride (1948)
• Love Happy (1949)
• The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
• Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
• Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
• My Favourite Wife (1940)
• A Night in Casablanca (1946)
• Sitting Pretty (1948)
• Variety Time (1948)

1950s

• Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953)
• Bus Stop (1956)
• Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
• How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
• The King and I (1956)
• Lady and the Tramp (1955)
• Marty (1955)
• The Seven Year Itch (1955)
• Some Like It Hot (1959)
• Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)

1960s

• One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
• Batman: The Movie (1966)
• Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
• Boeing Boeing (1965)
• Cactus Flower (1969)
• Charade (1963)
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
• Hello, Dolly! (1969)
• It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
• The Jungle Book (1967)
• Mary Poppins (1964)
• My Fair Lady (1964)
• Our Man Flint (1966)
• The Reivers (1969)
• Support Your Local Sheriff
• Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)

1970s

• 10 (movie) (1979)
• Being There (1979)
• Black Christmas (1974)
• Blazing Saddles (1974)
• Breaking Away (1979)
• California Suite (1978)
• Carnal Knowledge (1971)
• Cracking Up (1977)
• Every Which Way But Loose (1978)
• Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex (1972)
• The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979)
• Harry and Tonto (1974)
• High Anxiety (1978)
• The Hospital (1971)
• The In-Laws (1979)
• The Jerk (1979)
• Little Big Man (1970)
• M A S H (1970)
• The Muppet Movie (1979)
• Murder by Death (1976)
• Myra Breckinridge (1970)
• Paper Moon (1973)
• Real Life (1979)
• Robin Hood (1973)
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
• Silent Movie (1976)
• Silver Streak (1976)
• Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
• What's up, Doc? (1972)
• Young Frankenstein (1974)

1980s

• Airplane! (1980)
• Back to the Future Part 2 (1989)
• Bad Medicine (1985)
• Beetlejuice (1988)
• Beverly Hills (1984)
• Big (1988)
• The Blues Brothers (1980)
• Brewster's Millions (1985)
• Cannonball Run (1981)
• Cheeceh and Ghong's Next Movie (1980)
• A Christmas Story (1983)
• Cocoon (1985)
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
• Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
• Flicks (1987)
• Ghostbusters (1984)
• The Gong Show Movie (1980)
• The Goonies (1985)
• Gremlins (1984)
• Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
• The Heavenly Kid (1985)
• Honey, i Shrunk the Kids (1989)
• K-9 (1989)
• Last Resort (1986)
• Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
• The Little Mermaid (1989)
• Look Who's Talking (1989)
• Loose Shoes (1980)
• The Man With Two Brains (1983)
• Melvin and Howard (1980)
• My Stepmother is an Ailien (1988)
• Nine to Five (1980)
• Nothing in Common (1986)
• Oliver and Company (1988)
• Parenthood (1989)
• Pee Wee's Big Adventure (1985)
• Plain Clothes (1988)
• Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
• Police Academy (1984)
• Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985)
• Portrait of a White Marrage (1988)
• Private Benjamin (1980)
• Radio Days (1987)
• Ranpermnium (1982)
• Rhinestone (1984)
• Roxanne (1987)
• Ruthless People (1986)
• See No Evil, Hear No Evil
• Skateboard Madness (1980)
• Spacebads (1987)
• Splash (1984)
• Stir Crazy (1980)
• Surrender (1987)
• Teen Wolf (1985)
• This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
• Three Men and a Baby (1987)
• Three O'Clock High (1987)
• Throw Momma From The Train
• Tootsie (1982)
• Twins (1988)
• Uncle Buck (1989)
• Vibes (1988)
• The Warot of the Roses (1989)
• Weekend Pass (1984)
• When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
• Who's Harry Crumb? (1989)
• The Woman In Red
• Yellow Pages (1988)

1990s

• 3 Ninjas (1992)
• A League of Their Own (1992)
• Ace Ventura (1994)
• Aladdin (1992)
• American Pie (1999)
• Analyze This (1999)
• As Good as it Gets (1997)
• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
• Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
• Babe (movie) (1995)
• Babe: Pig in the City (1998)
• Baby's Day Out (1994)
• Beethoven (movie) (1991)
• The Big Lebowski (1998)
• Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)
• The Birdcage (1996)
• Bowfinger (1999)
• A Bug's Life (1998)
• But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)
• The Cable Guy (1996)
• Canadian Bacon (1995)
• Celebrity
• Chasing Amy (1997)
• City Slickers (1991)
• Clueless (1995)
• Coneheads (1993)
• Cool Runnings (1993)
• Dazed and Confused(1998)
• Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999)
• Detroit Rock City
• Dick Tracy (1990)
• Doctor Dolitte (1998)
• Dogma (1999)
• Dumb & Dumber (1994)
• Edty (1999)
• Ed Wood (1994)
• Emma (1996)
• The Flintstones (movie) (1994)
• Flirting with Disaster (1996)
• Forget Paris (1995)
• Friday (1995)
• Greedy (1994)
• Groundhog Day (1993)
• Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
• Happy Gilmore (1996)
• Hercules (1997)
• Home Alone (1990)
• Homegrown]] (1998)
• Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
• In & Out (1997)
• Jerky Boys: The Movie (1995)
• Jetsons: The Movie (1990)
• Junior (1994)
• Kindergarden Cop (1990)
• Kingpin (1996)
• The Lion King (1994)
• Liar Liar (1997)
• Mars Attacks! (1996)
• The Mask (1994)
• Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
• Mulan (1998)
• Muriel's Wedding (1994)
• My Cousin Vinny (1992)
• Mystery, Alaska (1999)
• Mystery Men (1999)
• Noises Off (1992)
• Pretty Woman (1990)
• Rover Dangerfield (1991)
• Rush Hour (1998)
• Stuart Little (1999)
• Sugar & Spice (1998)
• Toys (1992)
• Toy Story (1995)
• Toy Story 2 (1999)
• True Lies (1994)
• The Waterboy (1998)
• Wayne's World (1992)
• Wayne's World 2 (1993)
• The Wedding Singer (1998)

2000s

• 50 First Dates (2004)
• Along Came Polly (2004)
• Analyze That (2002)
• Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
• Black Knight (2001)
• Bring it on (2000)
• Bruce Almighty (2003)
• Cats and Dogs (2001)
• Dude, Where's My Car? (2000)
• Eulogy (2004)
• Evolution (2001)
• Eurotrip (2004)
• Fat Albert(2004)
• Finding Nemo (2003)
• Garfield (movie) (2004)
• Ice Age (2002)
• The Incredibles (2004)
• Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
• Joe Somebody (2002)
• Legally Blonde (2001)
• Like Mike (2002)
• Little Nicky (2000)
• The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003)
• Lost In Translation (2003)
• Meet the Parents (2000)
• Miss Congeniality (2000)
• Monsters, Inc. (2001)
• Mr. Deeds (2002)
• My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)
• Not Another Teen Movie (2001)
• O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
• One Night At McCool's (2001)
• Orange County (2002)
• Racing Stripes (2005)
• Rat Race (2001)
• Road Trip (2000)
• Rush Hour 2 (2001)
• The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
• The School of Rock (2003)
• Shallow Hal (2001)
• Shanghai Knights (2003)
• Shanghai Noon (2000)
• Shark Tale (2004)
• Shrek (2001)
• Shrek 2 (2004)
• The Spongebob SquarePants Movie (2004)
• Starsky & Hutch (2004)
• Stuck on You (2003)
• The Tuxedo (2002)
• Where the Heart Is (2000)
• Zoolander (2001)

British comedy films

History

Early films

1920s

1930s

• Ask A Policeman
• Boys Will Be Boys
• Dandy Dick
• Good Morning, Boys
• Keep Fit
• Oh, Mr Porter!
• Trouble Brewing

1940s

• Hue and Cry
• Kind Hearts and Coronets
• Passport to Pimlico
• Whiskey Galore!

1950s

• The Belles of St. Trinians
• The Green Man
• The Happiest Days of Your Life
• The Ladykillers
• The Lavender Hill Mob
• The Mouse That Roared

1960s

• Ladies Who Do

1970s

• Jabberwocky
• Monty Python's Life of Brian
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Steptoe and Son
• Steptoe and Son Ride Again
• Up Pompeii
• Up the Chastity Belt
• Confessions of a Window Cleaner and other British sex comedies supported by the Eady levy

1980s

• Brazil
• Educating Rita
• A Fish Called Wanda
• The Meaning of Life
• Morons from Outer Space
• The Tall Guy
• Withnail and I

1990s to present

• About A Boy
• Ali G Indahouse
• Bean
• Bridget Jones' Diary
• Chicken Run
• East is East
• Bend It Like Beckham
• Billy Elliot
• Calendar Girls
• Four Weddings and a Funeral
• The Full Monty
• Love Actually
• Notting Hill
• The Parole Officer
• Sex Lives of the Potato Men
• Shawn of the Dead
• Shirley Valentine
• Bridget Jones' Diary 2

Foreign language comedy films

History

Early films

1920s

1930s

• Ungeküsst soll man nicht schlafen gehn

1940s

1950s

• Big Deal on Madonna Street

1960s

• Marriage Italian Style

1970s

1980s

1990s to present

Comedy films by artist

Comedy Classics by Charlie Chaplin:

• Modern Times
• The Great Dictator

Comedy Classics by Buster Keaton:

• The General

Comedy Classics by Laurel and Hardy:

• The Music Box
• Way Out West

Comedy Classics by the Marx Brothers:

• The Cocoanuts
• Animal Crackers
• Monkey Business
• Horse Feathers
• Duck Soup
• A Night at the Opera
• A Day at the Races
• Room Service
• At the Circus
• Go West
• A Night in Casablanca
• Love Happy

Comedy Classics by Woody Allen:

• Deconstructing Harry
• The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
• Mighty Aphrodite
• Hannah and Her Sisters
• Crimes and Misdemeanors
• Take the Money and Run
• Bananas
• Sleeper
• Bullets Over Broadway

Comedy Classics by Mel Brooks:

• Spaceballs
• Silent Movie
• Blazing Saddles
• Robin Hood: Men in Tights
• Young Frankenstein

Farrelly Brothers Comedy Movies:

• Kingpin
• Dumb and Dumber
• There's Something About Mary
• Me, Myself & Irene
• Shallow Hal
• Osmosis Jones

The Carry On films

External links

• Funny Videos Archives of free funny videos and animation

See also

• Humor