Best Comedies
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Best Comedies

Laughter is indeed the best medicine. Which movies make you laugh the hardest?

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1 Airplane!
Alcoholic pilot Ted Striker (Robert Hays) tries to woo back his girlfriend while dealing with a planeful of comic pros in this 1980 spoof. 400 1274
2 National Lampoon's Animal House
Director John Landis and writer Harold Ramis team up in this comedy of frat house hijinx starring John Belushi. 399 1253
3 Blazing Saddles
In this Western satire, Mel Brooks casts Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder as protectors of a frontier town in jeopardy. 398 1288
4 Planes, Trains and Automobiles
An uptight executive (Steve Martin) barely tolerates his unexpected travel buddy (John Candy) in this John Hughes flick. 229 1123
5 Some Like It Hot
A couple of musicians (Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis) join an all-female band in this Billy Wilder farce with Marilyn Monroe. 205 1081
6 Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Stanley Kubrick's jet-black satire dares to mine laughs from the possibility that the wrong person might push the wrong button. 152 1124
7 M*A*S*H
Robert Altman directs this ensemble movie about Korean War doctors who use humor to cope with the atrocities. -11 1133
8 Tootsie
Sydney Pollack’s cross-dressing comedy stars Dustin Hoffman as an actor so desperate for work, he’s willing to go female. -19 989
9 Bringing Up Baby
An heiress (Katharine Hepburn) ropes a paleontologist (Cary Grant) into looking after her pet leopard in this 1938 screwball comedy. -39 903
10 It Happened One Night
When a reporter (Clark Gable) runs into a spoiled runaway heiress (Claudette Colbert), he wants her story -- and her heart. -78 850
11 Duck Soup
In this absurdist Marx Brothers romp, Groucho stars as a puffed-up politician and Chico and Harpo as the spies sent to discredit him. -87 1057
12 The Graduate
This Mike Nichols satire stars Dustin Hoffman as an aimless college grad who gets seduced by an older woman (Anne Bancroft). -120 920
13 Best in Show
The subject of this Christopher Guest mockumentary is dog shows, and the quirky owners who compete in them. -175 877
14 Annie Hall
Woody Allen follows the trajectory of a relationship between a free spirit (Diane Keaton) and a neurotic comic (himself). -222 874
15 Sherlock Jr.
Arguably Buster Keaton's best about a movie projectionist who fantasizes about being a detective. -235 805
16 Car Wash
Richard Pryor and George Carlin make appearances in this slice-of-life comedy about employees at a car wash. -256 760
17 The Kid
Charlie Chaplin stars as the Tramp, who finds an abandoned baby in the street and takes it under his wing. -301 779
18 Knocked Up
Judd Apatow casts Katherine Heigl and Seth Rogen in this tale about a TV reporter who gets pregnant from a fling. -366 1136
19 Sullivan's Travels
In this Preston Sturges movie, a comedy director is so intent on making a drama, he lives like a hobo to experience true grit. -369 701
20 Bananas
A nebbish New Yorker (Woody Allen) puts on his ill-fitting revolutionary hat to win back his activist ex-girlfriend. -444 824