Comedy film
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A comedy film is a film/movie that seeks to provoke laughter in the audience. Along with drama, horror and science fiction it is one of the largest genres of the medium.
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American comedy films
History
Early films
1920s
- Our Hospitality
- Three Ages
- The Goat
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
- Boeing Boeing
- Support Your Local Sheriff
1970s
1980s
- Airplane!
- Beetlejuice
- Big
- The Blues Brothers
- Brewster's Millions
- Cannonball Run
- Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- Ghostbusters
- The Man With Two Brains
- Planes, Trains & Automobiles
- Police Academy
- Roxanne
- See No Evil, Hear No Evil
- Stir Crazy
- This Is Spinal Tap
- Throw Momma From The Train
- Tootsie
- Twins
- Uncle Buck
- When Harry Met Sally
- Who's Harry Crumb?
- The Woman In Red
1990s to present
- 50 First Dates
- Ace Ventura
- Along Came Polly
- American Pie
- Analyze This and Analyze That
- Austin Powers
- The Big Lebowski
- Black Knight
- Bowfinger
- Bring it on
- Bruce Almighty
- But I'm A Cheerleader
- The Cable Guy
- Canadian Bacon
- Chasing Amy
- Clueless
- Coneheads
- Cool Runnings
- The Deserter
- Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
- Dogma
- Dude, Where's My Car?
- Dumb and Dumber
- Earth Girls Are Easy
- Ed Wood
- Evolution
- Eurotrip
- Flirting with Disaster
- Groundhog Day
- Happy Gilmore
- Home Alone
- In & Out
- Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
- Jerky Boys: The Movie
- Joe Somebody
- Junior
- Kingpin
- Legally Blonde
- Liar Liar
- Like Mike
- Little Nicky
- Lost In Translation
- The Man in the Movie
- Mars Attacks
- The Mask
- Meet the Parents
- Miss Congeniality
- Mr. Deeds
- My Big Fat Greek Wedding
- Mystery Men
- Noises Off
- Not Another Teen Movie
- One Night At McCool's
- Orange County
- Rat Race
- Road Trip
- Rush Hour and Rush Hour 2
- The Royal Tenenbaums
- The School of Rock
- Shallow Hal
- Shanghai Knights
- Shanghai Noon
- Starsky and Hutch
- Stuck on You
- Sugar & Spice
- The Waterboy
- Wayne's World and Wayne's World 2
- The Wedding Singer
- Zoolander
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
Foreign language comedy films
History
Early films
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s to present
Other sub-genres
Film comedy 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
- Wacky comedy film
Comedy Classics by Charlie Chaplin:
Comedy Classics by Buster Keaton:
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:
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
