The best comedies of all time never fail to lift up one’s spirits, and have you laughing so hard, you’d think your funny bone would pop. Get these must have movies to add to your collection; you never know when you’ll need a good laugh…
Terry Hoitz (Mark Wahlberg): If I were a lion and you were a tuna, I would swim out into the middle of the ocean and freakin’ EAT YOU! And then I’d bang your tuna girlfriend.
Allen Gamble (Will Ferrell): Okay, First off: A lion? Swimming in the ocean? Lions don’t like water! If you placed it near a river, or some sort of freshwater source, that’d make sense. But you find yourself in the ocean? 20 foot waves – I’m assuming it’s off the coast of South Africa – coming up against a full-grown 800-pound tuna with his 20 or 30 friends? You’ll lose that battle. You’ll lose that battle 9 times out of 10. And guess what? You’ve wandered into our school of tuna, and we now have a taste for lion. We’ve talked to ourselves! We’ve communicated! And we said “You know what? Lion tastes good! Let’s go get some more lion!”. We’ve developed a system to establish a beachhead and aggressively hunt you and your family. And we will corner your pride, your children, your offspring…
Terry Hoitz: And how you gonna do that?
Allen Gamble: We will construct a series of breathing apparatus, with kelp. We’ll be able to trap certain amounts of oxygen…it’s not going to be days at a time. But an hour? Hour forty-five? No problem! That’ll give us enough time to figure out where you live, go back to the sea, get more oxygen, and then stalk you. You just lost at your own game. You’re out-gunned and out-manned. Did that go the way you thought it was gonna go?.. Nope.
– Scene from ‘The Other Guys’.
There’s nothing like a nice comedy movie to curl up to in front of the television, or to watch one with friends, or family over popcorn and soda in the theater. A good comedy that doesn’t have a screenplay that depicts the situations as all funny, but adds an element of drama, romance and suspense, is what comedy driven movies are all about. It gives audiences a chance to follow a good storyline, not to mention catch their breath from laughing so hard. Here we trace movies through a timeline of funny one lines, jokes that border on sarcasm, and hilarious comebacks.
Best Comedies List
Featured here, is a list of the 100 best comedies of all time, that are outrageously hilarious, and the kind that you’ll want to keep going back to for more.
100 Best Comedies
| Blame It on Rio | Death Becomes Her | Baked |
| Annie Hall | Tootsie | Borat |
| Spaceballs | Mrs. Doubtfire | Airplane! |
| Dr. Stronglove | Caddyshack | My Cousin Vinny |
| Date Movie | Get Smart | Dumb and Dumber |
| Jack | Sister Act | Meatballs |
| Funny People | Happy Gilmore | Kung Fu Hustle |
| Oscar | Kung Fu Pow | City Slickers |
| Trading Places | The Naked Gun | Shallow Hal |
| Rush Hour Series | Wedding Crashers | The Hangover |
| It’s Complicated | Up in the Air | I Love You, Man |
| Be Kind Rewind | Step Brothers | Yes Man |
| Cable Guy | Young Frankenstein | Duck Soup |
| The Apartment | Just Married | My Man Godfrey |
| Shampoo | The Awful Truth | Victor Victoria |
| Beetlejuice | Bad Boys Series | The Jerk |
| The Court Jester | Dinner at Eight | Fargo |
| Phat Girlz | Forrest Gump | Old School |
| Stripes | Nine to Five | Beverly Hills Cop |
| Blazing Saddles | Soulplane | Shrek Series |
| My Fair Lady | Wizard of Oz | Wife of Chucky |
| Anger Management | Chuck and Larry | The Big Lebowski |
| This is Spinal Tap | The Fortune Cookie | As Good As It Gets |
| Dazed and Confused | The Stepford Wives | American Pie Series |
| Operation Petticoat | A Fish Called Wanda | My Little Chickadee |
| Father of the Bride | Home Alone 1 & 2 | Toy Story 1,2 & 3 |
| Flirting with Disaster | Legally Blonde 1 & 2 | The Seven Year Itch |
| The 40 Year Old Virgin | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure |
| Harold and Kumar Series | Bridget’s Jones’s Diary | Forgetting Sara Marshall |
| The Kentucky Fried Movie | Zach and Miri Make a Porno | Ace Ventura: Pet Detective |
| Tenacious D: Pick of Destiny | Ace Ventura: Call of the Wild | Throw Momma from the Train |
| There’s Something About Mary | National Lampoon’s Animal House | Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story |
| National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation | Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery | Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me |
Best TV Comedies of All Time
| Sex and the City | Diff’rent Strokes |
| Entourage | The Golden Girls |
| Family Guy | South Park |
| American Dad | Ren and Stimpy |
| Happy Tree Friends | Seinfeld |
| Everybody Loves Raymond | Frasier |
| The Cosby Show | Fresh Prince of Bel Air |
| Gilligan’s Island | I Love Lucy |
| Cheers | Scrubs |
| My Wife and Kids | The Simpsons |
| 3rd Rock from the Sun | Just Shoot Me |
| Will and Grace | The King of Queens |
| Pushing Daisies | How I Met Your Mother |
| Chappelle’s Show | Curb Your Enthusiasm |
| Little Britain | Living Single |
Best Comedies to Check Out
| South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut | 30 Minutes Or Less |
| Despicable Me | Dinner for Schmucks |
| Paul | The Dilemma |
| Jack And Jill | Due Date |
| Little Fockers | Soul Kitchen |
| The Romantics | Ramona and Beezus |
| Nanny McPhee Returns | The Muppets |
| Toy Story 3 | Just Go With It |
| Happiness Runs | Your Highness |
| The Switch | Johnny English Reborn |
| Lottery Ticket | It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World |
| Marmaduke | Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star |
| The Good, the Bad and the Weird | Hot Tub Time Machine |
| Get Him to the Greek | How to Train Your Dragon |
| Arthur | Sex and the City 2 |
| Crazy, Stupid, Love | Accidents Happen |
| Malice in Wonderland | History of the World |
| The Back-Up Plan | Lottery Ticket |
| Hangover 2 | Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son |
| We Bought A Zoo | The Sitter |
| Finding Bliss | You Again |
| Bridesmaids | The Change-Up |
| Life As We Know It | The Skank Robbers |
Some comedy movies may falter a little on the jokes front, and may come off as lame, but the best ones are the kind that definitely overthrow them. Have a good laugh!
