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From screwball classics to modern raunch-fests, which comedy actually makes you laugh hardest, rewatch after rewatch? Cast your vote and help crown the funniest film ever made.
What counts: Ranking reflects cultural staying power, quotability, and comedic influence. IMDb ratings and box office figures are approximate (domestic, rounded) and meant as rough context, not precise records.
The Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker trio weaponized deadpan absurdity, packing more jokes per minute than any film before it — 'Surely you can't be serious. I am serious, and don't call me Shirley' became the template for a whole genre. It turned disaster-movie clichés into pure joke-deli
Year: 1980Director: IMDb Rating: 7.7/10Box Office: $83
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Billy Wilder's cross-dressing farce with Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, and Tony Curtis is often cited as the funniest film Hollywood ever produced, and its closing line — 'Well, nobody's perfect' — is comedy's greatest mic-drop. It proved a studio comedy could be both riotously fu
Year: 1959Director: IMDb Rating: 8.2/10Box Office: $25
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Bill Murray's cynical weatherman trapped in an endless loop turned a quirky premise into a philosophical comedy classic, spawning a whole subgenre of 'time-loop' storytelling. The slow thaw from misanthropy to grace, scored by endless Sonny and Cher mornings, is comedy with real
Year: 1993Director: IMDb Rating: 8/10Box Office: $71
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Kubrick took nuclear annihilation and made it side-splitting, with Peter Sellers playing three roles including the titular ex-Nazi scientist with an uncontrollable arm. 'Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!' remains the gold standard for satire punching at th
Year: 1964Director: IMDb Rating: 8.4/10Box Office: $9
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A ragtag British troupe reinvented medieval legend as absurdist sketch comedy, giving the world killer rabbits, the Knights Who Say Ni, and a limbless Black Knight insisting it's 'just a flesh wound.' Made on a shoestring budget with coconuts standing in for horses, it became the
Year: 1975Director: IMDb Rating: 8.2/10Box Office: $5
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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Will Ferrell's clueless, cologne-obsessed news anchor Ron Burgundy launched a thousand improvised catchphrases — 'I'm not gonna fight you' and the infamous newsroom brawl gave 2000s comedy its defining voice. It cemented Adam McKay and the Apatow-adjacent crew as comedy's new pow
Year: 2004Director: IMDb Rating: 7.2/10Box Office: $90
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Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo proved women-led raunch comedy could out-gross and out-laugh the boys, with the food-poisoning bridal-shop scene becoming an instant, disgusting classic. Melissa McCarthy's breakout performance as Megan earned an Oscar nomination in a genre that almo
Year: 2011Director: IMDb Rating: 6.8/10Box Office: $169
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Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's autobiographical teen comedy turned McLovin into an instant cultural icon and launched Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse's careers in one go. Its raw, foul-mouthed honesty about teenage friendship anxiety made it the defining co
Year: 2007Director: IMDb Rating: 7.6/10Box Office: $121
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The Coen Brothers' shaggy-dog noir about mistaken identity and a soiled rug birthed 'The Dude,' one of cinema's most beloved slackers, and an entire fan subculture built around Lebowski Fest. It bombed on release before becoming arguably the most quoted cult comedy in American fi
Year: 1998Director: IMDb Rating: 8.1/10Box Office: $17
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Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis turned proton-pack paranormal exterminators into a comedy-action hybrid that dominated the 1980s box office and gave the world 'Who you gonna call?' The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man rampaging through New York remains one of comedy's most ic
Year: 1984Director: IMDb Rating: 7.8/10Box Office: $295
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John Belushi's Bluto and the Delta House frat basically invented the modern gross-out college comedy template, complete with toga parties and a food fight for the ages. Its anarchic, anti-authority energy set the standard every campus comedy since has tried to imitate.
Year: 1978Director: IMDb Rating: 7.5/10Box Office: $141
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Dustin Hoffman's struggling actor who becomes a soap opera star by dressing as a woman is a masterclass in farce with genuine heart, culminating in the show-stopping live-TV wig removal. It balanced gender comedy with real emotional stakes better than almost any film before or si
Year: 1982Director: IMDb Rating: 7.5/10Box Office: $177
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Mel Brooks torched Western tropes and American racism with equal-opportunity offensiveness, culminating in a bean-fueled campfire scene and a fourth-wall-breaking finale that spills off the studio lot itself. It remains the boldest, most quoted satire ever released by a major stu
Year: 1974Director: IMDb Rating: 7.7/10Box Office: $119
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Rob Reiner's fake documentary about a fictional British metal band invented the mockumentary genre wholesale, giving the world 'these go to eleven' and the collapsing Stonehenge prop. Its deadpan commitment to a completely fake rock history influenced everything from The Office t
Year: 1984Director: IMDb Rating: 7.9/10Box Office: $5
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A Vegas bachelor party gone catastrophically wrong, with a missing groom, a tiger in the bathroom, and Zach Galifianakis's Alan stealing every scene, revived the raunchy studio comedy in the late 2000s. It became the highest-grossing R-rated comedy of its time and spawned two seq
Year: 2009Director: IMDb Rating: 7.7/10Box Office: $277
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Eddie Murphy's African prince slumming it in Queens to find true love gave him one of his most beloved roles, plus the Rudy Ray Moore-inflected barbershop scene where Murphy plays four characters at once. It's a rags-to-riches romantic comedy with more heart than almost any other
Year: 1988Director: IMDb Rating: 7.1/10Box Office: $128
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Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg fused zombie horror with British slacker comedy so seamlessly that the pub-crawl-turned-apocalypse survival plan became a genre unto itself: the 'zom-rom-com.' The cricket-bat showdown set to Queen's 'Don't Stop Me Now' is one of the great comedic acti
Year: 2004Director: IMDb Rating: 7.9/10Box Office: $30
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Mike Judge's ode to cubicle despair flopped theatrically but became a word-of-mouth cult phenomenon on video, giving corporate drones everywhere the fax-machine-smashing catharsis they craved. 'That would be great' and the red Swingline stapler entered the workplace-comedy hall o
Year: 1999Director: IMDb Rating: 7.6/10Box Office: $12
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