Premiere Magazine's "Greatest Comedies of All Time"

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Premiere’s editors picked out the fifty absolute funniest films in existence. And since laughs are so universal, these picks are presented in chronological order.

  1. 1.
    From Hand to Mouth
    by Harold Lloyd

  2. 2.
    The Gold Rush

  3. 3.
    The General
    by Clyde Bruckman

  4. 4.
    Duck Soup

  5. 5.
    It Happened One Night
    by Frank Capra

  6. 6.
    A Night at the Opera
    by Sam Wood

  7. 7.
    My Man Godfrey (The Criterion Collection)
    by Gregory La Cava

  8. 8.
    The Awful Truth
    by Leo McCarey

  9. 9.
    Bringing Up Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Howard Hawks

  10. 10.
    His Girl Friday

  11. 11.
    A Chump at Oxford
    by Alfred J. Goulding

  12. 12.
    The Bank Dick (The Criterion Collection)
    by Edward F. Cline

  13. 13.
    To Be or Not to Be
    by Ernst Lubitsch

  14. 14.
    Road to Morroco
    by David Butler

  15. 15.
    The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek

  16. 16.
    The Ladykillers
    by Alexander Mackendrick

  17. 17.
    Big Deal on Madonna Street (The Criterion Collection)
    by Mario Monicelli

  18. 18.
    Some Like It Hot
    by Billy Wilder

  19. 19.
    The Apartment

  20. 21.
    A Shot in the Dark

  21. 22.
    The Producers (Movie-Only Edition)
    by Mel Brooks

  22. 23.
    M*A*S*H (Widescreen Edition)
    by Robert Altman

  23. 24.
    Sleeper
    by Woody Allen

  24. 25.
    Blazing Saddles (30th Anniversary Special Edition)
    by Mel Brooks

  25. 26.
    Young Frankenstein (Special Edition)
    by Mel Brooks

  26. 27.
    Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Special Edition)
    by Terry Gilliam

  27. 28.
    The Sunshine Boys

  28. 29.
    Annie Hall
    by Woody Allen

  29. 31.
    Heaven Can Wait
    by Warren Beatty

  30. 32.
    The In-Laws

  31. 33.
    The Jerk (26th Anniversary Edition)
    by Carl Reiner

  32. 34.
    Airplane! (Don't Call Me Shirley! Edition)
    by Jim Abrahams

  33. 35.
    Caddyshack

  34. 36.
    Private Benjamin (Full Screen Edition)
    by Howard Zieff

  35. 37.
    My Favorite Year
    by Richard Benjamin

  36. 38.
    Trading Places
    by John Landis

  37. 40.
    This is Spinal Tap (Special Edition)
    by Rob Reiner

  38. 41.
    A Fish Called Wanda (Collector's Edition)
    by John Cleese

  39. 42.
    Groundhog Day (Special Edition)
    by Harold Ramis

  40. 43.
    Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
    by Jay Roach

  41. 44.
    The Big Lebowski (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
    by Ethan Coen

  42. 45.

  43. 46.
    Rushmore

  44. 47.
    Best in Show
    by Christopher Guest

  45. 48.
    Zoolander (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Ben Stiller

  46. 49.
    Wedding Crashers (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
    by David Dobkin

  47. 50.
    The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
    by Judd Apatow

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Created by Michelle on Aug 01, 2006.
 

Comments

Might not get this one checked off — 4 years ago

Our library doesn’t have #11 and while I like Laurel and Hardy well enough, I’m not gonna buy it just to see it. :P




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