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.
    Safety Last!

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  2. 2.
    The Gold Rush

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  3. 3.
    The General
    by Clyde Bruckman

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  4. 4.
    Duck Soup
    by Leo McCarey

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  5. 5.
    It Happened One Night
    by Frank Capra

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

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  7. 7.
    My Man Godfrey - Criterion Collection
    by Gregory La Cava

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  8. 8.
    The Awful Truth
    by Leo McCarey

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

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  10. 10.
    His Girl Friday
    by Howard Hawks

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

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  12. 12.
    The Bank Dick - Criterion Collection
    by Edward F. Cline

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

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  14. 14.
    The Road to Morocco
    by David Butler

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  15. 15.
    The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek

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  16. 16.
    The Ladykillers
    by Alexander Mackendrick

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  17. 17.
    Big Deal on Madonna Street - Criterion Collection
    by Mario Monicelli

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  18. 18.

  19. 19.
    The Apartment

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  20. 21.
    A Shot in the Dark
    by Blake Edwards

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  21. 22.

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

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  23. 24.
    Sleeper

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  24. 26.

  25. 27.
    Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Special Edition)
    by Terry Jones

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  26. 28.
    The Sunshine Boys
    by Herbert Ross

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  27. 29.
    Annie Hall

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  28. 31.
    Heaven Can Wait
    by Buck Henry

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  29. 32.
    The In-Laws
    by Arthur Hiller

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  30. 33.

  31. 34.
    Airplane! (Special Collector's Edition)
    by David Zucker

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  32. 35.
    Caddyshack
    by Harold Ramis

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  33. 36.
    Private Benjamin
    by Howard Zieff

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  34. 37.
    My Favorite Year
    by Richard Benjamin

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  35. 38.
    Trading Places
    by John Landis

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  36. 40.

  37. 41.

  38. 42.
    Groundhog Day (Special Edition)

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  39. 44.
    The Big Lebowski (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
    by Joel Coen

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  40. 46.
    Rushmore
    by Wes Anderson

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  41. 47.
    Best in Show

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  42. 48.

  43. 50.
    The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
    by Judd Apatow

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Created by Michelle on Aug 01, 2006.
 

Comments

Greg
Columbus

Might not get this one checked off — 2 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