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. 3.
    General (1927)
    by Buster Keaton

  3. 4.
    Duck Soup
    by Leo McCarey

  4. 5.
    It Happened One Night
    by Frank Capra

  5. 6.
    A Night at the Opera
    by Sam Wood

  6. 7.
    My Man Godfrey (The Criterion Collection)
    by Gregory La Cava

  7. 8.
    The Awful Truth
    by Leo McCarey

  8. 9.
    Bringing Up Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Howard Hawks

  9. 10.
    His Girl Friday
    by Howard Hawks

  10. 11.
    A Chump at Oxford
    by Alfred J. Goulding

  11. 12.
    The Bank Dick (The Criterion Collection)
    by Edward F. Cline

  12. 13.
    To Be or Not to Be
    by Ernst Lubitsch

  13. 14.
    Road to Morroco
    by David Butler

  14. 15.
    The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
    by Preston Sturges

  15. 16.
    The Ladykillers
    by Alexander Mackendrick

  16. 17.
    Big Deal on Madonna Street (The Criterion Collection)
    by Mario Monicelli

  17. 18.
    Some Like It Hot
    by Billy Wilder

  18. 19.
    The Apartment

  19. 21.
    A Shot in the Dark
    by Blake Edwards

  20. 22.
    The Producers (Deluxe Edition)
    by Mel Brooks

  21. 23.
    M*A*S*H (Widescreen Edition)
    by Robert Altman

  22. 24.
    Sleeper
    by Woody Allen

  23. 25.
    Blazing Saddles (30th Anniversary Special Edition)
    by Mel Brooks

  24. 26.
    Young Frankenstein (Special Edition)
    by Mel Brooks

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

  26. 28.
    The Sunshine Boys

  27. 29.
    Annie Hall
    by Woody Allen

  28. 31.
    Heaven Can Wait
    by Warren Beatty

  29. 32.
    The In-Laws
    by Arthur Hiller

  30. 33.
    The Jerk
    by Carl Reiner

  31. 34.
    Airplane! (Don't Call Me Shirley! Edition)
    by Jim Abrahams

  32. 35.
    Caddyshack

  33. 36.
    Private Benjamin (Full Screen Edition)
    by Howard Zieff

  34. 37.
    My Favorite Year
    by Richard Benjamin

  35. 38.
    Trading Places
    by John Landis

  36. 39.

  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 Joel Coen

  42. 45.

  43. 46.
    Rushmore
    by Wes Anderson

  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 — 5 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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