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Premiere Magazine's "Greatest Comedies of All Time"

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.

(found at: http://www.premiere.com/gallery.aspx?section_id=6&article_id=2989§ion_prefix=features&window_id=1&gallery_id=68&page_number=1&seq=1)
1. Safety Last!  
2. The Gold Rush  
3. The General
by Clyde Bruckman
  
4. Duck Soup
by Leo McCarey
  
5. It Happened One Night
by Frank Capra
  
6. A Night at the Opera
by Sam Wood
  
7. My Man Godfrey - Criterion Collection
by Gregory La Cava
  
8. The Awful Truth
by Leo McCarey
  
9. Bringing Up Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Howard Hawks
  
10. His Girl Friday
by Howard Hawks
  
11. A Chump at Oxford
by Alfred J. Goulding
  
12. The Bank Dick - Criterion Collection
by Edward F. Cline
  
13. To Be or Not to Be
by Ernst Lubitsch
  
14. The Road to Morocco
by David Butler
  
15.
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 The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek  
16. The Ladykillers
by Alexander Mackendrick
  
17. Big Deal on Madonna Street - Criterion Collection
by Mario Monicelli
  
18. Some Like It Hot (Special Edition)  
19. The Apartment  
20. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Special Edition)
by Stanley Kubrick
  
21. A Shot in the Dark
by Blake Edwards
  
22. The Producers (Movie-Only Edition)  
23. M*A*S*H (Widescreen Edition)
by Robert Altman
  
24. Sleeper  
25. Blazing Saddles (30th Anniversary Special Edition)  
26. Young Frankenstein (Special Edition)  
27. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Special Edition)
by Terry Jones
  
28. The Sunshine Boys
by Herbert Ross
  
29. Annie Hall  
30. National Lampoon's Animal House (Widescreen Double Secret Probation Edition)
by John Landis
  
31. Heaven Can Wait
by Buck Henry
  
32. The In-Laws
by Arthur Hiller
  
33. The Jerk (26th Anniversary Edition)  
34. Airplane! (Special Collector's Edition)
by David Zucker
  
35. Caddyshack
by Harold Ramis
  
36. Private Benjamin
by Howard Zieff
  
37. My Favorite Year
by Richard Benjamin
  
38. Trading Places
by John Landis
  
39. National Lampoon's Vacation (20th Anniversary Special Edition)  
40. This Is Spinal Tap (Special Edition)  
41. A Fish Called Wanda (Deluxe Edition)  
42. Groundhog Day (Special Edition)  
43. Austin Powers - International Man of Mystery (New Line Platinum Series)
by Jay Roach
  
44. The Big Lebowski (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
by Joel Coen
  
45. There's Something About Mary (Widescreen Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
by Peter Farrelly
  
46. Rushmore
by Wes Anderson
  
47. Best in Show  
48. Zoolander (Special Collector's Edition)  
49. Wedding Crashers - Unrated (Widescreen New Line Platinum Series)
by David Dobkin
  
50. The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
by Judd Apatow
  
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Created by Michelle on Aug 01, 2006.