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AFI's "100 Years...100 Laughs"

The American Film Institute released this list in 2000.

A wide array of funny films – from slapstick comedy to romantic comedy; from satire and black comedy to musical comedy; from comedy of manners to comedy of errors – were nominated for this distinction.

(found at: http://afi.com/tvevents/100years/laughs.aspx)

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1. Some Like It Hot
by Billy Wilder
 
2. Tootsie  
3. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Special Edition)
by Stanley Kubrick
 
4. Annie Hall  
5. Duck Soup
by Leo McCarey
 
6. Blazing Saddles  
7. M*A*S*H (Five Star Collection)  
8. It Happened One Night
by Frank Capra
 
9. The Graduate (Special Edition)
by Mike Nichols
 
10. Airplane!
by David Zucker
 
11. The Producers (Special Edition)  
12. A Night at the Opera
by Sam Wood
 
13. Young Frankenstein (Special Edition)  
14. Bringing Up Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Howard Hawks
 
15. The Philadelphia Story
by George Cukor
 
16. Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Donen, Stanley
 
17. The Odd Couple
by Gene Saks
 
18. The General
by Clyde Bruckman
 
19. His Girl Friday
by Howard Hawks
 
20. The Apartment  
21. A Fish Called Wanda
by John Cleese
 
22. Adam's Rib
by George Cukor
 
23. When Harry Met Sally...  
24. Born Yesterday
by George Cukor
 
25. The Gold Rush  
26. Being There  
27. There's Something About Mary
by Peter Farrelly
 
28. Ghostbusters  
29. This Is Spinal Tap - Criterion Collection  
30. Arsenic and Old Lace
by Frank Capra
 
31. Raising Arizona
by Joel Coen
 
32. The Thin Man (Snap case)
by W.S. Van Dyke
 
33. Modern Times  
34. Groundhog Day (Special Edition)  
35. Harvey
by Henry Koster
 
36. National Lampoon's Animal House
by John Landis
 
37. The Great Dictator  
38. City Lights  
39. Sullivan's Travels - Criterion Collection  
40. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
by Stanley Kramer
 
41. Moonstruck
by Norman Jewison
 
42. Big
by Penny Marshall
 
43. American Graffiti (Collector's Edition)
by George Lucas
 
44. My Man Godfrey - Criterion Collection
by Gregory La Cava
 
45. Harold and Maude  
46. Manhattan
by Woody Allen
 
47. Shampoo
by Hal Ashby
 
48. A Shot in the Dark
by Blake Edwards
 
49. To Be or Not to Be
by Ernst Lubitsch
 
50. Cat Ballou
by Elliot Silverstein
 
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Created by Robot Co-op on Nov 30, 2005.