The Best Comedies of All Time

Comedy has an extraordinary ability to bring joy and laughter into our lives. In this gallery, we embark on a journey to explore the best comedies ever created. From timeless classics to modern gems, join us as we celebrate the art of humor.

60. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)

A world-class playboy and part-time secret agent from the 1960s emerges after thirty years in a cryogenic state to battle with his nemesis Dr. Evil.

59. Booksmart (2019)

On the eve of their high-school graduation, two academic superstars and best friends realize they should have worked less and played more. Determined not to fall short of their peers, the girls try to cram four years of fun into one night.

58. Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

Two rock-'n-rolling teens, on the verge of failing their class, set out on a quest to make the ultimate school history report after being presented with a time machine.

57. Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)

A Chicago advertising man must struggle to travel home from New York for Thanksgiving, with a lovable oaf of a shower-curtain-ring salesman as his only companion.

56. School of Rock

After being kicked out of his rock band, Dewey Finn (Jack Black) becomes a substitute teacher of an uptight elementary private school, only to try and turn his class into a rock band.

55. The Blues Brothers

Jake Blues rejoins with his brother Elwood after being released from prison, but the duo has just days to reunite their old R&B band and save the Catholic home where the two were raised, outrunning the police as they tear through Chicago.

54. Bridesmaids

Competition between the maid of honor and a bridesmaid, over who is the bride's best friend, threatens to upend the life of an out-of-work pastry chef.

53. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

Number one NASCAR driver Ricky Bobby stays atop the heap thanks to a pact with his best friend and teammate, Cal Naughton, Jr. But when a French Formula One driver, makes his way up the ladder, Ricky Bobby's talent and devotion are put to the test.

52. Office Space

Three company workers who hate their jobs decide to rebel against their greedy boss.

51. Billy Madison

In order to inherit his fed up father's hotel empire, an immature and lazy man must repeat grades 1-12 all over again.

50. Tommy Boy

After his auto-parts tycoon father dies, the overweight, underachieving son teams up with a snide accountant to try and save the family business.

49. The 40 Year Old Virgin

Goaded by his buddies, a nerdy guy who's never "done the deed" only finds the pressure mounting when he meets a single mother.

48. Tootsie

Michael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap.

47. What We Do in the Shadows

Viago, Deacon, and Vladislav are vampires who are struggling with the mundane aspects of modern life, like paying rent, keeping up with the chore wheel, trying to get into nightclubs, and overcoming flatmate conflicts.

46. Wayne's World

Two slacker friends try to promote their public-access cable show.

45. Deadpool

A wisecracking mercenary gets experimented on and becomes immortal yet hideously scarred, and sets out to track down the man who ruined his looks.

44. Tropic Thunder

Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.

43. Animal House

At a 1962 college, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.

42. The Hangover

Three buddies wake up from a bachelor party in Las Vegas, with no memory of the previous night and the bachelor missing. They make their way around the city in order to find their friend before his wedding.

41. Hot Shots!

A parody of Top Gun in which a talented but unstable fighter pilot must overcome the ghosts of his father and save a mission sabotaged by greedy weapons manufacturers.

40. Ferris Bueller's Day Off

A popular high school student, admired by his peers, decides to take a day off from school, and goes to extreme lengths to it pull off, to the chagrin of his Principal who'll do anything to stop him.

39. Zoolander

At the end of his career, a clueless fashion model is brainwashed to kill the Prime Minister of Malaysia.

38. High Fidelity

Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress.

37. Clerks

A day in the lives of two convenience clerks named Dante and Randal as they annoy customers, discuss movies, and play hockey on the store roof.

36. Superbad

Two co-dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry.

35. Shaun of the Dead

The uneventful, aimless lives of a London electronics salesman and his layabout roommate are disrupted by the zombie apocalypse.

34. Happy Gilmore

A rejected hockey player puts his skills to the golf course to save his grandmother's house.

33. Knocked Up

For fun-loving party animal Ben Stone, the last thing he ever expected was for his one-night stand to show up on his doorstep eight weeks later to tell him she's pregnant with his child.

32. Meet the Parents

Male nurse Greg Focker meets his girlfriend's parents before proposing, but her suspicious father is every date's worst nightmare.

31. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

In the 1970s, an anchorman's stint as San Diego's top-rated newsreader is challenged when an ambitious newswoman becomes his co-anchor.

30. The Grand Budapest Hotel

A writer encounters the owner of an aging high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy in the hotel's glorious years under an exceptional concierge.

29. Hot Fuzz

A skilled London police officer, after irritating superiors with his embarrassing effectiveness, is transferred to a village where the easygoing officers object to his fervor for regulations, as a string of grisly murders strikes the town.

28. Airplane

After the crew becomes sick with food poisoning, a neurotic ex-fighter pilot must land a commercial airplane full of passengers safely.

27. This Is Spinal Tap

Spinal Tap, one of England's loudest bands, is chronicled by film director Marty DiBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour.

26. Borat

Kazakh TV talking head Borat is dispatched to the United States to report on the greatest country in the world. With a documentary crew in tow, Borat becomes more interested in locating and marrying Pamela Anderson.

25. The General

After being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it was due to his crucial civilian role, an engineer must single-handedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by Union spies and return it through enemy lines.

24. There's Something About Mary

A man gets a chance to meet up with his dream girl from high school, even though his date with her back then was a complete disaster.

23. The Apartment

A Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.

22. Top Secret!

An American rock and roll singer becomes involved in a Resistance plot to rescue a scientist imprisoned in East Germany.

21. The Great Dictator

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

20. Coming to America

An extremely pampered African prince travels to Queens, New York and goes undercover to find a wife that he can respect for her intelligence and strong will.

19. The Producers

A stage-play producer devises a plan to make money by producing a sure-fire flop.

18. Manhattan

The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.

17. Juno

Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes a selfless decision regarding the unborn child.

16. Young Frankenstein

An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that his grandfather was not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.

15. In Bruges

Guilt-stricken after a job gone wrong, hitman Ray and his partner await orders from their ruthless boss in Bruges, Belgium, the last place in the world Ray wants to be.

14. Some Like It Hot

After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.

13. Trading Places

A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.

12. Modern Times

The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.

11. Blazing Saddles

In order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black Sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.

10. Dumb and Dumber

After a woman leaves a briefcase at the airport terminal, a dumb limo driver and his dumber friend set out on a hilarious cross-country road trip to Aspen to return it.

09. Midnight Run

A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter, the F.B.I., and his old mob boss after jumping bail.

08. The Naked Gun

Incompetent police Detective Frank Drebin must foil an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.

07. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

An insane American general orders a bombing attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.

06. Annie Hall

Alvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages.

05. Life of Brian

Born on the original Christmas in the stable next door to Jesus Christ, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.

04. Groundhog Day

A narcissistic, self-centered weatherman finds himself in a time loop on Groundhog Day, and the day keeps repeating until he gets it right.

03. Ghostbusters

Three parapsychologists forced out of their university funding set up shop as a unique ghost removal service in New York City, attracting frightened yet skeptical customers.

02. The Big Lebowski

Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire of the same name, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.

01. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal, low-budget search for the Holy Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles.