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Critical Response - Time Out

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Top 100 Comedies Of All Time

This list features movies that are ranked as the best comedies of all time by Time Out Magazine.

RANK

FILMS

YEAR

1

This Is Spinal Tap

1984

2

Airplane!

1980

3

Monty Python’s Life of Brian

1979

4

Annie Hall

1977

5

Groundhog Day

1993

6

The Jerk

1979

7

Withal & I

1987

8

Team America: World Police

2004

9

Duck Soup

1933

10

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

1975

11

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

2006

12

The Big Lebowski

1998

13

The Naked Gun

1988

14

Dumb and Dumber

1994

15

Some Like It Hot

1959

16

Trading Places

1983

17

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

1987

18

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

1964

19

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

2004

20

Four Lions

2010

21

Young Frankenstein

1974

22

Ghostbusters

1984

23

Tootsie

1982

24

Play it Again, Sam

1982

25

Bridesmaids

2011

26

The Castle

1997

27

Blazing Saddles

1974

28

Zoolander

2001

29

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

1988

30

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

1999

31

Three Amigos!

1986

32

Shaun of the Dead

2004

33

A Night at the Opera

1935

34

When Harry Met Sally

1989

35

National Lampoon’s Animal House

1978

36

The General

1926

37

Elf

2003

38

Nuts in May

1976

39

Coming to America

1988

40

The Pink Panther

1963

41

Napoleon Dynamite

2004

42

His Girl Friday

1940

43

The Blues Brothers

1980

44

Broadway Danny Rose

1984

45

Rushmore

1998

46

The Producers

1967

47

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

1997

48

The King of Comedy

1982

49

In the Loop

2009

50

Raising Arizona

1987

51

Sons of the Desert

1933

52

The Odd Couple

1968

53

Bedazzled

1967

54

The Man With Two Brains

1983

55

Toy Story

1995

56

It Happened One Night

1934

57

Mrs. Doubtfire

1993

58

Arsenic and Old Lace

1944

59

Clueless

1995

60

Midnight Run

1988

61

A Fish Called Wanda

1988

62

Wayne’s World

1992

63

Bananas

1971

64

Swingers

1996

65

Heaven Can Wait

1943

66

Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure

1985

67

Take the Money and Run

1969

68

The Death of Stalin

2017

69

Top Secret!

1984

70

The Cable Guy

1996

71

Mr. Hulot’s Holiday

1953

72

Way Out West

1936

73

Best in Show

2000

74

Kingpin

1996

75

The Royal Tenenbaums

2001

76

Ace Ventura, Pet Detective

1994

77

The Great Dictator

1940

78

Office Space

1999

79

The Return of the Pink Panther

1975

80

Slap Shot

1977

81

Old School

2003

82

Sullivan’s Travels

1941

83

The Big Sick

2017

84

Waiting for Guffman

1996

85

Schoo of Rock

2003

86

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

2016

87

The Mask

1994

88

The Gold Rush

1925

89

There’s Something About Mary

1998

90

Booksmart

2019

91

The Heartbreak Kid

1972

92

Harold and Maude

1971

93

The Philadelphia Story

1940

94

Local Hero

1983

95

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

2007

96

Safety Last!

1923

97

The Trip

2011

98

Hot Fuzz

2007

99

Mean Girls

2004

100

Meet the Parents

2000


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References

TimeOut. (n.d.) 100 Best Comedy Movies [online]. Available at: https://www.timeout.com/film/100-best-comedy-movies (Accessed 1 December 2025).
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