What Is the Best Funny Movie
Sometimes, you just need a comedy, and not to scroll through pages and pages of different streaming services to find one. Instead, whenever you're in the mood for a laugh, you can turn to our list of 30 of the funniest movies of all time. We've even provided information on where you can rent, buy, or stream them with your subscription, so you can get to watching right away.
And no matter your sub-genre of choice, there's something out there for you. The following movies include horror parodies, mockumentaries, rom-coms, musicals, and more. There are films that date back to 1933 and some that came out just last year. If you need something to watch with kids, there are a couple choices that will work for that, too. Just don't choose Girls Trip if that's the case. Please.
You've probably have heard of most of the choices below—they're classics. This also means that there will probably be some disagreement when it comes to what made it. We're narrowing down over 100 years of film history into 30 funny movies here. So, take a look through these selections, argue with your friends over what should and shouldn't be included, and, finally, choose something to settle in and watch.
Airplane! isn't for everyone, but it is for people who love wordplay ("Don't call me Shirley" ring any bells?) and absurd comedy that builds on itself until you can't not laugh. The film is a parody of a disaster movie in which a number of people on a plane get food poisoning, including the pilot. When "autopilot" is activated, it's an inflatable doll named Otto. That's the kinda humor we're working with here.
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A bunch of men working at a news station in the '70s have to come to terms with a woman (Christina Applegate) coming on board as a new anchor. (Spoiler: This is not easy for them.) Will Ferrell stars as the head anchor, Ron Burgundy, a man with a taste for leather-bound books, scotch, and talking to his dog. His crew of fellow idiot coworkers is rounded out by Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, and David Koechner.
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Anyone who loves improv comedy will enjoy Best in Show, a mockumentary about a dog show and the eccentric trainers who participate. There's Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy as a terrier-obsessed couple; Jennifer Coolidge as a poodle owner with a much older husband; writer and director Christopher Guest as a bloodhound lover who can name every nut; and so on. It's weird and wonderful.
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It's the movie where Tom Hanks plays a little boy in a grown man's body…and got an Oscar nomination for it. In Big, a 12-year-old's wish of becoming an adult is granted, and he has to adjust to having a job, his own apartment, and a relationship. This sort of body switch-esque story can be hard to pull off successfully. Big does it.
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Bridesmaids was a huge hit when it came out in 2011, and, unfortunately, was a huge part of the "Hey, women are funny" conversation. (Yes, women are, always have been, and always will be funny.) The film stars Kristen Wiig as a woman who forms a rivalry with her engaged best friend's (Maya Rudolph) super wealthy new buddy (Rose Byrne). The wedding party also includes Melissa McCarthy, Wendi McLendon-Covey, and Ellie Kemper.
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Clueless is a retelling of Jane Austen's Emma, but centered around a teenage girl in Los Angeles named Cher (Alicia Silverstone). The plot is generally the same—matchmaking gone wrong, attempts to help a new arrival in town, the realization that Cher's own true love is right in front of her—and it's really funny, too. The jokes come a mile a minute and reference everything from '90s pop culture to sex to politics.
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Coming to America is Eddie Murphy's take on one of the great comedy tropes: a person disguising their actual identity. Murphy plays a prince from a fictional African country who travels to America with a friend (Arsenio Hall) to search for a wife after his parents decide he will have an arranged marriage. This involves living in a small apartment, getting hired at a fast food place, and talking his way around many lies as he falls in love with another woman (Shari Headley).
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There's dark comedies and then there's a dark comedy directed by Stanley Kubrick about the Cold War and the potential of nuclear apocalypse. That's what you'll get with Dr. Strangelove, which stars Peter Sellers as the President of the United States, a British Royal Air Force officer, and as Dr. Strangelove himself, a Nazi/nuclear war expert. It's satirical. It's disturbing. It's funny.
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Taking things way back, we have the Marx brothers film, Duck Soup, which is widely considered to be one of their best. The film is about two small fictional countries, Freedonia and Sylvania, going to war after Groucho Marx's character becomes dictator of one of them. The plot, though, is only a backdrop for many hallmarks of the Marx brothers' performances, including plenty of wordplay and physical comedy.
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You already know what it's about: two dumb guys. Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels star as Lloyd and Harry, two men who accidentally become involved in a kidnapping scheme and a never-ending series of coincidences that they're too stupid to understand. Dumb and Dumber is the first Farrelly brothers movie and the most beloved.
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A grandmother is dying, but her family won't tell her as a part of Chinese custom. This does not sound like the setup for a comedy, and it's true that The Farewell is likely to make you cry. But it will also make you laugh. First, there are the lengths the family goes to in order to keep their secret—a cousin even has to have a fake wedding. Then, there are the performances from comedian Awkwafina as an American who travels to China to see her grandmother and from the sassy grandmother herself, Shuzhen Zhao.
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Ferris Bueller teaches all of us to "stop and look around once in a while" in this film about a high school student who puts in a lot of effort to skip a day of school. Depending on your own level of anxiety, you'll either be totally on board with Ferris' (Matthew Broderick) trip around Chicago or feel a little more like his best friend Cameron (Alan Ruck), who is pulled along for the ride but worried the entire time.
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Friday shows a day in the life of two friends, Smokey (Chris Tucker) and Craig (Ice Cube), as they encounter various people in their neighborhood while trying to pay $200 back to a drug dealer. You can thank Friday for starting off F. Gary Gray's feature directing career, for the phrase "Bye, Felicia," for advancing the stoner movie genre, and for many laughs.
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"Who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters!" More specifically, three scientists (Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd) who study ghosts and decide to start a "paranormal removal company." (Ernie Hudson and Annie Potts play their new hires.) The concept is out-there, but it launched a franchise that Hollywood can't stop rebooting. And, yes, you'll have that song in your head for the rest of the day.
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Four friends with very different personalities go on a trip together to reconnect and end up having wild experiences and learning about themselves. It's the same recipe used by a lot of comedies, but it works especially well in Girls Trip, starring Queen Latifah, Tiffany Haddish, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Regina Hall as best friends who head to New Orleans to bond. And party. And hook up with guys. And drink 200-year-old absinthe.
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Murray and Ramis make their second appearance on this list of classic comedies with Groundhog Day, in which Murray's weatherman character ends up living Feb. 2 over and over again and can't figure out how to escape. Aside from being funny, it's also one of the most claustrophobic comedies there is.
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Stephen Chow is the mastermind behind many hilarious movies, but his hit Kung Fu Hustle takes a spot on the list. It's about two guys (Chow, Lam Chi-chung) who want to join the "Axe Gang," but while posing as members are surprised to find that some unlikely members of their neighborhood are secretly kung fu masters. "Over-the-top" is too light of a term to describe the fight sequences that pop up throughout.
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Mean Girls is one of the most quoted movies ever, and for good reason. Writer Tina Fey packed so many jokes into this high school comedy about a girl, Cady (Lindsay Lohan), who becomes part of the popular girls' clique at her new school, but ends up sabotaging them from the inside. It's endlessly rewatchable and funny every time.
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When Monty Python and the Holy Grail was released in 1975, the Monty Python comedy group was already popular for their show Monty Python's Flying Circus and first film, And Now For Something Completely Different. But it's this parody of an Arthurian legend that has become their most beloved work. Armed with cheap costumes and even worse sword fighting skills, the group sets off on a fourth-wall breaking adventure into the Middle Ages.
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In this capitalism satire, Ron Livingston stars as a man who is over his boring office job, but gets hypnotized and starts living his truth by slacking off… which only makes his boss like him more. And if you can't relate the office worker aspect, maybe you can with the unique torture of working in service. Jennifer Aniston co-stars as a restaurant employee who is constantly told she should be happier on the job and wear more "pieces of flair."
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A grandfather (Peter Falk) tells a bedtime story to his grandson (Fred Savage), but it's not your ordinary fairytale. Sure, The Princess Bride is about a princess (Robin Wright) and the man (Cary Elwes) who wants to rescue her, but it's got a lot of other stuff going on too. That's thanks in part to characters like Vizzini (Wallace Shawn) and Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin), who the heroes encounter in their travels.
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This surprisingly moving zombie movie parody was the first feature to come from co-writers Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg. It involves a group of regular Londoners trying to survive a zombie apocalypse, led by a usually unmotivated salesman named Shaun (Pegg). Zombies aren't normally used for laughs, but this movie proves that the slow-walking creatures really lend themselves to comedy.
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Singin' in the Rain is more known for being a classic musical than a comedy, but it really is hilarious. There's even comedy built into the dance numbers. There's the friendship between Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) and Cosmo Brown (Donald O'Connor). And then there's Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen), the silent film star with the screechy voice who is fed up with just about everything. She may not be destined for talkie stardom, but she's pretty entertaining here.
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Some Like It Hot stars Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis as two men who disguise themselves as women to join a traveling female band and avoid a bunch of gangsters, plus Marilyn Monroe as one of the musicians. As you can imagine, there's a lot at stake as far as the men being found out and a lot of jokes centered around just that, especially when Curtis' character takes on a second disguise as an oil tycoon. Monroe in particular shines as Sugar Kane, a ukulele player with a "thing about sax players" who's looking for a new life.
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Two high school seniors, Seth (Jonah Hill) and Evan (Michael Cera), try to have one last big night in their hometown and hook up with their crushes, Becca (Martha MacIsaac) and Jules (Emma Stone). Unfortunately, they run into a number of issues along the way, involving beer transported in laundry detergent containers and being chased down by two cops (Seth Rogen and Bill Hader). Also, McLovin'. You gotta mention McLovin', hilariously played by Christopher Mintz-Plasse.
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Written by and starring Amy Schumer, Trainwreck is about a journalist who parties all the time and doesn't believe in monogamy, but who starts dating a strait-laced sports doctor (Bill Hader) after she's assigned to write a story about him. Of course, the relationship has its ups and downs as these two very different people form a bond, but the laughs also come from some unexpected co-stars, including basketball players LeBron James and Amar'e Stoudemire, and from an enthusiastic dance routine from Schumer herself.
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The tiny Stonehenge replica. The amp that goes up to 11. "Sex Farm." We have This Is Spinal Tap to thank for all of it. The mockumentary from Rob Reiner follows a rock band called Spinal Tap (Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer) as they go on tour and face a lot of complications along the way.
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The tagline is "You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll hurl." And, well, hopefully only that first one is true. Based on a popular Saturday Night Live sketch, Wayne's World stars Mike Myers and Dana Carvey as two metal-loving guys who host a public access TV show. The film was such a huge hit that Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody," which is featured in the film, went back up to number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart 17 years after its release.
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When Harry Met Sally… is one of the most classic — if not the most classic — romantic comedies of all time. Remember the complicated lunch order, the "faking it" scene, or the wagon wheel coffee table? Written by Nora Ephron and directed by Rob Reiner, the film follows Harry (Billy Crystal) and Sally (Meg Ryan) as two people who can hardly even get along at first, but fall in love with each other over their 12 years of knowing one another.
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Lastly, we have our second horror parody on this list. Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein is about the grandson of the famous Dr. Victor Frankenstein and his own experiments with a reanimated corpse. Gene Wilder plays Frederick Frankenstein while Peter Boyle plays the Monster. This wacky black-and-white movie somehow only improves with age.
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Additional reporting by Bob Larkin.
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