Variety's Top 100 Comedy Movies!

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November 24, 2025, 08:05 PM

rat2306

Variety's Top 100 Comedy Movies!

And the winner is:

https://variety.com/lists/best...f-police-squad-1988/

This goes to the bottom of the page with number 1 shown. Scroll up for the great contenders and their rank.

November 24, 2025, 10:24 PM

Gustofer

Not even close.

Airplane! #62? Hardly.

Blazing Saddles #77? Give me a break.

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November 24, 2025, 10:41 PM

Orguss

Bridesmaids at 24? lolwut?

Sideways at 14? Wow, just wow.

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November 25, 2025, 01:19 AM

dan03833

Isn't Caddy Shack the most quoted movie ever?

November 25, 2025, 06:03 AM

Browndrake

That list is stunningly bad.... wow.

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November 25, 2025, 06:59 AM

ss9961

The purpose of the list was not accuracy but to generate clicks.

November 25, 2025, 12:48 PM

lyman

quote:
Originally posted by ss9961:
The purpose of the list was not accuracy but to generate clicks.

yup,

like best guitarist etc etc

wife had some morning show on yesteday that ran down the top 10,,

glad to see the Holy Grail in the top 10

November 25, 2025, 04:09 PM

rat2306

Yep, the first that I saw of the ratings were a thing from the "Today" show. I noticed a great many were from the past 20-30 years. Thought "Blazing Saddles" would have been much higher, "Young Frankenstein" a bit higher. Not so sure "The Naked Gun" would be my #1; definitely in the top five.

November 26, 2025, 02:38 AM

Rey HRH

I went through the list to get the first one I agreed with. Young Frankenstein at number 9 does rate to be up there. I don't see Groundhog Day as funny; while I liked it, it's a time loop sci fi story to me.

Who the fuck is alive today that watched Sherlock Jr. (1924)??? And does the list writer guarantee I'll laugh at this, I'm guessing, silent movie?

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November 26, 2025, 07:35 PM

oddball

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Originally posted by Browndrake:
That list is stunningly bad.... wow.

A list that does not mention Animal House and It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World. And Ghostbusters.

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November 26, 2025, 10:47 PM

Ripley

From overlooked generations, "Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation", "Support Your Local Sheriff", "The Ladykillers", "The Graduate", "Who'd Afraid of Viginia Woolf" (OK not a comedy, or is it....

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November 27, 2025, 11:03 AM

parabellum

Bamboozled is not a comedy. It's not even in the vicinity of comedy. It's an angry racist rant by an angry racist.

There is nothing funny about it. This is not an exaggeration. It's an angry, cynical, race-obsessed film, made by an angry, cynical, race-obsessed man, Spike Lee.

It's a bad film, period, in any genre you choose to include it.

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Originally posted by Ripley:
"Who'd Afraid of Viginia Woolf" (OK not a comedy, or is it....

No, it's not a comedy. It's self-important, pretentious claptrap

November 27, 2025, 09:35 PM

dave7378

Can't put any credibility into this list. It's just bad.

November 28, 2025, 03:08 AM

benny6

What utter BS. Tropic Thunder isn't even on the list and it should be in the top ten. Most of those movies don't rate to even be listed as comedy.

Tony.

November 28, 2025, 05:43 PM

cas

All about clicks and page views. And you get more of them with a shitty list than a good one.

December 05, 2025, 10:38 AM

corsair

No Something About Mary and no Tropic Thunder....? but, Bridesmaids is much too high and Coming to America is ranked much too low.

I enjoyed Naked Gun but, it's NOT funnier than Airplane! and where's History of the World, part-1

December 06, 2025, 08:18 AM

dgshooter

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World not on the list? What committee of idiots m compiled it?

December 11, 2025, 05:59 PM

BMR

I would have ranked "Dr. Strangelove" way higher than 13. That movie is a masterpiece of absurdities.