The 50 Best Comedies of All Time

Esquire ^ | 3/21/22 | Anna Grace Lee and The Esquire Editors

[DallasBiff]

Animal House

The National Lampoon masterpiece continues to set the bar for cinematic depictions of collegiate debauchery. See John Belushi in one of his greatest roles as a fraternity brother at the riotous Delta house, as the brothers fight a college dean who wants to see their charter revoked and their house disbanded.

[MotorCityBuck]

Tommy Boy.
Friday.

[dfwgator]

Smokey and The Bandit.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

What? No MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD? or Safety Last? This list is irrelevant.

[tsowellfan]

Eight Heads in a Duffel Bag

Neighbors (John Belushi and Dan Akroyd)

3 Fugitives

Throw Mama from a Train

Cheech & Chong Up in Smoke

[Yo-Yo]

For me:

1) Airplane!
2) Blazing Saddles
3) Animal House
4) Revenge of the Nerds 5) Caddyshack

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

I used to love Uncle Buck.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

Not Student Bodies?

[KamperKen]

“Best scene ever, ever is when Arnold Stang and Marvin Kaplan get their gas station destroyed by Jonathan Winters in Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.”

That was truly one of the greatest comedy scenes of all time!

[billorites]

[srmanuel]

Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through college, from now on your Delta Tau Chi name is Flounder, 7 years of college down the drain and TOGA TOGA TOGA

[know.your.why]

I thought that The God Father was hilarious...esp the horse-head scene. /s

Frankenstein didnt scare me... :(

[tsowellfan]

Jack Lemon and Walter Matthau (Great comedy team!)

Out of Towners with Jack Lemmon

Luv (typical Jack Lemmon character with Peter Falk)

Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor another great team

Stir Crazy

[SoConPubbie]

A seriously funny movie is “Uncover Brother” a parody of the Black Culture.

Everyone needs to see this at least two times, both times you will laugh your head off!

[Michael.SF.]

SpaceBalls is the only Mel Brroks movie on the list? WTF??

Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles and The Producers were each better than that one.

The list is garbage

[cherry]

with comedies there is stupid and then there is even more stupid....

"Some like it Hot"...now that was a comedy....

"The Out of towners" with Jack Lemmon.

[nesnah]

I used to love Uncle Buck.

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Planes, Trains & Automobiles

Funniest movie I think I’ve ever seen.

Animal House, even though I’ve seen it close to a hundred times, is still hilarious. Like two other posters on this thread, I, too, was pledging at the time and our house was fairly close to that.

[billorites]

Plus, Waiting for Guffman...

[Michael.SF.]

So, what are your top five comedies of all time?

[TomServo]

Never have seen it - will have to, now.

[Michael.SF.]

Agree with all you said, except High Anxiety. Might have to give that on another chance.