Crave's 100 Funniest Comedies of All Time

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Comedy is a little bit like pornography. If it does its job, it doesn’t matter how “good” it really is. So critics sometimes have trouble with motion picture comedies, because little things like story and character development don’t really matter if the film just makes you guffaw.

That’s why, when putting together CraveOnline’s list of The Top 50 Funniest Comedies of All Time, we didn’t ask our critics to pick the “best” comedies of all time. We asked them to pick the funniest comedies of all time that make them laugh the most. That’s why some so-called “classic” comedies don’t rank as high on the list as some of the goofiest films ever produced. But that doesn’t mean the classiest comedies on record didn’t make a decent showing.

We asked our film critics – William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold (CraveOnline and The B-Movies Podcast), Brian Formo (Collider), Alonso Duralde (The Wrap) and Dave White (Linoleum Knife) – to come up with a ranked list of their picks for the top 50 Funniest Comedies of All Time. Their #1 votes got 50 points, their #50 points got 1 point, and so on in between. We then tabulated the votes and let each critic chime in about 10 of their favorite comedies that cracked the Top 50, and we also listed their 50 runners up below.

List Published June 2015