Top 100 Funniest Movies

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

The following list includes the top 100 funniest movies in film history, according to the American Film Institute, including films such as Some Like It Hot, Tootsie, and Annie Hall. The American Film Institute asked more than 1,500 members of the film community to pick the 100 funniest films of all time.

1.Some Like It Hot (1959)
2.Tootsie (1982)
3.Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
4.Annie Hall (1977)
5.Duck Soup (1933)
6.Blazing Saddles (1974)
7.M*A*S*H (1970)
8.It Happened One Night (1934)
9.The Graduate (1967)
10.Airplane! (1980)
11.The Producers (1968)
12.A Night at the Opera (1935)
13.Young Frankenstein (1974)
14.Bringing up Baby (1938)
15.The Philadelphia Story (1940)
16.Singin' in the Rain (1952)
17.The Odd Couple (1968)
18.The General (1927)
19.His Girl Friday (1940)
20.The Apartment (1960)
21.A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
22.Adam's Rib (1949)
23.When Harry Met Sally… (1989)
24.Born Yesterday (1950)
25.The Gold Rush (1925)
26.Being There (1979)
27.There's Something about Mary (1998)
28.Ghostbusters (1984)
29.This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
30.Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
31.Raising Arizona (1987)
32.The Thin Man (1934)
33.Modern Times (1936)
34.Groundhog Day (1993)
35.Harvey (1950)
36.National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
37.The Great Dictator (1940)
38.City Lights (1931)
39.Sullivan's Travels (1941)
40.It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
41.Moonstruck (1987)
42.Big (1988)
43.American Graffiti (1973)
44.My Man Godfrey (1936)
45.Harold and Maude (1972)
46.Manhattan (1979)
47.Shampoo (1975)
48.A Shot in the Dark (1964)
49.To Be or Not to Be (1942)
50.Cat Ballou (1965)
51.The Seven Year Itch (1955)
52.Ninotchka (1939)
53.Arthur (1981)
54.The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
55.The Lady Eve (1941)
56.Abbott and Costello Meet
Frankenstein
(1948)
57.Diner (1982)
58.It's a Gift (1934)
59.A Day at the Races. (1937)
60.Topper (1937)
61.What's up, Doc? (1972)
62.Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
63.Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
64.Broadcast News (1987)
65.Horse Feathers (1932)
66.Take the Money and Run (1969)
67.Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
68.The Awful Truth (1937)
69.Bananas (1971)
70.Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
71.Caddyshack (1980)
72.Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
73.Monkey Business (1931)
74.9 to 5 (1980)
75.She Done Him Wrong (1933)
76.Victor/Victoria (1982)
77.The Palm Beach Story (1942)
78.Road to Morocco (1942)
79.The Freshman (1925)
80.Sleeper (1973)
81.The Navigator (1924)
82.Private Benjamin (1980)
83.Father of the Bride (1950)
84.Lost in America (1985)
85.Dinner at Eight (1933)
86.City Slickers (1991)
87.Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
88.Beetlejuice (1988)
89.The Jerk (1979)
90.Woman of the Year (1942)
91.The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
92.Ball of Fire (1941)
93.Fargo (1996)
94.Auntie Mame (1958)
95.Silver Streak (1976)
96.Sons of the Desert (1933)
97.Bull Durham (1988)
98.The Court Jester (1956)
99.The Nutty Professor (1963)
100.Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)

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