AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs

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Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs is a list of the top 100 comedy movies in American cinema. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute on June 14, 2000.

AFI 100 Years… series

100 Movies – (1998)
100 Stars – (1999)
100 Laughs – (2000)
100 Thrills – (2001)
100 Passions – (2002)
100 Heroes and Villains – (2003)
100 Songs – (2004)
100 Movie Quotes – (2005)
100 Film Scores – (2005)
100 Musicals – (2006)
100 Cheers – (2006)
100 Movies (10th Anniversary) – (2007)
AFI's 10 Top 10 – (2008)

[edit] List breakdown

The only sequel in the list is A shot in the dark, the sequel to The pink panther.

[edit] The list

Rank Title Year Actor(s)
1 Some Like It Hot 1959 Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe
2 Tootsie 1982 Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange and Teri Garr
3 Dr. Strangelove 1964 Peter Sellers and George C. Scott
4 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen and Diane Keaton
5 Duck Soup 1933 Marx Brothers
6 Blazing Saddles 1974 Gene Wilder, Cleavon Little and Madeline Kahn
7 MASH 1970 Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould and Sally Kellerman
8 It Happened One Night 1934 Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert
9 The Graduate 1967 Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft and Katharine Ross
10 Airplane! 1980 Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty and Leslie Nielsen.
11 The Producers 1968 Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel
12 A Night at the Opera 1935 Marx Brothers
13 Young Frankenstein 1974 Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle and Marty Feldman
14 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn
15 The Philadelphia Story 1940 Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart
16 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds
17 The Odd Couple 1968 Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau
18 The General 1927 Buster Keaton
19 His Girl Friday 1940 Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell
20 The Apartment 1960 Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Fred MacMurray
21 A Fish Called Wanda 1988 John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and Michael Palin
22 Adam's Rib 1949 Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn
23 When Harry Met Sally... 1989 Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan
24 Born Yesterday 1950 William Holden, Judy Holliday and Broderick Crawford
25 The Gold Rush 1925 Charlie Chaplin
26 Being There 1979 Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine and Melvyn Douglas
27 There's Something About Mary 1998 Cameron Diaz, Ben Stiller and Matt Dillon
28 Ghostbusters 1984 Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis
29 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer
30 Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 Cary Grant
31 Raising Arizona 1987 Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter
32 The Thin Man 1934 William Powell and Myrna Loy
33 Modern Times 1936 Charlie Chaplin
34 Groundhog Day 1993 Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell
35 Harvey 1950 James Stewart and Josephine Hull
36 National Lampoon's Animal House 1978 John Belushi, Tim Matheson, and Peter Riegert
37 The Great Dictator 1940 Charlie Chaplin
38 City Lights 1931 Charlie Chaplin
39 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake
40 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 1963 Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Jonathan Winters
41 Moonstruck 1987 Cher and Nicolas Cage
42 Big 1988 Tom Hanks
43 American Graffiti 1973 Richard Dreyfuss
44 My Man Godfrey 1936 William Powell and Carole Lombard
45 Harold and Maude 1971 Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort
46 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen, Diane Keaton and Mariel Hemingway
47 Shampoo 1975 Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant and Jack Warden
48 A Shot in the Dark 1964 Peter Sellers and Elke Sommer
49 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Carole Lombard and Jack Benny
50 Cat Ballou 1965 Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin
51 The Seven Year Itch 1955 Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell
52 Ninotchka 1939 Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas
53 Arthur 1981 Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli and John Gielgud
54 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1944 Eddie Bracken and Betty Hutton
55 The Lady Eve 1941 Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda
56 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 1948 Abbott and Costello
57 Diner 1982 Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Tim Daly, Kevin Bacon, Mickey Rourke and Ellen Barkin
58 It's a Gift 1934 W. C. Fields
59 A Day at the Races 1937 Marx Brothers
60 Topper 1937 Cary Grant and Constance Bennett
61 What's Up, Doc? 1972 Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal
62 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton
63 Beverly Hills Cop 1984 Eddie Murphy
64 Broadcast News 1987 Holly Hunter, Albert Brooks and William Hurt
65 Horse Feathers 1932 Marx Brothers
66 Take the Money and Run 1969 Woody Allen
67 Mrs. Doubtfire 1993 Robin Williams and Sally Field
68 The Awful Truth 1937 Cary Grant and Irene Dunne
69 Bananas 1971 Woody Allen and Louise Lasser
70 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936 Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur
71 Caddyshack 1980 Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield and Bill Murray
72 Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House 1948 Cary Grant, Myrna Loy and Melvyn Douglas
73 Monkey Business 1931 Marx Brothers
74 Nine to Five 1980 Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton
75 She Done Him Wrong 1933 Mae West
76 Victor Victoria 1982 Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston and Lesley Ann Warren
77 The Palm Beach Story 1942 Joel McCrea and Claudette Colbert
78 Road to Morocco 1942 Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour
79 The Freshman 1925 Harold Lloyd
80 Sleeper 1973 Woody Allen and Diane Keaton
81 The Navigator 1924 Buster Keaton
82 Private Benjamin 1980 Goldie Hawn and Eileen Brennan
83 Father of the Bride 1950 Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett and Elizabeth Taylor
84 Lost in America 1985 Albert Brooks and Julie Hagerty
85 Dinner at Eight 1933 John Barrymore, Jean Harlow and Wallace Beery
86 City Slickers 1991 Billy Crystal, Bruno Kirby, Daniel Stern and Jack Palance
87 Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1982 Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold and Phoebe Cates
88 Beetlejuice 1988 Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis and Winona Ryder
89 The Jerk 1979 Steve Martin
90 Woman of the Year 1942 Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn
91 The Heartbreak Kid 1972 Charles Grodin, Jeannie Berlin and Cybill Shepherd
92 Ball of Fire 1941 Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck
93 Fargo 1996 Frances McDormand and William H. Macy
94 Auntie Mame 1958 Rosalind Russell
95 Silver Streak 1976 Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh and Richard Pryor
96 Sons of the Desert 1933 Laurel and Hardy
97 Bull Durham 1988 Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins
98 The Court Jester 1956 Danny Kaye
99 The Nutty Professor 1963 Jerry Lewis
100 Good Morning, Vietnam 1987 Robin Williams

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