List of American comedy films
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This is a list of American comedy films.
Comedy films are separated into two categories: short films and feature films. Any film over 40 minutes long is considered to be of feature-length (although most feature films produced since 1950 are considerably longer, those made in earlier eras frequently ranged from little more than an hour to as little as four reels, which amounted to about 44 minutes).
Short comedy films[edit]
1890s[edit]
1894[edit]
1895[edit]
1896[edit]
1897[edit]
1898[edit]
- The Dude's Experience with a Girl on a Tandem
- A Narrow Escape[citation needed]
- The Nearsighted School Teacher
1899[edit]
1900s[edit]
1900[edit]
1901[edit]
- Another Job for the Undertaker
- Boxing in Barrels
- What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City
1902[edit]
1903[edit]
1904[edit]
1905[edit]
1906[edit]
1907[edit]
1908[edit]
- Balked at the Altar
- A Calamitous Elopement[citation needed]
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Thieving Hand
1909[edit]
- Ben's Kid
- The Curtain Pole
- Making It Pleasant for Him
- Mr. Flip
- Mrs. Jones' Birthday
- Those Awful Hats
1910s[edit]
1910[edit]
- Davy Jones and Captain Bragg, directed by George D. Baker[citation needed]
1911[edit]
- Money to Burn, by Edwin S. Porter[citation needed]
1912[edit]
- Making a Man of Her, directed by Al Christie[citation needed]
- A Near-Tragedy, directed by Mack Sennett[citation needed]
- The New Neighbor, directed by Mack Sennett[citation needed]
- O'Brien's Busy Day, directed by Otis Turner[citation needed]
1913[edit]
1914[edit]
- Between Showers
- A Busy Day
- Kid Auto Races at Venice
- Cruel, Cruel Love
- A Film Johnnie
- The Good for Nothing
- Recreation
- The Knockout
- Between Showers
- Making a Living
- The New Janitor
- Twenty Minutes of Love
1915[edit]
1916[edit]
- American Aristocracy
- Behind the Screen
- The Fireman
- The Floorwalker
- The Mystery of the Leaping Fish
- The Pawnshop
- The Vagabond
1917[edit]
1918[edit]
1919[edit]
- A Day's Pleasure
- Sunnyside
- Back Stage
- The Hayseed
- Hoot Mon!, directed by Hal Roach, starring Stan Laurel[citation needed]
- Hustling for Health
1920s[edit]
1920[edit]
1921[edit]
1922[edit]
- Cops
- Mixed Nuts
- Mud and Sand
- Our Gang - a long-running series of short films which began that year
- Pay Day
1923[edit]
1924[edit]
1925[edit]
1926[edit]
- Bromo and Juliet
- Crazy like a Fox
- Dog Shy
- Mighty Like a Moose
- My Old Kentucky Home
- The Strong Man
- Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
1927[edit]
- Do Detectives Think?
- Fluttering Hearts
- Hats Off
- His First Flame
- Long Pants
- Love 'em and Weep
- The General
1928[edit]
1929[edit]
1930s[edit]
1930[edit]
1931[edit]
1932[edit]
1933[edit]
1934[edit]
1935[edit]
1936[edit]
1937[edit]
1938[edit]
1939[edit]
1940[edit]
Feature-length films[edit]
1910s[edit]
1910[edit]
1911[edit]
1912[edit]
1913[edit]
1914[edit]
1915[edit]
1916[edit]
1917[edit]
1918[edit]
1919[edit]
1920s[edit]
1920[edit]
1921[edit]
- Brewster's Millions
- Crazy to Marry
- The Dollar-a-Year Man
- Eden and Return
- The Fast Freight or Freight Prepaid or Via Fast Freight
- Gasoline Gus
- The Girl in the Taxi
- Humor Risk
- The Kid
- Leap Year
- A Sailor-Made Man
- The Traveling Salesman
1922[edit]
- Don't Get Personal
- Dr. Jack
- Gay and Devilish
- Grandma's Boy
- The Ladder Jinx
- Red Hot Romance
- Up and at 'Em
1923[edit]
1924[edit]
1925[edit]
1926[edit]
1927[edit]
1928[edit]
1929[edit]
- The Cocoanuts
- The Hollywood Revue of 1929
- Jazz Heaven
- Navy Blues
- Rio Rita
- Street Girl
- Tanned Legs
- The Vagabond Lover
- The Very Idea
- Welcome Danger
- The Wild Party
- Words and Music
1930s[edit]
1930[edit]
- Animal Crackers
- Check and Double Check
- The Cuckoos
- Dixiana
- Feet First
- Half Shot at Sunrise
- He Knew Women
- Hook, Line & Sinker
- Leathernecking
- Lovin' the Ladies
- Queen High
- The Rogue Song
- The Runaway Bride
- She's My Weakness
- Sin Takes a Holiday
- Whoopee!
- A Woman Commands
1931[edit]
- Bachelor Apartment
- The Big Shot
- Caught Plastered
- City Lights
- Cracked Nuts
- Everything's Rosie
- Fanny Foley Herself
- The Front Page
- Girls Demand Excitement
- High Stakes
- Laugh and Get Rich
- Lonely Wives
- Monkey Business
- Peach O'Reno
- Platinum Blonde
- The Royal Bed
- The Runaround
- Sweepstakes
- The Tip-Off
- Too Many Cooks
- White Shoulders
1932[edit]
- The Animal Kingdom
- Fireman, Save My Child
- Girl Crazy
- The Half-Naked Truth
- Hold 'Em Jail
- Horse Feathers
- Ladies of the Jury
- Lady with a Past
- Little Orphan Annie
- Love Me Tonight
- Million Dollar Legs
- Movie Crazy
- The Penguin Pool Murder
- That's My Boy
- This Is the Night
1933[edit]
- Bed of Roses
- Blind Adventure
- Bombshell
- Christopher Bean
- Dinner at Eight
- Diplomaniacs
- Duck Soup
- Flying Down to Rio
- Goldie Gets Along
- Goodbye Love
- His Private Secretary
- I'm No Angel
- International House
- It's Great to Be Alive
- Melody Cruise
- Our Betters
- Professional Sweetheart
- Rafter Romance
- Sailor Be Good
- She Done Him Wrong
- So This Is Africa
- Sons of the Desert
- Topaze
1934[edit]
- The Affairs of Cellini
- Babes in Toyland
- Bachelor Bait
- By Your Leave
- The Cat's-Paw
- Cockeyed Cavaliers
- The Dover Road
- Down to Their Last Yacht
- The Gay Divorcee
- Hips, Hips, Hooray!
- It Happened One Night
- It's a Gift
- Kentucky Kernels
- Lightning Strikes Twice
- The Meanest Gal in Town
- The Richest Girl in the World
- Sing and Like It
- Strictly Dynamite
- The Thin Man
- We're Rich Again
1935[edit]
- Another Face
- Captain Hurricane
- Enchanted April
- The Farmer Takes a Wife
- Hi, Gaucho!
- His Family Tree
- Hooray for Love
- Hot Tip
- I Dream Too Much
- In Person
- Laddie
- A Night at the Opera
- The Nitwits
- Paradise Canyon
- The Rainmakers
- Romance in Manhattan
- Ruggles of Red Gap
- Star of Midnight
- To Beat the Band
- Top Hat
1936[edit]
- The Bride Walks Out
- Bunker Bean
- Dancing Pirate
- The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
- The Farmer in the Dell
- Follow the Fleet
- Libeled Lady
- Love on a Bet
- Make Way for a Lady
- The Milky Way
- Modern Times
- Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
- Mummy's Boys
- My Man Godfrey
- Silly Billies
- Smartest Girl in Town
- Swing Time
- Sylvia Scarlett
- Theodora Goes Wild
- Walking on Air
- Wife vs. Secretary
1937[edit]
- All Over Town
- The Awful Truth
- The Big Shot
- Breakfast for Two
- A Damsel in Distress
- A Day at the Races
- Don't Tell the Wife
- Double Wedding
- Fight for Your Lady
- Fit for a King
- Forty Naughty Girls
- Hideaway
- High Flyers
- History Is Made At Night
- Hitting a New High
- The King and the Chorus Girl
- The Life of the Party
- Make a Wish
- Meet the Missus
- Music for Madame
- New Faces of 1937
- Nothing Sacred
- On Again-Off Again
- Quick Money
- Riding on Air
- Shall We Dance
- She's Got Everything
- Super-Sleuth
- That Girl from Paris
- There Goes the Groom
- There Goes My Girl
- They Wanted to Marry
- Too Many Wives
- Topper
- Way Out West
- We're on the Jury
- When's Your Birthday?
- Wise Girl
- You Can't Beat Love
1938[edit]
- The Affairs of Annabel
- The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
- Annabel Takes a Tour
- Blond Cheat
- Bringing Up Baby
- Carefree
- Crashing Hollywood
- Everybody's Doing It
- Go Chase Yourself
- Having Wonderful Time
- Joy of Living
- Love Finds Andy Hardy
- The Mad Miss Manton
- Maid's Night Out
- Mr. Doodle Kicks Off
- Next Time I Marry
- Night Spot
- Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
- Professor Beware
- Radio City Revels
- Room Service
- A Slight Case of Murder
- This Marriage Business
- Vivacious Lady
- You Can't Take It with You
1939[edit]
- At the Circus
- Bachelor Mother
- The Cowboy Quarterback
- Dancing Co-Ed
- East Side of Heaven
- Escape to Paradise
- Fifth Avenue Girl
- The Flying Deuces
- The Girl from Mexico
- Honolulu
- It's a Wonderful World
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- Ninotchka
- Topper Takes a Trip
- The Women
1940s[edit]
1940[edit]
- The Bank Dick
- The Ghost Breakers
- Go West
- The Great Dictator
- The Great McGinty
- His Girl Friday
- The Invisible Woman
- My Favorite Wife
- My Little Chickadee
- One Night in the Tropics
- The Philadelphia Story
- The Shop Around the Corner
1941[edit]
- Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
- Ball of Fire
- The Big Store
- The Bride Came C.O.D.
- Buck Privates
- The Devil and Miss Jones
- The Flame of New Orleans
- Here Comes Mr. Jordan
- The Lady Eve
- Las Vegas Nights
- Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
- Topper Returns
- Two-Faced Woman
1942[edit]
- Highways by Night
- The Man Who Came to Dinner
- A Night to Remember
- The Palm Beach Story
- Rio Rita
- Road to Morocco
- Ship Ahoy
- Tales of Manhattan
- The Talk of the Town
- There's One Born Every Minute
- To Be or Not to Be
- Woman of the Year
- You Were Never Lovelier
1943[edit]
- Crazy House
- DuBarry Was a Lady
- Government Girl
- Heaven Can Wait
- Hello, Frisco, Hello
- Hit the Ice
- I Dood It
- A Lady Takes a Chance
- The More the Merrier
- Mr. Lucky
- Slightly Dangerous
- They Got Me Covered
- Thousands Cheer
- Two Weeks to Live
- Whistling in Brooklyn
1944[edit]
- Arsenic and Old Lace
- Hail the Conquering Hero
- Lady in the Dark
- The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
- Sensations of 1945
- Standing Room Only
1945[edit]
- Along Came Jones
- The Bullfighters
- Eadie Was a Lady
- The Horn Blows at Midnight
- Lady on a Train
- Scared Stiff
1946[edit]
- Angel on My Shoulder
- The Great Morgan
- Little Giant
- Lover Come Back
- Monsieur Beaucaire
- A Night in Casablanca
- The Time of Their Lives
- Vacation in Reno
- Without Reservations
1947[edit]
- The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (aka Bachelor Knight)
- Buck Privates Come Home
- Christmas Eve
- The Egg and I
- The Farmer's Daughter
- Magic Town
- Miracle on 34th Street
- Monsieur Verdoux
- Road to Rio
- The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
- Suddenly, It's Spring
- The Voice of the Turtle
- Where There's Life
1948[edit]
- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
- The Emperor Waltz
- A Foreign Affair
- June Bride
- Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
- The Noose Hangs High
- The Paleface
- Sitting Pretty
- Variety Time
1949[edit]
1950s[edit]
1950[edit]
- Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion
- Born Yesterday
- Champagne for Caesar
- Cheaper by the Dozen
- Duchess of Idaho
- Fancy Pants
- Father of the Bride
- The Great Rupert
- Harvey
- The Jackpot
- Key to the City
- Love Happy
- My Friend Irma Goes West
- Two Weeks with Love
- The West Point Story
1951[edit]
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man
- An American in Paris
- Angels in the Outfield
- Comin' Round the Mountain
- Double Dynamite
- Father's Little Dividend
- Half Angel
- The Lemon Drop Kid
- My Favorite Spy
1952[edit]
- Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd
- Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
- A Girl in Every Port
- Jumping Jacks
- Lost in Alaska
- Monkey Business
- Road to Bali
- Sailor Beware
- Singin' in the Rain
- Son of Paleface
- The Stooge
1953[edit]
- Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
- Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
- The Band Wagon
- The Caddy
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
- The Girls of Pleasure Island
- Here Come the Girls
- How to Marry a Millionaire
- It Happens Every Thursday
- Money from Home
- The Moon Is Blue
- Off Limits
- Roman Holiday
- Scared Stiff
1954[edit]
- 3 Ring Circus
- Casanova's Big Night
- Fireman, Save My Child
- It Should Happen to You
- Knock on Wood
- Living It Up
- Sabrina
1955[edit]
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
- Artists and Models
- Mister Roberts
- My Sister Eileen
- The Seven Little Foys
- The Seven Year Itch
- The Trouble with Harry
- You're Never Too Young
1956[edit]
- Bus Stop
- That Certain Feeling
- The Court Jester
- Forever, Darling
- The Girl Can't Help It
- Hollywood or Bust
- Our Miss Brooks
- Pardners
- The Teahouse of the August Moon
1957[edit]
- The Delicate Delinquent
- Funny Face
- The Girl Most Likely
- Joe Butterfly
- Love in the Afternoon
- The Sad Sack
- Sayonara
- Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
1958[edit]
- Auntie Mame
- The Geisha Boy
- Houseboat
- The Matchmaker
- No Time for Sergeants
- Paris Holiday
- Rock-A-Bye Baby
- Teacher's Pet
- The Tunnel of Love
1959[edit]
- Alias Jesse James
- A Bucket of Blood
- Don't Give Up the Ship
- Have Rocket, Will Travel
- Li'l Abner
- Pillow Talk
- The Shaggy Dog
- Some Like It Hot
1960s[edit]
1960[edit]
- The Apartment
- The Bellboy
- Cinderfella
- The Facts of Life
- It Started in Naples
- The Last Time I Saw Archie
- The Little Shop of Horrors
- North to Alaska
- Ocean's Eleven
- Pollyanna
- Visit to a Small Planet
- Wake Me When It's Over
- Where the Boys Are
1961[edit]
- The Absent-Minded Professor
- All Hands on Deck
- Bachelor in Paradise
- Blue Hawaii
- Breakfast at Tiffany's
- Come September
- Cry for Happy
- The Errand Boy
- Everything's Ducky
- Gidget Goes Hawaiian
- The Happy Thieves
- The Ladies Man
- Lover Come Back
- One Hundred and One Dalmatians
- One, Two, Three
- The Parent Trap
- Pocketful of Miracles
- Snow White and the Three Stooges
1962[edit]
- Boy's Night Out
- Girls! Girls! Girls!
- Hatari!
- It's Only Money
- Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
- The Horizontal Lieutenant
- The Road to Hong Kong
- The Three Stooges in Orbit
- The Three Stooges Meet Hercules
1963[edit]
- The Courtship of Eddie's Father
- Critic's Choice
- Donovan's Reef
- Fun in Acapulco
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
- McLintock!
- Move Over, Darling
- The Nutty Professor
- The Pink Panther
- Spencer's Mountain
- The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze
- Who's Minding the Store?
1964[edit]
- A Shot in the Dark
- The Americanization of Emily
- The Brass Bottle
- Dear Heart
- The Disorderly Orderly
- Dr. Strangelove
- Ensign Pulver
- A Global Affair
- Good Neighbor Sam
- Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!
- The Incredible Mr. Limpet
- Kiss Me, Stupid
- Man's Favorite Sport?
- Mary Poppins
- The Misadventures of Merlin Jones
- My Fair Lady
- The Patsy
- Send Me No Flowers
- The World of Henry Orient
1965[edit]
- Beach Blanket Bingo
- Boeing Boeing
- Cat Ballou
- Dear Brigitte
- The Family Jewels
- The Great Race
- The Hallelujah Trail
- Harum Scarum
- How to Murder Your Wife
- I'll Take Sweden
- Love and Kisses
- That Darn Cat!
- The Outlaws IS Coming
- The Sound of Music
- Tickle Me
- What's New Pussycat?
1966[edit]
- After the Fox
- Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!
- Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title
- Follow Me, Boys!
- The Fortune Cookie
- Frankie and Johnny
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
- The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
- The Glass Bottom Boat
- The Man Called Flintstone
- Murderers' Row
- Not with My Wife, You Don't!
- Our Man Flint
- Paradise, Hawaiian Style
- The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
- The Silencers
- Spinout
- The Trouble with Angels
- Walk Don't Run
- Way...Way Out
- What's Up, Tiger Lily?
1967[edit]
- The Ambushers
- Barefoot in the Park
- The Big Mouth
- Casino Royale
- David Holzman's Diary
- Don't Make Waves
- Eight on the Lam
- Good Times
- The Graduate
- The Gruesome Twosome
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
- The Happening
- The Jungle Book
- Luv
- Mars Needs Women
- The President's Analyst
- The Reluctant Astronaut
- Who's Minding the Mint?
1968[edit]
- Blackbeard's Ghost
- Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
- Funny Girl
- Greetings
- I Love You, Alice B. Toklas
- Live a Little, Love a Little
- The Odd Couple
- The Party
- The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell
- The Producers
- The Secret War of Harry Frigg
- The Shakiest Gun in the West
- Skidoo
- Stay Away, Joe
- Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
- Yours, Mine and Ours
1969[edit]
- Angel in My Pocket
- The April Fools
- Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
- A Boy Named Charlie Brown
- Cactus Flower
- Don't Drink the Water
- Hello, Dolly!
- Hook, Line & Sinker
- How to Commit Marriage
- The Love Bug
- The Love God?
- Putney Swope
- The Reivers
- Support Your Local Sheriff!
- Take the Money and Run
- The Trouble with Girls
- The Wrecking Crew
1970s[edit]
1970[edit]
- The Aristocats
- Catch-22
- The Cheyenne Social Club
- The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
- Hi, Mom!
- MASH
- Myra Breckinridge
- The Out-of-Towners
- Start the Revolution Without Me
- There Was a Crooked Man...
- Which Way to the Front?
1971[edit]
- 200 Motels
- B.S. I Love You
- Bananas
- The Barefoot Executive
- Carnal Knowledge
- Happy Birthday, Wanda June
- Harold and Maude
- The Hospital
- They Might Be Giants (film)
- A New Leaf
- Support Your Local Gunfighter!
- Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
1972[edit]
- Another Nice Mess
- Avanti!
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)
- Fritz the Cat
- The Heartbreak Kid
- Now You See Him, Now You Don't
- Pink Flamingos
- Play It Again, Sam
- Snoopy Come Home
- What's Up, Doc?
1973[edit]
- American Graffiti
- Blume in Love
- Cops and Robbers
- Five on the Black Hand Side
- The Last Detail
- Paper Moon
- Sleeper
- The Sting
1974[edit]
- Blazing Saddles
- Dark Star
- Down and Dirty Duck
- Flesh Gordon
- Ginger in the Morning
- The Groove Tube
- Harry and Tonto
- Herbie Rides Again
- The Longest Yard
- The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat
- Phantom of the Paradise
- The Thorn
- Uptown Saturday Night
- Young Frankenstein
1975[edit]
- The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
- The Apple Dumpling Gang
- The Fortune
- Love and Death
- Rooster Cogburn
- Shampoo
- The Strongest Man in the World
- The Sunshine Boys
1976[edit]
- The Bad News Bears
- The Big Bus
- Cannonball
- Car Wash
- Chesty Anderson, USN
- Family Plot
- The Gumball Rally
- Gus
- Murder by Death
- Nickelodeon
- The Shaggy D.A.
- Silent Movie
- Silver Streak
- Tunnel Vision
1977[edit]
- Annie Hall
- The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
- The Billion Dollar Hobo
- Candleshoe
- The Chicken Chronicles
- Desperate Living
- The Goodbye Girl
- Grand Theft Auto
- The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington
- Handle with Care
- Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
- High Anxiety
- The Kentucky Fried Movie
- The Last Remake of Beau Geste
- Oh, God!
- A Piece of the Action
- Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown
- Semi-Tough
- Slap Shot
- Smokey and the Bandit
- Thieves
- Thunder and Lightning
- Which Way Is Up?
- The World's Greatest Lover
1978[edit]
- Almost Summer
- The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
- The Big Fix
- California Suite
- The Cat from Outer Space
- The Cheap Detective
- Corvette Summer
- Every Which Way But Loose
- Foul Play
- Goin' South
- The Great Bank Hoax
- Harper Valley PTA
- Heaven Can Wait
- Here Come the Tigers
- Hooper
- Hot Lead and Cold Feet
- Movie Movie
- National Lampoon's Animal House
- Rabbit Test
- Revenge of the Pink Panther
- Sextette
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Somebody Killed Her Husband
- Thank God It's Friday
- They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
- The End
- Up in Smoke
- A Wedding
- Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
1979[edit]
- 10
- 1941
- Americathon
- The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
- Being There
- Breaking Away
- The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie
- The Electric Horseman
- Fast Break
- The Frisco Kid
- Hot Stuff
- The In-Laws
- The Jerk
- Love at First Bite
- The Main Event
- Manhattan
- Monty Python's Life of Brian
- The Muppet Movie
- The North Avenue Irregulars
- North Dallas Forty
- A Perfect Couple
- The Prisoner of Zenda
- The Prize Fighter
- Real Life
- Richard Pryor: Live in Concert
- Rock 'n' Roll High School
- Starting Over
- The Villain