Comedy film - Definition and Overview

A comedy film is a film laced with humor or that may seek to provoke laughter from the audience. Along with drama, horror and science fiction, comedy is one of the largest genres of the medium.

Other sub-genres

Comedy films can be further divided into several other sub-genres. Some of these include:

• Silent comedy film
• Gross-out film
• Parody film
• Romantic comedy film
• Screwball comedy film
• Slapstick film
• Splatstick film
• Tragicomedy and related Black comedy
• Wacky comedy film
• Fish out of water comedy film

American comedy films

History

Early films

1920s

• Our Hospitality
• Three Ages
• The Goat

1930s

• Bachelor Mother
• It Happened One Night

1940s

• Arsenic and Old Lace

1950s

• Marty
• The Seven Year Itch
• Some Like It Hot

1960s

• Boeing Boeing
• Support Your Local Sheriff

1970s

• The Jerk
• M A S H
• Silver Streak

1980s

• Airplane!
• Beetlejuice
• Big
• The Blues Brothers
• Brewster's Millions
• Cannonball Run
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• Ghostbusters
• The Man With Two Brains
• Planes, Trains & Automobiles
• Police Academy
• Roxanne
• See No Evil, Hear No Evil
• Stir Crazy
• This Is Spinal Tap
• Throw Momma From The Train
• Tootsie
• Twins
• Uncle Buck
• When Harry Met Sally
• Who's Harry Crumb?
• The Woman In Red

1990s to present

• 50 First Dates
• Ace Ventura
• Along Came Polly
• American Pie
• Analyze This and Analyze That
• Austin Powers
• The Big Lebowski
• Black Knight
• Bowfinger
• Bring it on
• Bruce Almighty
• But I'm A Cheerleader
• The Cable Guy
• Canadian Bacon
• Chasing Amy
• Clueless
• Coneheads
• Cool Runnings
• Dogma
• Dude, Where's My Car?
• Dumb and Dumber
• Earth Girls Are Easy
• Ed Wood
• Evolution
• Eurotrip
• Flirting with Disaster
• Groundhog Day
• Happy Gilmore
• Home Alone
• In & Out
• Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
• Jerky Boys: The Movie
• Joe Somebody
• Junior
• Kingpin
• Legally Blonde
• Liar Liar
• Like Mike
• Little Nicky
• Lost In Translation
• Mars Attacks
• The Mask
• Meet the Parents
• Miss Congeniality
• Mr. Deeds
• My Big Fat Greek Wedding
• My Cousin Vinny
• Mystery Men
• Noises Off
• Not Another Teen Movie
• One Night At McCool's
• Orange County
• Rat Race
• Road Trip
• Rush Hour and Rush Hour 2
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• The School of Rock
• Shallow Hal
• Shanghai Knights
• Shanghai Noon
• Starsky and Hutch
• Stuck on You
• Sugar & Spice
• The Waterboy
• Wayne's World and Wayne's World 2
• The Wedding Singer
• Zoolander

British comedy films

History

Early films

1920s

1930s

• Ask A Policeman
• Boys Will Be Boys
• Dandy Dick
• Good Morning, Boys
• Keep Fit
• Oh, Mr Porter!
• Trouble Brewing

1940s

• Hue and Cry
• Kind Hearts and Coronets
• Passport to Pimlico
• Whiskey Galore!

1950s

• The Belles of St. Trinians
• The Green Man
• The Happiest Days of Your Life
• The Ladykillers
• The Lavender Hill Mob
• The Mouse That Roared

1960s

• Ladies Who Do

1970s

• Jabberwocky
• Monty Python's Life of Brian
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Steptoe and Son
• Steptoe and Son Ride Again
• Up Pompeii
• Up the Chastity Belt
• Confessions of a Window Cleaner and other British sex comedies supported by the Eady levy

1980s

• Brazil
• Educating Rita
• A Fish Called Wanda
• The Meaning of Life
• Morons from Outer Space
• The Tall Guy
• Withnail and I

1990s to present

• About A Boy
• Ali G Indahouse
• Bean
• Bridget Jones' Diary
• Chicken Run
• East is East
• Bend It Like Beckham
• Billy Elliot
• Calendar Girls
• Four Weddings and a Funeral
• The Full Monty
• Love Actually
• Notting Hill
• The Parole Officer
• Sex Lives of the Potato Men
• Shawn of the Dead
• Shirley Valentine
• Bridget Jones' Diary 2

Foreign language comedy films

History

Early films

1920s

1930s

• Ungeküsst soll man nicht schlafen gehn

1940s

1950s

• Big Deal on Madonna Street

1960s

• Marriage Italian Style

1970s

1980s

1990s to present

Comedy films by artist

Comedy Classics by Charlie Chaplin:

• Modern Times
• The Great Dictator

Comedy Classics by Buster Keaton:

• The General

Comedy Classics by Laurel and Hardy:

• The Music Box
• Way Out West

Comedy Classics by the Marx Brothers:

• The Cocoanuts
• Animal Crackers
• Monkey Business
• Horse Feathers
• Duck Soup
• A Night at the Opera
• A Day at the Races
• Room Service
• At the Circus
• Go West
• A Night in Casablanca
• Love Happy

Comedy Classics by Woody Allen:

• Deconstructing Harry
• The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
• Mighty Aphrodite
• Hannah and Her Sisters
• Crimes and Misdemeanors
• Take the Money and Run
• Bananas
• Sleeper
• Bullets Over Broadway

Comedy Classics by Mel Brooks:

• Spaceballs
• Silent Movie
• Blazing Saddles
• Robin Hood: Men in Tights
• Young Frankenstein

Farrelly Brothers Comedy Movies:

• Kingpin
• Dumb and Dumber
• There's Something About Mary
• Me, Myself & Irene
• Shallow Hal
• Osmosis Jones

The Carry On films

External links

• Funny Videos (http://www.xhollywood.com) Archives of free funny videos and animation

See also

• Humor