List of American comedy films
This is a list of United States comedy films.
It is separated into two categories: short films and feature films. Any film over 40 minutes long is considered to be of feature-length (although today most feature films are much longer, this was not always the case previously).
Short Comedy Films
1890s
- The Inquisitive Girls
- The Minister's Wooing
- The Nearsighted School Teacher
- The Old Maid and the Burglar
- Little Willy and the Minister
1900s
1910s
- Between Showers
- A Busy Day
- Kid Auto Races at Venice
- Making a Living
- The New Janitor
- Twenty Minutes of Love
1920s
- Cops
- Mixed Nuts
- Glad Bags
- Our Gang - a long-running series of short films which began that year
- Pay Day
1930s
Feature length films
1910s
1920s
- 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
- Keeping up with Lizzie
- The Kid
- Leap Year
- A Sailor-Made Man
- The Traveling Salesman
- Doctor Jack
- Don't Get Personal
- Gay and Devilish
- Grandma's Boy
- The Ladder Jinx
- Red Hot Romance
- Up and at 'Em
1930s
- Bed of Roses
- Bombshell
- Christopher Bean
- Dinner at Eight
- Duck Soup
- His Private Secretary
- It's Great to Be Alive
- I'm No Angel
- She Done Him Wrong
- Sons of the Desert
- The Affairs of Cellini
- Babes in Toyland
- The Cat's-Paw
- It Happened One Night
- It's a Gift
- The Thin Man
- Libeled Lady
- The Milky Way
- Modern Times
- Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
- My Man Godrey
- Theodora Goes Wild
- Wife vs. Secretary
- The Awful Truth
- A Day at the Races
- Double Wedding
- History Is Made At Night
- Nothing Sacred
- Topper
- Way Out West
- The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
- Bringing up Baby
- Love Finds Andy Hardy
- Professor Beware
- Room Sevice
- A Slight Case of Murder
- You Can't Take It with You
- At the Circus
- Bachelor Mother
- Dancing Co-Ed
- East Side of Heaven
- Gunga Din
- Honolulu
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- Ninotchka
- The Women
1940s
- 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 Torpics
- The Philadelphia Story
- The Shop Around the Corner
- Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
- Ball of Fire
- The Big Store
- The Bride Came
- Buck Privates
- The Flame of New Orleans
- Here Comes Mr. Jordan
- The Lady Eve
- Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
- Highways by Night
- Lucky Jordan
- The Man Who Came to Dinner
- The Palm Beach Story
- Rio Rita
- Road to Morocco
- Ship Ahoy
- Tales of a 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
- A Lady Takes a Chance
- Du Barry Was a Lady
- Government Girl
- Heaven Can Wait
- Hello Frisco, Hello
- Hit the Ice
- I Dood It
- Mr. Lucky
- The More the Merrier
- A Night to Remember
- Slightly Dangerous
- They Got Me Covered
- Thousands Cheer
- Two Weeks to Live
- Whistling in Brooklyn
- Arsenic and Old Lace
- Hail the Conquering Hero
- Lady in the Dark
- The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
- Private Hargrove
- Sensations of 1945
- Standing Room Only
- 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
- The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
- 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
- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
- Bachelor Knight
- The Emperor Waltz
- A Foreign Affair
- June Bride
- Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
- The Noose Hangs High
- The Paleface
- Sitting Pretty
- Variety Time
- Adam's Rib
- Africa Screams
- Holiday Affair
- I Was a Male War Bride
- It's a Great Feeling
- Love Happy
- My Friend Irma
1950s
- Abbott and Costello in the Foregin Legion
- Born Yesterday
- Champagne for Caesar
- Cheaper by the Dozen
- Duchess of Idaho
- Father of the Bride
- The Great Rupert
- Harvey
- The Jackpot
- Key to the City
- My Friend Irma Goes West
- Two Weeks with Love
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man
- An American in Paris
- Angels in the Outfield
- Comin' Round the Mountain
- Father's Little Dividend
- Half Angel
- My Favorite Spy
- Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd
- Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
- Jumping Jacks
- Lost in Alaska
- Monkey Business
- Road to Bali
- Singin' in the Rain
- Son of Paleface
- The Band Wagon
- The Caddy
- The Girls of Pleasure Island
- How To Marry a Millionaire
- It Happens Every Thursday
- The Moon Is Blue
- Roman Holiday
- Scared Stiff
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
- The Seven Year Itch
- Mister Roberts
- My Sister Eileen
- The Trouble with Harry
- Bus Stop
- The Court Jester
- Forever Darling
- The Girl Can't Help It
- Hollywood Or Bust
- Our Miss Brooks
- Pardners
- The Teahouse of the August Moon
- The Delicate Delinquent
- Funny Face
- The Girl Most Likely
- Joe Butterfly
- Love in the Afternoon
- Sayonara
- Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
- Alias Jesse James
- A Bucket of Blood
- Have Rocket, Will Travel
- Pillow Talk
- The Shaggy Dog
- Some Like It Hot
1960s
- The Apartment
- The Bellboy
- Cinderfella
- It Started in Naples
- The Little Shop of Horrors
- North to Alaska
- Ocean's Eleven
- Where the Boys Are
- The Absent-Minded Professor
- Blue Hawaii
- Breakfast at Tiffany's
- Gidget Goes Hawaiian
- One Hundred and One Dalmatians
- One, Two, Three
- The Parent Trap
- Pocketful of Miracles
- Snow White and the Three Stooges
- Boy's Night Out
- Girls! Girls! Girls!
- Hatari!
- Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
- The Road to Hong Kong
- The Three Stooges Meet Hercules
- The Three Stooges in Orbit
- Charade
- The Courtship of Eddie's Father
- Donovan's Reef
- Fun in Acapulco
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World
- McLintock!
- The Nutty Professor
- The Pink Panther
- Spencer's Mountain
- The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze
- The Americanization of Emily
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- Ensign Pulver
- My Fair Lady
- Good Neighbor Sam
- Kiss Me, Stupid
- A Shot in the Dark
- Boeing Boeing
- Cat Ballou
- Dear Brigitte
- The Great Race
- The Hallelujah Trail
- Harum Scarum
- How to Murder Your Wife
- Love and Kisses
- The Outlaws IS Coming
- Tickle Me
- Follow Me, Boys!
- The Fortune Cookie
- Frankie and Johnny
- Murderers' Row
- Our Man Flint
- Paradise, Hawaiian Style
- The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
- The Silencers
- Spinout
- Walk Don't Run
- Barefoot in the Park
- Casino Royale
- David Holzman's Diary
- Don't Make Waves
- The Graduate
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
- The Happening
- Luv
- Mars Needs Women
- The President's Analyst
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
- Funny Girl
- Greetings
- Inspector Clouseau
- Live a Little, Love a Little
- The Odd Couple
- The Party
- The Producers
- The Secret War of Harry Frigg
- Stay Away, Joe
- Support Your Local Sheriff
- The April Fools
- Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
- Cactus Flower
- Change of Habit
- Hello, Dolly!
- The Reivers
- Support Your Local Sheriff!
- Take the Money and Run
- The Trouble with Girls
1970s
- Catch-22
- The Cheyenne Social Club
- M*A*S*H
- Myra Breckinridge
- The Out-of-Towners
- Start the Revolution Without Me
- There Was a Crooked Man...
- 200 Motels
- Bananas
- Carnal Knowledge
- Happy Birthday, Wanda June
- Harold and Maude
- The Hospital
- A New Leaf
- Support Your Local Gunfighter!
- Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
- Avanti!
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex
- Fritz the Cat
- The Heartbreak Kid
- Pink Flamingos
- Play it Again, Sam
- What's Up, Doc?
- Blazing Saddles
- Dark Star
- Dirty Duck
- Flesh Gordon
- Ginger in the Morning
- The Groove Tube
- Harry and Tonto
- The Longest Yard
- The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat
- Phantom of the Paradise
- The Thorn
- Uptown Saturday Night
- Young Frankenstein
- The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
- The Fortune
- Love and Death
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Rooster Cogburn
- Shampoo
- The Sunshine Boys
- The Bad News Bears
- The Big Bus
- Cannonball
- Car Wash
- Chesty Anderson, USN
- Family Plot
- The Gumball Rally
- Murder by Death
- Nickelodeon
- Silent Movie
- Silver Streak
- Tunnel Vision
- Annie Hall
- The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
- Candleshoe
- Grand Theft Auto
- Handle With Care
- High Anxiety
- The Last Remake of Beau Geste
- The Kentucky Fried Movie
- Oh, God!
- A Piece of the Action
- Smokey and the Bandit
- The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
- California Suite
- The Cat from Outer Space
- Corvette Summer
- The End
- Every Which Way But Loose
- Goin' South
- Heaven Can Wait
- Hooper
- National Lampoon's Animal House
- Rabbit Test
- Sextette
- Up in Smoke
- A Wedding
- 10
- 1941
- Americathon
- Being There
- Breaking Away
- The Frisco Kid
- The In-Laws
- The Jerk
- The Main Event
- Manhattan
- The Muppet Movie
- Real Life
- Rock 'n' Roll High School
- Starting Over
- The Villain