List of American comedy films

This is a list of United States comedy films.

Short Comedy Films

1890s

• Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1894)
• Robetta and Doretto (1895)
• Watering the Gardener (1895)
• Interuppted Lover (1896)
• In a Chinese Laundry (1897)
• The Milker's Mishap (1897)
• New Pillow Fight (1897)
• Young America (1897)
• The Inquisitive Girls (1898)
• The Minister's Wooing (1898)
• The Nearsighted School Teacher (1898)
• The Old Maid and the Burglar (1898)
• Little Willy and the Minister (1898)
• Armor vs. Armour (1899)
• An Exciting Finish (1899)

1900s

• Tag Day (1909)
• The New Cop (1909)
• Cohen at Corey Island (1909)
• The Taming of the Shrew (1908)
• The Painter's Revenge (1908)
• A Calamitcus Elapment (1908)
• College Chums (1907)
• Dr. Dippy's Sanitarium (1906)
• Raffles the Dog (1905)
• Everybody Works But Father (1905)
• The Little Train Robbery (1905)
• I Want My Dinner (1903)
• A Narrow Escape (1903)
• The Magical Tramp (1903)
• A Joke on Grandma (1901)
• I Had to Leave a Happy Home For You (1900)
• The Burglar-Proof Bed (1900)
• Above the Limit (1900)

1910s

• Short Hustling For Health (1919)
• The Garage (1919)
• The Hayseed (1919)
• Hoot, Moon! (1919)
• Backstage (1919)
• The Cook (1918)
• Good-Night, Nurse! (1918)
• O, It's Great to Be Crazy (1918)
• The Immigrant (1917)
• Easy Street (1917)
• The Fireman (1916)
• Behind the Screen (1916)
• The Floorwalker (1916)
• A Woman (1915)
• A Night in the Snow (1915)
• Ragtime Snap Shots (1915)
• Between Showers (1914)
• Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914)
• The New Janitor (1914)
• Making a Living (1914)
• Twenty Minutes of Love (1914)
• A Busy Day (1914)
• Nursey Favorites (1913)
• The New Pupil (1913)
• O'Brien's Busy Day (1912)
• The New Neighbor (1912)
• A Near-Tragedy (1912)
• Making a Man of Her (1912)
• Money to Burn (1911)
• Making a Man of Him (1910)
• Davy Jones and Captain Bragg (1910)

1920s

• One Week (1920)
• A Lucky Dog (1921)
• Now or Never (1921)
• The Idle Class (1921)
• Among Those Present (1921)
• Mixed Nuts (1922)
• Glad Bags (1922)
• Our Gang (1922)
• Pay Day (1922)
• The Ballonaric (1923)
• Gas and Air (1923)
• Kill or Cure (1923)
• The Love Nest (1923)
• A Powder Romance (1923)
• Portage Due (1924)
• Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
• Love'em and Weep (1927)
• Hats Off (1928)
• Steamboat Willie (1928)
• The Circus (1928)
• Big Business (1929)

1930s

• Brats (1930)
• Shivering Shakespeare (1930)
• One Way Out (1930)
• Teacher's Pet (1930)
• The Music Box (1932)
• The Hollywood Handicap (1932)
• Running Hollywood (1932)
• The Voice of Hollywood No, 13 (1932)

1910s

• The Adventure Shop (1919)
• After His Own Heart (1919)
• All Night (1918)
• Amarilly of Clothes-Line (1918)
• A Black Sheep (1915)
• Daddy-Long-Legs (1919)
• Fair Enough (1918)
• A Golf Insect (1914)
• The Hoodlum (1919)
• The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
• The Hatit of Happiness (1916)
• Neighbors (1918)
• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917)
• The Earl of Pawtusker (1915)
• Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)

1920s

• The Brass Bottle (1923)
• The Eagle (1925)
• Easy to Get (1920)
• Eden and Return (1921)
• The Freshman (1925)
• Gay and Devilish (1922)
• The General (1927)
• The Girl in the Taxi (1921)
• The Gold Rush (1925)
• Grandma's Boy (1922)
• Happiness (1924)
• The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
• Humor Risk (1921)
• Keeping up with Lizzie (1921)
• The Kid (1921)
• The Ladder Jinx (1922)
• Long Pants (1927)
• Lover's Lane (1924)
• The Matinee Idol (1928)
• Navy Blues (1929)
• The Near Lady (1923)
• Red Hot Romance (1922)
• Don't Get Personal (1922)
• Our Hospitality (1923)
• Pollyanna (1920)
• The Sapheart (1920)
• Show People (1928)
• Souls for Sale (1923)
• The Strong Man (1926)
• Suds (1920)
• Three Ages (1923)
• The Goat (1921)
• The Cocoanuts (1929)
• Up and at 'Em (1922)
• The Wild Party (1929)
• Words and Music (1929)

1930s

• The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
• Animal Crackers (1930)
• At the Circus (1939)
• Babes in Toyland (1934)
• Bachelor Mother (1939)
• Bringing up Baby (1938)
• Christopher Bean (1933)
• City Lights (1931)
• Dancing Co-Ed (1939)
• A Day at the Races (1937)
• Duck Soup (1933)
• East Side of Heaven (1939)
• Ever Since Eve (1931)
• The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935)
• The Front Page (1931)
• Girls Demand Excitement (1931)
• His Private Secretary (1933)
• Honolulu (1939)
• Horse Feathers (1932)
• The House that Shadows Built (1931)
• I'm No Angel (1933)
• It Happened One Night (1934)
• The Milky Way (1936)
• Modern Times (1936)
• Monkey Buisness (1931)
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
• A Night at the Opera (1935)
• Paradise Canyon (1935)
• The Rogue Song (1930)
• Room Sevice (1938)
• Son of the Desert (1933)
• That's My Boy (1932)
• This Is the Night (1932)
• Way Out West (1937)
• You Can't Take It with You (1938)

1940s

• A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)
• Adam's Rib (1949)
• Africa Screams (1949)
• Along Came Jones (1945)
• Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941)
• Angel on My Shoulder (1946)
• Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
• Bachelor Knight (1948)
• Ball of Fire (1941)
• The Big Store (1941)
• The Bride Came (1941)
• Buck Privates Come Home (1947)
• The Bullfighters (1945)
• Christmas Eve (1947)
• Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)
• Eadie was A Lady (1945)
• The Emperor Waltz (1948)
• The Egg and I (1947)
• The Flame of New Orleans (1941)
• The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
• Go West (1940)
• Government Girl (1943)
• The Great Dictator (1940)
• Heaven Can Wait (1943)
• Hello Frisco, Hello (1943)
• Highways by Night (1942)
• His Girl Friday (1940)
• Hit the Ice (1943)
• I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
• June Bride (1948)
• Lady in the Dark (1944)
• Little Giant (1946)
• Love Happy (1949)
• Lover Come Back (1946)
• Lucky Jordan (1942)
• The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
• Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
• Monsieur Beaucaire (1946)
• Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
• Mr. Lucky (1943)
• My Favorite Wife (1940)
• A Night in Casablanca (1946)
• A Night to Remember (1943)
• The Noose Hangs High (1948)
• One Night in the Torpics (1940)
• The Paleface (1948)
• Private Hargrove (1944)
• The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
• Sitting Pretty (1948)
• Slightly Dangerous (1943)
• Standing Room Only (1944)
• Suddenly, It's Spring (1947)
• Tales of a Manhattan (1942)
• There's One Born Every Minute (1942)
• The Talk of the Town (1942)
• The Time of Their Lives (1946)
• They Got Me Covered (1943)
• Two Weeks to Live (1943)
• Variety Time (1948)
• The Voice of the Turtle (1947)
• Where There's Life (1947)
• Whistling in Brooklyn (1943)
• Without Reservations (1946)
• You Were Never Lovelier 1943)

1950s

• Abbott and Costello in the Foregin Legion (1950)
• Alias Jesse James (1959)
• An American in Paris (1951)
• Angels in the Outfield (1951)
• Bus Stop (1956)
• Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)
• Comin' Round the Mountain (1951)
• Forever Darling (1956)
• Funny Face (1957)
• The Girl Most Likely (1957)
• Half Angel (1951)
• Harvey (1950)
• How To Marry A Millionaire (1953)
• It Happens Every Thursday (1953)
• The Jackpot (1950)
• Jumping Jacks (1952)
• Key to the City (1950)
• Lost in Alaska (1952)
• Love in the Afternoon (1957)
• Monkey Buisness (1952)
• My Favorite Spy (1951)
• Our Miss Brooks (1956)
• Paris Holiday (1958)
• Pillow Talk (1959)
• Sabrina (1954)
• Sayonara (1957)
• The Seven Year Itch (1955)
• The Shaggy Dog (1959)
• My Sister Eileen (1955)
• Some Like It Hot (1959)
• Son of Paleface (1952)
• Teacher's Pet (1958)
• The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)
• The Tunnel of Love (1958)
• Two Weeks with Love (1950)
• Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)

1960s

• The Apartment (1960)
• The April Fools (1969)
• Barefoot in the Park (1967)
• Blue Hawaii (1961)
• Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
• Boeing Boeing (1965)
• Boy's Night Out(1962)
• Cactus Flower (1969)
• Cat Ballou (1965)
• Change of Habit (1969)
• Donoran's Reet (1963)
• The Fortune Cookie (1966)
• The Great Race (1965)
• Greetings (1968)
• Hatari! (1962)
• Hello, Dolly! (1969)
• The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
• Luv (1967)
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World (1963)
• McLintock! (1963)
• North to Alaska (1960)
• Fun in Acapulco (1963)
• Ocean's Eleven (1960)
• The Odd Couple (1968)
• One, Two, Three (1961)
• Our Man Flint (1966)
• The Parent Trap (1961)
• The Pink Panther (1963)
• The Reivers (1969)
• A Shot in the Dark (1964)
• Support Your Local Sheriff (1968)
• Take the Money and Run (1969)
• Walk Don't Run (1966)

1970s

• 200 Motels (1971)
• 1941 (film) (1979)
• 10 (film) (1979)
• A Piece of the Action (1977)
• Animal House (1978)
• Annie Hall (1977)
• Avanti! (1972)
• The Bad News Bears (1976)
• The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977)
• Bananas (film) (1971)
• Being There (1979)
• The Big Bus (1976)
• Blazing Saddles (1974)
• Breaking Away (1979)
• California Suite (1978)
• Carnal Knowledge (1971)
• Car Wash (1976)
• Cracking Up (1977)
• Dirty Duck (1974)
• Every Which Way But Loose (1978)
• Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (1972)
• Family Plot (1976)
• Fritz the Cat (1972)
• Harry and Tonto (1974)
• The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
• High Anxiety (1978)
• The Hospital (1971)
• The In-Laws (1979)
• The Jerk (1979)
• Let's Do It Again (1975)
• Love and Death (1975)
• M A S H (1970)
• Murder by Death (1976)
• The Muppet Movie (1979)
• Myra Breckinridge (1970)
• Nickelodeon (1976)
• Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat, The
• Paper Moon (1973)
• Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
• Pink Flamingos (1972)
• Play it Again, Sam (1972)
• Real Life (1979)
• Rooster Cogburn (1975)
• Silent Movie (1976)
• Silver Streak (1976)
• Sleeper (1973)
• Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
• The Sunshine Boys (1975)
• The End (1978)
• Up in Smoke (1978)
• What's Up, Doc? (1972)
• Young Frankenstein (1974)

1980s

• 48 Hours (1982)
• Airplane! (1980)
• Any Which Way You Can (1980)
• Armed and Dangerous (1986)
• Back to the Future (1985)
• Back to School (1986)
• Beetlejuice (1988)
• Beverly Hills (1984)
• Big (1988)
• Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
• The Blues Brothers (1980)
• Brewster's Millions (1985)
• Broadcast News (1987)
• Caddyshack (1980)
• Caddyshack II (1988)
• Cannonball Run (1981)
• Carbon Copy (1981)
• Caveman (1981)
• Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (1980)
• Cherry 2000 (1987)
• A Christmas Story (1983)
• Christmas Vacation (1989)
• Cocoon (1985)
• Coming to America (1988)
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
• Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)
• Eating Raoul (1982)
• Eddie Murphy Raw (1987)
• Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (1988)
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
• Flicks (1987)
• Ghostbusters (1984)
• Going Overboard (1989)
• The Golden Child (1986)
• The Goonies (1985)
• The Great Outdoors (1988)
• Gremlins (1984)
• Hanky Panky (1982)
• Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
• Harlem Nights (1989)
• Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
• I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)
• In God We Trust (1980)
• It Came From Hollywood (1982)
• Into the Night (1985)
• K-9 (1989)
• Last Resort (1986)
• Look Who's Talking (1989)
• Lost in America (1985)
• The Man With Two Brains (1983)
• Married to the Mob (1988)
• Melvin and Howard (1980)
• Moving (1988)
• Mr. Mom (1983)
• My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)]
• Nine to Five (1980)
• Nothing in Common (1986)
• One More Saturday Night (1986)
• Parenthood (1989)
• Pee Wee's Big Adventure (1985)
• Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
• Police Academy (1984)
• Private Benjamin (1980)
• Punchline (1988)
• Radio Days (1987)
• Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
• Rhinestone (1984)
• Roxanne (1987)
• Ruthless People (1986)
• See No Evil, Hear No Evil
• She's Having a Baby (1988)
• Soul Man (1986)
• Spaceballs (1987)
• Spies Like Us (1985)
• Splash (1984)
• Stir Crazy (1980)
• The Stunt Man (1980)
• Summer School (1987)
• Surrender (1987)
• Tapeheads (1988)
• Teachers (1984)
• This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
• Three Men and a Baby (1987)
• Tootsie (1982)
• The Toy (1982)
• True Stories (1986)
• Trading Places (1983)
• Twins (1988)
• UHF (1989)
• Uncle Buck (1989)
• Up the Creek (1984)
• Valley Girl (1983)
• Vibes (1988)
• The War of the Roses (1989)
• When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
• Wildcats (1986)
• Who's Harry Crumb? (1989)
• The World According to Garp (1982)
• Yellow Pages (1988)

1990s

• 101 Dalmatians (1996)
• 3 Ninjas (1992)
• Ace Ventura (1994)
• American Pie (1999)
• Analyze This (1999)
• Angels in the Outfield (1994)
• Another Stakeout (1993)
• As Good as It Gets (1997)
• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
• Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
• Baby's Day Out (1994)
• Beethoven (film) (1991)
• Benny and Joon (1993)
• The Big Lebowski (1998)
• Billy Madison(1995)
• Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)
• The Birdcage (1996)
• Black Sheep (1996)
• The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
• Bowfinger (1999)
• But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)
• The Cable Guy (1996)
• Canadian Bacon (1995)
• CB4 (1993)
• Celebrity
• Chasing Amy (1997)
• City Slickers (1991)
• Class Act (1992)
• Clueless (1995)
• Coneheads (1993)
• Cool Runnings (1993)
• D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994)
• Dazed and Confused (film)(1998)
• Dead Man on Campus (1998)
• Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999)
• Detroit Rock City (1999)
• Dick (1999)
• Dogma (1999)
• Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991)
• Dumb & Dumber (1994)
• Ed Wood (1994)
• Empire Records (1995)
• Fatal Instinct (1993)
• Fathers' Day (1997)
• Fear of a Black Hat (1994)
• Fierce Creatures (1997)
• Flirting with Disaster (1996)
• Friday (1995)
• Groundhog Day (1993)
• Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
• Half Baked (1998)
• Happy Gilmore (1996)
• Home Alone (1990)
• Hot Shots! (1991)
• Homegrown (1998)
• In & Out (1997)
• Jeffrey (1995)
• Jerky Boys: The Movie (1995)
• Jimmy Hollywood (1994)
• Jingle All the Way (1996)
• Kingpin (1996)
• A League of Their Own (1992)
• Liar Liar (1997)
• The Little Rascals (1994)
• Love Stinks (1999)
• Made in America (1993)
• The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997)
• Mars Attacks! (1996)
• The Mask (1994)
• Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
• My Cousin Vinny (1992)
• Mystery Men (1999)
• Noises Off (1992)
• Operation Dumbo Drop (1995)
• Postcards from the Edge (1990)
• Pretty Woman (1990)
• Problem Child (1990)
• Pump Up the Volume (1990)
• Quick Change (1990)
• Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997)
• Rover Dangerfield (1991)
• Runaway Bride (1999)
• Rush Hour (1998)
• Shakes the Clown (1991)
• South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut 1999
• Space Jam (1996)
• The Stoned Age (1994)
• Sugar & Spice (1998)
• Tango (1999)
• Taxi (1998)
• Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999)
• Theodore Rex (1996)
• Threesome (1994)
• Tommy Boy (1994)
• Toys (1992)
• True Lies (1994)
• Uranus (1990)
• Vegas Vacation (1997)
• The Waterboy (1998)
• Wag the Dog (1997)
• Wayne's World (1992)
• Wayne's World 2 (1993)
• The Wedding Singer (1998)
• What About Bob? (1991)
• Where the Heart Is (1990 film) (1990)

2000s

• 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)
• 50 First Dates (2004)
• The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000)
• Along Came Polly (2004)
• Analyze That (2002)
• Anger Management (2003)
• Are We There Yet? (2005)
• Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
• Bewitched
• Bad Boys II (2003)
• Big Fish (2003)
• Black Knight (2001)
• Boat Trip (2002)
• Bring It On (2000)
• Bruce Almighty (2003)
• Cats and Dogs (2001)
• Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005)
• Down With Love (2003)
• Dude, Where's My Car? (2000)
• Elf (2003)
• Elvira's Haunted Hills (2001)
• Eulogy (2004)
• Eight Crazy Nights (2002)
• Evolution (2001)
• Eurotrip (2004)
• Festival in Cannes (2001)
• Fever Pitch (2005)
• Garfield (2004)
• Hitch (2005)
• The Honeymooners (2005)
• In the Mix (2005)
• Jackass: The Movie (2002)
• Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
• Jett Jackson: The Movie (2001)
• Joe Dirt (2001)
• A Knight's Tale (2001)
• Legally Blonde (2001)
• Like Mike (2002)
• Little Nicky (2000)
• The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003)
• Lost In Translation (2003)
• Madagascar (2005)
• Meet the Parents (2000)
• Miss Congeniality (2000)
• Mr. 3000 (2004)
• Mr. Deeds (2002)
• My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)
• Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
• The New Guy (2002)
• Not Another Teen Movie (2001)
• O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
• Orange County (2002)
• Rat Race (2001)
• Road Trip (2000)
• The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
• The School of Rock (2003)
• Shallow Hal (2001)
• Shanghai Knights (2003)
• Shanghai Noon (2000)
• Shopgirl (2005)
• Starsky & Hutch (2004)
• Stuck on You (2003)
• Taxi (2004)
• The Tuxedo (2002)
• Underclassman (2005)
• Undercover Brother (2002)
• Zoolander (2001)

See also

• List of British comedy films
• List of comedy films in languages other than English
• List of comedy science fiction movies
• List of comedy horror movies
• List of comedy-drama films
• List of movie genres
• List of lists