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AFI 100 Years... 100 Laughs

After the success of their 100 Years... 100 Movies list, the American Film Institute proceeded to churn out another list every year. Some are more abstracted than being merely 'best films' lists, celebrating songs, heroes and villains or movie quotes, but a few aimed to identify the best American films in certain genres.

This one tried for the funniest American films of all time. It aired on CBS on 13th June, 2000 with Drew Barrymore as the host.

The source list can be found here.

The List

# Title Year Director IMDb
1 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder IMDb
2 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack IMDb
3 Dr Strangelove 1964 Stanley Kubrick IMDb
4 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen IMDb
5 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey IMDb
6 Blazing Saddles 1974 Mel Brooks IMDb
7 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman IMDb
8 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra IMDb
9 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols IMDb
10 Airplane! 1980 Jim Abrahams, David Zucker & Jerry Zucker IMDb
11 The Producers 1968 Mel Brooks IMDb
12 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood IMDb
13 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks IMDb
14 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks IMDb
15 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor IMDb
16 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen IMDb
17 The Odd Couple 1968 Gene Saks IMDb
18 The General 1926 Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman IMDb
19 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks IMDb
20 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder IMDb
21 A Fish Called Wanda 1988 Charles Crichton IMDb
22 Adam's Rib 1949 George Cukor IMDb
23 When Harry Met Sally... 1989 Rob Reiner IMDb
24 Born Yesterday 1950 George Cukor IMDb
25 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin IMDb
26 Being There 1979 Hal Ashby IMDb
27 There's Something About Mary 1998 Bobby & Peter Farrelly IMDb
28 Ghostbusters 1984 Ivan Reitman IMDb
29 This is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner IMDb
30 Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 Frank Capra IMDb
31 Raising Arizona 1987 Joel Coen IMDb
32 The Thin Man 1934 W S Van Dyke IMDb
33 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin IMDb
34 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis IMDb
35 Harvey 1950 Henry Koster IMDb
36 National Lampoon's Animal House 1978 John Landis IMDb
37 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin IMDb
38 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin IMDb
39 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges IMDb
40 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World 1963 Stanley Kramer IMDb
41 Moonstruck 1987 Norman Jewison IMDb
42 Big 1988 Penny Marshall IMDb
43 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas IMDb
44 My Man Godfrey 1936 Gregory LaCava IMDb
45 Harold and Maude 1971 Hal Ashby IMDb
46 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen IMDb
47 Shampoo 1975 Hal Ashby IMDb
48 A Shot in the Dark 1964 Blake Edwards IMDb
49 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch IMDb
50 Cat Ballou 1965 Elliot Silverstein IMDb
51 The Seven Year Itch 1955 Billy Wilder IMDb
52 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch IMDb
53 Arthur 1981 Steve Gordon IMDb
54 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1944 Preston Sturges IMDb
55 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges IMDb
56 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 1948 Charles T Barton IMDb
57 Diner 1982 Barry Levinson IMDb
58 It's a Gift 1934 Norman Z McLeod IMDb
59 A Day at the Races 1937 Sam Wood IMDb
60 Topper 1937 Norman Z McLeod IMDb
61 What's Up, Doc? 1972 Peter Bogdanovich IMDb
62 Sherlock, Jr 1924 Buster Keaton IMDb
63 Beverly Hills Cop 1984 Martin Brest IMDb
64 Broadcast News 1987 James L Brooks IMDb
65 Horse Feathers 1932 Norman Z McLeod IMDb
66 Take the Money and Run 1969 Woody Allen IMDb
67 Mrs Doubtfire 1993 Chris Columbus IMDb
68 The Awful Truth 1937 Leo McCarey IMDb
69 Bananas 1971 Woody Allen IMDb
70 Mr Deeds Goes to Town 1936 Frank Capra IMDb
71 Caddyshack 1980 Harold Ramis IMDb
72 Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House 1948 H C Potter IMDb
73 Monkey Business 1931 Norman Z McLeod IMDb
74 9 to 5 1980 Colin Higgins IMDb
75 She Done Him Wrong 1933 Lowell Sherman IMDb
76 Victor/Victoria 1982 Blake Edwards IMDb
77 The Palm Beach Story 1942 Preston Sturges IMDb
78 Road to Morocco 1942 David Butler IMDb
79 The Freshman 1925 Sam Taylor & Fred Newmeyer IMDb
80 Sleeper 1973 Woody Allen IMDb
81 The Navigator 1924 Buster Keaton & Donald Crisp IMDb
82 Private Benjamin 1980 Howard Zieff IMDb
83 Father of the Bride 1950 Vincente Minnelli IMDb
84 Lost in America 1985 Albert Brooks IMDb
85 Dinner at Eight 1933 George Cukor IMDb
86 City Slickers 1991 Ron Underwood IMDb
87 Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1982 Amy Heckerling IMDb
88 Beetlejuice 1988 Tim Burton IMDb
89 The Jerk 1979 Carl Reiner IMDb
90 Woman of the Year 1942 George Stevens IMDb
91 The Heartbreak Kid 1972 Elaine May IMDb
92 Ball of Fire 1941 Howard Hawks IMDb
93 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen IMDb
94 Auntie Mame 1958 Morton DaCosta IMDb
95 Silver Streak 1976 Arthur Hiller IMDb
96 Sons of the Desert 1933 William A Seiter IMDb
97 Bull Durham 1988 Ron Shelton IMDb
98 The Court Jester 1956 Norman Panama & Melvin Frank IMDb
99 The Nutty Professor 1963 Jerry Lewis IMDb
100 Good Morning, Vietnam 1987 Barry Levinson IMDb


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