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A comedy film is a film/movie that seeks to provoke laughter in the audience. Along with drama, horror and science fiction it is one of the largest genres of the medium.

1 American comedy films

1.1 History

1.1.1 Early films

1.1.2 1920s

• Our Hospitality
• Three Ages
• The Goat

1.1.3 1930s

• Bachelor Mother
• It Happened One Night

1.1.4 1940s

• Arsenic and Old Lace

1.1.5 1950s

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

1.1.6 1960s

• Boeing Boeing
• Support Your Local Sheriff

1.1.7 1970s

• The Jerk
• M A S H
• Silver StreakSilver Streak is a 1976 film comedy starring Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor, Patrick McGoohan and Ned Beatty and directed by Arthur Hiller. Publisher George Caldwell (Wilder) is traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago on the titular train, Silve

1.1.8 1980s

• Airplane!VHS and DVD covers. Airplane is an American comedy film, first released on July 2, 1980, produced by the Zucker brothers, and starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, and Leslie Nielsen. It is the second of a number of movies produced and directed by the duo
• BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice is a film, directed by Tim Burton and first released in the USA on March 30, 1988. It features two recently deceased ghosts, Adam Maitland ( Alec Baldwin) and his wife Barbara ( Geena Davis), who seek the help of an obnoxious bio-exorcist, Bee
• Big
• The Blues BrothersThe Blues Brothers is the name of a blues band fronted, incognito, by comedians Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. Belushi (as vocalist Jake Blues) and Aykroyd (as harpist Elwood Blues), both members of the original cast of NBC's Saturday Night Live television
• Brewster's MillionsBrewster's Millions is the name of a novel written by George Barr McCutcheon in 1902. It has been turned into a play and a movie seven times with the 1985 Richard Pryor and John Candy version being best known. The story revolves around Montgomery Brewster
• Cannonball RunCannonball Run was a campy, screwball comedy released in 1981 that starred Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise and Farrah Fawcett-Majors. Hal Needham was the director and had an uncredited role as an emergency medical technician. The film is a sequel to the earlie
• 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