Comedy film

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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.

Contents 1 American comedy films 1.1 History 1.1.1 Early films 1.1.2 1920s 1.1.3 1930s 1.1.4 1940s 1.1.5 1950s 1.1.6 1960s 1.1.7 1970s 1.1.8 1980s 1.1.9 1990s to present 2 British comedy films 2.1 History 2.1.1 Early films 2.1.2 1920s 2.1.3 1930s 2.1.4 1940s 2.1.5 1950s 2.1.6 1960s 2.1.7 1970s 2.1.8 1980s 2.1.9 1990s to present 3 Foreign language comedy films 3.1 History 3.1.1 Early films 3.1.2 1920s 3.1.3 1930s 3.1.4 1940s 3.1.5 1950s 3.1.6 1960s 3.1.7 1970s 3.1.8 1980s 3.1.9 1990s to present 4 Other sub-genres 5 See also 5.1 References

American comedy films

History

Early films

1920s

• 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
• The Deserter
• Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
• 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
• The Man in the Movie
• Mars Attacks
• The Mask
• Meet the Parents
• Miss Congeniality
• Mr. Deeds
• My Big Fat Greek Wedding
• 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

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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

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Foreign language comedy films

History

Early films

1920s

1930s

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1940s

1950s

• Big Deal on Madonna Street

1960s

• Marriage Italian Style

1970s

1980s

1990s to present

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Other sub-genres

Film comedy 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

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

See also

• Humor

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Comedy_film" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy_film, used under the GNU Free Documentation License