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Top 20 Comedy Movies

1
As Good as it Gets

1997
TriStar Pictures
  • Jack Nicholson ... Melvin Udall
  • Helen Hunt ... Carol Connelly
  • Greg Kinnear ... Simon Bishop
  • Cuba Gooding Jr. ... Frank Sachsr

2
Accepted

2006
Universal
  • Justin Long ... Bartleby Gaines
  • Jonah Hill ... Sherman Schrader
  • Adam Herschman ... Glen
  • Columbus Short ... Hands Holloway
  • Maria Thayer ... Rory Thayer
  • Lewis Black ... Ben Lewis
  • Blake Lively ... Monica

3
Ten Things I Hate about You

1999
Touchstone Pictures
  • Heath Ledger ... Patrick Verona
  • Julia Stiles ... Kat Stratford
  • Joseph Gordon-Levitt ... Cameron James

4
The Replacements

2000
Bel Air Entertainment
  • Keanu Reeves ... Shane Falco
  • Gene Hackman ... Jimmy McGinty
  • Brooke Langton ... Annabelle Farrell

5
Blazing Saddles

1974
Warner Bros.
  • Cleavon Little ... Bart
  • Gene Wilder ... Jim
  • Slim Pickens ... Taggart
  • Harvey Korman ... Hedley Lamarr
  • Madeline Kahn ... Lili Von Shtupp
  • Mel Brooks ... Governor William J. Lepetomane / Indian Chief

6
Airplane

1980
Paramount Pictures
  • Robert Hays ... Ted Striker
  • Julie Hagerty ... Elaine
  • Peter Graves ... Captain Oveur
  • Leslie Nielsen ... Dr. Rumack
  • Lloyd Bridges ... McCroskey

7
Wedding Crashers

2005
New Line Cinema
  • Owen Wilson ... John Beckwith
  • Vince Vaughn ... Jeremy Grey
  • Christopher Walken ... Secretary Cleary
  • Rachel McAdams ... Claire Cleary
  • Isla Fisher ... Gloria Cleary
  • Jane Seymour ... Kathleen Cleary

8
Good Morning, Vietnam

1987
Touchstone Pictures
  • Robin Williams ... Adrian Cronauer
  • Forest Whitaker ... Edward Garlick

9
Who Framed Roger Rabbit

1988
Touchstone Pictures
  • Bob Hoskins ... Eddie Valiant
  • Christopher Lloyd ... Judge Doom
  • Joanna Cassidy ... Dolores
  • Charles Fleischer ... Roger Rabbit / Benny The Cab / Greasy / Psycho

10
The Longest Yard

1974
Paramount Pictures
  • Burt Reynolds ... Paul Crewe
  • Eddie Albert ... Warden Hazen
  • Bernadette Peters ... Miss Toot

11
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

1975
Fantasy Films
  • Jack Nicholson ... R.P. McMurphy
  • Louise Fletcher ... Nurse Mildred Ratched
  • Danny DeVito ... Martini

12
Trading Places

1983
Paramount Pictures
  • Dan Aykroyd ... Louis Winthorpe III
  • Eddie Murphy ... Billy Ray Valentine
  • Ralph Bellamy ... Randolph Duke
  • Don Ameche ... Mortimer Duke
  • Jamie Lee Curtis ... Ophelia

13
Kinky Boots

2005
Miramax
  • Chiwetel Ejiofor ... Lola
  • Joel Edgerton ... Charlie
  • Sarah-Jane Potts ... Laure
  • Gene Wilder ... Willy Wonka
  • Jack Albertson ... Grandpa Joe
  • Peter Ostrum ... Charlie

15
Animal House

1978
Universal
  • John Belushi ... John 'Bluto' Blutarsky
  • Tim Matheson ... Eric 'Otter' Stratton
  • John Vernon ... Dean Vernon Wormer
  • Verna Bloom ... Marion Wormer
  • Tom Hulce ... Larry 'Pinto' Kroger

16
Shampoo

1975
Columbia
  • Warren Beatty ... George Roundy
  • Julie Christie ... Jackie Shawn
  • Goldie Hawn ... Jill
  • Lee Grant ... Felicia Carp
  • Jack Warden ... Lester Carp

17
Young Frankenstein

1974
Gruskoff/Venture Films
  • Gene Wilder ... Dr. Frankenstein
  • Peter Boyle ... The Monster
  • Marty Feldman ... Igor
  • Cloris Leachman ... Frau Blücher
  • Teri Garr ... Inga

18
Victor Victoria

1982
MGM
  • Julie Andrews ... Victoria Grant, aka Count Victor Grezhinski
  • James Garner ... King Marchand
  • Robert Preston ... Carroll 'Toddy' Todd \
  • Lesley Ann Warren ... Norma Cassady
  • Alex Karras ... 'Squash' Bernstein
  • John Rhys-Davies ... Andre Cassell

19
The Blues Brothers

1980
Universal
  • John Belushi ... 'Joliet' Jake Blues (as Jake)
  • Dan Aykroyd ... Elwood Blues (as Elwood)
  • James Brown ... Reverend Cleophus James
  • Cab Calloway ... Curtis
  • Ray Charles ... Ray
  • Aretha Franklin ... Mrs. Murphy

20
Beetlejuice

1988
Geffen Company
  • Michael Keaton ... Betelgeuse
  • Alec Baldwin ... Adam Maitland
  • Geena Davis ... Barbara Maitland