The 10 Best Comedy Movies Ever Made

Two broke musicians dress as women to flee gangsters, and Billy Wilder's farce finds Monroe, Curtis and Lemmon at peak form. It ends on the most famous last line in comedy. Every engine put it first.

Kubrick turned nuclear annihilation into a masterpiece of black comedy, with Peter Sellers playing three roles. The War Room never stops being funny or terrifying. Every engine had it in its top five.

The Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker disaster spoof fires jokes at a relentless pace, and nearly all of them land. Leslie Nielsen's deadpan changed comedy for good. Gemini ranked it as high as #2.

Bill Murray lives the same day over and over until he becomes a better man. It's funny, sweet and oddly profound, and it gave us a phrase everyone still uses. ChatGPT had it at #3.

Coconuts, a killer rabbit and the Knights Who Say Ni. Python's low-budget Arthurian romp is endlessly quotable and made absurdism mainstream. Gemini placed it #3, and it made nearly every list.

The Marx Brothers at their most anarchic: Groucho runs the nation of Freedonia into war, with Harpo and Chico wrecking whatever's left. It's the oldest film here and still fast, rude and funny.

Rob Reiner's fake rockumentary invented the mockumentary as we know it. Nigel Tufnel's amps go to eleven, and every band documentary since owes it a debt. It's stupid and brilliant at once.

The Coens' shaggy-dog L.A. noir turned the Dude into a patron saint of slackers. It's weird, endlessly rewatchable and quoted everywhere. Gemini put it in every top ten; the other two were split.

Mel Brooks's Western spoof tears through taboos with fearless, gleeful chaos. It's still outrageously funny. Gemini listed it every time, while ChatGPT never did, which makes this spot a real split decision.

Woody Allen's neurotic romance of Alvy and Annie redefined the romantic comedy, with talking to the camera, split screens and a perfect Diane Keaton. Claude listed it every time. Gemini never did.