The 100 Best Comedy Movies of All Time (Variety) - Page 3

Laughing matters. It always has. But laughing may matter even more in modern times. The slapstick genius of the silent clowns; the joyful lunacy of the Marx Brothers; the riotous repartee of screwball comedy; the sick-joke revolution of "Dr. Strangelove"; the prankster surrealism of Mel Brooks and Woody Allen; the midnight madness of John Waters; the unleashed anarchy of the "Saturday Night Live" generation; the barely controlled chaos of Jim Carrey … in compiling our list of the all-time greatest screen comedies, we thought long and hard about what makes a classic. But mostly we heeded the call of our funny bones. We hope these movies tickle yours as much as they do ours.