List of United States comedy films

This is a list of United States comedy films.

It is separated into two categories: short films and feature films. Any film over 40 minutes long is considered to be of feature-length (although today most feature films are much longer, this was not always the case previously).

hort comedy films

1890s

1894
*"Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze"

1895
*"Robetta and Doretto"
*"Watering the Gardener"

1896
*"Interuppted Lover"

1897
*"In a Chinese Laundry"
*"The Milker's Mishap"
*"New Pillow Fight"
*"Young America"

1898
*"The Inquisitive Girls"
*"The Minister's Wooing"
*"The Nearsighted School Teacher"
*"The Old Maid and the Burglar"
*"Little Willy and the Minister"

1899
*"Armor vs. Armour"
*"An Exciting Finish"

1900s

1900
*"Above the Limit"
*"The Burglar-Proof Bed"
*"I Had to Leave a Happy Home For You"

1901
*"A Joke on Grandma"

1902

1903
*"I Want My Dinner"
*"A Narrow Escape"
*"The Magical Tramp"

1904

1905
*"Everybody Works But Father"
*"The Little Train Robbery"
*"Raffles the Dog"

1906
*"Humorous Phases of Funny Faces"
*"Dr. Dippy's Sanitarium"

1907
*"College Chums"

1908
*"A Calamitcus Elapment"
*"The Painter's Revenge"
*"The Taming of the Shrew"

1909
*"Cohen at Corey Island"
*"The New Cop"
*"Tag Day"

1910s

1910
*"Davy Jones and Captain Bragg"
*"Making a Man of Him"

1911
*"Money to Burn"

1912
*"Making a Man of Her"
*"A Near-Tragedy"
*"The New Neighbor"
*"O'Brien's Busy Day"

1913
*"The New Pupil"
*"Nursey Favorites"

1914
*"Between Showers"
*"A Busy Day"
*"Kid Auto Races at Venice"
*"Making a Living"
*"The New Janitor"
*"Twenty Minutes of Love"

1915
*"Fatty's Tintype Tangle"
*"A Night in the Snow"
*"Ragtime Snap Shots"
*"The Tramp"
*"A Woman"

1916
*"Behind the Screen"
*"The Fireman"
*"The Floorwalker"
*"The Pawnshop"
*"The Vagabond"

1917
*"The Adventurer"
*"Back Stage"
*"Easy Street"
*"The Immigrant"

1918
*"The Cook"
*"Good-Night, Nurse!"
*"O, It's Great to Be Crazy"

1919
*"Back Stage"
*"The Garage"
*"The Hayseed"
*"Hoot, Moon!"
*"Short Hustling For Health"

1920s

1920
*"One Week"

1921
*"A Lucky Dog"
*"Now or Never"
*"The Idle Class"
*"The Goat"
*"Among Those Present"

1922
*"Cops"
*"Mixed Nuts"
*"Glad Bags"
*"Our Gang" - a long-running series of short films which began that year
*"Pay Day"

1923
*"The Balloonatic"
*"Dogs of War"
*"Gas and Air"
*"Kill or Cure"
*"The Love Nest"
*"The Pilgram"
*"A Powder Romance"

1924
*"Mother, Mother, Mother Pin a Rose on Me"
*"Portage Due"
*"Sherlock, Jr."

1925
*"Seven Chances"
*"His Wooden Wedding"

1926
*"My Old Kentucky Home"
*"The Strong Man"
*"Tramp, Tramp, Tramp"
*"Mighty Like a Moose"

1927
*"Do Detectives Think?"
*"Hats Off"
*"Fluttering Hearts"
*"His First Flame"
*"Long Pants"
*"Love'em and Weep"

1928
*"The Gallopin' Gaucho"
*"Pass the Gravy"
*"Plane Crazy"
*"Steamboat Willie"
*"Limousine Love"
*"Two Tars"
*"You're Darn Tootin'"

1929
*"Big Business"
*"Lambchops"
*"Movie Night"
*"Unaccustomed As We Are"

1930s

1930
*"Brats"
*"Shivering Shakespeare"
*"One Way Out"
*"Teacher's Pet"

1931
*"Beau Hunks"
*"Chickens Come Home"
*"Helpmates"
*"The House That Shadows Built"
*"Our Wife"

1932
*"The Music Box"
*"The Hollywood Handicap"
*"Running Hollywood"
*"The Voice of Hollywood No, 13"

1933

1934

1935
*"Thicker than Water"

Feature length films

1910s

1910

1911

1912

1913

1914
*"A Golf Insect"
*"Tillie's Punctured Romance"

1915
*"A Black Sheep"
*"The Earl of Pawtusker"

1916
*"The Hatit of Happiness"

1917
*"An Aerial Joy Ride"
*"The Poor Little Rich Girl"
*"Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm"

1918
*"All Night"
*"Amarilly of Clothes-Line"
*"Fair Enough"
*"Shoulder Arms"

1919
*"The Adventure Shop"
*"After His Own Heart"
*"Daddy-Long-Legs"
*"The Hoodlum"

1920s

1920
*"Easy to Get"
*"Life of the Party"
*"Pollyanna"
*"The Round Up"
*"The Sapheart"
*"Suds"

1921
*"Brewster's Millions"
*"Crazy to Marry"
*"The Dollar a Year Man"
*"Eden and Return"
*"The Fast Freight" or "Freight Prepaid" or "Via Fast Freight"
*"Gasoline Gus"
*"The Girl in the Taxi"
*"Humor Risk"
*"Keeping up with Lizzie"
*"The Kid"
*"Leap Year"
*"A Sailor-Made Man"
*"The Traveling Salesman"

1922
*"Doctor Jack"
*"Don't Get Personal"
*"Gay and Devilish"
*"Grandma's Boy"
*"The Ladder Jinx"
*"Red Hot Romance"
*"Up and at 'Em"

1923
*"The Near Lady"
*"Our Hospitality"
*"Safety Last!"
*"Souls for Sale"
*"Three Ages"
*"Why Worry?"

1924
*"Girl Shy"
*"Happiness"
*"Hot Water"
*"The Last Man on Earth"
*"Lover's Lane"
*"The Navigator"
*"Sherlock, Jr."

1925
*"The Eagle"
*"The Freshman"
*"The Gold Rush"

1926
*"For Heaven's Sake"
*"The Strong Man"
*"Tramp, Tramp, Tramp"

1927
*"His First Flame"
*"The General"
*"The Kid Brother"
*"Long Pants"
*"Three's a Crowd"

1928
*"The Chaser"
*"The Circus"
*"A Girl in Every Port"
*"The Matinee Idol"
*"Show People"
*"Speedy"
*Steamboat Bill Jr.

1929
*"The Cocoanuts"
*"The Hollywood Revue of 1929"
*"Navy Blues"
*"Rio Rita"
*"Welcome Danger"
*"The Wild Party"
*"Words and Music"

1930s

1930
*"Animal Crackers"
*"Check and Double Check"
*"The Cuckoos"
*"Dixiana"
*"Feet First"
*"Half-Shot at Sunrise"
*"Hook, Line & Sinker"
*"Queen High"
*"The Rogue Song"
*"Whoopee!"

1931
*"Caught Plastered"
*"City Lights"
*"Cracked Nuts"
*"Ever Since Eve"
*"Everything's Rosie"
*"The Front Page"
*"Girls Demand Excitement"
*"Monkey Business"
*"Peach-O-Reno"
*"Platinum Blonde"
*"Too Many Cooks"

1932
*"Girl Crazy"
*"Hold 'Em Jail"
*"Horse Feathers"
*"Love Me Tonight"
*"Movie Crazy"
*"That's My Boy"
*"This Is the Night"

1933
*"Bed of Roses"
*"Bombshell"
*"Christopher Bean"
*"Dinner at Eight"
*"Diplomaniacs"
*"Duck Soup"
*"His Private Secretary"
*"It's Great to Be Alive"
*"I'm No Angel"
*"She Done Him Wrong"
*"So this is Africa"
*"Sons of the Desert"

1934
*"The Affairs of Cellini"
*"Babes in Toyland"
*"The Cat's-Paw"
*"Cockeyed Cavaliers"
*"Hips, Hips, Hooray!"
*"It Happened One Night"
*"It's a Gift"
*"Kentucky Kernels"
*"The Thin Man"

1935
*"The Farmer Takes a Wife"
*"A Night at the Opera"
*"The Nitwits"
*"Paradise Canyon"
*"The Rainmakers"
*"Ruggles of Red Gap"
*"Top Hat"

1936
*"Libeled Lady"
*"The Milky Way"
*"Modern Times"
*"Mr. Deeds Goes to Town"
*"Mummy's Boys"
*"My Man Godfrey"
*"Silly Billies"
*"Theodora Goes Wild"
*"Wife vs. Secretary"

1937
*"The Awful Truth"
*"A Day at the Races"
*"Double Wedding"
*"High Flyers"
*"History Is Made At Night"
*"The King and the Chorus Girl"
*"Nothing Sacred"
*"On Again, Off Again"
*"Topper"
*"Way Out West"

1938
*"The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse"
*"Bringing up Baby"
*"Love Finds Andy Hardy"
*"Professor Beware"
*"Room Service"
*"A Slight Case of Murder"
*"You Can't Take It with You"

1939
*"At the Circus"
*"Bachelor Mother"
*"The Cowboy Quarterback"
*"Dancing Co-Ed"
*"East Side of Heaven"
*"Honolulu"
*"It's a Wonderful World"
*"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"
*"Ninotchka"
*"Topper Takes a Trip"
*"The Women"

1940s

1940
*"The Bank Dick"
*"The Ghost Breakers"
*"Go West"
*"The Great Dictator"
*"The Great McGinty"
*"His Girl Friday"
*"The Invisible Woman"
*"My Favorite Wife"
*"My Little Chickadee"
*"One Night in the Tropics"
*"The Philadelphia Story"
*"The Shop Around the Corner"

1941
*"Andy Hardy's Private Secretary"
*"Ball of Fire"
*"The Big Store"
*"The Bride Came"
*"Buck Privates"
*"The Devil and Miss Jones"
*"The Flame of New Orleans"
*"Here Comes Mr. Jordan"
*"The Lady Eve"
*"Las Vegas Nights"
*"Never Give a Sucker an Even Break"
*"Topper Returns"

1942
*"Highways by Night"
*"Lucky Jordan"
*"The Man Who Came to Dinner"
*"The Palm Beach Story"
*"Rio Rita"
*"Road to Morocco"
*"Ship Ahoy"
*"Tales of a Manhattan"
*"The Talk of the Town"
*"There's One Born Every Minute"
*"To Be or Not to Be"
*"Woman of the Year"
*"You Were Never Lovelier"

1943
*"A Lady Takes a Chance"
*"Crazy House"
*"Du Barry Was a Lady"
*"Government Girl"
*"Heaven Can Wait"
*"Hello, Frisco, Hello"
*"Hit the Ice"
*"I Dood It"
*"Mr. Lucky"
*"The More the Merrier"
*"A Night to Remember"
*"Slightly Dangerous"
*"They Got Me Covered"
*"Thousands Cheer"
*"Two Weeks to Live"
*"Whistling in Brooklyn"

1944
*"Arsenic and Old Lace"
*"Hail the Conquering Hero"
*"Lady in the Dark"
*"The Miracle of Morgan's Creek"
*"Private Hargrove"
*"Sensations of 1945"
*"Standing Room Only"

1945
*"Along Came Jones"
*"The Bullfighters"
*"Eadie was A Lady"
*"The Horn Blows at Midnight"
*"Lady on a Train"

1946
*"Angel on My Shoulder"
*"The Great Morgan"
*"Little Giant"
*"Lover Come Back"
*"Monsieur Beaucaire"
*"A Night in Casablanca"
*"The Time of Their Lives"
*"Vacation in Reno"
*"Without Reservations"

1947
*"The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer" (AKA "Bachelor Knight")
*"Buck Privates Come Home"
*"Christmas Eve"
*"The Egg and I"
*"The Farmer's Daughter"
*"Magic Town"
*"Miracle on 34th Street"
*"Monsieur Verdoux"
*"Road to Rio"
*"The Sin of Harold Diddlebock"
*"Suddenly, It's Spring"
*"The Voice of the Turtle"
*"Where There's Life"

1948
*"Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein"
*"The Emperor Waltz"
*"A Foreign Affair"
*"June Bride"
*"Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House"
*"The Noose Hangs High"
*"The Paleface"
*"Sitting Pretty"
*"Variety Time"

1949
*"Adam's Rib"
*"Africa Screams"
*"Holiday Affair"
*"I Was a Male War Bride"
*"It's a Great Feeling"
*"My Friend Irma"

1950s

1950
*"Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion"
*"Born Yesterday"
*"Champagne for Caesar"
*"Cheaper by the Dozen"
*"Duchess of Idaho"
*"Father of the Bride"
*"The Great Rupert"
*"Harvey"
*"The Jackpot"
*"Key to the City"
*"Love Happy"
*"My Friend Irma Goes West"
*"Two Weeks with Love"
*"The West Point Story"

1951
*"Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man"
*"An American in Paris"
*"Angels in the Outfield"
*"Comin' Round the Mountain"
*"Double Dynamite"
*"Father's Little Dividend"
*"Half Angel"
*"My Favorite Spy"

1952
*"Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd"
*"Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla"
*"A Girl in Every Port"
*"Jumping Jacks"
*"Lost in Alaska"
*"Monkey Business"
*"Road to Bali"
*"Singin' in the Rain"
*"Son of Paleface"

1953
*"Abbott and Costello Go to Mars"
*"Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
*"The Affairs of Dobie Gillis"
*"The Band Wagon"
*"The Caddy"
*"The Girls of Pleasure Island"
*"How to Marry a Millionaire"
*"It Happens Every Thursday"
*"The Moon Is Blue"
*"Roman Holiday"
*"Scared Stiff"

1954
*"Casanova's Big Night"
*"Fireman, Save My Child"
*"It Should Happen to You"
*"Knock on Wood"
*"Sabrina"

1955
*"Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy"
*"The Seven Year Itch"
*"Mister Roberts"
*"My Sister Eileen"
*"The Trouble with Harry"

1956
*"Bus Stop"
*"The Court Jester"
*"Forever, Darling"
*"The Girl Can't Help It"
*"Hollywood or Bust"
*"Our Miss Brooks"
*"Pardners"
*"The Teahouse of the August Moon"

1957
*"The Delicate Delinquent"
*"Funny Face"
*"The Girl Most Likely"
*"Joe Butterfly"
*"Love in the Afternoon"
*"Sayonara"
*"Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?"

1958
*"Auntie Mame"
*"Houseboat"
*"The Matchmaker"
*"Paris Holiday"
*"Teacher's Pet"
*"The Tunnel of Love"

1959
*"Alias Jesse James"
*"A Bucket of Blood"
*"Have Rocket, Will Travel"
*"Pillow Talk"
*"The Shaggy Dog"
*"Some Like It Hot"

1960s

1960
*"The Apartment"
*"The Bellboy"
*"Cinderfella"
*"It Started in Naples"
*"The Little Shop of Horrors"
*"North to Alaska"
*"Ocean's Eleven"
*"Where the Boys Are"

1961
*"The Absent-Minded Professor"
*"Blue Hawaii"
*"Breakfast at Tiffany's"
*"Gidget Goes Hawaiian"
*"One Hundred and One Dalmatians"
*"One, Two, Three"
*"The Parent Trap"
*"Pocketful of Miracles"
*"Snow White and the Three Stooges"
*"The Errand Boy"
*"The Ladies Man"

1962
*"Boy's Night Out"
*"Girls! Girls! Girls!"
*"Hatari!"
*"Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation"
*"The Road to Hong Kong"
*"The Three Stooges Meet Hercules"
*"The Three Stooges in Orbit"

1963
*"The Courtship of Eddie's Father"
*"Donovan's Reef"
*"Fun in Acapulco"
*"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"
*"McLintock!"
*"The Nutty Professor"
*"The Pink Panther"
*"Spencer's Mountain"
*"The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze"

1964
*"A Shot in the Dark"
*"The Americanization of Emily"
*"The Brass Bottle"
*"The Disorderly Orderly"
*""
*"Ensign Pulver"
*"Good Neighbor Sam"
*"Kiss Me, Stupid"
*"My Fair Lady"
*"The Patsy"

1965
*"Boeing Boeing"
*"Cat Ballou"
*"Dear Brigitte"
*"The Family Jewels"
*"The Great Race"
*"The Hallelujah Trail"
*"Harum Scarum"
*"How to Murder Your Wife"
*"Love and Kisses"
*"The Outlaws IS Coming"
*"Tickle Me"
*"What's New, Pussycat?"

1966
*"Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!"
*"Follow Me, Boys!"
*"The Fortune Cookie"
*"Frankie and Johnny"
*"Murderers' Row"
*"Our Man Flint"
*"Paradise, Hawaiian Style"
*"The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming"
*"The Silencers"
*"Spinout"
*"Walk Don't Run"
*"Way Way Out"
*"What's Up, Tiger Lily?"

1967
*"The Ambushers"
*"Barefoot in the Park"
*"Casino Royale"
*"David Holzman's Diary"
*"Don't Make Waves"
*"The Graduate"
*"Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"
*"The Happening"
*"Luv"
*"Mars Needs Women"
*"The President's Analyst"
*"The Big Mouth"

1968
*"Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River"
*"Funny Girl"
*"Greetings"
*"Inspector Clouseau"
*"Live a Little, Love a Little"
*"The Odd Couple"
*"The Party"
*"The Producers"
*"The Secret War of Harry Frigg"
*"Skidoo"
*"Stay Away, Joe"

1969
*"Angel in My Pocket"
*"The April Fools"
*"Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice"
*"Cactus Flower"
*"Change of Habit"
*"Don't Drink the Water"
*"Hello, Dolly!"
*"Putney Swope"
*"The Reivers"
*"Support Your Local Sheriff!"
*"Take the Money and Run"
*"The Trouble with Girls"
*"The Wrecking Crew"

1970s

1970
*"Catch-22"
*"The Cheyenne Social Club"
*"Hi, Mom!"
*"MASH"
*"Myra Breckinridge"
*"The Out-of-Towners"
*"Start the Revolution Without Me"
*"There Was a Crooked Man..."
*"Which Way To The Front?"

1971
*"200 Motels"
*"B.S. I Love You"
*"Bananas"
*"Carnal Knowledge"
*"Happy Birthday, Wanda June"
*"Harold and Maude"
*"The Hospital"
*"A New Leaf"
*"Support Your Local Gunfighter!"
*"Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?"

1972
*"Another Nice Mess"
*"Avanti!"
*"Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex"
*"Fritz the Cat"
*"The Heartbreak Kid"
*"Pink Flamingos"
*"Play It Again, Sam"
*"What's Up, Doc?"

1973
*"American Graffiti"
*"Cops and Robbers"
*"Five on the Black Hand Side"
*"The Last Detail"
*"Paper Moon"
*"Sleeper"
*"The Sting"

1974
*"Blazing Saddles"
*"Dark Star"
*"Down and Dirty Duck"
*"Flesh Gordon"
*"Ginger in the Morning"
*"The Groove Tube"
*"Harry and Tonto"
*"The Longest Yard
*"The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat"
*"Phantom of the Paradise"
*"The Thorn"
*"Uptown Saturday Night"
*"Young Frankenstein"

1975
*"The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother"
*"The Fortune"
*"Love and Death"
*"Rooster Cogburn"
*"Shampoo"
*"The Sunshine Boys"
*"The Rocky Horror Picture Show"

1976
*"The Bad News Bears"
*"The Big Bus"
*"Cannonball"
*"Car Wash"
*"Chesty Anderson, USN"
*"Family Plot"
*"The Gumball Rally"
*"Murder by Death"
*"Nickelodeon"
*"Silent Movie"
*"Silver Streak"
*"Transamerica Express"
*"Tunnel Vision"

1977
*"Annie Hall"
*"The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training"
*"Candleshoe"
*"Grand Theft Auto"
*"Handle With Care"
*"High Anxiety"
*"The Last Remake of Beau Geste"
*"The Kentucky Fried Movie"
*"Oh, God!"
*"A Piece of the Action"
*"Smokey and the Bandit"

1978
*"National Lampoon's Animal House"
*"The Bad News Bears Go to Japan"
*"California Suite"
*"The Cat from Outer Space"
*"Corvette Summer"
*"The End"
*"Every Which Way But Loose"
*"Girlfriends"
*"Goin' South"
*"Heaven Can Wait"
*"Hooper"
*"National Lampoon's Animal House"
*"Rabbit Test"
*"Sextette"
*"Up in Smoke"
*"A Wedding"

1979
*"10"
*"1941"
*"Americathon"
*"Being There"
*"Breaking Away"
*"The Frisco Kid"
*"The In-Laws"
*"The Jerk"
*"The Main Event"
*"Manhattan"
*"The Muppet Movie"
*"Real Life"
*"Rock 'n' Roll High School"
*"Starting Over"
*"The Villain"

1980s

1980

1983

1986

1989

1992

1995

1998

2001

2004

2007

2008

"Step Brothers

Unknown future release dates

*"Disaster!"
*"Lives and Deaths of the Poets"
*"Starship Dave"
*"Toy Story 3"
*"Aldam Myders' Colvie"
*"World War 5"

ee also

* List of British comedy films
* List of comedy science fiction films
* List of comedy horror films
* List of comedy-drama films
* Film genre