After almost a year of this pandemic, the world seriously needs good laughter therapy. Luckily, this time laughter is just a few mouse clicks away on any streaming services of your choice. Several good comedy movies can easily fire up every time you need a serotonin burst. Here in this article, we are going to list the top 10 best comedy movies ever created. We will also make sure that all these listed movies won’t ever fail to leave your sides splitting. Read on to know more, and don’t forget to add these movies to your watchlist especially when you need good laughter therapy.
- Duck Soup: The movie Duck Soup, who is released in the year 1933 and is a pre-code comedy movie written by Harry Ruby and Bert Kalmar. The movie was theatrically released by Paramount Pictures on the 17th of November 1933. Also, it is known to cast actors such as Margaret Dumont, Racal Torres, Lewis Calhern, and Edgar Kennedy. The key plot of the movie shows how Groucho plays the role of a newly installed president of a country named Freedonia, while Zeppo being his secretary, and Chico and Harpo are spies of the rival country named Sylvania. The movie also shows how the relationship between the Sylvanian ambassador and Groucho deteriorates during the film and the way they go to wage war against each other especially at the conclusion.
- Bringing Up Baby: The movie, Bringing Up Baby, is an American screwball comedy film released in 1938 and directed by Howard Hawks. The movie is also known to cast actors like Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn. The plot of the movie tells us the story of a typical paleontologist having a number of predicaments that involve a leopard called Baby and a scattered heiress. The movie’s screenplay was adapted by Hagar Wilde and Dudley Nicholas from a short story that was first published on 10th April 1937 in Colliers Weekly magazine.
- Blazing Saddles: Whenever the name of Blazing Saddles, comes up in a conversation, someone or the other always manages to say that “you could have never made this movie today”, and this particular observation remains to be an oversimplification of Mel Brooks achievement especially with his classic Western satire. Blazing Saddles is a 1974 release, American Satirical black comedy movie, starring actors like Gene Wilder and Cleavon Little. The movie is known to receive several positive reviews both from audiences as well as critics and was even nominated for three different Academy Awards. Also, the movie is ranked sixth in the American film Institute’s hundred years of laughter list.
- Monty Python And Holy Grail: Monty Python And Holy Grail got released in the year 1975, and is a British comedy movie that reflected the Arthurian legend. The entire movie was written as well as performed by the Monty Python call me the group and was directed by Jones and Gilliam. This movie is known to receive several accolades, and it grossed more than any British movie exhibited in the US especially during the 1975 era.
- Tootsie: The movie Tootsie was released in the year 1982, and is an American romantic comedy movie directed by Sydney Pollack. The film stars actors like Terry Garr, Charles Durning, Jessica Lange, Geena Davis, and Doris Belack. This movie tells us the story of a talented but volatile actor, whose overall reputation for being volatile helps him to adopt a new identity as a woman in order to land a job. This movie was both a financial as well as critical success and it became one of the most profitable movies of the year 1982. It even got nominated for 10 different Academy Awards including the Best picture.
- Ghostbusters: This movie got released in the year 1984 and is an American comedy and supernatural movie that was produced and directed by Ivan Reitman. The movie casts actors like Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Peter Venkman, Egon Spengler, and Ray Stantz. The key plot of the movie shows us how the Trio group of some parapsychologists starts a ghost-catching business in New York City. With its dedicated fan following and effect on popular culture, the overall success of Ghostbusters helped in launching a multimillion-dollar movie franchise.
- The Princess Bride: This movie was released in the year 1987 and is an American fantasy comedy movie co-produced and directed by Rob Reiner. The entire movie is adapted from a novel having the same name written by William Goldman. This movie essentially preserves the originality of the novel’s narrative style of presenting the story as a book that is being read by a grandfather for his sick grandson. The movie was well-received by both audiences and critics at the time. However, it only made a very modest box office success.
- Coming To America: The movie Coming To America is a 1988 release, American comedy romantic movie, and is based on an original story created by Eddie Murphy. The movie is known to star actors like James Earl Jones, Arsenio Hall, John Amos, and Shari Headley. In this movie actor Eddie Murphy plays the role of Akeem Joffer, the prince of a fictional nation of Africa named Zamunda, who travels all throughout the United States in the hope of finding a woman whom she can marry.
- Groundhog Day: Groundhog Day is an American fantasy comedy movie co-written and directed by Harold Ramis. The plot of the movie portrays a television weatherman covering the entire Groundhog day event in Pennsylvania, who later gets trapped in a time loop. Furthermore, this movie is considered to be a box office success upon its release in 1993, earning approximately $105 million and it even becomes the highest-grossing film of the year.
- Clueless: The movie Clueless is an American teen comedy movie directed and written by Amy Heckerling. The movie is loosely based on an 1815 novel named Emma written by Jane Austen. The overall plot of the movie centers typically on Cher Horowitz, a popular, beautiful, and rich high school student who tries befriending a new student called Tai Fraiser and decides to give her a new makeover. The movie was filmed in California over a 40-day schedule. Before starting with the shoot, the movie’s director studied real Beverley Hills high school students in order to understand how the real teens of the 1900s talk, and he even learned some appropriate slang terms.
