10 Most Fun Comedies of All Time

Published Aug 4, 2026, 5:42 PM EDT Jeremy has more than 2700 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly watch and write about almost anything, from old Godzilla films to gangster flicks to samurai movies to classic musicals to the French New Wave to the MCU... well, maybe not the Disney+ shows. His favorite directors include Martin Scorsese, Sergio Leone, Akira Kurosawa, Quentin Tarantino, Werner Herzog, John Woo, Bob Fosse, Fritz Lang, Guillermo del Toro, and Yoji Yamada. He's also very proud of the fact that he's seen every single Nicolas Cage movie released before 2022, even though doing so often felt like a tremendous waste of time. He's plagued by the question of whether or not The Room is genuinely terrible or some kind of accidental masterpiece, and has been for more than 12 years (and a similar number of viewings). When he's not writing lists - and the occasional feature article - for Collider, he also likes to upload film reviews to his Letterboxd profile (username: Jeremy Urquhart) and Instagram account. He has achieved his 2025 goal of reading all 13,467 novels written by Stephen King, and plans to spend the next year or two getting through the author's 82,756 short stories and 105,433 novellas. If you watched a comedy and it wasn’t at least a little bit fun, then maybe it wasn’t a very good comedy. Okay, it could've also been the darkest of dark comedies, or a dramedy where there was more of a focus on the drama side of things than the comedic side, and that can be okay. Movies can make that approach work, as the likes of relatively recent titles like Anora and The Worst Person in the World show. As for comedies that are just enjoyable, or that emphasize having fun over anything else, you’ve got the ones below. These are all particularly fun comedy movies that might not necessarily be the greatest of all time, but they're among the most entertaining (and some are all-around great ones, too, though there is quite a bit of subjectivity when it comes to picking out what’s “funniest” and “most fun,” as a bit of a warning). 10 'The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!' (1988) Image via Paramount Pictures The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! is the first movie in The Naked Gun film series, though not the first in the overall “franchise” (if it can be called that), since the distressingly short-lived TV series Police Squad! pre-dated it. The whole series is centered on a bumbling police detective named Frank Drebin who’s one of the most clueless fictional characters of all time, yet he’s also some kind of cosmically gifted being who also gets the job done… somehow. The job in The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! involves preventing the assassination of the Queen, but that’s not too important, because the whole movie’s all about the jokes, and also most focused on giving Leslie Nielsen a chance to deliver one of the best comedic performances in cinema history. Nothing else needs to be said, or even really can be said. It’s just constantly funny and an overall blast for its entire runtime, being about as perfect as parody movies have ever gotten. 9 'The Big Lebowski' (1998) Jeff Bridges is The Dude, and forever will be, even if he’s actually had countless great roles that weren’t in The Big Lebowski. The Big Lebowski is something special, though, and feels like the movie he was more or less born to star in… and the same can probably be said about John Goodman, who brings a whole different energy to this, and the pairing of him and Bridges is also perfect. The Big Lebowski takes a film noir sort of plot and makes it all absurd, playing everything for comedy while purposefully avoiding pretty much anything that might feel genuinely mysterious or intriguing in a movie that took things a good deal more seriously. It’s well and truly a cult classic, or something beyond that, technically, because it’s so popular now, The Big Lebowski is really just a “classic,” pure and simple. 8 'One Cut of the Dead' (2017) Image via Asmik Ace Entertainment One Cut of the Dead is a comedic horror movie that’s about people trying to make some kind of schlocky horror movie, with an actual zombie outbreak doing little to stop the production. The director insists the camera continue rolling, because having actual people in danger will look more believable, and then you're thrown into the whole chaotic process because, as the title alludes to, this “film” is done in one take. There’s a bit more to the film than just that one take, but it’s surprising and creative enough that it doesn’t feel fair to say too much about the direction One Cut of the Dead eventually goes in. It makes an already odd but endearing movie all the more likable, and once it plays all its cards, it does indeed reveal itself to be one of the best comedies of the past decade or so. 7 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou' (2004) Image via Buena Vista Pictures Distribution Singling out The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou as the best Wes Anderson movie might not be a popular opinion, but it really could be that good. It’s one of his most broadly entertaining, even if there is still a good deal of quirky humor here, as expected. But the emotional core in this one is approachable, and the adventure story being told never really gets too obscure or out-there in any kind of detrimental way. When it comes to how emotional The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is, though, maybe that does dampen some of the fun that can be had, because this is more of a dramedy than a broad comedy. Still, the focus is on comedy a good deal of the time, and the story here – in addition to the way everything is presented – does ensure it’s a consistently enjoyable film, even with the parts here and there that might be kind of sad. 6 'Singin' in the Rain' (1952) Image via Loew's Inc. Look up the term “comfort movie” online and you're probably going to find it defined as something “that a person can turn to when they are having a bad day and need an escape from everything for a while,” or a series of words along those lines. It would've been easier, though, for a Singin’ in the Rain poster to just show up instead, when you search it, because it feels like the quintessential comfort movie. It's consistently funny, and it gives you quite a bit to marvel at as far as the acting, filmmaking, and choreography are concerned. It’s like being hugged for a bit over an hour and a half, and then all the while, it’s consistently funny, and it gives you quite a bit to marvel at as far as the acting, filmmaking, and choreography are concerned. Singin’ in the Rain works equally well as a musical (one you don’t have to like the genre all that much to fully appreciate) and a comedy about behind-the-scenes chaos in the film industry when things went from silent movies to talkies. Okay, there’s also Babylon, functioning as something that does the latter, but there isn't much by way of comfort or good vibes to be found in that movie. 5 'Executive Koala' (2005) Image via THE KLOCKWORX Going from one of the most popular and enduring classic musical comedies of all time to what’s definitely the most obscure movie here, Executive Koala is very hard to summarize, but here goes nothing. It’s about a koala who works in an executive role in a world where some animal/human hybrids just casually exist, a bit like BoJack Horseman. And this koala realizes he might be murdering people whenever he blacks out, which is distressingly often. It’s kind of a psychological horror/thriller film, but with almost everything played for laughs, since it’s obviously absurd that a koala man is the character going through all that. Executive Koala is offbeat and then some, yet exceptionally entertaining, primarily because it’s impossible to know where it’s going to go at just about every turn (for as absurd as the premise and set-up are, they're nothing compared to some of the places Executive Koala decides to go in its absolutely gonzo final act). 4 'Tropic Thunder' (2008) Image via DreamWorks Pictures/Paramount Pictures A bit like One Cut of the Dead, Tropic Thunder is about chaos unfolding in some genuinely creative ways while people are trying to make an ambitious movie that’s not supposed to be a comedy. In Tropic Thunder, it’s an action-packed and over-the-top war movie, and while it doesn’t pull the rug out from under you like One Cut of the Dead, it does find other ways to escalate things and continually make fun of what it’s got its sights set on, satirically. The humor here is broad and crude at times, but Tropic Thunder is exceptionally clever and self-deprecating, given that plenty of famous figures from the film world get to make fun of themselves here. There are plenty of reasons why this film’s easy to enjoy and revisit, but the fact it’s just extremely (and effortlessly) funny would have to be the primary one. 3 'Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy' (2004) Image via DreamWorks You'd be forgiven for forgetting there was ever a sequel to Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, because… wait, there was a sequel? Why? Huh? It’s almost as funny as Anchorman (2004) to think about someone trying to make a sequel to Anchorman, and funnier still to imagine people watching it when there’s always the option to rewatch Anchorman for the millionth time, and still find it pretty much as funny as it was on that first watch, however long ago that might've been. It’s a chaotic comedy that feels like it would've been fun to make, because it’s got this rambling and carefree sort of attitude, and the spontaneity comes from how much of it seemed improvised, but not in a grating way. The non-sequiturs here are wonderfully and endlessly quotable, and the movie is just a great time, despite it being – or maybe because it’s – not a whole lot more than a bunch of scenes with cartoonishly silly characters doing random things and exchanging dialogue that feels somehow even more nonsensical. 2 'Back to the Future' (1985) Image via Universal Pictures Kicking off a surprisingly good trilogy, Back to the Future (1985) does, nonetheless, stand out as the best of the three movies, even if the second movie feels like a comedic take on a Christopher Nolan movie a good decade or so before Nolan was making movies, and the third goes all-out in being a comedic Western. The first is just the most fun, though, and definitely the easiest to watch and appreciate, which is why it’s going here. The title here almost summarizes the plot, since it’s about a teenager who has to get back to the future after being accidentally sent back in time. Oh, and further complications ensue because he gets tangled up with the younger versions of his parents, and has to make sure they still meet and fall in love, or else he won’t exist in the future. Back to the Future is a classic, pure and simple, and more than deserves its reputation for being one of the best crowd-pleasers of all time. 1 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' (1986) Image via Paramount Pictures The main plot of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off concerns the titular character wanting to do nothing but what he thinks will be the most fun, all the while blowing off school for one eventful day, so it being breezy and enjoyable is baked right into the premise. There’s a little more to it than that, and some drama concerning the things his best friend, Cameron, is going through, but most of the movie’s concerned with delivering laughs and a sense of escapism. If you're young when you watch Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, it feels a bit like a fantasy, or the kind of thing you'd want to do, and then if you're older, it’s obviously more nostalgic, and a “that would've been fun to do” sort of thing. Either way, it’s very likable and entertaining, and one of those rare comedies that’s more than a few decades old where you can’t imagine many people watching and genuinely not enjoying.