# The funniest American movies of all time (AFI)

The top of the American Film Institute's 100 Years...100 Laughs (2000), voted by 1,500 filmmakers, critics and historians.

- 32 votes · 12 items
- May 21, 2019 · Sebastián Díaz
- https://even.best/en/l/1888/the-funniest-american-movies-of-all-time-afi

## Top 12

1. **Dr. Strangelove (1964)** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Kubrick and Peter Sellers laugh at nuclear war.
2. **Some Like It Hot (1959)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Number one: Billy Wilder, Marilyn and «nobody's perfect».
3. **It Happened One Night (1934)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Frank Capra, Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert on the road.
4. **Airplane! (1980)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — The disaster-movie parody with a joke every second.
5. **Tootsie (1982)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Dustin Hoffman poses as an actress to get work.
6. **Annie Hall (1977)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Woody Allen and Diane Keaton in New York.
7. **M\*A\*S\*H (1970)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Robert Altman and some unruly surgeons in the Korean War.
8. **The Graduate (1967)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Dustin Hoffman and Mrs. Robinson.
9. **The Producers (1967)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Mel Brooks and the musical «Springtime for Hitler».
10. **Blazing Saddles (1974)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Mel Brooks wrecks the western.
11. **Duck Soup (1933)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The Marx Brothers in the republic of Freedonia.
12. **A Night at the Opera (1935)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — The Marx Brothers and the most crowded cabin in history.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.