# The best comedy movies of the 1980s

Airplane!, Ghostbusters and Ferris Bueller: the decade of endlessly quotable comedies (24/7 Wall St., CEOWORLD, Flickfeast).

- 387 votes · 12 items
- Mar 24, 2025 · S. Nair
- https://even.best/en/l/2007/the-best-comedy-movies-of-the-1980s

## Top 12

1. **Airplane! (1980)** (37 · ▲42 ▼5) — Abrahams and the Zuckers' joke-a-second disaster parody.
2. **Caddyshack (1980)** (33 · ▲34 ▼1) — Anarchy on the golf course with Bill Murray and Rodney Dangerfield.
3. **This Is Spinal Tap (1984)** (32 · ▲34 ▼2) — The mockumentary whose amps go up to eleven.
4. **Ghostbusters (1984)** (25 · ▲31 ▼6) — Comedy and sci-fi spectacle, a cultural juggernaut.
5. **Tootsie (1982)** (23 · ▲27 ▼4) — Dustin Hoffman as an actor who becomes a soap star in disguise.
6. **Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)** (23 · ▲27 ▼4) — Fourth-wall breaks and the ultimate skipped school day.
7. **The Princess Bride (1987)** (22 · ▲28 ▼6) — Rob Reiner's fairy tale, inconceivably quotable.
8. **Coming to America (1988)** (21 · ▲26 ▼5) — Eddie Murphy as an African prince in Queens.
9. **National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)** (19 · ▲23 ▼4) — Chevy Chase and family chaos, a seasonal staple.
10. **A Fish Called Wanda (1988)** (18 · ▲23 ▼5) — John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis and an Oscar for Kevin Kline.
11. **Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)** (17 · ▲21 ▼4) — Robert Zemeckis mixes cartoons and film noir.
12. **Trading Places (1983)** (7 · ▲16 ▼9) — Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd swap lives.

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