What are the funniest films ever made?

Answer: Here is one answer:  AFI’s 100 Years. . .  100 Laughs. This list is restricted to American films made up until 2000.

Part of the AFI 100 Years… series, AFI’s 100 Years…100 Laughs is a list of the top 100 funniest movies in American cinema. A wide variety of comedies were nominated for the distinction that included slapstick comedy, screwball comedy, romantic comedy, satire, black comedy, musical comedy, comedy of manners and comedy of errors. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute on June 13, 2000.

The list

#	Movie	Year
1.	Some Like It Hot	1959
2.	Tootsie	1982
3.	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb	1964
4.	Annie Hall	1977
5.	Duck Soup	1933
6.	Blazing Saddles	1974
7.	MASH	1970
8.	It Happened One Night	1934
9.	The Graduate	1967
10.	Airplane!	1980
11.	The Producers	1968
12.	A Night at the Opera	1935
13.	Young Frankenstein	1974
14.	Bringing Up Baby	1938
15.	The Philadelphia Story	1940
16.	Singin’ in the Rain	1952
17.	The Odd Couple	1968
18.	The General	1927
19.	His Girl Friday	1940
20.	The Apartment	1960
21.	A Fish Called Wanda	1988
22.	Adam’s Rib	1949
23.	When Harry Met Sally…	1989
24.	Born Yesterday	1950
25.	The Gold Rush	1925
26.	Being There	1979
27.	There’s Something About Mary	1998
28.	Ghostbusters	1984
29.	This Is Spinal Tap	1984
30.	Arsenic and Old Lace	1944
31.	Raising Arizona	1987
32.	The Thin Man	1934
33.	Modern Times	1936
34.	Groundhog Day	1993
35.	Harvey	1950
36.	National Lampoon’s Animal House	1978
37.	The Great Dictator	1940
38.	City Lights	1931
39.	Sullivan’s Travels	1941
40.	It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World	1963
41.	Moonstruck	1987
42.	Big	1988
43.	American Graffiti	1973
44.	My Man Godfrey	1936
45.	Harold and Maude	1971
46.	Manhattan	1979
47.	Shampoo	1975
48.	A Shot in the Dark	1964
49.	To Be or Not to Be	1942
50.	Cat Ballou	1965
51.	The Seven Year Itch	1955
52.	Ninotchka	1939
53.	Arthur	1981
54.	The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek	1944
55.	The Lady Eve	1941
56.	Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein	1948
57.	Diner	1982
58.	It’s a Gift	1934
59.	A Day at the Races	1937
60.	Topper	1937
61.	What’s Up, Doc?	1972
62.	Sherlock, Jr.	1924
63.	Beverly Hills Cop	1984
64.	Broadcast News	1987
65.	Horse Feathers	1932
66.	Take the Money and Run	1969
67.	Mrs. Doubtfire	1993
68.	The Awful Truth	1937
69.	Bananas	1971
70.	Mr. Deeds Goes to Town	1936
71.	Caddyshack	1980
72.	Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House	1948
73.	Monkey Business	1931
74.	Nine to Five	1980
75.	She Done Him Wrong	1933
76.	Victor Victoria	1982
77.	The Palm Beach Story	1942
78.	Road to Morocco	1942
79.	The Freshman	1925
80.	Sleeper	1973
81.	The Navigator	1924
82.	Private Benjamin	1980
83.	Father of the Bride	1950
84.	Lost in America	1985
85.	Dinner at Eight	1933
86.	City Slickers	1991
87.	Fast Times at Ridgemont High	1982
88.	Beetlejuice	1988
89.	The Jerk	1979
90.	Woman of the Year	1942
91.	The Heartbreak Kid	1972
92.	Ball of Fire	1941
93.	Fargo	1996
94.	Auntie Mame	1958
95.	Silver Streak	1976
96.	Sons of the Desert	1933
97.	Bull Durham	1988
98.	The Court Jester	1956
99.	The Nutty Professor	1963
100.	Good Morning, Vietnam	1987

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI%27s_100_Years…100_Laughs

What can you do with this list?

1. Select all the movies  you’d like to see and put them on your “100+ things to do this year” list.

2. If you see a movie that you think your partner or other significant people in your life  might like to see, arrange for them to see it as a nice surprise.

3. Have handy, waiting to be watched, copies of the movies you’d like to see so you can watch them when you’re feeling ill or in need of a mood  “pick-me-up”.