Top Ten Laugh Out Loud Comedy Movies that Also Have a Great Screenplay

Often comedy movies are just a collection of jokes and funny scenes. While this in and of itself is fine, there are also some comedies that have good storytelling, and we really care about the fully developed characters. This list is about the latter.

The Top Ten

1 The Apartment

2 The Great Dictator

3 A Fish Called Wanda

4 Some Like It Hot

5 The Philadelphia Story

6 Ted 2

7 Cactus Flower

8 Tootsie

9 His Girl Friday

10 Shaun of the Dead

This movie really commits to it's multi-genre screenplay. When the movie is funny it's REALLY funny, when it wants a touching character moment you genuinely care for the characters, when it goes into horror movie territory the threat is very real.
A great movie on so many levels.

The Contenders

11 Trains, Planes and Automobiles

12 Charade

13 Bringing Up Baby

14 Arsenic and Old Lace

15 High Anxiety

16 The Jerk

17 Airplane!

18 The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

19 Has Anybody Seen My Gal?

20 In Bruges

21 My Best Friend's Wedding

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