A.V. Club's "The 50 best comedies since 2000"

but Jerry Lewis is kinda like Adam Sandler, except funny.

I loved the Trip. Several on here and suggested by some I would not consider comedies (including, possibly, the Trip). The way I see it is if I leave a movie with a general sense of melancholy or sadness, a la Lost in Translation (which is basically just a lighter remake of non-comedy In the Mood for Love) or Eternal Sunshine or even Royal Tenenbnums/Grand Budapest Hotel, I dunno if I think of them as comedies. List def. needs Pineapple Express/This is the End, or Harold and Kumar or a few others. Love that What We Do In The Shadows is here, that movie was hilarious.

Nice to see The Informant! on here. I'd read the book, so the tonally different movie was a really pleasant surprise.

categorizing the ones I haven't seen...

very little interest:
13. Hot Fuzz (2007)
15. Team America: World Police (2004)
23. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
30. Young Adult (2011)

maybe if it's on tv:
18. Mean Girls (2004)
22. Burn After Reading (2008)
48. Josie And The Pussycats (2001)

possible rental:
43. State And Main (2000)
47. Force Majeure (2014)
49. Songs From The Second Floor (2000)

? look these up on imdb:
44. The Color Wheel (2011)
45. 12:08 East Of Bucharest (2006)

also Step Brothers fans, really, don't watch 12:08 or Offside, there's no point.

I liked Step Brothers and Outside

Offside I mean.

If animation is ok, then how is the LEGO Movie not on here?

very few romantic comedies on there but I'd also have Enough Said on my personal list

and Adventureland

Songs From The Second Floor

Remains one of my favorite films, Bergman by way of Month Python. I saw it blind at Toronto International fest back in I guess 1999 or 2000, and it totally took me by surprise, so much so that I caught a second screening just to watch the audience react to it.

Roy Andersson needs more explosive diarrhea gags

apparently, his last one was originally titled A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Shitting on Adam Sandler, but Roy got cold feet

i wish I'd seen You the Living in a theater just for the tablecloth scene.

Hot Fuzz is my favorite movie on the list, but Bad Santa was probably the one that made me laugh the hardest. Decisions, decisions...

Movie that made me laugh the hardest in recent years (and which I omitted in my earlier list of omissions, much to my shame): Appropriate Behaviour.

Young Adult is p great tbh, and I am far from a Reitman stan

It's good. Best Charlize Theron work though.

anyway one of these:

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
A Mighty Wind (2003)
School Of Rock (2003)
I Heart Huckabees (2004)
Knocked Up (2007)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Shaun Of The Dead (2004)
Frances Ha (2012)
Superbad (2007)

Adaptation is totally comedy wtf.

Top ten is genuinely awful.

Oh wow Black Dynamite is in there, jeez that might have my vote. I laughed pretty fuckin' hard

I think Black Dynamite has almost Airplane-level lols-per-minute but I also liked Nacho Libre so ymmv

black dynamite is amazing, def voting for it

yeah the first 20 minutes of that are all-time if you ask me. but then again I loved Kung Fury so yeah it's my kind of movie

Moonrise Kingdom & The Fantastic Mr. Fox are funnier Wes Anderson movies than the two they picked.

Yeah actually The Lego Movie would have been my pick.

Yes to Lego Movie.

Also yes to Young Adult, which had an awful lot working against it on paper but which I thought was actually a legitimately good movie. That I'm not sure I think of as a comedy. And Theron was indeed fantastic.

I hated Young Adult

something about that whole dynamic between Theron and the Patton Oswalt character really bothered me, the redemption-via-sex thing was just gross

mean girls prob

Dan: the second Magic Mike is legit funny.

Force Majeure was a comedy?!?

I haven't seen so many of these.

FRANCES HA at #4?????????????????????????

voted Zoolander. perfect movie shot for shot, word for word. sequel was dogshit. lots of great movies here though

Force Majeure was a comedy?!?
--Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings)

I think the premise and character are meant to be funny although it's not Airplane! LOLs, it's not an Ordinary People drama remotely either.

I didn't care much for Frances Ha as a movie, but "Ahoy, sexy!" is deserving enough of comic catchphrase immortality.

Seen 24 of these. I probably laughed more at Bad Santa, but voted Kung Fu Hustle. What We Do in the Shadows is the only one I've seen that I think is overrated poot.

surprised Adventureland isn't here.

people really came around to High Fidelity didn't they? reviews were pretty sniffy on release iirc.

Half of these aren't comedies. They should split off the dramedies for a separate list, but some of them don't even fit that category. And Ocean's 11, for fuck sake? Just because Patton Oswalt is in Young Adult...that makes it a comedy?

It's between these for me):

3. In The Loop (2009)
4. Best In Show (2000)
5. Shaun Of The Dead (2004)
11. Superbad (2007)
17. In Bruges (2008)
18. Mean Girls (2004)
23. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
27. Idiocracy (2006)

Shaun of the Dead is the best film of the bunch, but I laughed the hardest at In the Loop. Walk Hard is the most quotable.

But really it's between Superbad and Mean Girls for me: two generational touchstones. Prob gonna go with Superbad cause I was the same age as the characters when the movie came out.

List needs Klown too.

I've seen everything on here except Offsides, Obvious Child and Young Adult. I think Bad Santa is probably the funniest film on here. Lot of these films are barely worth one laugh if that though and the three foreign films in the forties definitely don't belong with garbage like Zoolander.

mean girls ~~ iconic, quotable, really watchable as a movie and story, great characters, funny

it's weird to pit character comedies vs jokebook comedies

so you're the one they call ILE Morbius!

idg anyone who laughs at wes anderson movies, the most he has ever made me laugh was bcz of this
http://www.theonion.com/video/wes-anderson-reteams-with-favorite-objects-for-gra-34340

IMO Napoleon Dynamite is the most glaring omission.

Mean Girls & Superbad are the best as far as what makes a classic movie, regardless of joke-quality or lolz-per-pound.

Black Dynamite & Wet Hot American Summer are the lolz-per-pound winners IMO, as far as what fits best with my sense of humor anyway.

Punch-Drunk Love is also great, but I don't think it's a comedy at all.

Freddie Got Fingered and Pootie Tang seem to me to be the most glaring omissions not yet mentioned.

Voted Bad Santa since I have watched it the most of any movie on this list and I'm still not sick of it.

Enjoyed all of these:

Best In Show
Shaun Of The Dead
Frances Ha
Anchorman
Superbad
Adaptation
The Grand Budapest Hotel
In Bruges
Ghost World
Idiocracy
Bad Santa

Voted for Ghost World

xp Yeah true, Freddie Got Fingered was strangely ahead of its time and is pretty amazing although there should probably be a separate category & list for most wtf/bizarre/absurd/adultswim-style comedies since 2000 since very few are included here.

I mistakenly thought Freddy Got Fingered came out in the late '90s. I would rep for its inclusion but I doubt somehow that you'd have very many other takers.

the bizarro version of this list that would include Wrong Cops and Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie would place FGF pretty close to the top.

that version of this list would have The Room at #1