Narrowing down the playing field to pick the most hilarious comedies in cinema history is no easy task, but that's what Paste did with their "100 best comedies of all time" list. As writer Michael Burgin explained, Paste staff chose and ranked films "based on how many laughs we think they are likely to generate for the modern audience," meaning "some great films that are also comedies may appear lower on the list" than they would have if elements like “cultural impact” or “pioneering importance” were being considered.
The earlier years of the silver screen were represented, too, with such classics as Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush (1925) at #54 and The Great Dictator (1940) at #22, along with Frank Capra's Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) at #46 and various others. The '50s showed up in the form of films Some Like It Hot (1959) at #16 and Singin' in the Rain (1952) at #37.
The top 10 included several laugh-out-loud '80s flicks, kicking off with A Fish Called Wanda (1988) in tenth place, Airplane! (1980) at #8 and Rob Reiner's beloved The Princess Bride (1987) coming in sixth. Two movies from the '30s nearly made it to the very top of the list: It Happened One Night (1934) at #9 and Duck Soup (1933) at #3; from the '40s, The Philadelphia Story (1940) was ranked #4.
So which movie was crowned the best comedy of all time? That honor went to the delightfully slapstick Raising Arizona (1987). As the article (accurately) put it: "From its opening courtship sequence to the struggles of H.I. (Nicholas Cage) and Ed (Holly Hunter) to form a family by borrowing an 'extra' from a family with a surplus to the final battle with the Lone Biker of the Apocalypse, the Coen brothers’ film remains an immensely beguiling and quotable farcical fable."
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