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The 40 best comedy movies to watch during coronavirus lockdown

From Duck Soup to Annie Hall, Life of Brian to The Big Lebowski, here’s a plethora of films to brighten up even self-isolation.

With coronavirus affecting everything from cinema closures to postponed filming, getting your film fix is looking trickier by the day.

Thankfully, our critics and editors have put together a list of 40 films guaranteed to put a smile on your face during quarantine.

Best comedy movies

1. Duck Soup (1933)

The Marx Brothers at their finest: a cult favourite and perhaps their funniest film. A wealthy widow offers financial aid to the bankrupt state of Freedonia on the sole (and alarming) condition that Rufus T Firefly (Groucho Marx) be made leader. But his chaotic, inept regime soon bumbles into war with neighbouring Sylvania. It’s typically inspired silliness.

2. This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

The sheer denseness of the laughter in Rob Reiner’s send-up of rock ’n’ roll excess is what gets you: Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer have such perfect chemistry that every line bursts with howl-out-loud brilliance.

3. Borat (2006)

Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat (or Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, to give it its full title) blends ludicrous slapstick scenes with footage of unwitting real-life Americans… and ends up being as surprisingly revealing as it is silly.

4. Step Brothers (2008)

Will Ferrell and John C Reilly make a fun double-act in this 2008 comedy about two middle-aged slackers, forced together after their parents marry.

5. Les Vacances de M. Hulot (1953)

This is a sublime, subtle and (above all) kindly piece of film-making from the great French auteur Jacques Tati. Monsieur Hulot (Tati) heads off to the seaside, and encounters every possible stratum of French society; one by one, their pretensions are all sent up in tidy style. Forgot the world outside and relax into this gentle, sunlit comedy.

6. Airplane! (1980)

If any self-important genre needed skewering in 1980, it was the airborne disaster flick started by Airport in 1970. Here came the slapstick farce it deserved, with Leslie Nielsen as the on-board doctor who diagnoses a plane-wide case of food poisoning. Just don’t call him Shirley.

7. The Big Lebowski (1998)

Perhaps the Coen brothers’ best-loved film, this wonderfully skewed comedy crime caper has spawned its own religion, Dudeism. Jeff Bridges stars as Jeff Lebowski, aka the Dude, or His Dudeness, or Duder, or El Duderino, a bowling-obsessed slacker who’s drawn into the kidnapping of his millionaire namesake’s wife. Brilliant support comes from John Goodman and Steve Buscemi.

8. Serial Mom (1994)

Kathleen Turner stars as Beverley, a suburban housewife with a secret life as a bloody, knife-wielding serial killer, in John Waters’s dark (but delightfully silly) 1994 satire.

9. Life of Brian (1979)

Monty Python’s hallucinatory satire of organised religion provoked nationwide protests on its release: a salutary reminder that comedy can be even more powerful and threatening than drama. It’s a burlesque Passion that still stings today; wildly ambitious and comprehensively brilliant.

10. Secret Ceremony (1968)

Critics are divided over whether this lurid Elizabeth Taylor/Mia Farrow thriller is camp yet compelling, or just compellingly camp. Either way, it makes for an unexpectedly funny watch (suicide, abuse and murder themes aside).

11. Annie Hall (1977)

Woody Allen’s Oscar moment and, for many, his best film. Diane Keaton is his lah-di-dah girlfriend, in a philosophical wonderwork that cuts bitterly close to the truth of their own romance.

12. Withnail & I (1987)

Set at the tail-end of the Sixties, this gloriously mordant comedy stars Richard E Grant and Paul McGann as two unemployed, alcoholic actors. It spawned more quotable lines than many a comedy with a far larger budget.

13. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)

Four badly animated, foul-mouthed schoolboys from Colorado must save the day after the US goes to war with Canada over an obscene cartoon. It’s not for everyone, but South Park’s puerile façade often conceals acute satire, never more so than in this entertaining feature-length offering.

14. Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

The brink of nuclear war understood as male-posturing farce, this is Kubrick’s funniest, tightest and most gleefully cynical picture. Sellers rules the roost in his triple role, but there’s indelible work right down the cast list, and Ken Adam’s production design is immortal.

15. Young Frankenstein (1974)

No performer better embodied the barely suppressed neuroticism that splutters, like a Roman candle, through Brooks’s best comedy than Gene Wilder. And Wilder was never better than as the title character in his and Brooks’s drippingly atmospheric, black-and-white take on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein novel: not so much a parody as a rapturously crafted comedic adaptation, as scary and poignant and gothically sensual as it is boundlessly funny.

16. Bridesmaids (2011)

This film about female friendship is heaving with jokes about defecation and vomit. (Paul Feig directs; Judd Apatow is an executive producer.) Still, it’s sharply written and memorably performed and develops into a surprisingly poignant evocation of self-scuppering loneliness. The plot: messy Annie (Kristen Wiig) must compete with perfect Helen (Rose Byrne) over who’s the best friend of bride-to-be Lillian (Maya Rudolph).

17. Mommie Dearest (1980)

The makers of this biopic about Joan Crawford and her daughter may have been aiming for melodrama… but they ended up creating one of the most ridiculously over-the-top movies of the past century.

18. The Awful Truth (1937)

Irene Dunne and Cary Grant play warring spouses on the brink of divorce, and determined to sabotage each other’s romantic prospects, in this superb, whip-smart 1937 screwball flick.

19. Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)

Steve Martin teamed up with John Candy for a comedy that was written, produced and directed by John Hughes (National Lampoon’s Vacation, The Breakfast Club, Home Alone). Martin plays Neal Page, a highly-strung businessman who has to rely on the help of Candy’s character Del Griffith, a bumbling and garrulous shower-curtain-ring salesman, to get home from New York to Chicago in in time for Thanksgiving.

20. Killing Me Softly (2002)

This 1992 “erotic thriller”, led by Joseph Fiennes and Heather Graham, probably isn’t your best bet if you’re looking for either eroticism or thrills. Anyone on the hunt for a good giggle, however, will find it rich hunting grounds.

21. Sons of the Desert (1933)

In another madcap romp from the duo, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are scheming to outwit their wives and secretly attend a Sons of the Desert lodge meeting in Chicago.

22. Austin Powers 2: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)

All three of Mike Myers’s Bond parodies are pretty giggle-inducing… but this deliciously silly caper is probably the funniest of the lot. It’ll pass the time, too, until the real 007 makes his comeback.

23. Groundhog Day (1993)

In Harold Ramis’s 1993 comedy, Billy Murray’s self-centred weatherman is forced to live out the same day again and again… until he finally learns to do it right. This one is a surprisingly poignant take on a comic idea.

24. Some Like It Hot (1959)

When two musicians (Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis) accidentally witness a mob hit in Chicago, they flee the state disguised as women in an all-female band; but complications arise in the form of demure ukulele player Sugar Kane, superbly played by Marilyn Monroe. Billy Wilder’s comedy is, all at once, smooth, wacky and clever. It boasts an (ironically) perfect last line as well.

25. Ghostbusters (1984)

Who you gonna call? Everyone knows the premise of this one: a trio of unemployed parapsychology professors set up shop as a unique ghost removal service in Ivan Reitman’s 1984 classic.

26. Bowfinger (1999)

In Frank Oz’s 1999 satire, a struggling filmmaker, played by Steve Martin, decides to make a movie with a big star in it… without actually telling the actor in question. Eddie Murphy plays both the Hollywood big-name, and his talent-free twin brother.

27. Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)

Whereas Joe Dante’s original monster hit was a deliciously dark horror flick laced with touches of wry humour, this inferior sequel is a straight-up, riotous comedy, replete with in-jokes and movie references. This time, the gremlins are running amok in a Manhattan high-rise building called Clamp Tower… which is owned by John Glover’s rather Donald Trump-like mogul.

28. Case 39 (2009)

Ostensibly a horror movie, Case 39 is short on scares… but suspiciously big on hokey cheese. Renée Zellweger plays a social worker who tries to save a little girl (Jodelle Ferland) from abusive parents. But is the sweet little thing what she seems? Look out for a scene in which Bradley Cooper vomits bees.

29. The Lady Eve (1941)

“They say a moonlit deck is a woman’s business office,” says smitten adventuress Jean Harrington (Barbara Stanwyck) to gullible heir Charles Poncefort Pike (Henry Fonda) on an ocean liner bound for New York. Jean is on board to fleece the richest man in her orbit, using an old routine cooked up with her card–sharp father, a wily alleged colonel (Charles Coburn). All the right ingredients, then, for a delightful screwball comedy.

30. The Phantom of Liberty (1974)

Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel pokes fun at sexual mores and social convention in this beautifully bizarre slice of Seventies surrealism.

31. It’s a Gift (1934)

In this WC Fields comedy, widely considered one of the actor’s best works, a beleaguered grocer dreams of owning his own orange grove.

32. Blades of Glory (2007)

You might think that the sequinned world of figure skating is beyond parody, but Will Ferrell and Jon Heder serve up a zestfully preposterous success. They play rival ice skaters, Ferrell a loose cannon and Heder a prissy perfectionist, who are slung out of the sport but return as an all-male pairing. Funny, sharp and maybe even a little charming.

33. Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2008)

It could be the opposite of This Is Spinal Tap (see above): this time, it’s all true, and the humour is never intentional. Sacha Gervasi’s documentary is about a real-life band who never quite made it… but kept trying anyway.

34. Mean Girls (2004)

Tina Fey’s adaptation of Rosalind Wiseman’s book was inspired by high-school cliques, and it not only gave Lindsay Lohan her greatest role, but gave an entire generation a slate of catchphrases ranging from “you go, Glen Coco!” to “say crack again”.

35. Juno (2007)

Another poignant film where the tears aren’t always born of laughter. Ellen Page steals every scene in Jason Reitman’s acerbically heartening take on teen pregnancy. 

36. Weekend at Bernie’s (1989)

Ted Kotcheff’s ludicrous caper, which sees Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman drag a dead man around for the majority of the film, has become a cult classic for a reason.

37. Election (1999)

It’s difficult not to see parallels between Election and modern politics, as evidenced by the sheer volume of thinkpieces in recent years comparing Hillary Clinton to Reese Witherspoon’s ruthless high school politician Tracy Flick. It’s Witherspoon’s greatest performance: a keenly observed, brilliantly dark starring role.

38. Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)

The appallingly unheralded modern precursor to the awkward mockumentary format that quickly came to dominate comedy in the late 2000s, this is a bitter, nasty and gleefully funny tribute to small-town Americana, where egos collide and blood is spilled during the town’s annual beauty pageant. Kirsten Dunst, Denise Richards and the wonderful Brittany Murphy are among the competitors.

39. Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)

Alongside Annie Hall, Woody Allen’s 1993 ode to the noir mysteries of his youth may be his finest laugh riot. His iconic chemistry with Diane Keaton has morphed into something old and jaded, their waning marital spark reignited by the potential of solving a crime in their apartment building. Anjelica Huston and Alan Alda play a flirtatious novelist and cheesy old flame, respectively, who join in.

40. Wet Hot American Summer (2001)

Yes, it’s full of famous faces before they hit the big time (among them Bradley Cooper, Amy Poehler and Elizabeth Banks), but Wet Hot American Summer is also a wonderfully gonzo masterclass in comedy writing, stringing together a series of eccentric characters in romantic, hairbrained and occasionally surreal stories set over a few days at an Eighties summer camp.