Q: How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb? A: The fish. Much like that joke, comedy comes down to personal taste and what one finds funny or not. Some like their humour light and frothy and very generalised, while others like it to have an edge and go for a more twisted, darker humour. The motherlode of this genre can be scrolled below. Either way, we're sure there will be something for everybody in the subsections on the left. Right: There's Something About Mary's hairdo...
This slightly underwhelming sequel to the excellent 'Whisky Galore' sees the locals of Todday island again at odds with the mainlanders as the British... Read more
The winning combination of Billy Wilder and writer I.A.L Diamond ('Some Like It Hot', 'The Apartment') and acting greats Audrey Hepburn and Gary Coope... Read more
This light-hearted wartime comedy stars Cary Grant as a fun-loving naval pilot who finagles a furlough in San Francisco for himself and two other flyb... Read more
Chaplin, working as usual on both sides of the camera, was in self-imposed exile from the United States when he launched this pie in the face at targe... Read more
Terry-Thomas is a shifty peer of the realm, Peter Sellers is a TV celebrity, Peggy Mount is a best-selling novelist, Shirley Eaton is a gorgeous model... Read more
The second film in the hilarious series has a diamond smuggler hiding out at the girls' school by masquerading as the new Headmistress. Alastair Sim,... Read more
A handsomely mounted romantic comedy of a suave European prince and a simple chorus girl who meet in London during the 1911 Coronation. Fascinating pe... Read more
Jean and Bill are a struggling married couple with Bill trying to scrape a living as a writer. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them... Read more
Bud and Lou are the owners of the amusement park Kiddieland. Bud, a compulsive gambler, gets in trouble with the mob, and Lou finds himself struggling... Read more
This splendid farce on army life tells the tale of an undergraduate with no visible talents who joins the army in WWII and soon learns the best ways o... Read more