Nothing wrong with this as a list of funny movies, but five out of thirty from before 1940 and the rest post-1960 suggests that the compiler doesn’t watch enough TCM. No Laurel & Hardy? Only a '30s/sound-era example of Chaplin? Pull the other one, sonny, it’s got bells on.
Aside from snubbing the non-Keaton silents, this list ignores many of the movies that established what “funny” means in American film: “His Girl Friday,” “My Man Godfrey,” “The Thin Man,” “Philadelphia Story,” and the careers of W. C. Fields, Jack Benny, Bob Hope, and the Three Stooges. (Nobody cares about Wheeler & Woolsey or Olson & Johnson any more, though the Lindy Hoppers’ dance routine from “Hellzapoppin’” is a classic.)
But then, “best” lists combine the least attractive features of click-bait and a mug’s game, so why am I complaining.
