Note: I didn't want to repeat movies from list to list, so some of my favorite films who might have been categorized as "comedy films" but are missing here were put in the other categories (see my other lists), such as art, horror, science fiction, or crime/thriller.

• 1950s
• 1. Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati)

• 2. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder)

• 3. The Seven Year Itch (Billy Wilder)

• 4. Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati)

• 5. Roman Holiday (William Wyler)

Honorable mention: Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen)

• 1960s
• 1. Playtime (Jacques Tati)

• 2. Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)

• 3. The Apartment (Billy Wilder)

• 4. The Graduate (Mike Nichols)

• 5. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (Stanley Kramer)

Honorable mentions: The Producers (Mel Brooks), A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester), A Woman Is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard), Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard), Lolita (Stanley Kubrick)

• 1970s
• 1. Annie Hall (Woody Allen)

• 2. Monty Python's Life of Brian (Terry Jones)

• 3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones)

• 4. Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks)

• 5. Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks)

Honorable mentions: Manhattan (Woody Allen), Bananas (Woody Allen), Pink Flamingos (John Waters), Multiple Maniacs (John Waters), Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby), Trafic (Jacques Tati)

• 1980s
• 1. Airplane! (David Zucker, Jim Abrahams & Jerry Zucker)

• 2. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)

• 3. This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner)

• 4. Raising Arizona (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)

• 5. Zelig (Woody Allen)

Honorable mentions: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis), Beetlejuice (Tim Burton), After Hours (Martin Scorsese), The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese), Withnail and I (Bruce Robinson), Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (Terry Jones)

• 1990s
• 1. Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)

• 2. The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)

• 3. Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater)

• 4. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Trey Parker)

• 5. Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)

Honorable mentions: Toy Story (John Lasseter), Dumb and Dumber (Peter Farrelly & Bobby Farrelly), Home Alone (Chris Columbus), Babe (Chris Noonan), Delicatessen (Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro), The Wrong Trousers (Nick Park), Rushmore (Wes Anderson), Waiting for Guffman (Christopher Guest), Night on Earth (Jim Jarmusch)

• 2000s
• 1. Superbad (Greg Mottola)

• 2. Borat (Larry Charles)

• 3. A Serious Man (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)

• 4. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)

• 5. In Bruges (Martin McDonagh)

Honorable mentions: The Room (Tommy Wiseau), Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright), Best in Show (Christopher Guest), Meet the Parents (Jay Roach), Burn After Reading (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen), 24 Hour Party People (Michael Winterbottom), Team America: World Police (Trey Parker), The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Judd Apatow)

• 2010s
• 1. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)

• 2. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)

• 3. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)

• 4. Nebraska (Alexander Payne)

• 5. Relatos Salvajes (Damián Szifron)

Honorable mentions: Inside Out (Pete Docter), Bernie (Richard Linklater), Birdman (Alejandro González Iñárritu), The Lego Movie (Phil Lord & Christopher Miller), Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Edgar Wright), Kung Fury (David Sandberg), The Big Short (Adam McKay), The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius), The Disaster Artist (James Franco)