15 People Share the Funniest Movie They’ve Ever Seen

Comedy might be the most subjective movie genre of all. One person’s guaranteed laugh is another person’s painfully long 90 minutes, and even the movies we find hilarious can depend on exactly when we first watched them. Still, there are a handful of comedies that seem unusually good at reducing people to tears, becoming endlessly quoted favorites in the process. When Reddit users were asked to name the funniest movie they had ever seen, the answers stretched from Mel Brooks and Monty Python classics to high school comedies and ridiculous action spoofs. Some people had watched their pick dozens of times and still laughed. Here are 15 movies people shared as the funniest they’ve ever seen.

Airplane! (1980)

Airplane! was one of the biggest answers in the discussion, and people immediately started trading its jokes in the replies. One commenter also pointed out how perfectly Leslie Nielsen plays everything straight, a choice that somehow makes the absurdity even funnier.

The N- Gun (1988)

Leslie Nielsen strikes again. The N- Gun earned plenty of love for packing visual gags, ridiculous misunderstandings and completely serious delivery into practically every scene, with one Redditor saying even hearing its plot recapped made them laugh uncontrollably.

Office Space (1999)

Office Space has somehow become even more relatable as the years have passed. Redditors immediately started quoting its jokes about flair, printers and doing the bare minimum, which is probably the best evidence that its painfully dull workplace humor still works.

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)

One person remembered never laughing harder than when they first watched the South Park movie. Other commenters quickly agreed, with one saying nothing makes them laugh quite as much as the movie even decades later.

Hot Fuzz (2007)

Hot Fuzz turns a quiet English village into the setting for an increasingly ridiculous action movie without ever losing its deadpan sense of humor. Its nomination immediately triggered a chain of Redditors repeating favorite lines back and forth.

Superbad (2007)

For some viewers, Superbad is funny because its teenage conversations feel a little too familiar. One commenter said the movie “made me who I am today”, while others praised how accurately it captured the way high school friends actually talked to each other.

Young Frankenstein (1974)

Mel Brooks had several contenders in the thread, but Young Frankenstein earned its own enthusiastic following. One commenter even picked it over Blazing Saddles, which came out the same year and is hardly an easy comedy to beat.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

Few movies have generated as many jokes that fans can recognize from a couple of words. Monty Python and the Holy Grail was another popular choice, and naturally its Reddit replies almost immediately became an exchange of lines from the movie.

Kung Fu Hustle (2004)

Kung Fu Hustle brings martial arts, slapstick, cartoon physics and a surprising amount of heart together in one extremely strange package. The Reddit endorsement was wonderfully straightforward: subtitled or dubbed, the movie is hilarious.

Tommy Boy (1995)

One Redditor remembered laughing so hard at Tommy Boy as a kid that they could barely breathe. They have seen movies they consider funnier since, but none apparently matched the experience of seeing Chris Farley and David Spade’s comedy for the first time.

Tropic Thunder (2008)

Tropic Thunder takes Hollywood egos, method acting and war-movie clichés and pushes all of them into complete absurdity. The movie inspired plenty of favorite-line replies, while another commenter simply called it their all-time favorite comedy.

Dumb and Dumber (1994)

Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels turned two spectacularly clueless friends into one of the defining comedy duos of the 1990s. One Redditor said it remains the hardest they have ever laughed at a movie, even while giving plenty of credit to Airplane! and The N- Gun.

Blazing Saddles (1974)

Another Mel Brooks favorite, Blazing Saddles has the unusual distinction of becoming more chaotic as it approaches the finish line. One commenter singled out exactly that quality, calling its completely off-the-rails ending one of their favorite moments ever put on film.

Galaxy Quest (1999)

Galaxy Quest affectionately makes fun of science-fiction fandom while still clearly loving everything it is parodying. A Redditor who already loved Star Trek singled it out as a particularly funny take on the genre.

The Other Guys (2010)

Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg spend The Other Guys playing detectives who are very much not the action heroes they imagine themselves to be. Its appearance in the thread quickly produced references to several of the movie’s most ridiculous running jokes.