Here is a list of the top 5 of the 100 funniest films selected by the American Film Institute, Los Angeles, California in the year 2000. These 100 films are the funniest according to the AFI jury that prepared this list. The jury was made up of more than 1800 people, including actors, directors, writers, editors, film critics, cinematographers and historians.
1 Some Like It Hot (1959) – Ashton / Mirisch
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon
Supporting Role Actors: George Raft, Joe E. Brown, Pat O’Brien, and Nehemiah Persoff.
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Two musicians Joe and Jerry (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon) witness a murder and when the gangster (George Raft) sees them, they run away. They decide to leave town and the only possible way was related to a group of girls heading to Florida. They dress like women and join them. While Joe and Jerry fall in love with “Sugar Kane” (Monroe), the most beautiful and important member of the band. She was a vocalist and ukulele player. Both Joe and Jerry try to impress her and win her affection while maintaining their costumes. The movie is very funny because of the mess they create for themselves.
2.Tootsie (1982) -Columbia
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Dustin Hoffman and Jessica Lange
Supporting Role Actors: Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Bill Murray, Sydney Pollack, George Gaynes, Lynne Thigpen, and Geena Davis (her debut).
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Michael Dorsey is approaching forty and is a perfectionist. People rarely want to work with him because sometimes he is very difficult to deal with. It is now that he learns of a premiere on the soap opera Southwest General Hospital. She disguises herself as ‘Dorothy Michaels’ and gets the job she thought would be cool for now and enough to pay the bills.
But to her dismay, she does so well in the role of a hospital administrator that she becomes a success. Also, in the real world, he falls in love with his co-star Jessica Lange. This movie is a bag of laughs. So watch and enjoy this true success.
3. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Caring and Love the Bomb (1964) – Columbia
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
STARRING: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Slim Pickens.
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Kubrick’s dark comedy about the dropping of an American nuclear bomb on Russia centers on an American president, played by Sellers in one of his three roles, who must deal with a Soviet nuclear attack on the United States and his own maniacal staff. including Scott’s memorable General Turgidson. . It features a memorable triad of performances by Sellers (as US President, British officer, and deranged scientist) and Pickens’ wild ride in a missile. “Gentlemen, you cannot fight here! This is the War Room!”
4.Annie Hall (1977) – United Artists
Directed by: Woody Allen
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts
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Woody Allen, playing Alvy Singer, is a neurotic who likes and loves Annie (Diane Keaton). They also indulge in fantasizing about each other. But then they broke up because they thought they were so different. Annie Hall moves in with Paul Simon, playing Tony Lacey, a Hollywood record company executive. Alvy is constant and thinks he still loves her. He even convinces her to go back to him. Annie is not coming with him. Alvy leaves and returns home and writes a play about their relationship in which they end up happy together. Later they met, but as good friends. Now they both have different lovers. The movie ends with Alvy thinking about how we accept love in our life even though it has a very complex nature.
5 Duck Soup (1933) – Paramount
Directed by: Leo McCarey
Starring: Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo Marx; Margaret Dumont; Louis calhern
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The film features the “Four Marx Brothers” (Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo). This movie wasn’t a flop, but somehow it was a bit of a disappointment at the box office. Duck Soup was the last film the Marx Brothers and Paramount Pictures worked on together. They had some confrontations and decided to part ways after the movie ended. Despite these tensions, Duck Soup is still considered a masterpiece of the Marx Brothers.