Mental Floss have had a go at identifying the funniest movie of each year since 1950.
Recognising the subjectivity of that classification, they’ve used a combination of Rotten Tomatoes scores and IMDb viewer ratings, along with award nominations and maybe a few personal biases as well.
Many of the years also contain mentions of other comedies released that year.
I’ve seen around 42 of the 73 listed, (Give or take a few I may have forgotten seeing) including 1963’s It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
Surprisingly it’s the most recent entries that represent the biggest gaps having only seen four of their picks since the 2004 listing.
And the lack of a mention for 1986’s Princess Bride and 2016’s Hunt For The Wilderpeople is inconceivable.
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