100 Years...100 Laughs

Continuing its celebration of the centennial of American cinema, the American Film Institute has put together its long-awaited list of America's 100 funniest movies, as hand-picked by such noted figures in the American entertainment community as Lisa Bonet, Stephen Vincent Benet, Bonnie Bedelia, Bonnie Raitt, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Helena Bonham Carter, Bono, Spencer Gordon Bennett, and Bennett Cerf. The results were unveiled June 14 on a nationally broadcast television program, "100 Years...100 Laughs."

During a heartfelt opening address (unfortunately preempted in some areas by ongoing news coverage of the Uzbekistan parliamentary crisis), Georg Trakl, AFI's Vice-President of Finance & Administration, quipped: "Over the last hundred years we've loved and laughed so hard at so many movies, we just had to make a list of them. And of course in this, as in all things, tastes differ. At least be thankful it's not the list of the 100 best dog movies." To which program host Charlton Heston replied with a firm "Amen, Georg."

(NOTE: To express disagreement or to nominate your own favorites, do not, repeat do not respond to this press release. Instead, find a Web chat room and complain amongst yourselves.)

The Top 100 1. Que Viva Mexico! 2. The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell 3. House of Frankenstein 4. V. I. Warshawski 5. Pulp Fiction 6. What! No Beer? 7. The Andromeda Strain 8. Meet John Doe 9. Anna Christie 10. Bowery to Bagdad 11. Donovan's Reef 12. Car Wash 13. The Cannonball Run 14. Earthquake 15. Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914) 16. Mom and Dad 17. O. Henry's Full House 18. The Reluctant Debutante 19. An American Guerrilla in the Philippines 20. The Great McGinty 21. Alexander's Ragtime Band 22. Sign of the Pagan 23. The Fortune Cookie 24. Please Don't Eat the Daisies 25. The Trial of the Catonsville Nine 26. How to Make a Monster 27. Hook 28. Jumanji 29. Three Amigos! 30. Room Service 31. Barcelona 32. House Party 2 33. Mortuary Academy 34. Four Weddings and a Funeral 35. Radio Days 36. The Fighting Seabees 37. Wavelength (1967) 38. Killers from Space 39. Bus Stop 40. Ghost Dad 41. Barton Fink 42. The True Story of Jesse James 43. The Honey Pot 44. Beavis and Butt-head Do America 45. Casanova's Big Night 46. The Little Mermaid 47. Long Day's Journey into Night (1962) 48. Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! 49. Miller's Crossing 50. Spinout 51. Look Who's Talking 52. Gimme an "F" 53. Imitation of Life (1959) 54. Born Free 55. Make Mine Mink 56. Limelight 57. How to Stuff a Wild Bikini 58. Red Planet Mars 59. Elmer Gantry 60. Buck Privates 61. Lady Windermere's Fan 62. Love and Death 63. The Family Jewels 64. Two on a Guillotine 65. Frankenhooker 66. Wilson 67. The Flim-Flam Man 68. Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? 69. The Wedding March 70. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 71. The Wild World of Batwoman 72. Brighton Beach Memoirs 73. I Married a Witch 74. Blame It on the Bellboy 75. Roman Holiday 76. Bullitt 77. The Half-Naked Truth 78. Sextette 79. Utopia 80. Every Which Way But Loose 81. Destry Rides Again 82. Grumpy Old Men 83. The Shining 84. Let's Go Navy 85. Nightmare on Elm Street 86. The Immoral Mr. Teas 87. White Men Can't Jump 88. The Brute Man 89. Revenge of the Nerds 90. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 91. A Very Brady Sequel 92. When Willie Comes Marching Home 93. Night Monster 94. The Last Remake of Beau Geste 95. Leave It to Blondie 96. Psych-Out 97. Willard 98. Brain of Blood 99. Sergeant York 100. Images