Q: How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb? A: The fish. Much like that joke, comedy comes down to personal taste and what one finds funny or not. Some like their humour light and frothy and very generalised, while others like it to have an edge and go for a more twisted, darker humour. The motherlode of this genre can be scrolled below. Either way, we're sure there will be something for everybody in the subsections on the left.
Right: There's Something About Mary's hairdo...
6.8/10
Teddy wakes up the morning after his wedding to discover that every few minutes he's jumping forward to the next year of his life. Read more
7.1/10
This inventive and impressive first feature from Australian Sarah Watt combines animation and real life to tell the stories of several disparate peopl... Read more
7.2/10
Eric (Steve Evets) the postman is not in a good place. His wife has left him, his stepsons are out of control and his house is a chaotic nightmare. In... Read more
6.2/10
A.k.a. "Cherchez Hortense". "Looking for Hortense" is a bittersweet comedy of manners that is French in spirit but universal in appeal. It tells the s... Read more
5.7/10
An adaptation of Joe Orton's hilarious stage play, in which a young hood robs a bank and hides the money in his mother's coffin, but isn't able to ret... Read more
6.8/10
A wheeler-dealer weasels his way into the inner circle of Silvio Berlusconi, a wealthy and controversial Italian politician. Read more
7.1/10
Albert Brooks' masterpiece, an existential road film about an obsessive Yuppie couple (Brooks and Julie Hagerty) who drop out when Brooks' character i... Read more
6.3/10
Fiona is a Canadian librarian who flies to Paris and discovers that her 88-year-old aunt is missing. As Fiona scours the city looking for her, she enc... Read more
6.7/10
Neil Simon's Pulitzer prize-winning comedy-drama about a struggling widower who leaves his two sons with his steely German mother and his sweet but si... Read more
7.9/10
Louis de Funes was one of France's original funnymen, with the rubber-faced prankster hitting his stride in French slapstick comedies of the 50s, 60s... Read more