This is a list of comedy films released in the 1980s.
1970s
1970 The Boatniks Catch-22 The Cheyenne Social Club The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes Doctor in Trouble Hi, Mom! Hoffman How Do I Love Thee? Kelly's Heroes Little Big Man M*A*S*H Myra Breckinridge The Out-of-Towners The Owl and the Pussycat Start the Revolution Without Me There's a Girl in My Soup The Twelve Chairs There Was a Crooked Man... Which Way to the Front?
1971 Dollars 200 Motels And Now For Something Completely Different Bananas The Barefoot Executive Bedknobs and Broomsticks B.S. I Love You The Battle of Love's Return Bunny O'Hare Carnal Knowledge Drive, He Said Happy Birthday, Wanda June Harold and Maude The Hospital How to Frame a Figg Melody The Million Dollar Duck Mrs. Pollifax-Spy A New Leaf Plaza Suite Scandalous John The Skin Game Such Good Friends Support Your Local Gunfighter! Taking Off They Might Be Giants Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
1972 Another Nice Mess Avanti! Bluebeard Butterflies Are Free Cancel My Reservation The Candidate Come Back, Charleston Blue Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) Every Little Crook and Nanny Fuzz Fritz the Cat Get to Know Your Rabbit Hammersmith Is Out The Heartbreak Kid The Honkers The Hot Rock The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean Now You See Him, Now You Don't Pete 'n' Tillie Pink Flamingos Play It Again, Sam Pocket Money Pulp Slaughterhouse-Five Snoopy Come Home Snowball Express The Thing with Two Heads To Find a Man Travels with My Aunt The War Between Men and Women What's Up, Doc? Where Does It Hurt? With Children at the Seaside
1973 40 Carats American Graffiti Blume in Love Charley and the Angel Class of '44 Cops and Robbers Five on the Black Hand Side Harry in Your Pocket The House in Nightmare Park Kid Blue The Last Detail The Naked Ape Oklahoma Crude One Little Indian The Paper Chase Paper Moon Shamus Sleeper Slither Soft Beds, Hard Battles Steelyard Blues The Sting Superdad The Thief Who Came to Dinner The Train Robbers The World's Greatest Athlete
1974 Blazing Saddles Dark Star Down and Dirty Duck Flesh Gordon Ginger in the Morning The Girl from Petrovka The Great McGonagall The Groove Tube Harry and Tonto Herbie Rides Again The Longest Yard Man About the House The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat Phantom of the Paradise Rhinoceros The Thorn Thunderbolt and Lightfoot Uptown Saturday Night Young Frankenstein
1975 Aaron Loves Angela The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother The Apple Dumpling Gang At Long Last Love The Black Bird Blazing Stewardesses Cooley High Crazy Mama Dolemite Fore Play Funny Lady The Fortune Hearts of the West It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time Let's Do It Again Lisztomania Love and Death Lucky Lady Monty Python and the Holy Grail Moonrunners One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing Peeper The Prisoner of Second Avenue Rancho Deluxe The Return of the Pink Panther The Rocky Horror Picture Show Rooster Cogburn Shampoo Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York Sixpack Annie Smile The Strongest Man in the World The Sunshine Boys Whiffs W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
1976 Adiós Amigo The Bad News Bears The Big Bus The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings Cannonball Car Wash Chesty Anderson, USN Confessions of a Driving Instructor Confessions of a Pop Performer Confessions of a Window Cleaner The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox Family Plot The First Nudie Musical Freaky Friday The Gumball Rally Gus Harry and Walter Go to New York Keep It Up Downstairs Mother, Jugs & Speed Murder by Death Network Nickelodeon No Deposit, No Return Norman... Is That You? The Pink Panther Strikes Again The Ritz The Shaggy D.A. Silent Movie Silver Streak Tunnel Vision
1977 Annie Hall The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training The Billion Dollar Hobo Candleshoe The Chicken Chronicles Confessions from a Holiday Camp Desperate Living Fun with Dick and Jane The Goodbye Girl Grand Theft Auto The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington Handle with Care Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo High Anxiety Jabberwocky The Kentucky Fried Movie The Last Remake of Beau Geste The Late Show Mr. Billion Oh, God! A Piece of the Action Semi-Tough Slap Shot Smokey and the Bandit Thieves Thunder and Lightning Which Way Is Up? The World's Greatest Lover
1978 A Wedding Almost Summer The Bad News Bears Go to Japan The Big Fix California Suite The Cat from Outer Space The Cheap Detective Corvette Summer Every Which Way But Loose Foul Play Goin' South The Great Bank Hoax Harper Valley PTA Heaven Can Wait Here Come the Tigers Hooper Hot Lead and Cold Feet Loose Shoes Movie Movie National Lampoon's Animal House Rabbit Test Revenge of the Pink Panther Sextette Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Somebody Killed Her Husband Thank God It's Friday They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way The End Up in Smoke Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
1979 10 1941 Americathon The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again Being There Breaking Away The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie The Electric Horseman Fast Break The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh The Frisco Kid Hot Stuff The In-Laws The Jerk Love at First Bite Lovers and Liars The Main Event Manhattan Monty Python's Life of Brian The Muppet Movie The North Avenue Irregulars North Dallas Forty A Perfect Couple The Plank (1979) — remake of the 1967 film Porridge (1979) The Prisoner of Zenda The Prize Fighter Real Life Richard Pryor: Live in Concert Rock 'n' Roll High School Scavenger Hunt Starting Over The Villain
1970s British films And Now For Something Completely Different (1971) Bless This House (1972) Confessions from a Holiday Camp (1977) Confessions of a Driving Instructor (1976) Confessions of a Pop Performer (1976) Confessions of a Window Cleaner and other sex comedies supported by the Eady levy Dad's Army (1971) Doctor in Trouble (1970) Hoffman (1970) The House in Nightmare Park (1973) Jabberwocky (1977) Keep It Up Downstairs (1976) The Likely Lads (1976) Man About the House (1974) Melody (1971) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) On the Buses (1972) (and two sequels) The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) The Plank (1979) — remake of the 1967 film Porridge (1979) Pulp (1972) The Return of the Pink Panther (1974) Soft Beds, Hard Battles (1973) Steptoe and Son (1972) and sequel Steptoe and Son Ride Again There's a Girl in My Soup (1970) Up the Chastity Belt (1972) Up the Front (1972) Up Pompeii! (1971)
Comedy-horror 1971 The Abominable Dr. Phibes
1972 Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things Dr. Phibes Rises Again The Gore Gore Girls Please Don't Eat My Mother Private Parts
1973 Theatre of Blood The Werewolf of Washington
1974 The Cars That Ate Paris
1975 The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1976 Murder By Death
1977 House
1978 Piranha
1979 Love at First Bite
Comedy-drama Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970) Carnal Knowledge (1971) The Longest Yard (1974) Female Trouble (1975) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Cannonball (1976) Don's Party (1976) The Judge and the Assassin (1976) Convoy (1978) Autumn Marathon (1979) (USSR) Breaking Away (1979)
Parody films Blazing Saddles (1974) Hardware Wars (1977) High Anxiety (1977) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1970s) Young Frankenstein (1970s)
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