This is a list of comedy films released in the 1940s.
American films
1940 The Bank Dick The Ghost Breakers The Great Dictator The Great McGinty His Girl Friday My Favorite Wife My Little Chickadee One Night in the Tropics
1941 Andy Hardy's Private Secretary Ball of Fire The Big Store The Bride Came C.O.D. Buck Privates The Devil and Miss Jones The Flame of New Orleans Great Guns Here Comes Mr. Jordan The Lady Eve Mr. & Mrs. Smith Never Give a Sucker an Even Break Nine Lives Are Not Enough That Night in Rio Topper Returns
1942 The Man Who Came to Dinner The Major and the Minor My Sister Eileen The Palm Beach Story Rio Rita Road to Morocco Ship Ahoy Tales of Manhattan The Talk of the Town There's One Born Every Minute To Be or Not to Be Woman of the Year You Were Never Lovelier
1943 Crazy House Du Barry Was a Lady Government Girl Heaven Can Wait Hello Frisco, Hello Hit the Ice I Dood It Jitterbugs A Lady Takes a Chance Mr. Lucky The More the Merrier A Night to Remember Slightly Dangerous They Got Me Covered Thousands Cheer Two Weeks to Live Whistling in Brooklyn
1944 Arsenic and Old Lace Hail the Conquering Hero Lady in the Dark The Miracle of Morgan's Creek See Here, Private Hargrove Sensations of 1945 Standing Room Only The Princess and the Pirate
1945 Along Came Jones The Bullfighters Eadie Was a Lady The Horn Blows at Midnight Lady on a Train
1946 Angel on My Shoulder The Great Morgan Little Giant Lover Come Back Monsieur Beaucaire A Night in Casablanca The Time of Their Lives Vacation in Reno Without Reservations
1947 The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (a.k.a. Bachelor Knight) Buck Privates Come Home Christmas Eve The Egg and I The Farmer's Daughter Miracle on 34th Street Monsieur Verdoux Road to Rio The Sin of Harold Diddlebock Suddenly, It's Spring The Voice of the Turtle Where There's Life
1948 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein The Emperor Waltz A Foreign Affair June Bride Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House The Noose Hangs High One Touch of Venus The Paleface Sitting Pretty Variety Time
1949 Adam's Rib Africa Screams Holiday Affair John Loves Mary I Was a Male War Bride It's a Great Feeling My Friend Irma
British films
Back-Room Boy (1942) The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1941) Blithe Spirit (1945) Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) Crook's Tour (1941) The Frozen Limits (1940) Gasbags (1940) The Ghost of St Michaels (1941) The Goose Steps Out (1942) He Snoops to Conquer (1944) Hoots Mon! (1940) Hue and Cry (1946) I Didn't Do It (1945) It's Not Cricket (1948) It's That Man Again (1943) Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) Let George Do It! (1941) Major Barbara (1941) My Learned Friend (1943) On Approval (1943) Passport to Pimlico (1949) Somewhere in England (1940) (and subsequent series) Whisky Galore! (1948)
Comedy horror 1940 The Ghost Breakers 1941 The Smiling Ghost 1944 Zombies on Broadway 1948 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 1949 Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
Comedy drama
Seven Gibbers (1940) That Gang of Mine (1940) Tugboat Annie Sails Again (1940) The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943) Salute to the Marines (1943) Three Wise Fools (1946) To Live in Peace (1947)