The 10 Best Comedy Films of the 1960's

Comedy is subjective. If you tell the ten people the same joke it is likely five will laugh and five will not. The same goes for movies. If you see a movie that makes you laugh hard and often you are likely to recommend that movie to anyone and everyone you know. Chances are some of those people will feel the same way while others will scratch their heads and wonder what is wrong with you.

Adam Sandler may be the most popular film comedian in the last decade and I have endured most of his movies trying to see what everyone else sees. For the life of me I can’t see it. I can see the man is talented but have yet to find any of his movies merely amusing much less funny. Caddyshack is one of the most beloved film comedies of the last 26 years and I have watched it several times and still fail to see it more then just a mildly amusing time waster.

People often don’t realize how hard it is to create something that will make people laugh. Even in the movie industry the Academy Awards often overlook film comedies often believing it is much easier to make someone laugh then to make someone cry. Since 1960 only 16 comedies have been nominated for Best Picture and in the history of the awards only 3 comedies (It Happened One Night; Annie Hall; Shakespeare in Love) have won the top prize.

Knowing how difficult it is to please all of the people all of the time, I am plunging head first into a recommendation of some of the best film comedies of a certain decade. Basically this is a list of films that, if you want to laugh, shouldn’t let you down. Some are funnier then others but they are all terrific film comedies. If you are in the mood for a good laugh and you happen across one of these films, you could do a lot worse then to sit down and watch and forget about the world’s problems and the problems in your own life - if even for a few short hours.

Here are the 10 best comedies of the 1960’s in alphabetical order: