Comedy Movie Tier List, Settled Head-to-Head
All 32 films here, ranked by 67 players. The Hangover leads: it wins 73.9% of its matchups (n = 184) and was champion in 13 of 67 brackets. Disagree? Your first pick is right here. No sign-up.
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail1975
Tropic Thunder2008
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Comedy Movies: the community’s best
Win rate across 1,781 head-to-head picks from 67 finished brackets. n is the number of matchups behind each win rate; only entrants with 30 or more are listed.
| # | Comedy | W–L | Win rate | vs .500 | Titles | n |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Hangover2009 | 136–48 | 73.9% | 13 | 184 | |
| 2 | Step Brothers2008 | 130–50 | 72.2% | 8 | 180 | |
| 3 | Superbad2007 | 116–52 | 69% | 5 | 168 | |
| 4 | Tropic Thunder2008 | 93–51 | 64.6% | 7 | 144 | |
| 5 | Dumb and Dumber1994 | 87–51 | 63% | 6 | 138 | |
| 6 | Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy2004 | 93–57 | 62% | 2 | 150 | |
| 7 | Happy Gilmore1996 | 80–62 | 56.3% | 1 | 142 | |
| 8 | 21 Jump Street2012 | 70–55 | 56% | 1 | 125 |
Comedy Movies: the community tier list
From 1,781 head-to-head picks in 67 finished brackets. Placed by win rate, steadied toward 50% for entrants with few matchups: S is 75% or more, A 60%, B 50%, C 40%, D 25%.
Stier, win rate 75% or more
- Nobody yet
Atier, win rate 60% or more
- The Hangover
- Step Brothers
- Superbad
- Tropic Thunder
- Dumb and Dumber
- Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Btier, win rate 50% or more
- Happy Gilmore
- 21 Jump Street
- Borat
Ctier, win rate 40% or more
- Airplane!
- Rush Hour
- Napoleon Dynamite
- Wedding Crashers
- The Big Lebowski
- The 40-Year-Old Virgin
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- Caddyshack
- + 7 more
Dtier, win rate 25% or more
- Old School
- Coming to America
- Shaun of the Dead
- Game Night
- Bridesmaids
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- Knocked Up
- This Is Spinal Tap
Ftier, win rate 0% or more
- Nobody yet
How the Comedy Movies bracket works
This comedy tier list is played, not dragged into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Superbad or Bridesmaids? Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy or The Hangover? — and after 15 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. The awkward pairings are the point: they are the calls a drag-and-drop tier list quietly lets you avoid.
This bracket runs 4 rounds at the default 16-slot size (Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final), drawn from a pool of 32 films. Entrants are drawn by a seed that changes daily, and New draw picks a fresh one, so an early upset in one run may never happen in the next. You can also play it at 8 or 32 slots for a shorter or longer run.
15 picks, 4 rounds
- Round of 168 matchups
- Quarterfinals4 matchups
- Semifinals2 matchups
- Final1 matchup
Roughly 1-2 minutes start to finish at the default size.
All 32 entrants
All 32 entrants are listed below, including Superbad, Bridesmaids, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and The Hangover. Updated
- Superbad2007
- Bridesmaids2011
- Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy2004
- The Hangover2009
- Step Brothers2008
- Dumb and Dumber1994
- Airplane!1980
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail1975
- The Grand Budapest Hotel2014
- Knocked Up2007
- Blazing Saddles1974
- The 40-Year-Old Virgin2005
- Mean Girls2004
- Napoleon Dynamite2004
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off1986
- Ghostbusters1984
- Caddyshack1980
- Shaun of the Dead2004
- Tropic Thunder2008
- 21 Jump Street2012
- This Is Spinal Tap1984
- The Big Lebowski1998
- Borat2006
- Wedding Crashers2005
- Rush Hour1998
- Happy Gilmore1996
- Old School2003
- The Nice Guys2016
- Hot Fuzz2007
- Coming to America1988
- Game Night2018
- Mrs. Doubtfire1993
Tier list instead?
Load all 32 into the tier list maker and sort them into S through F yourself: same entrants, no matchups.
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Open the bracket makerGetting a ranking you actually agree with
- Pick the film you would actually rewatch tonight, not the one with the better reputation.
- Start at 16 slots. If the result feels too obvious, replay at 32 so more of the 32 films make the field.
- Watch for the film you keep beating reluctantly. That is usually the sign you should undo and reconsider the pick before it.
Questions people ask
What is the best comedy?
According to 67 BracketRanker players, The Hangover (2009). It wins 73.9% of its head-to-head matchups (n = 184) and was champion in 13 of 67 brackets (19.4%).
How many films are in the Comedy Movies bracket?
The pool holds 32 films. A default run uses 16 of them and takes 15 picks across 4 rounds: Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16, 32 slots.
Which films are included?
Superbad, Bridesmaids, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, The Hangover, Step Brothers, Dumb and Dumber, Airplane!, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Knocked Up, Blazing Saddles and The 40-Year-Old Virgin, plus 20 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the Comedy Movies bracket take?
About 1-2 minutes — 15 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to an 8-slot bracket. It works the same on a phone as on a desktop, no login is involved, and progress saves as you go.
How does this compare to a drag-and-drop tier list maker?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other film grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 15 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two films that never met. If you would rather place the films into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 32 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
How did everyone else rank these films?
Every completed bracket feeds the Comedy Movies community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 32 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
Can I build my own comedy movies bracket?
Use the bracket maker: add your own films, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 32 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.