How the Comedy Movies bracket works
Rank comedy movies without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Superbad or Bridesmaids? Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy or The Hangover? — and after 31 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 5 rounds at the default 32-slot size (Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship), with every one of the 32 films in the field. Entrants are drawn at random each time, so an early upset in one run may never happen in the next. You can also play it at 8 or 16 slots for a shorter or longer run.
31 picks, 5 rounds
- Round of 3216 matchups
- Sweet 168 matchups
- Elite 84 matchups
- Final Four2 matchups
- Championship1 matchup
Roughly 2-4 minutes start to finish.
All 32 entrants
All 32 entrants are listed below, including Superbad, Bridesmaids, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and The Hangover.
Superbad
2007
Bridesmaids
2011
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
2004
The Hangover
2009
Step Brothers
2008
Dumb and Dumber
1994
Airplane!
1980
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1975
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014
Knocked Up
2007
Blazing Saddles
1974
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
2005
Mean Girls
2004
Napoleon Dynamite
2004
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1986
Ghostbusters
1984
Caddyshack
1980
Shaun of the Dead
2004
Tropic Thunder
2008
21 Jump Street
2012
This Is Spinal Tap
1984
The Big Lebowski
1998
Borat
2006
Wedding Crashers
2005
Rush Hour
1998
Happy Gilmore
1996
Old School
2003
The Nice Guys
2016
Hot Fuzz
2007
Coming to America
1988
Game Night
2018
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993
Would rather group them than rank them? Open all 32 in the tier list maker and sort them into S, A, B, C, D and F tiers instead — same entrants, no matchups.
How everyone else ranked them
Aggregated from 6 completed Comedy Movies brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
The Big Lebowski
13W - 4L · won 2 brackets
76%
win rate
- 2
The Hangover
12W - 5L · won 1 bracket
71%
win rate
- 3
Dumb and Dumber
11W - 5L · won 1 bracket
69%
win rate
- 4
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
10W - 5L · won 1 bracket
67%
win rate
- 5
Blazing Saddles
10W - 5L · won 1 bracket
67%
win rate
- 6
Shaun of the Dead
12W - 6L
67%
win rate
- 7
Superbad
11W - 6L
65%
win rate
- 8
Step Brothers
9W - 6L
60%
win rate
- 9
Tropic Thunder
9W - 6L
60%
win rate
- 10
Rush Hour
9W - 6L
60%
win rate
Getting a ranking you actually agree with
- 1Pick the film you would actually rewatch tonight, not the one with the better reputation.
- 2The default run puts all 32 films in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 16 slots — a quicker run over a random 16 of them.
- 3Watch for the film you keep beating reluctantly. That is usually the sign you should undo and reconsider the pick before it.
Comedy Movies bracket FAQ
How many films are in the Comedy Movies bracket?
The pool holds 32 films. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 31 picks across 5 rounds: Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship. 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 rank comedy movies take?
About 2-4 minutes — 31 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to a 8-slot bracket. It works the same on a phone as on a desktop, and no login is involved.
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 31 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.