The 32 Greatest '90s Comedies Ever Made

Alicia Silverstone
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Was the last decade ဣof the 20th Century its funniest? The greatest comedies of the 1990s certainly make a compelling—and side-splitting—case. This was aဣn era when audiences would turn out in droves to have their funny bones tickled at the cineplex, and the comedies frequently topped the box office.

There was a wide variety of comedies in the '90s, too. Gross-out teen comedies played alongside riffs on other genres, like sci-fi par꧙odies or silly sports tales. Rom-coms were arguably never better than they were in this decade, and you had stars like Jim Carrey, Mike My💞ers, Robin Williams, Adam Sandler, and Julia Roberts providing audiences with reliable laughs—and, on occasion, maybe even some well-earned tears, too.

So get ready to giggle, guffaw, and chortle at the 32澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: best comedy movies of the 1990s.

32. The Mask

Jim Carrey in The Mask, looking respectfully

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Year: 1994
Director: Chuck Russell

"Someb♍ody Stop Me!" No actor defined '90s comedies as much as Jim Carrey, who in 1994 alone starred in three iconic romps; Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Dumber and Dumber, and The Mask. The Mask might be Carrey at his most unhinged, as the enchanted mask that turns him into the titular green horndog swing enthusiast lets him really fly his freak flag. The Mask is a "smokin'!" comedy that really could've only been made in the mid-'90s, for better or worse.

31. Robin Hood Men in Tights

Cary Elwes in Robin Hood Men in Tights

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Year: 1993
Director: Mel Brooks

A lesser Mel Brooks comedy is still better than most movies, and his take on the Robin Hood legend, starring Cary Elwes as the emerald archer, is a charmingly silly—occasionally dumb—good time. Men in Tights is at its best when it leans into that goofiness, gleefully inviting anachronisms or making the whole thing into a farce, such🍸 a🃏s when Robin checks the script (of the movie he's currently in) to confirm that he's not supposed to lose an archery contest. A young Dave Chappelle co-stars as one of Robin's Merry Men.

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24. A League of Their Own

Geena Davis and Tom Hanks in A League of Their Own

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Year: 1992
Director: Penny Marshall

"There's no crying in baseball!" One of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best sports movies, Penny Marshall's A League of Their Own, follows the fictionalized tale of the Rockford Peaches, an all-girls baseball team that competed during World War II while most of the men were overseas fighting in the war. Anchored by a winning performanc🥀e by Geena Davis and featuring scene-stealing (and base-stealing, literally) turns from Lori Petti, Rosie O'Donnell, and Madonna, plus Tom Hanks as their manager, it's an all-time classic.

23. Dumb and Dumber

Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels in Dumb and Dumber

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Year: 1994
Director: Peter Farrelly

You've got to love the '90s, an era when the premise "what if two friends were really dumb?" was enough to greenlight a movie and to have it bꦡe a smash hit. Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels star as Lloyd and Harry, a pair of dopes who set🔜 out for Aspen in the hopes of doing a good deed and returning a briefcase full of money they found—but they have no clue that they've actually gotten themselves wrapped up in a ransom situation. It's not the most intellectual comedy of the '90s, but with a name like that… would you want it to be?

22. Clerks

Kevin Smith's Clerks

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Year: 1994
Director: Kevin Smith

Jay and Silent Bob (Jason Mewes and director Kevin Smith) make their debut in Clerks, the start of Smith's View Askewniverse and one of the most celebrated indie comedies of the decade. Dante Hicks (Brian O'Halloran) and Randal Graves (Jeff Anderson) work as clerks in a New Jersey mall, and the movie follows them and a few of their friends throughout a day—much of which is spent doing things like arguing which Star Wars movie has the better ending. Witty, scra☂ppy, and relatable, Clerks is an icon of ෴slacker cinema.

21. Toy Story

Buzz and Woody in Toy Story

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Year: 1995
Director: John Lasseter

The first Pixar movie is known for revolutionizing animation, but in addition to being a breakthrough in computer animation, Toy Story is also really funny on a level that kids and adults alike can enjoy. Starring the voice talents of Tom Hanks as the cowboy doll Woody and Tim Allen as the sp꧒ace ranger action figure Buzz Lightyear—who doesn't believe he's a toy at all —Toy Story💃's short 81-minute runtime is overflowing with funny visuals, charming characters, and killer line deliveries ("You! Are a child's! Plaything!").

20. Home Alone

Kevin and the Wet Bandits in Home Alone

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Year: 1990
Director: Chris Columbus

As one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Christmas movies that many people watch every single year when the holidays come around, it's nice that Home Alone is legitimately very funny even once you've lost count of what number rewatch you're on. Macaulay Culkin stars as Kevin, a kid who has been accidentally left behind on Christmas but is making the best of it—until the Wet Bandits (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern) target his house. There's Christmas magic and comical violence, as watchin🃏g Harry and Marv get bonked in the head yet or suffer multiple injuries in a row that could all be fatal, never gꦉets old.

14. She's All That

Rachael Leigh Cook

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Year: 1999
Director: Robert Iscove

George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, previously adapted into a movie as My Fair Lady, gets a SoCal hi🅺gh school makeover in She's All That, starring Freddie Prinze Jr. and Rachael Leigh Cook as a pair of students. Zack (Prinze) is the most popular kid in school, and he makes a bet that he can turn the lamest girl in the class, Laney Boggs (Cook), into a prom queen in just six weeks. Naturally, in addition to laughs, some real feelings between them emerge. She's All That is full of tropes that you've seen countless times before in high school movies before and since, but it pulls them off really, really well.

12. My Cousin Vinny

Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny

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Year: 1992
Director: Jonathan Lynn

In addition to having lots of great comedies, the '90s were full of fantastic legal dramas, and My Cousin Vinny just so happens to be both. Joe Pesci stars as the titular Vinny, a loud-mouth New Yorker who has just passed the bar, who, along with his wife Mona Lisa (a delightful Marisa Tomei), comes to rural Alabama to help his cousin and his friend try to avoid being wrongfully convicted oꦯf a murder they didn't commit. It's a great fish-out-of-water story with laughs and captivating courtroom scenes.