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1. Caught Plastered (1931)

Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Musical

Wheeler and Woolsey play two unemployed vaudevillians who get involved in helping an old lady save her moribund drug store. Problems and laughs begin when the villain spikes the Lemon Sodas they are selling.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, Lucy Beaumont

Votes: 266

2. Scoop (2006)

PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy

An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Hugh Jackman, Jim Dunk, Robert Bathurst

Votes: 87,640 | Gross: $10.53M

3. The Road to Hong Kong (1962)

Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Musical, Sci-Fi

Mistaken identity and the acquisition of a rare Tibetan herb put two buffoonish con men on the wrong side of a secret organization geared toward world domination.

Director: Norman Panama | Stars: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Joan Collins, Robert Morley

Votes: 2,782

4. Maniac (1934)

Not Rated | 51 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A former vaudevillian gifted at impersonation assists a mad scientist in reanimating corpses and soon goes mad himself.

Director: Dwain Esper | Stars: Bill Woods, Horace B. Carpenter, Ted Edwards, Phyllis Diller

Votes: 2,706

5. Just You and Me, Kid (1979)

PG | 95 min | Comedy

A former vaudevillian befriends a 14 year-old runaway who is being chased by drug dealers.

Director: Leonard Stern | Stars: George Burns, Brooke Shields, Lorraine Gary, Ray Bolger

Votes: 1,066

6. The Hard Way (1943)

Passed | 109 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

Embittered, ambitious Helen Chernen sees an opportunity to escape her drab small-town life by becoming a 'stage mother' to her musically-talented younger sister.

Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Ida Lupino, Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson

Votes: 1,493

7. Road to Utopia (1945)

Passed | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

Two vaudeville flops pose as bad guys and join the Klondike gold rush with a saloon singer.

Director: Hal Walker | Stars: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Hillary Brooke

Votes: 3,753

8. It All Came True (1940)

Approved | 97 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

After crooked nightclub owner Chips Maguire murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house.

Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Humphrey Bogart, Jeffrey Lynn, Zasu Pitts

Votes: 1,469

9. Broadway Rhythm (1944)

Passed | 115 min | Music, Romance

A reluctantly-retired vaudevillian clashes with his producer son, who thinks his father's entertainment is passe'--audiences need something more sophisticated. Meanwhile, the producer's father and sister secretly produce their own show.

Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: George Murphy, Ginny Simms, Charles Winninger, Gloria DeHaven

Votes: 341

10. The Flying Ace (1926)

65 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A WWI fighter pilot returns to his former job as a railroad detective, and must recover a satchel filled with $25,000 of stolen payroll, locate a missing employee, and capture the gang of thieves responsible.

Director: Richard E. Norman | Stars: Laurence Criner, Kathryn Boyd, Boise De Legge, Harold Platts

Votes: 311

11. Berth Marks (1929)

Passed | 19 min | Short, Comedy

Taking the train to a show in Pottsville, musicians Stanley and Oliver run into trouble once settled in their sleeping car berth.

Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Harry Bernard, Sammy Brooks

Votes: 1,572

12. Maisie (1939)

Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Drama

A showgirl stranded in a Wyoming town ends up being hired as a maid at a ranch.

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Robert Young, Ann Sothern, Ruth Hussey, Ian Hunter

Votes: 691

13. Izzy & Moe (1985 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy, Crime

The adventures of two retired vaudeville performers, who become two of the best prohibition Agents in the 1920s.

Director: Jackie Cooper | Stars: Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Cynthia Harris, Zohra Lampert

Votes: 260

14. South of Heaven (2008)

Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy, Crime

When Roy Coop finished his stint in the Navy, he only had two things on his mind: seeing his brother Dale and writing the great American novel. What he gets, however, is the homecoming from... See full summary »

Director: Jonathan Vara | Stars: Diora Baird, Jon Gries, Lena Gwendolyn Hill, Elina Löwensohn

Votes: 294

15. The Great Rupert (1950)

Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Family

A little squirrel with lots of charm accidentally helps two poor, down-but-NOT-out families overcome their obstacles.

Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Jimmy Durante, Terry Moore, Tom Drake, Frank Orth

Votes: 1,575

16. Dancing Co-Ed (1939)

Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college dance contest to find a new star.

Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Lana Turner, Richard Carlson, Artie Shaw and His Orchestra, Artie Shaw

Votes: 534

17. Two Guys from Texas (1948)

Passed | 86 min | Comedy, Musical, Western

Two performers become stranded in Texas after their car breaks down, and become embroiled in criminal and romantic misadventures.

Directors: David Butler, Friz Freleng, Frank Tashlin | Stars: Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Dorothy Malone, Penny Edwards

Votes: 433

18. The Wild Man of Borneo (1941)

Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Romance

In 1902, medicine show con man Dan Thompson settles down with the daughter he hardly knows in a New York theatrical boarding house full of eccentric characters. Forced to take a job in an ... See full summary »

Director: Robert B. Sinclair | Stars: Frank Morgan, Mary Howard, Billie Burke, Donald Meek

Votes: 200

19. Rose of Washington Square (1939)

Approved | 86 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

A singer becomes a star in the Ziegfeld Follies, but her marriage to a con man has a bad effect on her career.

Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Al Jolson, William Frawley

Votes: 666

20. Once in a Lifetime (1932)

Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Romance

Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.

Director: Russell Mack | Stars: Jack Oakie, Sidney Fox, Aline MacMahon, Russell Hopton

Votes: 215

21. The Lost Princess (2005)

Not Rated | 75 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

The warrior is Esmeralda, a princess who has brains, can fight and is pretty, too. The sexy one is Don Juan, a pretty boy laughing at danger. These two Spanish champions, along with Don ... See full summary »

Director: Duncan Pace | Stars: Lolly Foy, Dakota Star Granados, Jose Granados, Thayr Harris

Votes: 389

22. The Old Fashioned Way (1934)

Passed | 71 min | Comedy

The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff.

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: W.C. Fields, Joe Morrison, Baby LeRoy, Judith Allen

Votes: 1,136

23. So This Is Africa (1933)

Passed | 61 min | Comedy, Musical

Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey play a couple of broke, hungry vaudevillians who are holed up in a hotel room with a few (tame) lions. They are hired by a movie producer who wishes to send ... See full summary »

Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Robert Woolsey, Bert Wheeler, Raquel Torres, Esther Muir

Votes: 155

24. If I Had My Way (1940)

Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

When a fellow bridge builder is killed in an accident, two of his co-workers take his now-orphaned daughter to New York to be adopted by relatives.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Bing Crosby, Gloria Jean, Charles Winninger, El Brendel

Votes: 211

25. Girl Rush (1944)

Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Western, Musical

Two unsuccessful vaudeville entertainers decide to search for gold during the California gold rush in 1849. They come to a town where no woman lives. The dwellers of this town promise them ... See full summary »

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Frances Langford, Barbara Jo Allen

Votes: 268

26. Too Much Harmony (1933)

Approved | 76 min | Comedy, Musical

A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."

Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Bing Crosby, Jack Oakie, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Harry Green

Votes: 91

27. Mariken van Nieumeghen (1974)

80 min | Drama, History

A sparkling film and surprising look into the middle ages by means of the story of Mariken, whose beauty is used by the devilish comedian Moenen to put people up against each other.

Director: Jos Stelling | Stars: Eric Bais, Sander Bais, Kees Bakker, Jacqueline Bayer

Votes: 257

28. Absolute Quiet (1936)

Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama

Businessman Gerald Axton goes to his ranch to rest, having had a near-heart-attack due to business worries. But while there (with his female assistant who makes his heart flutter as much as... See full summary »

Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Lionel Atwill, Irene Hervey, Raymond Walburn, Stuart Erwin

Votes: 432

29. Kentucky Kernels (1934)

Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Music

Two out-of-work magicians help lovelorn Jerry adopt little Spanky. When Jerry makes up and elopes, the duo are stuck with the brat. Then Spanky inherits a fortune, so they all head to Kentucky and get caught between two feuding clans.

Director: George Stevens | Stars: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Mary Carlisle, George 'Spanky' McFarland

Votes: 396

30. Dizzy Dames (1935)

Passed | 65 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

Lillian Bennett runs a theatrical boarding house in New York City. She doesn't want her débutante daughter Helen Bennett, reared in finishing schools away from New York, to know of her own ... See full summary »

Director: William Nigh | Stars: Marjorie Rambeau, Florine McKinney, Lawrence Gray, Inez Courtney

Votes: 62

31. Dude Ranch (1931)

Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Western

Chester Carr, owner of a dude ranch in the Rockies, caters to guests seeking the thrill of the Wild West. Among his guests are the wealthy Spruce Meadows and his daughter Susan. But the ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Jack Oakie, Stuart Erwin, Eugene Pallette, Mitzi Green

Votes: 62

32. The Spite Bride (1919)

Drama

Tessa Doyle, an innocent country girl who has come to New York and joined a vaudeville sister act, becomes embroiled in a scheme to earn money at her partner Trixie Dennis' insistence. When... See full summary »

Director: Charles Giblyn | Stars: Olive Thomas, Robert Ellis, Jack Mulhall, Claire Du Brey

33. Guests Wanted (1932)

18 min | Short, Comedy

A man inherits a hotel in California and hires his friends to help him run it. Business is bad so he plants a story that his late uncle hid his fortune in the hotel. The place is soon overrun with treasure hunters.

Director: Ralph Ceder | Stars: Benny Rubin, Nell Breen, Louise Carver, Bud Jamison

Votes: 11

34. Corporal Kate (1926)

Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Kate Jones and Becky Finkelstein are manicurists who decide to go overseas and entertain American troops during the Great War. Clark Jackson, a wealthy playboy, and William, his valet, are ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Sloane | Stars: Vera Reynolds, Julia Faye, Majel Coleman, Kenneth Thomson

Votes: 21 | Gross: $0.15M

35. Lawless Love (1918)

50 min | Comedy, Drama, Western

Vaudeville artist LaBelle Geraldine and her dancing partner Freddie Montgomery are stranded in Arizona when their troupe breaks up. In order to raise money, Geraldine orders Freddie to ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Thornby | Stars: Jewel Carmen, Henry Woodward, Edward Hearn

36. The Wise Guy (1926)

Passed | 69 min | Drama, Romance

Guy Watson, known as a wise guy, decides to turn his traveling vaudeville troupe and tent into an evangelistic movement, and make more money preaching than acting. One of the troupers is ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: James Kirkwood, Mary Astor, Betty Compson, George F. Marion

Votes: 23

37. Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died (2022)

Documentary

From the suicidal clowns who inspired Chaplin and Keaton to Robin Williams and beyond, Looking for Charlie takes an unflinching look at the role played by depression in helping to shape the medium of film.

Directors: Darren R. Reid, Brett Sanders | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Mark Cousins, Darren R. Reid

38. Naked Songs: The Life & Times of Rickie Lee Jones (1996)

69 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

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Director: Ethan A. Russell | Stars: Rickie Lee Jones, George Burns, Debbie Harry, Temple Shea

Votes: 9

39. The Song Plugger (1930)

22 min | Short, Music

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Director: Roy Mack | Stars: Joe Frisco, Arthur Brooks, Leo Donnelly, James Dunn

Votes: 28

40. Harry Langdon: Lost and Found - A Story in Five Parts (1997 Video)

Not Rated | 74 min | Documentary

An off-screen narrator and nine talking heads make the case for Harry Langdon being ranked just below Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd as a fine movie comedian. They celebrate his slowed-down ... See full summary »

Stars: Robert Arkus, Charles Chaplin, Beth Daniels, Ken Gordon

Votes: 23

41. The Avengers (1961–1969)
Episode: Look - (Stop Me If You've Heard This One) But There Were These Two Fellers... (1968)

TV-14 | 52 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Directors of the Capitol Land and Development Company are being killed. They have the tender for the Cupid project, an underground government headquarters in the event of a nuclear war. ... See full summary »

Director: James Hill | Stars: Patrick Macnee, Linda Thorson, Jimmy Jewel, Julian Chagrin

Votes: 271

42. The Carol Burnett Show (1967–1978)
Episode: Lucille Ball and George Carlin (1969)

TV-G | 60 min | Comedy, Family

Highlights include: a stand-up routine from guest George Carlin criticizing the Emmy Awards' bias in favor of big-budget shows; a spoof of "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice"; two airline ... See full summary »

Director: Dave Powers | Stars: Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner

Votes: 63

43. Rebound (1952–1953)
Episode: The Witness (1952)

26 min | Drama, Mystery

An old vaudeville clown is the only man to see a jewelry heist and is in mortal danger when the robber returns to eliminate the only witness.

Director: Bernard Girard | Stars: Edwin Max, Vera Marshe, Lee Marvin, Robert Karnes

Votes: 11

44. Hollywood (1980)
Episode: Comedy: A Serious Business (1980)

49 min | Documentary, Biography, History

The art of silent comedy is highlighted with a focus on the work of the four great clowns of the era: Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Harry Langdon.

Directors: Kevin Brownlow, David Gill | Stars: James Mason, Frank Capra, Jackie Coogan, Georgie Harris

Votes: 69

45. Phineas and Ferb (2007–2024)
Episode: What a Croc!/Ferb TV (2012)

TV-G | 23 min | Animation, Short, Action

Danville learns that Crikey the Crocodile has gone missing, Candance wants to get her hands on Irving's digital scrapbook, and the boys present alternative TV programs.

Directors: George Elliott, Robert Hughes, Keith Oliver | Stars: Vincent Martella, Ashley Tisdale, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Caroline Rhea

Votes: 209