This is BBC's list of the best comedies of all time, originally published on 22 August 2017 based on a worldwide poll of critics.

One of the issues with a poll like this is that there's going to be a lot of disagreement on what constitutes a comedy, so we get some pretty weird placements where really beloved movies are pretty far down the list (like Pulp Fiction at #46 and The Exterminating Angel at #92) because most participants didn't consider them comedies. So yeah, it's kind of a weird list with some strange placements and some very disputable inclusions. I have seen 53 out of 101 (52%).

Some statistics:

The highest-rated entry on Letterboxd is The Apartment (#27) at 4.43/5 while the lowest-rated is There's Something About Mary (#81) at 3.24/5. The longest movie on the list Toni Erdmann at 162 minutes – which is pretty damn long for a comedy – and the shortest is The Music Box at just 29 minutes. The oldest film is Safety Last! (1923) and the newest is again Toni Erdmann (2016).

The list features three Best Picture winners – Annie Hall, The Apartment and It Happened One Night – and another seven nominees.

There are also three Palme d'Or winners: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, M*A*S*H and Pulp Fiction.

Directors with multiple films on the list:

4 films - Charlie Chaplin, Ernst Lubitsch
3 films - Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Howard Hawks, Buster Keaton, John Landis, Preston Sturges, Rob Reiner, Jacques Tati, David Zucker
2 films - Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, Wes Anderson, Luis Buñuel, Frank Capra, Joel and Ethan Coen, George Cukor, Christopher Guest, Terry Jones, Jerry Lewis, Leo McCarey, Adam McKay, Trey Parker, Harold Ramis, Billy Wilder, Edgar Wright

(Note that #100 is a tie and so there are 101 films on the list.)