The Greatest Musical Comedies
Funny musicals are not hard to find. Like spaghetti and meatballs and peanut butter and jelly, music and comedy are a match made in heaven. The best musical comedies provide movie-goers with lots of laughs and leave them with a song on their lips. This is a list of the top funny musical movies including everything from Grease to The Producers to Singin' in the Rain.
What films will you find on this list of top funny musicals? This Is Spinal Tap put a distinctly modern twist on the genre. Rob Reiner's hilarious mockumentary about a fading British heavy metal band brought us such hits as “Big Bottom,” “Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight,” and “Stonehenge.” Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Billy Crystal, Bruno Kirby, and Fran Drescher are just a few of the cast members from the film. School of Rock is another hilarious movie that combines music and comedy. The Rocky Horror Picture Show became a cult hit thanks to its unique humor and infectious songs. Other good films featured on this best musical comedy movies list include Sing Street, Pitch Perfect, and The Wedding Singer.
Which musical comedy do you think deserves the top spot on this list? Give the best films a thumbs up, and add any that are missing.
Musical comedy movies have been directed by some pretty famous names, including Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks.
- Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor
- Released: 1952
- Directed by: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
A spoof of the turmoil that afflicted the movie industry in the late 1920s when movies went from silent to sound. When two silent movie stars', Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont, latest movie is made into ...more - Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Steve Martin
- John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing
- John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, James Brown
- Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renée Zellweger, Richard Gere
- Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries
- Released: 1968
- Directed by: Ken Hughes
While truant from school, young siblings Jeremy and Jemima meet the beautiful Truly Scrumptious (Sally Ann Howes), who falls for their widowed father, Caractacus Potts (Dick Van Dyke), and his ...more