# List of comedy films of the 1930s

A list of comedy films released in the 1930s.
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| 1930 |||||
| Animal Crackers | Victor Heerman | Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx | United States | |
| Brats | James Parrott | Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy | United States | Short Film |
| The Cat Creeps | Rupert Julian | Helen Twelvetrees, Raymond Hackett, Neil Hamilton | United States | Comedy horror |
| Check and Double Check | Melville W. Brown | Freeman F. Gosden, Charles J. Correll, Sue Carol | United States | |
| The Cuckoos | Paul Sloane | Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee | United States | |
| Dixiana | Luther Reed | Bebe Daniels, Everett Marshall, Bert Wheeler | United States | |
| Feet First | Clyde Bruckman | Harold Lloyd, Barbara Kent, Robert McWade | United States | |
| Half Shot at Sunrise | Paul Sloane | Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee | United States | |
| He Knew Women | Hugh Herbert | Lowell Sherman, Alice Joyce, David Manners | United States | |
| Hook, Line and Sinker | Edward F. Cline | Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee | United States | |
| Leathernecking | Edward F. Cline | Irene Dunne, Ken Murray, Louise Fazenda | United States | |
| Lovin' the Ladies | Melville W. Brown | Richard Dix, Lois Wilson, Allen Kearns | United States | |
| One Way Out | | | United States | Short Film |
| Queen High | Fred C. Newmeyer | Charles Ruggles, Frank Morgan, Ginger Rogers | United States | |
| The Rogue Song | Lionel Barrymore and Hal Roach | Lawrence Tibbett, Catherine Dale Owen, Nance O'Neil | United States | |
| The Runaway Bride | Donald Crisp | Mary Astor, Lloyd Hughes, Paul Hurst | United States | |
| She's My Weakness | Melville W. Brown | Arthur Lake, Sue Carol, William Collier Sr. | United States | |
| Shivering Shakespeare | Anthony Mack | Norman Chaney, Jackie Cooper, Allen Hoskins, Bobby Hutchins, and Mary Ann Jackson | United States | Short Film |
| Sin Takes a Holiday | Paul L. Stein | Constance Bennett, Kenneth MacKenna, Basil Rathbone | United States | |
| Teacher's Pet | Robert F. McGowan | Jackie Cooper as Jackie Matthew Beard as Hercules Norman Chaney as Chubby Dorothy DeBorba as Dorothy Allen Hoskins as Farina Bobby Hutchins as Wheezer Mary Ann Jackson as Mary Ann Buddy McDonald as Buddy | United States | Short Film |
| Whoopee! | Thornton Freeland | Eddie Cantor, Ethel Shutta, Paul Gregory | United States | |
| 1931 |||||
| Bachelor Apartment | Lowell Sherman | Lowell Sherman, Mae Murray, Irene Dunne | United States | |
| Beau Hunks | James W. Horne | Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James W. Horne | United States | Short Film |
| The Big Shot | Ralph Murphy | Eddie Quillan, Maureen O'Sullivan, Mary Nolan | United States | |
| Caught Plastered | William Seiter | Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee | United States | |
| Chickens Come Home | James W. Horne | Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch | United States | Short Film |
| City Lights | Charlie Chaplin | Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee | United States | |
| Cracked Nuts | Edward F. Cline | Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee | United States | |
| Ever Since Eve | | | United States | |
| Everything's Rosie | Clyde Bruckman | Robert Woolsey, Anita Louise, John Darrow | United States | |
| Fanny Foley Herself | Melville W. Brown | Edna May Oliver, Hobart Bosworth, Florence Roberts | United States | |
| The Front Page | Lewis Milestone | Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Mary Brian | United States | |
| Girls Demand Excitement | Seymour Felix | Virginia Cherrill, John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill | United States | |
| Helpmates | James Parrott | Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy | United States | Short Film |
| The House That Shadows Built | | Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx | United States | Short Film |
| High Stakes | Lowell Sherman | Lowell Sherman, Mae Murray, Karen Morley | United States | |
| Laugh and Get Rich | Gregory La Cava | Edna May Oliver, Hugh Herbert, Dorothy Lee | United States | |
| Lonely Wives | Russell Mack | Edward Everett Horton, Esther Ralston, Laura La Plante | United States | |
| Monkey Business | Norman Z. McLeod | Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx | United States | |
| Our Wife | James W. Horne | Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson | United States | Short Film |
| Peach O'Reno | William A. Seiter | Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee | United States | |
| Platinum Blonde | Frank R. Capra | Jean Harlow, Loretta Young, Robert Williams | United States | |
| The Royal Bed | Lowell Sherman | Lowell Sherman, Mary Astor, Anthony Bushell | United States | |
| The Runaround | William James Craft | Geoffrey Kerr, Mary Brian, Johnny Hines | United States | |
| Sweepstakes | Albert S. Rogell | Eddie Quillan, Lew Cody, James Gleason | United States | |
| The Tip-Off | Albert S. Rogell | Eddie Quillan, Robert Armstrong, Ginger Rogers | United States | |
| Too Many Cooks | William A. Seiter | Bert Wheeler, Dorothy Lee, Roscoe Ates | United States | |
| White Shoulders | Melville W. Brown | Mary Astor, Jack Holt, Ricardo Cortez | United States | |
| 1932 |||||
| The Animal Kingdom | Edward H. Griffith | Ann Harding, Leslie Howard, Myrna Loy | United States | |
| County Hospital | James Parrott | Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Gilbert | United States | Short Film |
| The Dentist | Leslie Pearce | W.C. Fields, Marjorie Kane, Arnold Gray | United States | Short Film |
| Doctor X | Michael Curtiz | Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Lee Tracy | United States | Comedy horror |
| Girl Crazy | William A. Seiter | Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee | United States | |
| The Half-Naked Truth | Gregory La Cava | Lupe Vélez, Lee Tracy, Eugene Pallette | United States | |
| Hold 'Em Jail | Norman Taurog | Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Edna May Oliver | United States | |
| The Hollywood Handicap | | Marion Byron, Anita Stewart, Bert Wheeler | United States | Short Film |
| Horse Feathers | Norman Z. McLeod | Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx | United States | |
| Ladies of the Jury | Lowell Sherman | Edna May Oliver, Jill Esmond, Ken Murray | United States | |
| Lady with a Past | Edward H. Griffith | Constance Bennett, Ben Lyon, David Manners | United States | |
| Little Orphan Annie | John S. Robertson | Mitzi Green, Buster Phelps, May Robson | United States | |
| Love Me Tonight | Rouben Mamoulian | Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Charles Ruggles | United States | |
| Movie Crazy | Clyde Bruckman | Harold Lloyd, Constance Cummings, Kenneth Thomson | United States | |
| The Music Box | James Parrott | Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy | United States | Short Film |
| The Old Dark House | James Whale | Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton | United States | Comedy horror |
| The Penguin Pool Murder | George Archainbaud | Edna May Oliver, Robert Armstrong, James Gleason | United States | Comedy mystery |
| Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | Alfred Santell | Marian Nixon, Ralph Bellamy, Mae Marsh | United States | Comedy drama |
| Running Hollywood | | Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Arthur Lake, Sally Blane | United States | Short Film |
| A Successful Calamity | John G. Adolfi | George Arliss, Mary Astor, Evalyn Knapp | United States | Comedy drama |
| That's My Boy | Roy William Neill | Richard Cromwell, Dorothy Jordan, Mae Marsh | United States | |
| This Is the Night | Frank Tuttle | Roland Young, Thelma Todd, Cary Grant | United States | |
| Trouble in Paradise | Ernst Lubitsch | Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall | United States | |
| The Voice of Hollywood No, 13 | | | United States | Short Film |
| A Woman Commands | Paul L. Stein | Pola Negri, Roland Young, Basil Rathbone | United States | |
| 1933 |||||
| Aggie Appleby Maker of Men | | | United States | |
| The Barber Shop | | | United States | Short Film |
| Bed of Roses | | | United States | |
| Blind Adventure | | | United States | comedy-drama |
| Bombshell | | | United States | |
| Busy Bodies | | Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dick Gilbert, Charlie Hall | United States | Short Film |
| Christopher Bean | | | United States | |
| Dinner at Eight | | | United States | |
| Diplomaniacs | | | United States | |
| Duck Soup | Leo McCarey | Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx | United States | |
| The Fatal Glass of Beer | | | United States | Short Film |
| Flying Down to Rio | | | United States | musical comedy |
| Goldie Gets Along | | | United States | comedy-drama |
| Goodbye Love | | | United States | |
| Happy | | | United Kingdom | musical comedy |
| His Private Secretary | | | United States | |
| International House | | | United States | |
| It's Great to Be Alive | | | United States | |
| I'm No Angel | | | United States | |
| Melody Cruise | | | United States | romantic comedy |
| The Midnight Patrol | | | United States | Short Film |
| Our Betters | | | United States | |
| Professional Sweetheart | | | United States | romantic comedy |
| Rafter Romance | | | United States | romantic comedy |
| Sailor Be Good | | | United States | |
| She Done Him Wrong | | | United States | |
| So this is Africa | | | United States | |
| Sons of the Desert | | | United States | |
| Topaze | | | United States | comedy-drama |
| Twice Two | | | United States | Short Film |
| 1934 |||||
| The Affairs of Cellini | | | United States | |
| Babes in Toyland | | | United States | |
| Bachelor Bait | | | United States | |
| By Your Leave | | | United States | |
| The Cat's-Paw | | | United States | |
| Cockeyed Cavaliers | | | United States | |
| The Dover Road | | | United States | romantic comedy |
| Down to Their Last Yacht | | | United States | |
| The Gay Divorcee | | | United States | romantic musical comedy |
| Going Bye Bye | | | United States | Short Film |
| Hips, Hips, Hooray! | | | United States | |
| It Happened One Night | | | United States | |
| It's a Gift | | | United States | |
| Kentucky Kernels | | | United States | |
| Lightning Strikes Twice | | | United States | |
| The Meanest Gal in Town | | | United States | |
| Odor in the Court | | | United States | Short Film |
| Punch Drunks | | | United States | Short Film |
| The Richest Girl in the World | | | United States | |
| Sing and Like It | | | United States | |
| Strictly Dynamite | | | United States | comedy-drama |
| The Thin Man | | | United States | |
| Tit for Tat | | | United States | Short Film |
| We're Rich Again | | | United States | |
| Woman Haters | | | United States | Short Film |
| 1935 |||||
| Another Face | | | United States | comedy-drama |
| Boys Will Be Boys | | | United Kingdom | |
| Captain Hurricane | | | United States | comedy-drama |
| Dandy Dick | | | United Kingdom | |
| Enchanted April | | | United States | comedy-drama |
| The Farmer Takes a Wife | | | United States | |
| The Ghost Goes West | | | United Kingdom | |
| Hi, Gaucho! | | | United States | |
| His Family Tree | | | United States | |
| Hooray for Love | | | United States | musical comedy |
| Hot Tip | | | United States | musical comedy |
| I Dream Too Much | | | United States | romantic comedy |
| In Person | | | United States | romantic comedy |
| Laddie | | | United States | comedy-drama |
| Man on the Flying Trapeze | | | United States | |
| A Night at the Opera | | | United States | |
| The Nitwits | | | United States | |
| Paradise Canyon | | | United States | |
| Pop Goes the Easel | | | United States | Short Film |
| The Rainmakers | | | United States | |
| Romance in Manhattan | | | United States | romantic comedy |
| Ruggles of Red Gap | | | United States | |
| Star of Midnight | | | United States | comedy mystery |
| Thicker than Water | | | United States | Short Film |
| To Beat the Band | | | United States | comedy mystery |
| Top Hat | | | United States | |
| 1936 |||||
| The Bride Walks Out | | | United States | romantic comedy |
| Bunker Bean | | | United States | romantic comedy |
| Dancing Pirate | | | United States | musical comedy |
| The Ex-Mrs. Bradford | | | United States | comedy-mystery |
| The Farmer in the Dell | | | United States | musical comedy |
| Follow the Fleet | | | United States | musical comedy |
| Good Morning, Boys | | | United Kingdom | |
| Libeled Lady | | | United States | |
| Love on a Bet | | | United States | romantic comedy |
| Make Way for a Lady | | | United States | romantic comedy |
| The Milky Way | | | United States | |
| Modern Times | | | United States | |
| Movie Maniacs | | | United States | Short Film |
| Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | | | United States | |
| Mummy's Boys | | | United States | |
| My Man Godfrey | | | United States | |
| Silly Billies | | | United States | |
| Smartest Girl in Town | | | United States | |
| Swing Time | | | United States | musical comedy |
| Sylvia Scarlett | | | United States | romantic comedy |
| Theodora Goes Wild | | | United States | |
| Walking on Air | | | United States | |
| Wife vs. Secretary | | | United States | |
| 1937 |||||
| All Over Town | | | United States | |
| The Awful Truth | | | United States | |
| The Big Shot | | | United States | |
| Breakfast for Two | | | United States | |
| A Damsel in Distress | | | United States | |
| A Day at the Races | | | United States | |
| Don't Tell the Wife | | | United States | |
| Double Wedding | | | United States | |
| Fight for Your Lady | | | United States | |
| Fit for a King | | | United States | |
| Forty Naughty Girls | | | United States | |
| Hideaway | | | United States | |
| High Flyers | | | United States | |
| History Is Made At Night | | | United States | |
| Hitting a New High | | | United States | |
| Keep Fit | | | United Kingdom | |
| The King and the Chorus Girl | | | United States | |
| The Life of the Party | | | United States | |
| Make a Wish | | | United States | |
| Meet the Missus | | | United States | |
| Music for Madame | | | United States | |
| New Faces of 1937 | | | United States | musical comedy |
| Nothing Sacred | | | United States | |
| Oh, Mr Porter! | | | United Kingdom | |
| On Again-Off Again | | | United States | musical comedy |
| Quick Money | | | United States | musical comedy |
| Riding on Air | | | United States | |
| Shall We Dance | | | United States | |
| She's Got Everything | | | United States | |
| Super-Sleuth | | | United States | |
| That Girl from Paris | | | United States | musical comedy |
| There Goes My Girl | | | United States | |
| There Goes the Groom | | | United States | |
| They Wanted to Marry | | | United States | romantic comedy |
| Too Many Wives | | | United States | romantic comedy |
| Topper | | | United States | |
| Way Out West | | | United States | |
| We're on the Jury | | | United States | |
| When's Your Birthday? | | | United States | |
| Wise Girl | | | United States | |
| You Can't Beat Love | | | United States | |
| 1938 |||||
| The Affairs of Annabel | | | United States | |
| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse | | | United States | |
| Annabel Takes a Tour | | | United States | |
| Ask A Policeman | | | United Kingdom | |
| Blond Cheat | | | United States | |
| Bringing Up Baby | | | United States | |
| Carefree | | | United States | musical comedy |
| Crashing Hollywood | | | United States | |
| The Divorce of Lady X | | | United Kingdom | |
| Everybody's Doing It | | | United States | |
| Go Chase Yourself | | | United States | |
| Having Wonderful Time | | | United States | romantic comedy |
| It's in the Air | | | United Kingdom | |
| Joy of Living | | | United States | |
| Love Finds Andy Hardy | | | United States | |
| The Mad Miss Manton | | | United States | |
| Maid's Night Out | | | United States | |
| Mr. Doodle Kicks Off | | | United States | |
| Next Time I Marry | | | United States | |
| Night Spot | | | United States | |
| Old Bones of the River | | | United Kingdom | |
| Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus | | | United Kingdom | |
| Professor Beware | | | United States | |
| Pygmalion | | | United Kingdom | |
| Radio City Revels | | | United States | musical comedy |
| Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | | | United States | Comedy drama |
| Room Service | | | United States | |
| A Slight Case of Murder | | | United States | |
| Termites of 1938 | | | United States | Short Film |
| This Marriage Business | | | United States | |
| Vivacious Lady | | | United States | |
| You Can't Take It with You | | | United States | |
| 1939 |||||
| At the Circus | | | United States | |
| Bachelor Mother | | | United States | |
| The Cat and the Canary | | | United States | Comedy horror |
| The Cowboy Quarterback | | | United States | |
| Dancing Co-Ed | | | United States | |
| East Side of Heaven | | | United States | |
| Escape to Paradise | | | United States | musical comedy |
| Fifth Avenue Girl | | | United States | |
| The Flying Deuces | | | United States | |
| The Girl from Mexico | | | United States | |
| Honolulu | | | United States | |
| It's a Wonderful World | | | United States | |
| Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | | | United States | |
| Ninotchka | | | United States | |
| Topper Takes a Trip | | | United States | |
| Trouble Brewing | | | United Kingdom | |
| Where's That Fire? | | | United Kingdom | |
| The Women | George Cukor | Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell | United States | |