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Of the top\u00a025 movies at the box office in 2024, precisely\u00a0one could be classified as a comedy:\u00a0Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.\u00a0<\/em>And even that was a\u00a0big-budget spectacle with special effects, a huge cast, and a A-list director returning to a beloved franchise. Anything else that sort of qualified as a comedy was also something else:\u00a0Deadpool & Wolverine<\/em> was a superhero movie that was also funny;\u00a0Bad Boys: Ride or Die<\/em> was an action sequel that was also funny,\u00a0Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire\u00a0<\/em>was a sci-fi sequel that was also funny, and so on.\u00a0Of course, if you don\u2019t\u00a0produce and release\u00a0comedies, it\u2019s very hard for them to show up on a list of the top-grossing films of the year. Hollywood has basically abandoned comedy. People don\u2019t like to laugh anymore, right?<\/span><\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t always like this. In the 1990s, comedy was one of the studios\u2019\u00a0most reliable\u00a0genres. Solid new films came out almost every single month \u2014 and sometimes every single week. The list below picks the single best comedy of each year of the \u201990s, which was honestly tough to do, because there were so many qualified contenders. (I had such a hard time deciding, I\u00a0decided to several honorable mentions from each years as well.)<\/span><\/p>\n How to define the \u201cbest\u201d comedies of the year provided tricky too. For example:\u00a0The Truman Show<\/em> is one of\u00a0my favorite movies of the 1990s. Technically, it would qualify as a comedy, but I don\u2019t necessarily think of it as a great\u00a0comedy<\/em>;\u00a0I think of it as a great film about reality television, pop culture, religion, and so on. It\u2019s not necessarily a gut-busting laugh riot. For this list, I decided to focus on the funny, at least in this one writer\u2019s subjective opinion. And here it is…<\/p>\n The best comedies, year by year, throughout the 1990s. No joking.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Best Comedy Movie Every Year of the 1990s<\/h2>\n