I made a list of all the comedy movies released in 2022. There's more than you might expect

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• Other than the ball dropping at midnight, my favorite part of any year coming to a close are all the year-end lists. Best music. Best TV. Best moments. Most importantly though (at least for me), best movies.

I love seeing what pops up on critics’ lists and friends’ lists and where the two overlap. Pretty much everyone agreed on Everything Everywhere All At Once (who can dislike that instant classic?) and Barbarian but many were divided on biggies like Top Gun: Maverick and Elvis. 

However, what I find most interesting is the oddities that appear on folks’ lists — that’s where they get their personality. It’s almost like a flex. “Oh, you loved George Clooney and Julia Roberts in Ticket To Paradise?” Suddenly, your list got interesting. I’m interested in what you have to say. Clearly, you didn’t copy-paste critics’ lists and sought out flicks that matched your taste rather than what everyone everywhere all at once claimed was great (heh heh, that’s a lil joke).

All that being said, I’d like to present my top 11 movies of the year (this may change quite a bit in a few months since there’s still so much to see):

11.) Bob’s Burgers: The Movie dir. Loren Bouchard, Bernard Derriman

10.) I Love My Dad dir. James Morosini

9.) Vengeance dir. BJ Novak

8.) The Lost City dir. Aaron and Adam Nee

7.) Glass Onion dir. Rian Johnson

6.) Spirited dir. Sean Anders 

5.) Funny Pages dir. Owen Kline

4.) Everything Everywhere All At Once dir. The Daniels (putting it here to be interesting)

3.) Chip N Dale: Rescue Rangers dir. Akiva Schaeffer

2.) Barbarian dir. Zach Cregger

1.) Marcel the Shell with Shoes On dir. Dean Fleischer Camp

As you may have noticed, all of these movies are comedies or comedy-adjacent.

In a time where the future of film appears to be bleak (heck, with the advent of ChatGPT, writing appears to be on the way out too; just today, Anna told me there was AI to help with resumes too for cryin’ out loud), and comedies have long since been considered almost guaranteed box office , quite a few films that can be classified as comedies were miraculously released in 2022.

And me, being the nerd I am, I compiled a big ol’ list of all the comedy films that hit theaters and streamers over the past year categorized by sub-genres to show a) the genre is alive and well (for now) and b) everything you may have missed and may want to check out (it’s also very possible you saw all of this on Twitter. If you did, it’s the same stuff!).

Enjoy!

Buzzy indie

Funny Pages

I Love My Dad

Cha Cha Real Smooth

Sharp Stick

Not Okay

On The Count of Three

Windfall

Emergency

Absurd and artsy with long titles  

Everything Everywhere All At Once 

Triangle of Sadness 

Marcel The Shell with Shoes on 

Three Thousand Years of Longing 

Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths 

The Sky Is Everywhere

Self-Aware Reboots

Confess, Fletch

Chip N Dale: Rescue Rangers

Father of the Bride

The Munsters

Scream

Cheaper By The Dozen

Showbiz parodies

The Bubble

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent

The Valet

Smart high school comedies

Senior Year

Honor Society

Do Revenge

Hello, Goodbye, And Everything In Between

Moonshot

Better Nate Than Ever

Darby and the Dead

Metal Lords

Crush

Sneakerella

Anything’s Possible

Rosaline

Murder mystery satires

Glass Onion

Vengeance

The Menu

See How They Run

Chilling yet funny horror films

Nope

Barbarian

Bodies Bodies Bodies

Fresh

The Curse of Bridge Hollow (this isn't chilling but I threw it in as a courtesy)

Romcoms

Bros

Marry Me

Ticket To Paradise

The Lost City

Meet Cute

I Want You Back

Spin Me Round

Fire Island

The People We Hate At The Wedding

Spoiler Alert

7 Days

Adult animated show jumps to features

Bob’s Burger Movie

Beavis and Butthead

South Park The Streaming Wars

South Park The Streaming Wars 2

Inspirational sports dramedies

Hustle

Home Team

1Up

Celebrity vanity projects

Good Mourning

Easter Sunday

Studio 666

Comedic sci-fi

The Adam Project

Dual

Something In The Dirt

BigBug

Oscar fare with comedic elements

Armageddon Time

White Noise

Babylon

Amsterdam

(Haven't seen any of these but reviews seem to hint at these movies being funnyish- feel free to roast me for this one)

Historical nostalgia

Banshees of Inisherin

Cyrano

Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris

Sequels

Jackass Forever

Clerks III

A Madea Homecoming

Hocus Pocus 2

Disenchanted

Sonic The Hedgehog 2

Old school action comedies

Bullet Train

Day Shift

Secret Headquarters

Family Friendly animation

Lightyear

Turning Red

Strange World

Night At The Museum

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid

League Of Super Pets

Luck

Wendell and Wild

Marmaduke

Bad Guys

Minions

Puss In Boots

Paws Of Fury

Lyle Lyle Crocodile

Hotel Transylvania

Ice Age Adventure of Buck Wild

TMNT

Family friendly live action

Matilda The Musical

Catherine Called Birdy

Dog

Christmas

Spirited

A Christmas Story Christmas

Something From Tiffany's

The Noel Diary

Violent Night

Falling For Christmas

Middle of the road boomer feel good films

A Man Called Otto

Good Luck To You, Leo Grande

The Greatest Beer Run Ever

Mack and Rita

Jerry and Marge Go Large

The Good House

Sam and Kate

Didn't make much noise

The Estate

Honk For Jesus, Save Your Soul

Kevin Hart starrers

The Man From Toronto

Me Time

Religious

Family Camp

Documentary

Stutz

If you made it this far, tell me if I missed anything or what you liked this year. Or what you hated. Or what I mis-genre’d. Or if Tár is a satire. I haven’t seen it.

Also, happy new year too