A list of comedy films released in the 1930s.
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Sub-Genre/Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | ||||||
| Animal Crackers | ||||||
| Check and Double Check | ||||||
| The Cuckoos | ||||||
| Dixiana | ||||||
| Feet First | ||||||
| Half-Shot at Sunrise | ||||||
| Hook, Line and Sinker | ||||||
| Queen High | ||||||
| The Rogue Song | ||||||
| Whoopee! | ||||||
| The Cat Creeps | Comedy horror | |||||
| Brats | Short Film | |||||
| Shivering Shakespeare | Short Film | |||||
| One Way Out | Short Film | |||||
| Teacher's Pet | Short Film | |||||
| 1931 | ||||||
| Caught Plastered | ||||||
| City Lights | ||||||
| Cracked Nuts | ||||||
| Ever Since Eve | ||||||
| Everything's Rosie | ||||||
| The Front Page | ||||||
| Girls Demand Excitement | ||||||
| Monkey Business | ||||||
| Peach-O-Reno | ||||||
| Platinum Blonde | ||||||
| Too Many Cooks | ||||||
| Beau Hunks | Short Film | |||||
| Chickens Come Home | Short Film | |||||
| Helpmates | Short Film | |||||
| The House That Shadows Built | Short Film | |||||
| Our Wife | Short Film | |||||
| 1932 | ||||||
| Girl Crazy | ||||||
| Hold 'Em Jail | ||||||
| Horse Feathers | ||||||
| Love Me Tonight | ||||||
| Movie Crazy | ||||||
| That's My Boy | ||||||
| This Is the Night | ||||||
| Trouble in Paradise | ||||||
| The Old Dark House | Comedy horror | |||||
| The Dentist | Short Film | |||||
| The Music Box | Short Film | |||||
| County Hospital | Short Film | |||||
| The Hollywood Handicap | Short Film | |||||
| Running Hollywood | Short Film | |||||
| The Voice of Hollywood No, 13 | Short Film | |||||
| A Successful Catanity | Comedy drama | |||||
| Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | Comedy drama | |||||
| 1933 | ||||||
| Bed of Roses | ||||||
| Bombshell | ||||||
| Christopher Bean | ||||||
| Dinner at Eight | ||||||
| Diplomaniacs | ||||||
| Duck Soup | Leo McCarey | Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx | ||||
| His Private Secretary | ||||||
| International House | ||||||
| It's Great to Be Alive | ||||||
| I'm No Angel | ||||||
| She Done Him Wrong | ||||||
| So this is Africa | ||||||
| Sons of the Desert | ||||||
| Twice Two | Short Film | |||||
| The Midnight Patrol | Short Film | |||||
| The Barber Shop | Short Film | |||||
| Busy Bodies | Short Film | |||||
| The Fatal Glass of Beer | Short Film | |||||
| 1934 | ||||||
| The Affairs of Cellini | ||||||
| Babes in Toyland | ||||||
| The Cat's-Paw | ||||||
| Cockeyed Cavaliers | ||||||
| Hips, Hips, Hooray! | ||||||
| It Happened One Night | ||||||
| It's a Gift | ||||||
| Kentucky Kernels | ||||||
| The Thin Man | ||||||
| Going Bye Bye | Short Film | |||||
| Odor in the Court | Short Film | |||||
| Punch Drunks | Short Film | |||||
| Tit for Tat | Short Film | |||||
| Woman Haters | Short Film | |||||
| 1935 | ||||||
| The Farmer Takes a Wife | ||||||
| Man on the Flying Trapeze | ||||||
| A Night at the Opera | ||||||
| The Nitwits | ||||||
| Paradise Canyon | ||||||
| The Rainmakers | ||||||
| Ruggles of Red Gap | ||||||
| Top Hat | ||||||
| Pop Goes the Easel | Short Film | |||||
| Thicker than Water | Short Film | |||||
| The Ghost Goes West | ||||||
| Boys Will Be Boys | ||||||
| Dandy Dick | ||||||
| 1936 | ||||||
| Libeled Lady | ||||||
| The Milky Way | ||||||
| Modern Times | ||||||
| Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | ||||||
| Mummy's Boys | ||||||
| My Man Godfrey | ||||||
| Silly Billies | ||||||
| Theodora Goes Wild | ||||||
| Wife vs. Secretary | ||||||
| Movie Maniacs | Short Film | |||||
| Good Morning, Boys | ||||||
| 1937 | ||||||
| The Awful Truth | ||||||
| A Day at the Races | ||||||
| Double Wedding | ||||||
| High Flyers | ||||||
| History Is Made At Night | ||||||
| The King and the Chorus Girl | ||||||
| Nothing Sacred | ||||||
| On Again-Off Again | ||||||
| Topper | ||||||
| Way Out West | ||||||
| Keep Fit | ||||||
| Oh, Mr Porter! | ||||||
| 1938 | ||||||
| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse | ||||||
| Bringing up Baby | ||||||
| Love Finds Andy Hardy | ||||||
| Professor Beware | ||||||
| Room Service | ||||||
| A Slight Case of Murder | ||||||
| You Can't Take It with You | ||||||
| Termites of 1938 | Short Film | |||||
| Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | Comedy drama | |||||
| Ask A Policeman | ||||||
| The Divorce of Lady X | ||||||
| It's in the Air | ||||||
| Old Bones of the River | ||||||
| Pygmalion | ||||||
| 1939 | ||||||
| At the Circus | ||||||
| Bachelor Mother | ||||||
| The Cowboy Quarterback | ||||||
| Dancing Co-Ed | ||||||
| East Side of Heaven | ||||||
| Honolulu | ||||||
| It's a Wonderful World | ||||||
| Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | ||||||
| Ninotchka | ||||||
| Topper Takes a Trip | ||||||
| The Women | ||||||
| The Cat and the Canary | Comedy horror | |||||
| Trouble Brewing | ||||||
| Where's That Fire? | ||||||
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