4 Most Important Comedy Movies That Define the Genre

Comedy is one of the oldest genres in the history of cinema. Since before the medium started to gain traction as a legitimate storytelling device, let alone as an art form, directors were already making short films whose sole purpose was to make audiences laugh until they teared up. Over the course of the years since cinema's infancy, comedy has evolved an awful lot. Slapstick comedies, romantic comedies, stoner comedies, action comedies; the number of vibrant variations that the genre has grown over the years is too large to count. And over the course of that long history, comedy cinema has put out several masterpieces so great that they can even be counted among the best movies ever made.