It's easy to reel off the greatest comedy films. We know all those movies by heart. But what about the comedies that have fallen under the radar?
They are the underrated and underappreciated hilarious movies we love as much as the classics, and they deserve just as many rewatches as the big old blockbusters. We're here to celebrate them.
Using the one rule of no box office totals over $100 million, here's a look at some of the most underrated comedy movies of all time.
The late Norm Macdonald's big swing in the movies as a leading man was "Dirty Work" in 1998, based on a short story by "James and the Giant Peach" author Roald Dahl.
While the movie, directed by Bob Saget, plays more like a string of SNL skits instead of a cogent movie, it's still hilarious. We also get a great performance by Jack Warden and Artie Lange before drugs ripped apart his career.
Jamie Kennedy was really having a moment in the early 2000s. He was in big-budget blockbuster movies with the "Scream" franchise and had his own show with "The Jamie Kennedy Experiment," which ran from 2002 to 2004.
Right in the middle of it, he even got a shot at being a leading man in his own film and churned out a modest hit with "Malibu's Most Wanted." He played Brad "B-Rad" Gluckman, a suburban kid with dreams of being a gangster rapper and whose father is running for governor of California.
Comedy ensues.
"Pee-Wee's Big Adventure" made a genius move when it hired Tim Burton as director before he shot to worldwide fame. Not only was Burton's Pee-wee Herman a hit with audiences, but it also was a hit at the box office, making almost $41 million on a budget of just $7 million. It also spawned two sequels (neither were directed by Burton).
Burton's dark sense of humor and star Paul Reubens' ability to shoehorn that into his character is what makes this movie tick. And the movie had many '80s kids doubling over in laughter at it.
Fun fact: "Saturday Night Live" legend Phil Hartman was one of the writers for this movie, along with Michael Varhol (who also wrote "The Big Picture" and "The Last Word") and Reubens.
Sports movies are hard to pull off - comedy or otherwise - and while "Semi-Pro" was a flop at the box office when it came out, it's proven rewatchable over the years.
"Semi-Pro" nailed the casting and the cool thing for real sports movie aficionados is seeing Woody Harrelson in a follow-up basketball role to "White Men Can't Jump."
It's too bad this ended star Will Ferrell's streak of hit sports spoofs following "Talladega Nights" and "Blades of Glory," because it's definitely better than the latter.