This is a list of the highest-grossing

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Highest-grossing comedy films

, the top nine films, and 34 of the top 50 films, are

animated films Animation is a method by which still figures are manipulated to appear as moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Today, most ani ...

, marked with "A" in the Type column. "LA" indicates

live-action film Live action (or live-action) is a form of cinematography or videography that uses photography instead of animation. Some works combine live-action with animation to create a live-action animated film. Live-action is used to define film, video ga ...

s. Click the column header to sort them separately. The top six films are among the

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s of all time. When adjusted for inflation, ''

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" is a 19th-century German fairy tale that is today known widely across the Western world. The Brothers Grimm published it in 1812 in the first edition of their collection ''Grimms' Fairy Tales'' and numbered as T ...

'' would appear at the top of the chart with an adjusted gross of $. A: Animated film. LA:

Live action Live action (or live-action) is a form of cinematography or videography that uses photography instead of animation. Some works combine live-action with animation to create a live-action animated film. Live-action is used to define film, video ga ...

film. H:

Live-action animated film A live-action animated film is a film that combines live action filmmaking with animation. Films that are both live-action and computer-animated tend to have fictional characters or figures represented and characterized by cast members through moti ...

(hybrid).

Highest-grossing comedy film by year

Timeline of highest-grossing comedy film

Comedy films by box office admissions

The following is a list of comedy films by estimated tickets sold worldwide.

Highest-grossing comedy film series and franchises

Biggest worldwide openings on record for comedy films

This list charts films the biggest worldwide openings for comedy films. Since films do not open on Fridays in many markets, the 'opening' is taken to be the gross between the first day of release and the first Sunday following the movie's release. Figures prior to the year 2002 are not available. Country-by-country variations in release dates are not taken into account.

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