01 Easy, funny, and works regardless of the actual season.
15 Best 2000s Comedy Movies
By Vlad Zakh · March 10, 2025
United States Comedy feel goodnostalgic
Anchorman and The 40-Year-Old Virgin basically launched the Apatow comedy era that defined the decade’s back half, while Mean Girls became the most quoted teen comedy since Clueless.
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02 Jack Black at his most purely enjoyable.
03 Mockumentary comedy pushed further than almost anything before it.
04 A zombie comedy with more genuine heart than most straight horror films.
05 The diary-format rom-com that made Renée Zellweger a star.
06 Endlessly rewatchable, reliably good company on your own.
07 Grown men reliving college, and it never stops being funny about it.
08 A comedy that's surprisingly sincere underneath the raunch.
09 Loose, improvisational comic energy built on Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson.
10 Absurd in a way that could only have come from this exact decade.
11 A weird, deadpan comedy that somehow defined a whole aesthetic.
12 The teen comedy that closed out the decade's comedic run.
13 Still the most quoted teen comedy of the decade, for good reason.
14 Launched the specific Apatow comedy voice that ran the rest of the decade.
15 Absurdist comedy that only could have landed in this exact era.
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