RANKED: The 10 most successful comedy movies of all time

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10. "Crocodile Dundee" (1986) $396.4 million (adjusted)

10. "Crocodile Dundee" (1986) $396.4 million (adjusted)

$174.8 million - unadjusted

In one of the best fish-out-of-water movies of all time, Paul Hogan plays an Aussie croc hunter who falls for an American reporter and heads back with her to New York City (he brings along a rather large knife).

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9. "Mrs. Doubtfire" (1993) $452 million (adjusted)

9. "Mrs. Doubtfire" (1993) $452 million (adjusted)

$219.1 million - unadjusted

It's hard to imagine anyone other than Robin Williams playing the role of a father who decides to dress up as an elderly female housekeeper to spend more time with his children while in the midst of a nasty divorce.

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8. "M*A*S*H" (1970) $460.6 million (adjusted)

8. "M*A*S*H" (1970) $460.6 million (adjusted)

$81.6 million - unadjusted

Before the hit TV show, it was a hit movie from director Robert Altman, whose style of having all the characters talking over one another laid the groundwork for a unique brand of comedy.

7. "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" (1963) $462.2 million (adjusted)

7. "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" (1963) $462.2 million (adjusted)

$46.3 million - unadjusted

The plot isn't much — a whole bunch of people racing for buried treasure — but what drew audiences to the theaters is that every comic who was huge up to the '60s was cast or had a cameo in the movie (even The Three Stooges!).

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6. "Smokey and the Bandit" (1977) $487.6 million (adjusted)

6. "Smokey and the Bandit" (1977) $487.6 million (adjusted)

$126.7 million - unadjusted

Burt Reynolds became the biggest star in the world after this good-ol'-boy movie about a hotshot driver trying to get beer across the Georgia border became a huge hit.

5. "Tootsie" (1982) $488.2 million (adjusted)

5. "Tootsie" (1982) $488.2 million (adjusted)

$177.2 million - unadjusted

Dustin Hoffman gives an Oscar-nominated performance playing a struggling actor who can only find work by dressing up as a woman.

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4. "Nation Lampoon's Animal House" (1978) $513.8 million (adjusted)

4. "Nation Lampoon's Animal House" (1978) $513.8 million (adjusted)

$141.6 million - unadjusted

College life would never be the same after John Belushi showed the antics of the Delta Tau Chi fraternity in John Landis' classic comedy.

3. "Blazing Saddles" (1974) $542.5 million (adjusted)

3. "Blazing Saddles" (1974) $542.5 million (adjusted)

$119.6 million - unadjusted

Another classic that never gets old is Mel Brooks' Western comedy. For better or worse, this is the movie that paved the way for the gross-out genre.

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2. "Beverly Hills Cop" (1984) $576.1 million (adjusted)

2. "Beverly Hills Cop" (1984) $576.1 million (adjusted)

$234.7 million - unadjusted

After being a huge star on "Saturday Night Live," Eddie Murphy's first leading-man movie was this action-comedy that made him one of the biggest stars of the 1980s.

1. "Home Alone" (1990) $581.1 million (adjusted)

1. "Home Alone" (1990) $581.1 million (adjusted)

$285.7 million - unadjusted

Macaulay Culkin will forever be known as the kid who grows up fast after his family accidentally leaves him behind from the family Christmas vacation in this Chris Columbus classic written by John Hughes.

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