Top 20 funniest screenplays ever written

Writers Guild of America lists its funniest films, from Airplane! to Some Like It Hot and Tootsie

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The Writers Guild of America has released a list of the 101 funniest screenplays, topped at number one by Annie Hall, the 1977 film starring Woody Allen and Diane Keaton.

The romantic comedy managed to thrill critics more than Billy Wilder's 1959 classic Some Like It Hot and Peter Sellers' 1964 Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. The most recent script on the list is Bridesmaids (2011), while the oldest is Charlie Chaplin's silent movie The Gold Rush (1925).

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