12 Best Christmas Comedy Movies Of All Time
December is quickly approaching, which means it’s almost time to do the finest things like fuzzy socks, festive sweaters, matching family pajamas, and watching your favorite Christmas movies, whether or not it’s the most wonderful time of the year. Here is the list of the 12 Best Christmas Comedy Movies Of All Time.
S.No | Movies Name |
1. | Elf |
2. | Home Alone |
3. | Arthur Christmas |
4. | Bad Santa |
5. | The Night Before |
6. | A Christmas Story |
7. | A Very Harold & Kumar 3-D Christmas |
8. | National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation |
9. | Almost Christmas |
10. | Trading Places |
11. | A Bad Moms Christmas |
12. | Scrooged |
Let us discuss the 12 Best Christmas Comedy Movies Of All Time.
Elf
Buddy was accidentally transported to the North Pole as a toddler and was raised to adulthood among Santa’s elves. He was unable to shake the feeling that he does not fit in, the adult Buddy travels to New York, in an elf uniform, in search of his real father. As it happens, this is Walter Hobbs, a businessman. After a DNA test proves this, Walter reluctantly attempts to start a relationship with the childlike Buddy with increasingly chaotic results.
Director | Jon Favreau |
IMDb RATING | 7.0/10 |
Genre | Adventure, Comedy, Family |
Release year | 2003 |
Watch it on |
New Line Cinema |
Home Alone
An eight-year-old troublemaker must protect his house from a pair of burglars when he is accidentally left home alone by his family during Christmas vacation.
Director | Chris Columbus |
IMDb RATING | 7.7/10 |
Genre | Comedy, Family |
Release year | 1990 |
Watch it on |
Disney Channel |
Arthur Christmas
Every year each Christmas, Santa Claus delivers presents to every last child on Earth. What everyone does not know is that Santa accomplishes the feat with a very high-tech operation beneath the North Pole. But when the unthinkable happens, and Santa misses one child out of hundreds of millions, someone has to save the day. It’s up to Arthur, Santa’s youngest son, to deliver a present to the forgotten tyke before Christmas morning dawns.
Director | Robert Zemeckis |
IMDb RATING | 7.1/10 |
Genre | Adventure, Animation, Comedy |
Release year | 2011 |
Watch it on |
Disney Channel |
Bad Santa
The crotchety Willie T. Stokes and his partner reunite once a year for a holiday con. Posing as a mall Santa and his elf, they rip off shopping outlets on Christmas Eve. This year, Willie is falling apart. He is depressed and alcoholic, and his erratic behavior draws the suspicion of mall security. But when befriending a small boy brings out his kinder side, Willie begins to wonder if there is still some hope for him.
Director | Terry Zwigoff |
IMDb RATING | 7.1/10 |
Genre | Crime, Drama, Comedy |
Release year | 2003 |
Distributor |
Miramax |
The Night Before
For last 10 years, lifelong buddies Ethan, Isaac, and Chris gathered on Christmas Eve to celebrate the holidays. As Isaac prepares to become a first-time father, the friends realize that their annual tradition is coming to a sad end. To make it as memorable, the three plan a night of debauchery and hilarity by searching for the Nutcracker Ball, the Holy Grail of Christmas parties in New York.
Director | Jonathan Levine |
IMDb RATING | 6.3/10 |
Genre | Fantasy, Comedy |
Release year | 2015 |
Distributor |
Sony Pictures Releasing |
A Christmas Story
In the 1940s, a young boy named Ralphie Parker attempts to convince his parents, teacher, and Santa Claus that a Red Ryder Range 200 Shot BB gun really is the perfect Christmas gift.
Director | Bob Clark |
IMDb RATING | 7.9/10 |
Genre | Family, Comedy |
Release year | 1983 |
Distributor |
HBO Max |
A Very Harold & Kumar 3-D Christmas
After six years of their last adventure, stoner pals Harold and Kumar have grown and found new friends. As everyone is busy making holiday preparations, a mysterious package mistakenly arrives on Kumar’s doorstep. Kumar’s attempt to redirect the package to Harold goes up in smoke along with a prize Christmas tree belonging to Harold’s father-in-law. The pair’s journey across New York City to find a replacement tree threatens to blow Christmas Eve sky-high.
Director | Todd Strauss-Schulson |
IMDb RATING | 6.2/10 |
Genre | Adventure, Comedy |
Release year | 2011 |
Distributor |
HBO Max |
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
As the holidays approach, Clark Griswold wants to have a perfect family Christmas, so he pesters his wife, Ellen, and children, as he tries to make sure everything is in line, including the tree and house decorations. However, things go awry quickly. His hick cousin, Eddie, and his family show up unplanned and start living in their camper on the Griswold property. Even worse, Clark’s employers renege on the holiday bonus he needs.
Director | Jeremiah S. Chechik |
IMDb RATING | 7.5/10 |
Genre | Comedy |
Release year | 1989 |
Distributor |
HBO Max |
Almost Christmas
Walter Meyer is a retired mechanic who lost the love of his life one year. Now that the holiday season is here, he invites his daughters Rachel and Cheryl and sons Christian and Evan to his house for a traditional celebration. Poor Walter soon realizes that if his bickering children and the rest of the family can spend five days together under the same roof, it will truly be a Christmas miracle.
Director | David E. Talbert |
IMDb RATING | 6.1/10 |
Genre | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
Release year | 2016 |
Distributor |
Universal Pictures |
Trading Places
A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Director | John Landis |
IMDb RATING | 7.5/10 |
Genre | Comedy |
Release year | 1983 |
Distributor |
Paramount Home Video |
A Bad Moms Christmas
As their own mothers drop in unexpectedly, our three under-appreciated and over-burdened moms rebel against the challenges and expectations of the Super Bowl for mothers: Christmas.
Director | Jon Lucas Scott Moore |
IMDb RATING | 5.6/10 |
Genre | Comedy |
Release year | 2017 |
Distributor |
STX Entertainmen |
Scrooged
In this modern take on Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol,” Frank Cross is a very successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature have driven away the love of his life, Claire Phillips. But after firing a staff member, Eliot Loudermilk, on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.
Director | Richard Donner |
IMDb RATING | 6.9/10 |
Genre | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy |
Release year | 1988 |
Distributor |
Paramount Pictures |