A list of the earliest comedy films produced before the 1920.
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1894 | ||||
| Fred Ott's Sneeze | Fred Ott | United States | ||
| 1895 | ||||
| Robetta and Doretto | William K. L. Dickson | France | ||
| Watering the Gardener | Louis Lumiere | France | ||
| 1896 | ||||
| Patineur Grotesque | Australia | |||
| Interrupted Lover | ||||
| 1897 | ||||
| In a Chinese Laundry | ||||
| The Milker's Mishap | James H. White | United States | ||
| George Albert Smith | George Albert Smith | |||
| New Pillow Fight | Emily Lubin and Marguerite Sessler | United States | ||
| Young America | ||||
| 1898 | ||||
| The Inquisitive Girls | ||||
| The Minister's Wooing | ||||
| The Nearsighted School Teacher | Augusta Selmer | United States | ||
| The Old Maid and the Burglar | ||||
| Little Willy and the Minister | ||||
| 1899 | ||||
| Armor vs. Armour | ||||
| An Exciting Finish | ||||
| 1900 | ||||
| Above the Limit | Frederick S. Armitage | Charley Grapewin | United States | |
| The Burglar-Proof Bed | ||||
| I Had to Leave a Happy Home For You | ||||
| 1901 | ||||
| A Joke on Grandma | ||||
| 1903 | ||||
| I Want My Dinner | ||||
| A Narrow Escape | ||||
| The Magical Tramp | ||||
| 1905 | ||||
| Everybody Works But Father | ||||
| The Little Train Robbery | Edwin S. Porter | United States | ||
| Raffles the Dog | ||||
| 1906 | ||||
| Humorous Phases of Funny Faces | J. Stuart Blackton | J. Stuart Blackton | United States | |
| Dr. Dippy's Sanitarium | ||||
| 1907 | ||||
| College Chums | ||||
| 1908 | ||||
| A Calamitcus Elapment | ||||
| The Painter's Revenge | ||||
| The Taming of the Shrew | ||||
| 1909 | ||||
| Cohen at Corey Island | ||||
| The New Cop | ||||
| Tag Day | ||||
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910 | |||||||||
| Making a Man of Him | |||||||||
| Davy Jones and Captain Bragg | |||||||||
| 1911 | |||||||||
| Money to Burn | |||||||||
| 1912 | |||||||||
| Making a Man of Her | |||||||||
| A Near-Tragedy | |||||||||
| The New Neighbor | |||||||||
| O'Brien's Busy Day | |||||||||
| 1913 | |||||||||
| The New Pupil | |||||||||
| Nursey Favorites | |||||||||
| 1914 | |||||||||
| A Busy Day | J. Stuart Blackton | Charlie Chaplin and J. Stuart Blackton | United States | ||||||
| Between Showers | Henry Lehrman | Charlie Chaplin, Ford Sterling, Emma Clifton, and Chester Conklin | United States | ||||||
| Kid Auto Races at Venice | Henry Lehrman | Charlie Chaplin | United States | ||||||
| Making a Living | Charlie Chaplin | United States | |||||||
| The New Janitor | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin | United States | ||||||
| Twenty Minutes of Love | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin | United States | ||||||
| 1915 | |||||||||
| Fatty's Tintype Tangle | Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle | Roscoe Arbuckle, Louise Fazenda, Edgar Kennedy, Minta Durfee and Frank Hayes. | United States | ||||||
| Ragtime Snap Shots | Hal Roach | Harold Lloyd | United States | ||||||
| The Tramp | Charlie Chaplin | United States | |||||||
| A Woman | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin | United States | ||||||
| 1916 | |||||||||
| Behind the Screen | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin, Eric Campbell, and Edna Purviance | United States | ||||||
| The Fireman | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, and Lloyd Bacon | United States | ||||||
| The Floorwalker | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin, Eric Campbell, and Lloyd Bacon | United States | ||||||
| The Pawnshop | Charlie Chaplin, Henry Bergman, Edna Purviance, Albert Austin, and Eric Campbell | United States | |||||||
| The Vagabond | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Leo White, and Lloyd Bacon | United States | ||||||
| 1917 | |||||||||
| The Adventurer | Charlie Chaplin | United States | |||||||
| Back Stage | Arvid E. Gillstrom | Oliver Hardy | United States | ||||||
| Easy Street | Charlie Chaplin | United States | |||||||
| The Immigrant | Charlie Chaplin | United States | |||||||
| The Poor Little Rich Girl | Maurice Tourneur | Mary Pickford, Madlaine Traverse, Charles Wellesley, Gladys Fairbanks and Frank McGlynn Sr. | United States | Comedy drama | |||||
| Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | Marshall Neilan | Mary Pickford and Eugene O'Brien | United States | Comedy drama | |||||
| 1918 | |||||||||
| The Cook | Roscoe Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, and Al St. John | United States | |||||||
| Good-Night, Nurse! | Roscoe Arbuckle | Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Buster Keaton | United States | ||||||
| O, It's Great to Be Crazy | |||||||||
| 1919 | |||||||||
| Back Stage | Roscoe Arbuckle | Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Buster Keaton and Al St. John | United States | ||||||
| The Hayseed | Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle | Roscoe Arbuckle and featuring Buster Keaton | United States | ||||||
| Hoot, Moon! | |||||||||
| Short Hustling For Health | |||||||||