Hello and welcome to the 1st annual Comedy Challenge.

My name is Nick and I am your host. A little bit about me: I have a Master's degree in Film & Media Studies and wrote an entire thesis focusing on comedy and masculinity.

I love doing Letterboxd challenges and there are yearly genre ones that already exist. I rarely see any that focus exclusively on comedies so I thought this would be an interesting experiment. 52 prompts for 52 weeks of the year.

If there is enough interest, I will do another comedy challenge next year with different prompts.

RULES:
-You can watch them in any order and at your own pace (daily, weekly, monthly).
-There are no substitutions for the prompts, although you can change your picks as the year progresses (just as long as they fit within the parameters of the prompt).
-Every movie must be a comedy.
-The length of each movie varies based on the prompts below.
-The challenge begins on January 1, 2025 and concludes on December 31, 2025. You can finish the challenge at any point during the year.

I would prefer if all your movies (with the exception of prompt #2) are first-time watches but I will leave that totally up to you.

Below are the prompts:
1. Watch a comedy from your watchlist.
2. Rewatch a comedy that you did not initially like but want to revisit.
3. Continents: Africa
4. Continents: Asia
5. Continents: Australia
6. Continents: Europe
7. Continents: North America (Canada or Mexico)
8. Continents: South America
9. Decades: 1920s
10. Decades: 1930s
11. Decades: 1940s
12. Decades: 1950s
13. Decades: 1960s
14. Decades: 1970s
15. Decades: 1980s
16. Decades: 1990s
17. Decades: 2000s
18. Decades: 2010s
19. Decades: 2020s
20. Genres: Animation
21. Genres: Dark Comedy
22. Genres: Mockumentary
23. Genres: Parody or Spoof
24. Genres: Romantic Comedy
25. Genres: Screwball Comedy
26. Genres: Slapstick
27. Genres: Stand-Up Comedy
28. Directors: Charlie Chaplin
29. Directors: Jacques Tati
30. Directors: Jerry Lewis
31. Directors: Blake Edwards
32. Directors: Mel Brooks
33. Directors: John Waters
34. Directors: Kevin Smith
35. Stars: Buster Keaton
36. Stars: Laurel & Hardy
37. Stars: The Marx Brothers
38. Stars: Bob Hope
39. Stars: Danny Kaye
40. Stars: Lucille Ball
41. Stars: Lily Tomlin
42. Stars: Madeline Kahn
43. Stars: Richard Pryor
44. Stars: John Cleese
45. Stars: Steve Martin
46. Stars: Bill Murray
47. Stars: Eddie Murphy
48. Stars: Jim Carrey
49. Stars: Adam Sandler
50. Stars: Catherine O’Hara
51. Stars: Simon Pegg
52. Stars: Melissa McCarthy

NOTES:
For prompts 3-8, use Letterboxd's World Map if you need some inspiration or having trouble finding something from those continents.

Helpful Resources:
-They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They? 1,000 Greatest Films of All Time – 2024 Edition
-AFI’s 100 YEARS…100 LAUGHS
-U.S. National Film Registry
-BBC: The 100 Greatest Comedies of All Time
-Letterboxd Official Top 250 Comedies
-Best Comedy Movies (Letterboxd Poll) 
-Edgar Wright's 100 Favorite Comedies

Please use the tag “comedy challenge 2025” so that we can keep track of everything, and link your lists in the comments below.

Have fun!