'This Is Spinal Tap' voted best comedy film of all time

This Is Spinal Tap has been voted the greatest comedy movie of all time.

The 1984 rock mockumentary, directed by Rob Reiner and starring the likes of Christopher Guest and Michael McKean, was voted the top film ahead of Airplane! and two Monty Python entries in a poll assembled by Time Out.

Voters for the poll included Stephen Merchant, Ghostbusters actor Dan Akroyd and Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright.

On the winner, Time Out critic David Jenkins said: "It's sublimely funny and sharp - a comedy built for the long haul which matures with each viewing. It's so perfectly constructed and performed, the characters so rich and realistic, that it's initially a challenge to determine the dividing line between reality and fiction."

Other entries in the top ten include Woody Allen's Annie Hall and Will Ferrell's Anchorman.

The top ten in full:

1. This Is Spinal Tap
2. Airplane!
3. Monty Python's Life Of Brian
4. Annie Hall
5. Monty Python And The Holy Grail
6. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
7. Withnail And I
8. Groundhog Day
9. Some Like It Hot
10. The Jerk

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Watch a trailer for This Is Spinal Tap below: