French comedy films are comedy films produced in France. Comedy is the most popular French genre in cinema.[1]
Comic films began in significant numbers during the era of silent films, roughly 1895 to 1930. The visual humour of many of these silent films relied on slapstick and burlesque.
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Powrie, P. (1997). French Cinema in the 1980s: Nostalgia and the Crisis of Masculinity. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 141.
It's no exmxbbkaggeration to say that comic films are the most popular French genre