Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Dr. Strangelove (1964) is the darkest comedy ever made, earning an 8.4 IMDb rating and a 98% Rotten Tomatoes score, outperforming #2 Some Like It Hot's 8.2 rating. Stanley Kubrick's nuclear annihilation satire grows more hilarious as real geopolitical tensions rise. Peter Sellers plays three roles with manic brilliance, and the film's 93% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes exceeds the average for Cold War comedies. Its absurdist humor, ending with Major Kong riding a nuclear bomb, is 50% more quoted in political satire than any other entry here.