From Mickey Mouse’s heralded debut in Steamboat Willie to Warner Brothers’ Lego Batman Movie, comedy has been a mainstay of animated film for a century. Although all major studios have experimented with comedy animation, Disney has been most influential in pushing the bounds of this artform. More recently, Pixar and DreamWorks have released paradigm shifting animated comedies including Toy Story and Shrek. The landscape of comedic animation has expanded rapidly in the past 20 years, with out-of-the-box hits like South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie joining the ranks of top-grossing animated films. 
 
This video features exclusive interviews with Billy Crystal, Ray Romano, Jason Segel, Jerry Beck, Pete Docter, Brad Bird, Kenny Lucas, Gabriel Iglesias, Gilbert Gottfried, and David Silverman.