In No Particular Order:
3. Leo McCarey
5. Jules White
7. Mack Sennett
8. Hal Roach
10. Jerry Lewis
11. Robert Townsend
12. Blake Edwards
13. Norman Taurog
14. The Coen Brothers
15. Wes Anderson
16. Tim Burton
18. Mel Brooks
19. Gene Wilder
20. Woody Allen
21. Carl Reiner
22. Eddie Sedgwick
23. Eddie Cline
24. Gregory La Cava
25. Paul Parrott
27. Norman McLeod
28. Sidney Lanfield
29. Arthur Hiller
30. Jacques Tati
31. Max Linder
32. Roscoe Arbuckle
33. Frank Tashlin
34. Howard Hawks
35. Wesley Ruggles
36. Eddie Sutherland
37. John Landis
38. Roy Del Ruth
39. Harry Edwards
40. Del Lord
41. George Nichols
42. Clyde Bruckman
43. Sam Taylor
45. Dell Henderson
46. Rene Clair
48. Harry Langdon
49. Charley Chase
50. Frank Capra
51. Mal St. Clair
52. Henry Lehrman
53. Tony Richardson
54. Stanley Kubrick
55. Chuck Reisner
56. Victor Fleming
57. Alf Goulding
58. William Beaudine
59. George Marshall
60. Charley Bowers
61. Al Christie
62. Mabel Normand
63. Jim Jarmusch
64. Judd Apatow
65. Hal Ashby
67. Steve Martin
68. Bobcat Goldthwait
69. Noah Baumbach
70. Whit Stillman
71. Mike Nichols
72. Elaine May
73. Albert Brooks
74. Rickey Gervais
76. Charlie Kaufman
77. Mike Judge
78. Jake Kasdan
79. Ernie Fosselius
80. Martin Scorsese
81. Spike Lee
82. Howard Morris
83. Eddie Buzzell
84. Jean Yarbrough
85. George Cukor
86. Billy Wilder
87. Garson Kanin
88. Robert Altman
89. Hy Averback
90. Paul Mazursky
91. Fred C. Newmeyer
92. William Asher
93. Charles Lane
94. Ben Stiller
95. Hal Needham
96. S. Sylvan Simon
97. Dan Aykroyd
98. Gene Saks
99. Paul Feig
100. Steven Spielberg (No, that’s just cruel, we’ll make it 99. Actually, no — there’s way more than this. I had to artificially cut myself off at 100)
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