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Bob Hope, Abbott & Costello, Mae West, Fanny Brice. Danny Kaye, Jack Benny, Edgar Bergen and his dummy Charlie McCarthy.
The Marx Brothers
Lucille Ball was making comedy movies, but was still shown as an ingenue and not the comedienne she later became in the 50s.
There were also the 'screwball comedy' movies in the 40s with actors like Cary Grant and Tracy and Hepburn, The Thin Man movies...
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