A small selection of the most anticipated best comedies of 2010 !

1. A Couple of Dicks (February 26): Now called Cop Out — the title director Kevin Smith settled on to satisfy the establishment, he’s back and he’s brought Bruce Willis and 30 Rock’s Tracy Morgan with him for a buddy-cop comedy about two LAPD vets in pursuit of a pilfered baseball card. A tantalizing scene snapshot of Morgan in a cellphone suit has already been circulated ’round the web.

2. Greenberg (March 12): How does Stiller follow his Tropic Thunder triumph? Perhaps with help from Academy Award-nominated writer Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale). More melancholy than his typical films but potentially Stiller’s most meaningful comedy, Greenberg centers around a cynical-wit-slinging, 40-ish bachelor whose life has come to a crossroads.

3. I Love You, Phillip Morris (March 26): Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor find true love in prison. Ha ha, right. No, seriously, but then not so seriously — that’s the central storyline of a surprising rom-com (if you can even call it that) about a straight cop that turns gay con man and falls in love behind bars.

4. Date Night (April 9): What could possibly go wrong when an unexceptional married couple whose lust has fizzled head out for “date night”? Thankfully, a lot, which along with a grade-A comic cast — Steve Carell and Tina Fey (aka, the married couple), Mark Wahlberg, Kristin Wiig, James Franco — could bring the grade-A laughs.

5. The Three Stooges (TBD): The Farrelly brothers (Dumb & Dumber) have been scheming their Stooge redo since the ’90s and originally slated its release for 2009. Plenty of possibilities have been pitched for the roles of Moe, Larry, and Curly from Sean Penn as Larry to Benicio Del Toro as Moe (he’ll always be Che to me). Fingers crossed the slapstick fest finally knuckle-sandwiches off in 2010.

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Hot Tub Time Machine (March 19): What happens when John Cusack, Rob Corddry, The Office’s cranky warehouse drudge Craig Robinson, and Greek’s Clark Duke hot-tub time travel to 1986? Is it so absurd it’s brilliant, or simply absurd? Either way Robinson’s reputation for deadpan delivery and gut-busting comic timing make it worth a watch.

MacGruber (April 16): Yes, we know it could be another Hot Rod, but then again, this SNL MacGyver spoof sketch stretched into a full-length feature film could reach the hilarious heights of Wayne’s World. Couldn’t it? Well, maybe…