Funniest Show on Earth

{{short description|1953 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Funniest Show on Earth
(Il più comico spettacolo del mondo)

| image = Il più comico spettacolo del mondo.jpg

| caption = Film poster

| director = Mario Mattoli

| producer = Alfredo De Laurentiis

| writer = Sandro Continenza
Italo De Tuddo
Ruggero Maccari
Mario Monicelli

| starring = May Britt
Totò
Peppino De Filippo

| music = Armando Trovaioli

| cinematography = Riccardo Pallottini

| editing = Leo Cattozzo

| distributor = Lux Film

| released = {{film date|df=yes|1953}}

| runtime = 70 minutes

| country = Italy

| language = Italian

}}

Funniest Show on Earth ({{langx|it|Il più comico spettacolo del mondo}}) is a 1953 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring May Britt.{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/231208/Il-Piu-Comico-Spettacolo-Del-Mondo/overview |title=New York Times: Funniest Show on Earth |access-date=1 August 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520090858/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/231208/Il-Piu-Comico-Spettacolo-Del-Mondo/overview |archive-date=20 May 2011 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |author=Hal Erickson |author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |date=2011 |url-status=dead }} It is the first Italian film in 3D.

It was filmed with a three-dimensional shooting system patented by Carlo Ponti and Dino De Laurentiis and called "PoDelVision" (from the initials of their surnames), which prescribed the simultaneous use of more cameras and then the printing of two identical copies of films: one for the left eye and one for the right eye.{{cite news|last=Francesco Gallo|title=Toto' faceva ridere anche in 3D|url=http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/spettacolo/2011/10/16/visualizza_new.html_671502077.html|access-date=10 November 2012|newspaper=Ansa|date=17 October 2011}}

The film is an explicit parody of Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth.