Within the hallowed halls of Hollywood's comedy elite, there is apparently room for Derek Smalls and his oversized cucumber.

Smalls and his fictional Spinal Tap bandmates landed on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest American film comedies of all time. "This Is Spinal Tap," director Rob Reiner's 1984 mockumentary, landed at number 29 on the list, which was unveiled Tuesday night during CBS' "AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs."

Conveniently enough, the news comes as MGM Home Entertainment is preparing to re-release the film (which starred Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer as a sublimely clueless metal band) on home video and in select theaters later this summer (see "Spinal Tap To Roar Again"). The film has been unavailable on home video for years, and the new edition will boast new audio commentary from the cast, an hour's worth of deleted scenes, beefed-up sound and video, and more.

If you're keeping score, "Tap" was sandwiched between 1984's "Ghostbusters" and 1944's "Arsenic and Old Lace" on the AFI list. The 1959 Jack Lemmon-and-Tony Curtis-in-drag flick "Some Like It Hot" topped the list, with "Tootsie," "Dr. Strangelove," "Annie Hall," "Duck Soup," "Blazing Saddles," "M*A*S*H," "It Happened One Night," "The Graduate," and "Airplane" rounding out the top ten. You can find a complete list of the AFI's top 100 comedies at www.afionline.org.