Best comedies to watch on Netflix
The very best comedy films and series on the streaming platform to get you chuckling away.
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- Radio Times staff
Published: Saturday, 16 May 2026 at 10:27 am
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If you’re in need of a speedy mood boost, why not turn your attention to Netflix’s brilliant back catalogue of comedy series, movies and specials?
The streaming service has one of the most impressive libraries around, and that means that the platform is home to an array of hilarious TV and film favourites, from old classics to newer original offerings.
There are beloved sitcoms aplenty from both sides of the Atlantic, from US series like 30 Rock and Seinfeld to British hits like Peep Show, Motherland and Derry Girls, as well as more gems such as Grace and Frankie and Feel Good.
Four seasons in, comedy drama Sex Education remains a firm favourite for the streamer, and has acted as a launch pad for an array of talented stars like Ncuti Gatwa (the Fifteenth Doctor in Doctor Who), Emma Mackey and BAFTA winner Aimee Lou Wood.
Netflix has also firmly established itself as the home of an array of stand-up specials, from Bo Burham’s lockdown-inspired Inside (complete with songs that will stick around in your head for weeks after) to Katherine Ryan’s Glitter Room.
Film fans needn’t miss out either, as the platform is packed with treats like romcom Always Be My Maybe, smash-hit satirical comedy Barbie and the Coen brothers' The Ballad of Buster Scraggs.
Read on for RadioTimes.com’s guide to the very best comedy that Netflix has to offer, and if you want more streaming inspiration, check out our guides to the best series on Netflix and best movies on Netflix
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2026
Comedy
Crime/detective
15
Schitt's Creek creator Daniel Levy returns to the theme of familiar dysfunction in a new eight-part comedy about two mismatched siblings, with questionable skill sets, who blunder into the high-stakes world of organised crime. Preacher Nicholas (Dan Levy) and sister Morgan (Taylor Ortega) are implicated in a misguided theft for their dying grandmother. They are hunted down by bona fide criminal Yusuf (Boran Kuzum) and he blackmails the siblings into atoning for their sins, just as Nicky would advocate in a sermon to his congregation. The dithering duo's mother Linda (Laurie Metcalf) is potential collateral damage as they seek a way to settle their debts without landing themselves in prison. Elizabeth Perkins, Jacob Gutierrez and Mark Ivanir co-star.
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2005
Sitcom
Comedy
PG
Remake of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's mockumentary The Office, following employees at the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. Starring Steve Carell and John Krasinski.
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2006
Comedy
15
American sitcom following the life of Liz Lemon, a neurotic TV sketch show writer, and her efforts to deal with the chaos caused by her eccentric colleagues. Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin star.
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2023
Adventure
Comedy
12
Satirical fantasy comedy starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. When blonde and bubbly Barbie experiences a series of sudden crises, she must leave Barbieland to track down her human owner and make things right. But the adoring Ken follows her to Los Angeles where he discovers something called the "patriarchy" and develops some radical ideas...
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Going back to his hometown of Crawley, England, Romesh Ranganathan will talk about vegan-ism, his kids - and offers a peek into the making of his comedy special.
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2018
Comedy
15
Based on his podcast, comedian and former Saturday Night Live (1975) alumni Norm Macdonald and his sidekick Adam Eget sit down and chat with celebrity guests about their life, career and views in a somewhat unconventional and often irreverent way.
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2019
Comedy
Crime/detective
15
A hotheaded widow searching for the hit-and-run driver who mowed down her husband befriends an eccentric optimist who isn't quite what she seems. Comedy drama, starring Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini
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2019
Comedy
Romance
12
Reunited after 15 years, famous chef Sasha and hometown musician Marcus feel the old sparks of attraction but struggle to adapt to each other's worlds.
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I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
2019
Comedy
15
Madcap sketch show featuring Tim Robinson and his guests, who focus each episode on making someone want to leave
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2022
Animation
Comedy
15
Animated spin-off from Big Mouth featuring the voices of Nick Kroll and Maya Rudolph.
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2018
Western
Comedy
15
Six tales of life and violence in the Old West, following a singing gunslinger, a bank robber, a travelling impresario, an elderly prospector, a wagon train, and a perverse pair of bounty hunters. Western, starring Tim Blake Nelson
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2015
Comedy
Drama
15
Award-winning French comedy drama set at the fictional ASK (Agence Samuel Kerr) talent agency following the death of the founder.
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2018
Comedy
Drama
15
A coming-of-age story about four bright, street-savvy friends navigating their way through high school in gritty South Central Los Angeles, trying to get their friend out of a gang, and having friendship turn into something more.
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1989
Sitcom
Comedy
12
American sitcom set in New York following the exploits of stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld, his best friend George, former girlfriend Elaine and neighbour from across the hall Kramer.
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2021
Comedy
Drama
15
At a major university, the first woman of color to become chair tries to meet the dizzying demands and high expectations of a failing English department.
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2018
Crime/detective
Comedy
12
Three suburban mothers suddenly find themselves in desperate circumstances and decide to stop playing it safe and risk everything to take back their power. Comedy drama, starring Christina Hendricks, Retta and Mae Whitman
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2019
Comedy
Drama
15
Dark comedy starring Ricky Gervais. Struggling to come to terms with his wife's death, a journalist adopts a gruff new persona in an effort to push away those trying to help.
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2015
Sitcom
Comedy
12
Finding out that their husbands are not just work partners, but have also been romantically involved for the last twenty years, two women with an already strained relationship try to cope with the circumstances together.
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2017
Comedy
Romance
12
Sam, an 18-year-old on the autism spectrum, decides it's time to find a girlfriend, which sets Sam's mom on her own life-changing path as her son seeks more independence.
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2019
Comedy
Drama
15
A young gay man with cerebral palsy branches out from his insular existence, hoping to finally go after the life he really wants.
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2016
Sitcom
Comedy
12
US comedy. When Eleanor Shellstrop finds herself in the afterlife, she's both relieved and surprised that she's made it into the Good Place. But Eleanor realises she's there by mistake.
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2014
Animation
Comedy
PG
American adult animated comedy-drama series. Bojack was the legendary TV sitcom horse of the 1990s. Since his heyday, he's struggled through life in a haze of whisky and self-loathing.
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2018
Comedy
Drama
15
Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin star in an award-winning comedy about a washed-up actor turned acting-coach and his long-suffering agent.
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2000
Comedy
Drama
PG
American comedy drama set in Stars Hollow, Connecticut. It follows the lives of single mother Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham) and her teenage daughter Rory Gilmore (Alexis Bledel).
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