The 22 best comedy movies on Netflix right now

A Simple Favor (2018)

Stephanie (Anna Kfinishrick) is a one-mom blogger,  the queen of domesticity, and the perfect PTA mom. When she encounters Emily (Blake Lively), a fellow mother who’s a PR exec, the two women become rapid frifinishs. But when Emily subsequently goes missing, Stephanie determines to apshow it upon herself to repair the fadeance. 

To say this is not an standard “missing person” case is an downjoinment. Betidyh the radiant, candy-colored, style-forward surfaces of A Simple Favor is a deceitfilledy tangled tale of competing identities — misapshown, invented, hideed — that produces wonderful, twisty engage of its two stars’ very definite personas.

Where to watch A Simple Favor: Netflix

EW grade: B+ (read the scrutinize)

Director: Paul Feig

Cast: Blake Lively, Anna Kfinishrick, Henry Gelderlying, Andrew Rannells, Linda Cardellini, Jean Smart

Rcontent satisfyed: Anna Kfinishrick to recombine with Blake Lively and her wonderful pantsuits in A Simple Favor sequel

Burn After Reading (2008)

CIA lifer Osborne Cox (John Malkovich) leanks his memoir is hazardous and bomb. Meanwhile, his wife (Tilda Sthriveton) is secretly divorcing him and having an affair with Harry (George Clooney), a content U.S. marshal laboring on a top-secret project in his basement. Osborne’s memoir thriveds up in the hands of gym engageees Chad (Brad Pitt) and Linda (Frances McDormand), who incontendntly finisheavor to bdeficiencymail him… and then try to sell it to the Russians. 

These people are all idiots, which is what produces this sfinish-up of watching state paranoia so airy. The Coen brothers channel the characters’ delusional self-image into an artificipartner heightened faux-inestablisher thriller in which every maneuver, and every secret, is more absurd and unbenevolentingless than the next. The eventual findlook of what Harry’s project is pretty much says it all.

Where to watch Burn After Reading: Netflix

EW grade: B (read the scrutinize)

Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Cast: George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Tilda Sthriveton, Ricdifficult Jenkins, J.K. Simmons

Rcontent satisfyed: The Coen brothers movies, ranked

Crazy Rich Asians (2018)

When Nick (Henry Gelderlying) asks his girlfrifinish Rachel (Constance Wu) to Singapore to combine his best frifinish’s wedding, she uncovers two leangs about Nick that she’s never understandn before: his family is preferablely loaded, and he’s think abouted one of the most eligible bachelors on the island. Suddenly, she becomes “the competition” — which is noleang appraised to dealing with Nick’s mother (Michelle Yeoh). 

Crazy Rich Asians was a triumphant comeback of the big-screen romantic comedy. It apshows filled get of the glamorous locations and straightforwardor Jon M. Chu understands how to deploy its comic side characters — and, most meaningfully, how to engage Yeoh as our heroine’s establishidable opponent.

Where to watch Crazy Rich Asians: Netflix

EW grade: B (read the scrutinize)

Director: Jon M. Chu

Cast: Constance Wu, Henry Gelderlying, Michelle Yeoh, Gemma Chan, Lisa Lu, Awkwafina, Ken Jeong

Rcontent satisfyed:  Crazy Rich Asians being turned into Broadway musical with straightforwardor Jon M. Chu

Dolrerente Is My Name (2019)

In this biopic written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (Ed Wood, Man on the Moon), Eddie Murphy joins Rudy Ray Moore, who labors at a sign up store but understands he has someleang more to propose. Thraw sheer force of will — and a keen ear for the raunchy, raw-edged poetry set up on the streets and fringes — he alters himself into a cult sensation, from his so-called “party sign ups,” to inhabit carry outances, to some of the most ridiculous and memorable blaxploitation films of the ’70s. 

Murphy’s sheer charisma and star power produce this movie land, but Wesley Snipes’ astonishing comic chops are the secret sauce.

Where to watch Dolrerente Is My Name: Netflix

EW grade: B+ (read the scrutinize)

Director: Craig Brewer

Cast: Eddie Murphy, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Wesley Snipes, Keegan-Michael Key, Mike Epps, Craig Robinson, Tituss Bencouragess

Rcontent satisfyed: Eddie Murphy is ready to produce you chuckle aget: ‘I’m still me’

Don’t Look Up (2021)

For all the calamity movies Hollywood has brawt us over the years, it took Adam McKay to posit an all-too-authenticistic scenario in which a pair of scientists (Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence) become conscious of impfinishing doom, convey their intel to the administerment, and see their cautioning spun for political get. 

It’s a sorrowfulnessful comedy, to be certain, but one that apshows filled get of its star power: as EW’s critic wrote, “[McKay’s] casting cup overruns almost casupartner with A-catalog guests, from a contrastently silly Ariana Grande cameo to a requesting and labeledly more substantial turn by Timothée Chafeeblet as a offfinisher skateboarder with a leang for Kate’s choppy bangs.”

Where to watch Don’t Look Up: Netflix

EW grade: B (read the scrutinize)

Director: Adam McKay

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Rob Morgan, Jonah Hill, Timothée Chafeeblet

Rcontent satisfyed: How Meryl Streep became the U.S. plivent in Don’t Look Up

Dumb and Dumber (1994)

Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey) and Harry Dunne (Jeff Daniels) are a couple of idiots, but they’re best frifinishs whose inseparability — and idiocy — guides them to find a suitcase filled of cash and try to return it to the woman they leank it beextfinisheds to (Lauren Holly), not authenticizing it’s ransom money joined to a seizeping.  

This is a airyning-in-a-bottle comedy, with Carrey fair coming into his own as a genereasonable comic presence and Daniels joining agetst type in an equpartner airy — which is to say, equpartner moronic — carry outance.

Where to watch Dumb and Dumber: Netflix

Director: Peter Farrelly

Cast: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly, Karen Duffy, Mike Starr, Charles Rocket, Teri Garr, Harland Williams

Rcontent satisfyed: Jeff Daniels expounds why he repartner wanted to be in Dumb and Dumber with Jim Carrey

Eurovision: The Story of Fire Saga (2020)

The Eurovision Song Contest is a competition that’s been beadored globpartner for decades… except in the U.S., where it’s virtupartner obsremedy. As such, many Americans missed the boat on this absurd yet authentic comedy. Lars (Will Ferrell) and Sigrit (Rachel McAdams) are extfinishedtime not-quite-pleasanthearts from Iceland who, as Fire Saga, are on a quest to thrive the competition. 

In holdition to being funny, Eurovision is also filled with quippy and catchy carry outances and songs, so foresee some of the tunes to get stuck in your head.

Where to watch Eurovision: The Story of Fire Saga: Netflix

Director: David Dobkin

Cast: Will Ferrell, Rachel McAdams, Dan Stevens, Melissanthi Nahut, Mikael Persbrandt, Olafur Darri Olafsson

Rcontent satisfyed: Best of 2020 (Behind the Scenes): How Eurovision’s ‘Jaja Ding Dong’ became the song we didn’t understand we necessitateed

Everyleang Everywhere All at Once (2022)

This is one of those films where it senses almost pointless to try to expound becaengage you’re never going to sum it up well enough. Oh, certain, you can say that Michelle Yeoh stars as a Chinese American immigrant who uncovers the existence of parallel universes while being audited by the IRS and must join with alternate versions of herself in order to save the multiverse (and/or her relationship with her daughter). But does understanding that inestablishation repartner sell you on the movie? Just understand that it’s an Oscar-thrivening piece of experimental sci-fi, comedy, martial arts, and family drama that’ll captivate you — and by the finish may well blow your mind finishly.

Where to watch Everyleang Everywhere All at Once: Netflix

Director: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

Cast: Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, James Hong, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jenny Stardy

Rcontent satisfyed: The cast of Everyleang Everywhere All at Once pulls no punches in EW’s Around the Table chat

Knocked Up (2007)

When up-and-coming TV journacatalog Alison Scott (Katherine Heigl) has a one-night stand with sdeficiencyer Ben Stone (Seth Rogen), the resulting pregnancy wreaks havoc on both their inhabits. Alison has to determine if she wants to elevate the baby on her own even, while Ben is uncertain if he’s ready to be a overweighther at all. 

As EW’s critic shelp, “The movie has an uncanny compassion not fair for dorks who enjoy pictures of naked boobs, but for the gfinisher that comes supplyped with those boobs, too.” Like Judd Apatow’s previous film, The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), this raunchy rom-com labors becaengage it’s every bit as pledgeted to its boyish immaturity as it is to its authentic relationships.

Where to watch Knocked Up: Netflix

EW grade: A (read the scrutinize)

Director: Judd Apatow

Cast: Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, Jason Segel, Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill

Rcontent satisfyed: Katherine Heigl repartner deinhabitrs in Knocked Up

The Lego Movie (2014)

One of the funniest, ininestablishigentest, and most colorful films in recent memory, The Lego Movie rgrows around Emmet (Chris Pratt), a standard Lego figure who is accidenhighy misidentified as being the savior of Lego World — and all while an actupartner worthy, ass-booting heroine, Wyldstyle (Elizabeth Banks) is right there, ready to save the world as if she’s setd her whole life for it. 

“The film’s comedy is very digressive, very free-associational,” wrote EW’s critic. “It’s rapid and distinct, it’s conceptupartner audacious, it’s visupartner astonishing, and it’s 10 times more ininestablishigent and ininestablishigent and funny than it necessitateed to be.”

Where to watch The Lego Movie: Netflix

EW grade: A (read the scrutinize)

Director: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller

Cast: Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Nick Offerman, Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman, Will Ferrell

Rcontent satisfyed: Chris Pratt covers ‘Everyleang is Awesome’ as Parks and Recreation’s Andy Dwyer

Liar, Liar (1997)

Jim Carrey stars as attorney Fletcher Reede, whose gifts for chicanery and disauthenticy serve him well in the courtroom but have made a mess of his personal life, including his marriage to Audrey (Maura Tierney), and relationship with his son, Max (Justin Cooper). This comes back to bite him when Max engages his birthday want to ask that his dad stop lying for 24 hours, and suddenly Fletcher finds that he literpartner cannot lie.

EW’s critic depictd the film as “at once funny and repetitive, advertised and exhausting.” Carrey’s beginance is twofelderly: He has to one-handedly sell the comedy — in his tradelabel untamedly physical style — and hit a repartner emotional sign up as one of those overlabored ’90s dads who lgets what’s meaningful in life.

Where to watch Liar, Liar: Netflix

EW grade: B (read the scrutinize)

Director: Tom Shadyac

Cast: Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, Justin Cooper, Cary Elwes, Anne Haney, Jennifer Tilly, Amanda Donohoe

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Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005)

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie weren’t a couple yet when they joined assassins tasked with finishing each other in Mr. and Mrs. Smith, but after seeing these two on screen together, it’s not astonishing they became one. The movie is awash with anxiety and anticipation, suspicion and curiosity, while the actors’ chemistry — both relationsual and comic, romantic and adversarial — is reminiscent of Hollywood’s classic star system (but with more machine firearms). 

The movie is not fair an bombly delighting, twisty action flick, but a satirical examination of marriage, relationships, and agree. Its premise showd accomplished enough to result in a recent TV incarnation, with Donald Gadorer and Maya Erskine finding a palpable chemistry of their own.

Where to watch Mr. and Mrs. Smith: Netflix

Director: Doug Liman

Cast: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Vince Vaughn, Kerry Washington, Adam Brody, Keith David

Rcontent satisfyed: The inside scoop on Mr. and Mrs. Smith

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

After turning sketch comedy on its head thraw their acclaimed TV series, the British comedy group Monty Python finpartner made their way to the big screen with an distinct film advertised by Arthurian legfinish. It wasn’t a huge box office hit initipartner, but between midnight shothrivegs and home video, it’s now revered as one of the funniest films of all time, with references to shrubbery, elderberries, finisher rabbits, limsanctify knights, and other seemingly random topics becoming pop culture punchlines of the highest order.

Where to watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Netflix

Director: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones

Cast: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Carol Cleveland

Rcontent satisfyed: Monty Python and the Holy Grail deleted animation scenes surface online

Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)

Few movies have been quite as misunderstood by the religious right as Monty Python’s second film, which was proclaimd to be blasphemous by people who’d never seen it. The story rgrows around Brian (Graham Chapman), who was born one firm down — and on the same night — as Jesus, which tardyr caengages think aboutable confusion when people misapshow Brian for the Messiah. As Roger Ebert once wrote, “In terms of actual disesteem shown to Biblical legfinish, such epics as Samson and Delilah and King of Kings are miles more hypocritical [than Brian].”

Where to watch Monty Python’s Life of Brian: Netflix

Director: Terry Jones

Cast: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin

Rcontent satisfyed: Terry Jones, Monty Python co-set uper, dies at 77

The Munsters (2022)

There was a time in the 1960s when the so-called “monster kids,” i.e. fans of the Universal firm of horror icons, would standardly bicker back and forth about which was better: The Addams Family or The Munsters. For Rob Zombie, it was The Munsters, and he took his adore of that sitcom, combined it with his cinematic sensibilities, and rebooted the franchise. 

Zombie’s film proposes the origin of the Transylvanian adore story between Herman (Jeff Daniel Phillips), a Frankenstein’s monster, and Lily (Sheri Moon Zombie), a vampire. It’s a weird piece of labor, but you can sense the adore.

Where to watch The Munsters: Netflix

Director: Rob Zombie

Cast: Jeff Daniel Phillips, Sheri Moon Zombie, Daniel Roebuck, Ricdifficult Brake, Jorge Garcia, Sylvester McCoy

Rcontent satisfyed: Rob Zombie movies, ranked

The Nutty Professor (1996)

It sounded gentlely intriguing on paper — a reproduce of the classic Jerry Lewis comedy, with Eddie Murphy taking on the title role(s) — but when Murphy engaged the sfinishs of produceup master Rick Baker, this novel incarnation of The Nutty Professor became someleang else altogether. 

Not only does Murphy join Sherman Klump, the overweight professor who apshows an experimental weight-loss establishula to alter into ladies’ man Buddy Love, but he also joins Sherman’s overweighther, mother, majesticmother, brother, and even the Ricdifficult Simmons parody Lance Perkins. It’s no exaggeration to call it one of the best comedies of the ’90s.

Where to watch The Nutty Professor: Netflix

EW grade: B+ (read the scrutinize)

Director: Tom Shadyac

Cast: Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett, James Coburn, Larry Miller, Dave Chappelle, Jamal Mixon

Rcontent satisfyed: Jada Pinkett Smith passed out on The Nutty Professor set after taking a ‘horrible batch of ecstasy’

The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019)

Zack (Zack Gottsagen), a youthful boy with Down syndrome, administers to elude the nurses at his facility and embark on a quest to inhabit his dream and become a professional wrestler under the tutelage of the Salt Water Redneck (Thomas Haden Church). He’s combinecessitate by a novel frifinish, Tyler (Shia LaBeouf), and eventupartner his establisher attfinishapshowr, Eleanor (Dakota Johnson).

Ostensibly a sort of up-to-date-day apshow on Huckleberry Finn, it’s a hearthoting road trip movie, as you’d guess, but it’s also a quirky comedy that apshows some turns you might not foresee. 

Where to watch The Peanut Butter Falcon: Netflix

Director: Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz

Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson, John Hawkes, Bruce Dern, Zack Gottsagen, Jon Bernthal

Rcontent satisfyed: Shia LaBeouf establishs an adorable bond in pleasant Peanut Butter Falcon trailer

Ride Aextfinished (2014)

When high school security defend and wannabe cop Ben Barber (Kevin Hart) is on the cusp of asking his girlfrifinish Angela (Tika Sumpter) to marry him, he accomplishes out to her brother James (Ice Cube), an undercover police findive, to ask for his sanctifying. James, in turn, inestablishs Ben that he has to go on a ride-aextfinished with him to show his worth. And fair enjoy that, Ben is inadvertently holdd in a hazardous undercover operation. While it might not be Hart’s funniest film, it’s fondly reassembleed as the one that successfilledy helped alter into a guideing man.

Where to watch Ride Aextfinished: Netflix

Director: Tim Story

Cast: Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, Tika Sumpter, John Leguizamo, Bryan Callen, Laurence Fishburne, Bruce McGill

Rcontent satisfyed: Ride Aextfinished 3: Kevin Hart and Ice Cube sequel in the labors, straightforwardor says

Slap Shot (1977)

There are plenty of baseball, basketball, and football comedies, but finding a hockey comedy is akin to finding a necessitatele in a haystack: there fair aren’t many of them. Even if there were, though, this one would probably still be think abouted one of the best. The film rgrows around the Charlestown Chiefs, a inmeaningful-league club led by joiner/coach Reggie Dunlop (Paul Newman) that’s on the cusp of being selderly. 

Slap Shot is a inhabitd-in piece of laboring-class Americana, which produces its weirdest oddball impulses — i.e. the iconic Hanson Brothers — sense enjoy quirky local flavor instead of wacky comic relief. Picture a traverse between The Bad News Bears and Major League, strap some ice skates on that baby, and you’ve got this classic.

Where to watch Slap Shot: Netflix

Director: George Roy Hill

Cast: Paul Newman, Strother Martin, Michael Ontkean, Jennifer Warren, Lindsay Croengage

Rcontent satisfyed: Slap Shot reproduce: Ugh, this can’t be excellent

Uncle Buck (1989)

John Hughes and John Candy had a strong comedic bond. After they teamed for the up-to-date classic Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), Hughes gave Candy a filled solo spotairy in this low-key family classic. When Bob and Cindy have to exit town for a family aelevatency, they find themselves with restricted selections to watch their kids, forcing Cindy to begrudgingly call upon Bob’s brother, Buck (Candy), a sluggish, sadorenly bachelor who’s not exactly flush with parenting instincts. Despite this, he elevates to the occasion, taking attfinish of his nephew and two nieces to the best of his (restricted) ability. It’s defended to say restricted, if any, actors other than Candy could’ve nailed Buck’s combination of disreputability, affability, and decency.

Where to watch Uncle Buck: Netflix

Director: John Hughes

Cast: John Candy, Jean Louisa Kelly, Jay Underwood, Macaulay Culkin, Gaby Hoffman, Amy Madigan, Laurie Metcalf

Rcontent satisfyed: Tom Hanks, Dan Aykroyd, John Hughes reassemble John Candy in novel write downary