27 Best Comedies on Netflix to Stream Now (September 2025)

Laughter comes in all forms on Netflix.

Whether it’s the uncomfortable mess of 2020’s Shiva Baby, fake-dating tropes in 2023’s Anyone But You or a workplace revenge plot gone too far in 2011’s Horrible Bosses, there’s a comedy for every type of funny bone.

If you’re unsure what you’re in the mood for, you can’t go wrong with buzzy hits like the 2025 films One of Them Days and Nonnas, all sure to bring on the giggles you deserve.

Keep scrolling for the best comedies to stream on Netflix right now.

Always Be My Maybe

Childhood best friends who went their separate ways reunite in 2019’s Always Be My Maybe. Ali Wong plays Sasha, a celebrity chef, while Randall Park plays her former best friend and high school hookup, Marcus, who still lives in their hometown.

The pair need to decide if there’s still romance between them while they’re confronted by their differing lifestyles and Sasha’s new connection to Keanu Reeves — yes, the Keanu Reeves.

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American Graffiti

Although “you just can’t stay 17 forever,” you can most certainly feel like a youngster again watching this 1973 coming-of-age comedy.

American Graffiti, the second feature directed by George Lucas (Star Wars and Indiana Jones), follows a group of recently graduated Californian teens during one adventurous summer night.

Earning five Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director, the film won the Golden Globe in 1974 for Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical. Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfuss, Cindy Williams and Harrison Ford comprise the cast.

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Anyone But You

The classic enemies-to-lovers trope is alive and well in this 2023 rom-com starring Euphoria‘s Sydney Sweeney and Top Gun: Maverick‘s Glen Powell.

Grossing more than $200 million at the box office worldwide (via Box Office Mojo) and already breeding a future sequel, Anyone But You dishes out the fiery tension between law student Bea (Sweeney) and Goldman Sachs employee Ben (Powell), who play pretend lovers while secretly hating each other’s guts.

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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

“It’s showtime” again! Since his 1988 debut in Beetlejuice, the ghost with the most is back in the 2024 sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

Michael Keaton reprises his iconic role as the titular bio-exorcist, while Winona Ryder‘s Lydia Deetz is now a mom to teenage daughter, Astrid (Jenna Ortega). However, when Astrid breaks open a portal to the afterlife, Lydia is forced to summon the pinstriped menace who’s never really left her mind to try and save her family.

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The Dead Don’t Die

In Jim Jarmusch’s absurdist apocalypse comedy, flesh-craving zombies raid the once-tranquil town of Centerville, picking off its residents one by one.

The Dead Don’t Die is just as overflowing with carnage as it is with Hollywood A-listers, including Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Swinton, Iggy Pop, Rosie Perez, Selena Gomez and more.

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Do Revenge

Inspired by the 1951 Alfred Hitchcock film Strangers on a Train, 2022’s Do Revenge follows two strangers who make a deal to enact revenge on each other’s enemies so neither gets caught.

In this updated dark comedy set in high school, Eleanor (Maya Hawke) wants revenge on a student (Ava Capri) who started a rumor about her, while Drea (Camila Mendes) is looking to get back at her ex-boyfriend (Austin Abrams).

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Dolemite Is My Name

Eddie Murphy stars in the 2019 comedy biopic Dolemite Is My Name as comedian and filmmaker Rudy Ray Moore, known for his character and eponymous 1975 crime film Dolemite.

Set in the 1970s, the movie also features Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Keegan-Michael Key and Wesley Snipes.

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Don’t Look Up

Adam McKay‘s climate change satire Don’t Look Up stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence as two scientists who discover that an asteroid — one big enough to wipe out all of humanity — is heading toward Earth.

They struggle to convince a complacent media, the U.S. government and an apathetic general public to do something about it. Cate Blanchett, Meryl Streep and Jonah Hill costar.

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Dumplin’

Dumplin’ is a coming-of-age comedy about teenager Willowdean (Danielle Macdonald), who is raised by her aunt (Hilliary Begley).

When Willowdean’s mother, Rosie (Jennifer Aniston) — a former beauty queen who calls Willowdean by the nickname Dumplin’ — begins running the local pageant, Dumplin’ joins the pageant herself as a form of protest.

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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

In Rian Johnson‘s 2022 standalone sequel to his 2019 mystery, Knives Out, Det. Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) joins a group of seemingly successful public figures who visit their tech billionaire friend, Miles Bron (Edward Norton), on his private island — where secrets, betrayals and murder come to shore.

Glass Onion features plenty of famous faces, including Janelle Monáe, Kate Hudson, Kathryn Hahn, Dave Bautista and Leslie Odom Jr. Catch up on both films before Netflix releases the third installment in December 2025.

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Happy Gilmore

The beloved ’90s classic starring Adam Sandler as the overly violent Happy Gilmore is available to stream on Netflix — and so is its fresh sequel, Happy Gilmore 2.

Now, the accidental golfer is back on the course, competing nearly 30 years later.

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Horrible Bosses

When three friends — played by Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis — regroup after a terrible day at their respective jobs, the fed-up employees drunkenly conspire to murder their seriously rotten employers and attempt to follow through.

With Aniston, Colin Farrell and Kevin Spacey playing the men’s abusive bosses, director Seth Gordon’s 2011 comedy also features appearances from the late Donald Sutherland and Jamie Foxx.

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How to Be Single

After graduating from college, Alice (Dakota Johnson) and her boyfriend (Nicholas Braun) have agreed to take a temporary break from their relationship to explore being single in New York City.

However, when Alice finds being alone is harder than anticipated, she turns to her co-worker–turned–best friend (Rebel Wilson) and older sister (Leslie Mann) for support and guidance.

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Kinda Pregnant

When her best friend announces she’s pregnant, slightly envious Lainy (Amy Schumer) tries on a fake baby bump to see what the fuss is all about.

Relishing the sudden flood of kindness from strangers, what begins as a harmless lie soon snowballs into a full-blown ticking time bomb — especially since she might have found the man of her dreams.

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Look Both Ways

After taking a pregnancy test the night before her college graduation, aspiring artist Natalie’s (Lili Reinhart) life splits into two parallel worlds, depending on the result: one where she is a career-driven woman and one where she handles motherhood as a young adult.

Costarring Danny Ramirez, Aisha Dee and Luke Wilson, this rom-com — released in August 2022 — should be on your radar.

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The Lovebirds

In the 2020 adventure comedy The Lovebirds, Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani play an unhappy couple on the brink of splitting up.

After getting entangled in a puzzling murder, the two go on the run to solve the case while also trying to piece their relationship back together.

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Neighbors

Settling down in the suburbs with their newborn, Kelly (Rose Byrne) and Mac (Seth Rogen) attempt to negotiate a quiet-hours pact with the frat house next door.

However, when Delta Psi Beta president Teddy (Zac Efron) breaks his promise of peaceful coexistence, Mac resorts to calling the police — igniting a neighborly feud full of X-rated pranks and diabolical scheming.

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Nonnas

While sorting through his late mom’s and nonna’s old recipes, Joe Scaravella (Vince Vaughn) “realizes that food is love.” Hoping to share that epiphany with others, he opens an Italian restaurant in Staten Island run entirely by local grandmothers.

Inspired by a true story, Nonnas emulates the warmth of a family kitchen — while serving a star-studded cast that includes Susan Sarandon, Lorraine Bracco, Linda Cardellini, Brenda Vaccaro, Talia Shire and more.

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One of Them Days

In this laugh-a-minute romp, Keke Palmer and SZA star as two down-on-their-luck besties and roommates who discover (much too late) that one of their boyfriends squandered their rent money.

With eviction just around the corner, the duo embarks on a wild hustle through Los Angeles, pulling off increasingly outrageous stunts to stay afloat — while trying to keep their friendship from going under.

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The Out-Laws

Meet Owen Browning (Adam DeVine), a by-the-book bank manager gearing up for marriage with his soulmate, Parker (Nina Dobrev).

However, just as wedding bells chime, chaos ensues when the notorious Ghost Bandits raid his bank. Owen suspects his soon-to-be in-laws (Pierce Brosnan and Ellen Barkin) as the masterminds behind the heist.

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Saturday Night

A dramatized version of a one-of-a-kind origin story, Saturday Night takes you inside Studio 8H on Oct. 11, 1975, when Lorne Michaels (Gabriel LaBelle) has just 90 minutes to get his hard-to-define comedy creation on air for the very first time.

With studio execs eager to see Lorne fail, last-minute sketch cuts, set disasters and every other obstacle imaginable, see how NBC’s Saturday Night Live overcame it all to become the iconic show we know today, celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2025.

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Set It Up

Two assistants scheme to set up their respective demanding bosses to get them off their backs. Naturally, these assistants also form a connection along the way. Zoey Deutch, Powell, Lucy Liu and Taye Diggs star in this 2018 rom-com.

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Shiva Baby

The very last place college student Danielle (Rachel Sennott) wants to be is at a family shiva — for a relative she’s not entirely sure has died — where everyone is lined up to interrogate her about her future.

Things quickly go from annoying to unbearable when more guests arrive, including Danielle’s current sugar daddy (Danny Deferrari), his wife (Dianna Agron) and their baby … oh, and her far-more-put-together ex-girlfriend (Molly Gordon).

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Trainwreck

Making her film debut, Amy Schumer (who also wrote the screenplay) takes the lead in this 2015 romantic dramedy as Amy Townsend, a carefree, hedonistic magazine writer raised to believe that monogamy is unrealistic.

Yet, when she’s assigned to profile esteemed orthopedic surgeon Aaron Conners (Bill Hader), Amy finds herself on the brink of her first meaningful relationship while also dealing with family drama.

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Wendell & Wild

From the minds that brought you films like 1993’s The Nightmare Before Christmas and 2017’s Get Out, Henry Selick and Jordan Peele collaborated to write this 2022 stop-motion animated horror comedy.

After enrolling at an all-girls Catholic school, 13-year-old orphan Kat (Lyric Ross) learns she is a “hell maiden” and summons two cunning demons (Peele and Keegan-Michael Key) to revive her parents.

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Wicked Little Letters

In 1920s England, spinster and devout Christian Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) finds herself bombarded with hate mail filled with expletives and points the finger at her neighbor, single mother Rose Gooding (Jessie Buckley).

This scandal causes quite the commotion in their small seaside village, but as some of the town’s women dig deeper into this whodunnit, they start to suspect that the real author is still at large.

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You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah

Adam teamed up with his whole family for this 2023 coming-of-age comedy. Directed by Sammi Cohen, this film centers on Stacy Friedman (Sunny Sandler — Adam’s younger daughter), whose bat mitzvah plans are hilariously derailed by trivial mishaps.

Featuring a stellar ensemble, including Idina Menzel, Jackie Sandler, Jackie Hoffman and more, this is a party you don’t want to miss!

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