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The Best Comedy Movies on Netflix Right Now (October 2026)

By Matt Oakes · October 25, 2026

Comedy is the genre streaming algorithms do the worst job with: they surface whatever is newest or loudest, and the genuinely funny stuff gets buried. These are the best comedies on Netflix that I’ve reviewed and still stand behind, led by Zola, The Gentlemen, and Swiss Army Man.

Every pick links to my full review, and the list gets refreshed as titles come and go.

Critics and Audience scores from Rotten Tomatoes; ratings from IMDb. Scores as of October 2026.

ZOLA (2021)

88%Critics 68%Audience 6.4IMDb

Janicza Bravo’s snappy and stylized Zola is a bottle-rocket of artistic energy boasting four of the most-notable performances of 2021 from Taylour Paige, Riley Keough, Colman Domingo, and Nicholas Braun. An all-around electrifying watch despite a weak ending.▶ Streaming on Netflix · Read the full review

THE GENTLEMEN (2020)

75%Critics 84%Audience 7.8IMDb

Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Hugh Grant, and Colin Farrell lead Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen, a hip, hilarious, and punchy return to his gangster-movie roots. Hugh Grant steals the show as a sleazy private investigator narrating the whole affair.▶ Streaming on Netflix · Read the full review

SWISS ARMY MAN (2016)

73%Critics 72%Audience 6.9IMDb

One of the most bizarre and bizarrely beautiful films to grace the Sundance Dramatic Competition, Swiss Army Man is not a film to be puzzled out in one go but that’s ok. It’s mightily entertaining, features two standout performances and has enough raw originality coursing through its veins to make it truly stand in a league of its own.▶ Streaming on Netflix · Read the full review

BUGONIA (2025)

87%Critics 84%Audience 7.4IMDb

Amongst my favorite working directors, Yorgos Lanthimos has a way of poking at how we perceive reality that is unsettling, absurdist, and deeply satirical, and with Bugonia he applies an unsettling sci-fi edge to further knock us off-kilter. Emma Stone, shaved head and all, is great, but Jesse Plemons proves once again that he too is one of the greats.▶ Streaming on Netflix · Read the full review

THE MENU (2022)

88%Critics 76%Audience 7.1IMDb

The Menu is a riotous dark satire that uses the upper-echelon of the food world to satirize class warfare. As if run through a Paco Jet, Ralph Fiennes delivers an icy tour-de-force as a mesmerizing, disturbed chef at the end of his rope. Full of twists and full-bellied laughs, consider The Menu a dish that should be consumed immediately.▶ Streaming on Netflix · Read the full review

BO BURNHAM: INSIDE (2021)

95%Critics 93%Audience 8.6IMDb

Shot alone in a single room during the pandemic, Bo Burnham’s special is a darkly funny, dazzlingly crafted musical spiral about isolation, the internet, and his own mind. It plays more like an art film than a stand-up set, and songs like “Welcome to the Internet” are impossible to shake.▶ Streaming on Netflix

I CARE A LOT (2021)

79%Critics 35%Audience 6.4IMDb

Rosamund Pike leads a deliciously contemptible cast of characters in J Blakeson’s dark-satire-cum-crime-thriller I Care a Lot. Though the film suffers the sin of having its cake and eating it too (and doesn’t always succeed wrestling together conflicting tones), the biting script and devilish performances bury that shortcoming many times over.▶ Streaming on Netflix · Read the full review

GREEN BOOK (2018)

77%Critics 92%Audience 8.2IMDb

Green Book works pretty much however you break it down. Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali are divine as a traveling odd couple, Peter Farrelly’s directorial skills are in sharp focus, and the story is both good-natured and vital. It’s the kind of family-friendly message movie that comes too infrequently, made with all the right attention to detail.▶ Streaming on Netflix · Read the full review

INGRID GOES WEST (2017)

84%Critics 71%Audience 6.6IMDb

Dark, awkward comedy Ingrid Goes West has plenty of uncomfortable laughs and wince-worthy situations but poses potent, pressing commentary about the dark consequences of social media oversharing. Star Aubrey Plaza is heartbreaking and strange as hell as a twisted stalker desperate for friends and attention and any fan of hers ought to seek out this sleeper hit immediately.▶ Streaming on Netflix · Read the full review

SLEEPING WITH OTHER PEOPLE (2015)

64%Critics 56%Audience 6.5IMDb

Two serial cheaters (Alison Brie and Jason Sudeikis) become best friends and make a pact not to sleep together. Leslye Headland’s rom-com is raunchy, smart, and surprisingly sweet, and its leads have chemistry to burn. It’s the rare rom-com that is genuinely funny and genuinely sexy.▶ Streaming on Netflix · Read the full review

WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY (2025)

92%Critics 93%Audience 7.3IMDb

The winning combo of Daniel Craig and Josh O’Connor threatens to send ’ Wake Up Dead Man’ to the heavens, but the third Knives Out entry, though the most thematically ambitious of the bunch, is held back by some material flaws, chief among them an over-reliance on over-explanation.▶ Streaming on Netflix · Read the full review

READY OR NOT (2019)

89%Critics 78%Audience 6.9IMDb

Ready or Not may not gild the lily of horror comedy but it’s a wickedly fun little late summer distraction, sanguine-stained, tumultuous, and crackling with midnight-colored laughs. Samara Weaving is a scream as a new bride forced into a deadly game of hide-and-seek by her wealthy in-laws, and the finale is a bloody blast.▶ Streaming on Netflix · Read the full review

T2 TRAINSPOTTING (2017)

81%Critics 78%Audience 7.1IMDb

Like a shot of cinema to the main vein, T2 Trainspotting is a lively and thoughtful companion piece to Boyle’s darkly comedic addiction saga. Choose strong performances, choose a rocking playlist, choose intoxicating visual flair. Even if T2 fails to completely justify its existence, it in no way feels like a betrayal to its predecessor or its characters and offers an oft inebriating glance at modernity.▶ Streaming on Netflix · Read the full review

KEANU (2016)

78%Critics 55%Audience 6.2IMDb

Catnip for Key & Peele fans, Keanu is a daffy laugh-a-minute concept comedy meets YouTube video; definitive proof that the sketch comics’ careers are far from over, and may in fact just be beginning anew, now that they’ve exited the world of television.▶ Streaming on Netflix · Read the full review

SEX TAPE (2014)

15%Critics 33%Audience 5.1IMDb

A married couple (Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel) make a sex tape that accidentally syncs to everyone they know, and they have one night to get it back. It’s broad and silly, but Rob Lowe’s coked-up cameo gets the biggest laughs.▶ Streaming on Netflix · Read the full review

ABOUT TIME (2013)

71%Critics 82%Audience 7.8IMDb

A young man learns the men in his family can travel back in time, and he uses the gift to win over Rachel McAdams. Richard Curtis’ sweet, sentimental comedy is less about romance than about savoring ordinary days, and Bill Nighy steals every scene as the dad.▶ Streaming on Netflix · Read the full review

NOBODY 2 (2025)

76%Critics 87%Audience 6.3IMDb

Bob Odenkirk returns as everyman assassin Hutch Mansell in a vacation-themed sequel that extends the brand no further than swapping his hoodie for a Hawaiian shirt. At a brisk 89 minutes, stuffed to bursting with laugh-inducing fisticuff mania, it serves as a breezy and blood-soaked capstone to an otherwise forgettable summer season.▶ Streaming on Netflix · Read the full review

CAUGHT STEALING (2025)

85%Critics 83%Audience 6.8IMDb

An easy-to-consume crime thriller with a swaggering Austin Butler in the lead, Caught Stealing abandons the deeper themes and close attention to performance that have defined Darren Aronofsky’s best work. What it delivers instead is one of his most straightforward, surface-level movies, fun but forgettable.▶ Streaming on Netflix · Read the full review

THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE (2024)

67%Critics 91%Audience 6.8IMDb

Guy Ritchie’s The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare revels in its stylistic excess but skimps on depth. Henry Cavill’s charismatic lead performance enlivens the thinly sketched ensemble, yet the film’s lack of narrative stakes and character development leaves it stranded in shallow waters: sunk into mere spectacle rather than surfacing as the substantive spy thriller it aims to be.▶ Streaming on Netflix · Read the full review

DON’T LOOK UP (2021)

56%Critics 78%Audience 7.1IMDb

Adam McKay’s Dont Look Up’ boasts an outstanding ensemble cast with some of the biggest A-list stars on the planet to build a farcical “the sky is falling” dark comedy. The writer-director’s ambitions can exceed his grasp at times but this no-holds-barred satire still mostly collides as intended.▶ Streaming on Netflix · Read the full review

VIOLENT NIGHT (2022)

74%Critics 88%Audience 6.7IMDb

David Harbour shines as a beat-down Santa Claus who returns to his brutal ways in Violent Night. While a bit overly self-aware in spots, the film from Tommy Wirkola is an adult-oriented crowdpleaser that gifts action fans the Bad Santa movie they always wished for.▶ Streaming on Netflix · Read the full review