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

By Matt Oakes · October 26, 2026

Peacock’s comedy shelf is crowded with sitcom spinoffs, but dig past them and there are genuinely great movies waiting. These are the ones worth your time, led by Kajillionaire, The Holdovers, and The Ballad of Wallis Island, each a film I’ve reviewed or ranked among the best of its year.

Every pick links to where it’s streaming, 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.

KAJILLIONAIRE (2020)

90%Critics 47%Audience 6.4IMDb

Miranda July’s oddball opus Kajillionaire uses quirk to speak to the distancing of humanity from itself, creating a weirdly tender and wholly otherworldly dramedy that’s lit up by great performances. Miranda July’s offbeat heist comedy follows a family of small-time grifters, and Evan Rachel Wood’s deadpan performance slowly cracks into something tender.▶ Streaming on Peacock · Read the full review

THE HOLDOVERS (2023)

97%Critics 92%Audience 7.9IMDb

A testament to the simple power of an outstanding script, strong direction, and standout performances, ‘The Holdover’’s is a delightfully bittersweet return to form for Alexander Payne. Paul Giamatti is as good as ever in one of 2023’s best films.▶ Streaming on Peacock · Read the full review

THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND (2025)

A lottery-winning recluse (Tim Key) lures his favorite folk duo to his remote island for a private reunion gig, never mind that the musicians (Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan) broke up as a couple, too. It’s a gentle, very British comedy with real heart and lovely original songs.▶ Streaming on Peacock

ASTEROID CITY (2023)

76%Critics 62%Audience 6.4IMDb

Wes Anderson stages a play inside a TV broadcast about a 1955 stargazing convention in a desert town that gets an unexpected visitor. Jason Schwartzman leads a stacked ensemble in one of Anderson’s most melancholy and quietly moving films.▶ Streaming on Peacock

LIMBO (2020)

Sardonic and soulful, Limbo is a slow-moving and darkly funny drama about the ennui of immigration and the guilt of leaving behind a life unfulfilled that crescendoes to a thunderous, lyrical peak. Ben Sharrock’s deadpan drama follows a Syrian musician waiting on asylum on a remote Scottish island, and its dry humor makes the heartbreak hit harder.▶ Streaming on Peacock · Read the full review

HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE (2016)

97%Critics 91%Audience 7.8IMDb

Taika Waititi spreads his wings with Hunt for the Wilderpeople, a genuinely hilarious and emotionally engaging tale of a naughty foster child and his surrogate uncle who venture off into the bush. Sam Neill and Julian Dennison have uncommon comic chemistry in front of the camera while behind it, Waititi shows off some newfound directorial tricks.▶ Streaming on Peacock · Read the full review

BEGIN AGAIN (2014)

83%Critics 81%Audience 7.4IMDb

A down-and-out record exec (Mark Ruffalo) hears a heartbroken songwriter (Keira Knightley) at an open mic and decides to record her album on the streets of New York. John Carney’s warm, music-first comedy is a feel-good charmer with songs that stick.▶ Streaming on Peacock · Read the full review

THE BOXTROLLS (2014)

78%Critics 63%Audience 6.8IMDb

The Boxtrolls, Laika Studios‘ third outing, sees more of the fledgling studio’s highly-demanding, signature stop motion animation come to life onscreen, flush with smart, though not game changing, camerawork and charming characters aplenty.▶ Streaming on Peacock · Read the full review

BETTER WATCH OUT (2017)

Santa will be adding some new names to the naughty list in this expectation-subverting Christmas bloodbath that coins the kill term “Home Alone-ing.” You’re curious now, aren’t you? Levi Miller and Olivia DeJonge anchor a Christmas home-invasion movie with a twist so nasty it rewires everything before it.▶ Streaming on Peacock

THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME (2025)

77%Critics 70%Audience 6.6IMDb

Wes Anderson’s espionage farce follows a ruthless industrialist (Benicio del Toro) who names his nun daughter (Mia Threapleton) heir to his empire as assassins circle. It’s meticulously composed, dryly funny, and stacked with Anderson regulars in tiny, perfect roles.▶ Streaming on Peacock · Read the full review

TRAGEDY GIRLS (2017)

85%Critics 61%Audience 6.0IMDb

Alexandra Shipp and Brianna Hildebrand are fantastic as fame-seeking murderesses in this sharp satire on social media culture. With shades of Mean Girls, Scream, Heathers and Carrie, Tragedy Girls is the meta-horror-comedy of 2017 that is never quite as over-the-top or inventive with its violence as I wanted.▶ Streaming on Peacock · Read the full review

LISA FRANKENSTEIN (2024)

52%Critics 82%Audience 6.1IMDb

A grieving 1989 teen reanimates a Victorian corpse and starts fetching him missing body parts from the people who wronged her. Mostly charming, even as Diablo Cody cribs from a familiar deck. Diablo Cody’s script and Kathryn Newton’s live-wire performance make this ’80s-set horror romance a goofy, gory valentine.▶ Streaming on Peacock

POLITE SOCIETY (2023)

A teenage martial artist in London (Priya Kansara) is convinced her sister’s dreamy fiancé is up to no good and plots a wedding heist to stop the marriage. Nida Manzoor’s genre-mashing action comedy is bursting with energy and fun.▶ Streaming on Peacock

THE GRINCH (2018)

Illumination’s take on the Dr. Seuss classic gives Benedict Cumberbatch’s Grinch a softer backstory and plenty of slapstick. It’s bright, breezy holiday fare for younger viewers, even if it can’t top the 1966 cartoon. Kids will love it, and parents get a few genuinely funny sight gags.▶ Streaming on Peacock · Read the full review