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The Best Comedy Movies on Prime Video 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 Prime Video that I’ve reviewed and still stand behind, led by On the Count of Three, One Battle After Another, and Saltburn.

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.

ON THE COUNT OF THREE (2022)

85%Critics 79%Audience 7.0IMDb

A jet black comedy-drama with serious issues on its mind, On the Count of Three finds morbid humor and grave sentiment in a pair of besties with a suicide pact. Christopher Abbott is as good as he’s ever been. Jerrod Carmichael’s directorial debut is a pitch-black comedy about two friends at the end of their rope, and Christopher Abbott is terrific.▶ Streaming on Prime Video · Read the full review

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (2025)

94%Critics 85%Audience 7.6IMDb

O ne Battle After Another is another masterwork from American auteur Paul Thomas Anderson, who turns his incisive storytelling toward contemporary America and uses it as a battle-bound backdrop for a story about fighting for what matters. Every single thing works.▶ Streaming on Prime Video · Read the full review

SALTBURN (2023)

72%Critics 79%Audience 7.0IMDb

Emerald Fennel’s venereal second feature is an explosive satire of inheritance and deception framed as a simmering psychosexual thriller. The entire cast is wonderful but Barry Keoghan proves himself as a truly one-of-a-kind talent.▶ Streaming on Prime Video · Read the full review

LAST FLAG FLYING (2017)

76%Critics 72%Audience 6.9IMDb

Deftly blending snarky comedy and high tragedy in this expertly cast and immaculately performed drama, Richard Linklater’s Last Flag Flying is a soulful examination of grief, duty, family and love of country that gives no shortage of “all the feels”.▶ Streaming on Prime Video · Read the full review

LOVE & FRIENDSHIP (2016)

96%Critics 59%Audience 6.3IMDb

Whit Stillman’s Love & Friendship is a savvy anecdote to the stuffy Victorian costume drama. Hysterical and unpretentious, Stillman’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s work would make the author proud. Additionally, Kate Beckinsale proves that a career spent amongst CGI creations is a monumental waste of her awesome talent as she crafts an unforgettably shrewd feminist heroine in Lady Susan Vernon.▶ Streaming on Prime Video · Read the full review

MY OLD ASS (2024)

90%Critics 89%Audience 6.9IMDb

A well-acted and poignant piece of coming-of-age filmmaking, My Old Ass uses a genre conceit to explore the concept of do-overs and living in the moment. Maisy Stella, Percy Hynes White, and Aubrey Plaza all rule the screen.▶ Streaming on Prime Video · Read the full review

FIRST LOVE (2019)

98%Critics 88%Audience 6.7IMDb

Takashi Miike appears to be on top of his game, presenting a turducken of a love story in a gangster caper in a daffy crime drama. Giddily violent and stylish, First Love is loaded with attitude, charisma, and character with some fuddy-duddy dialogue limiting it from true greatness.▶ Streaming on Prime Video · Read the full review

THIRST STREET (2017)

75%Critics 53%Audience 6.0IMDb

A hallucinatory psychosexual-thriller/twisted-rom-com Thirst Street will undoubtedly remain one of 2017’s best undiscovered gems. With an ace up his sleeve in star Lindsay Burdge, director Nathan Silver tells this story of unrequited love with splashes of startling comedy, dreamlike imagery and a prevailing sense of dread and watching it is nothing short of a rare treat.▶ Streaming on Prime Video · 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 Prime Video · Read the full review

CHEF (2014)

87%Critics 85%Audience 7.3IMDb

Jon Favreau plays a chef who quits his restaurant job after a viral meltdown and hits the road with a food truck and his young son. It’s a warm, low-stakes comedy that will make you very hungry, and the father-son story gives it real heart.▶ Streaming on Prime Video · Read the full review

SEW TORN (2025)

95%Critics 68%Audience 6.0IMDb

A crafty midnight movie about the choices we make inevitably leading to doom, Sew Torn is a ripping calling card for director Freddy Macdonald and his future storytelling prowess. Freddy Macdonald’s Swiss-set debut is a darkly comic choose-your-path thriller about a seamstress who stumbles onto a deadly deal, told with precise, playful craft.▶ Streaming on Prime Video · Read the full review

THE NAKED GUN (2025)

88%Critics 72%Audience 6.3IMDb

Spoof comedy is back, and the unlikely team of writer-director Akiva Schaffer with stars Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson might just be the chaotic salve modern comedy desperately needed. By singularly focusing on delivering as many laughs as possible, many of them very, very dumb, The Naked Gun pulls no punches. It honors the original while making room for a new version of this kind of comedy to exist again. I laughed a lot.▶ Streaming on Prime Video · Read the full review

ROOFMAN (2025)

87%Critics 85%Audience 6.9IMDb

Channing Tatum is great as a charming criminal on the lamb in this surprisingly crowd-pleasing crime dramedy from Derek Cianfrance. Roofman may not be his most heavy-hitting feature but it shows a director willing to experiment with not always taking himself so seriously, and delivering something quite pleasant in the process.▶ Streaming on Prime Video · Read the full review

BODIES BODIES BODIES (2022)

85%Critics 69%Audience 6.1IMDb

Bodies Bodies Bodies stacks up an entertaining ensemble to deconstruct the slasher genre with witty style. Maria Bakalova and Amandla Stenberg bring the pathos while Rachel Sennott and Pete Davidson deliver the guffaws. Fun if not entirely killer.▶ Streaming on Prime Video · Read the full review

BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM: DELIVERY OF PRODIGIOUS BRIBE TO AMERICAN REGIME FOR MAKE BENEFIT ONCE GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN (2020)

85%Critics 62%Audience 6.6IMDb

Sacha Baron Cohen brings Borat back from the grave to confront 2020 America in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. The result is decidedly less iconic (and relies too heavily on scripted rather than unscripted material) but succeeds in delivering gut-busting laughs and Cohen’s brand of shock and awe comedy, while also moving the dial on what Cohen’s particular style of shockumentary is able to offer. Newcomer Maria Bakalova is a treasure.▶ Streaming on Prime Video · Read the full review

HARPOON (2019)

97%Critics 60%Audience 5.9IMDb

Harpoon is both a clever calling card and and breakout vehicle for UTR horror-dude Rob Grant and a thrilling cut of campy horror-comedy. As pitch black as the depths of the ocean, with sordid laughs, vengeful dialogue, and brutal deception, Harpoon is a must-see for genre fans.▶ Streaming on Prime Video · 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 Prime Video · Read the full review

DIDN’T DIE (2026)

60%Critics 4.4IMDb

There’s a certain irony to the fact that the zombie movie has been done to death. This black-and-white indie dares to see society’s collapse as a call to come together rather than fall apart, and that communal spin makes a tired genre feel fresh again.▶ Streaming on Prime Video · Read the full review

MOTHER SCHMUCKERS (2021)

52%Critics 4.8IMDb

This ultra-low-budget Belgian comedy is a tasteless gas that regularly makes light of that which is most likely to offend. Writers, directors, and stars Harpo and Lenny Guit are almost definitely an acquired taste but their weirdo depravity left me giggling nonstop.▶ Streaming on Prime Video · Read the full review