Every streaming service has a comedy row, and most of it is algorithm filler: whatever is newest, loudest, or starring someone from a sitcom. So I pulled the four best picks from each of my comedy guides, service by service, so you can find something genuinely funny on whatever you already pay for.
Each section links to that service’s full guide, where the rest of the lineup lives.
Jump to: Netflix · Prime Video · HBO Max · Hulu · Disney+ · Tubi · Kanopy
The Best Comedy Movies on Netflix
Critics and Audience scores from Rotten Tomatoes; ratings from IMDb. Scores as of October 2026.
THE GENTLEMEN (2020)
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)
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)
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)
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
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The Best Comedy Movies on Prime Video
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (2025)
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)
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
ON THE COUNT OF THREE (2022)
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
LAST FLAG FLYING (2017)
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
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The Best Comedy Movies on HBO Max
BIRDMAN OR (THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE) (2014)
Michael Keaton plays a washed-up superhero actor trying to mount a Broadway comeback while the voice in his head mocks him. Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s dazzling, seemingly single-take satire is one of the great showbiz comedies, and Keaton has never been better.▶ Streaming on HBO Max · Read the full review
MARTY SUPREME (2025)
Josh Safdie proves he was the chosen one with Marty Supreme, a chaos-riddled epic about a scumbag ping-pong player trying to scheme his way into proving that he’s the world’s greatest. Chalamet is outstanding in this singularly tumultuous and deeply funny vision of going all in on your dreams.▶ Streaming on HBO Max · Read the full review
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI (2017)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri has smacks of knifelike dark comedy, a handful of brilliant performances (all hail Frances McDormand!) and a director (Martin McDonagh) back on the tippy-top of his game, rounding out into a breathtakingly funny and confoundingly sad crime drama that’s also one of the best films of 2017.▶ Streaming on HBO Max · Read the full review
SING STREET (2016)
Big-hearted, shamelessly cheerful and joyous beyond measure, Sing Street is an upbeat victory for director John Carney. Brimming with laughs and a surprising amount of tears, Sing Street is rarely seen uplift cinema sure to inspire an embarrassingly wide grin from start to finish, suffused with dreadfully catchy tunes to boot.▶ Streaming on HBO Max · Read the full review
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The Best Comedy Movies on Hulu
POOR THINGS (2023)
With Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos continues to prove that he is Hollyweird’s maddest scientist and its most refreshingly singular voice. Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, and Mark Ruffalo offer a trifecta of the best performances of 2023 in this deeply funny, wickedly smart, and entirely brilliant reimagining of Frankenstein as a feminist declaration and character study. Yes, it’s alive, but it’s also pretty much perfect.▶ Streaming on Hulu · Read the full review
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (2022)
Everything Everywhere All At Once is a madcap, prismatic martial arts sci-fi family movie that refracts the entire scope of cinema and reality through the plight of a Chinese-American laundry mat owner. Quite simply one of the most original films ever made.▶ Streaming on Hulu · Read the full review
SOUL (2020)
A remarkable achievement that lifts up and celebrates the human spirit, Soul ranks amongst Pixar’s best works and charters a life-affirming mission to the great beyond that’s sure to leave audiences peering deep within themselves.▶ Streaming on Hulu · Read the full review
NO OTHER CHOICE (2025)
No Other Choice is an expertly constructed social satire from Park Chan-wook that harkens to its South Korean compatriot Parasite. Come for the bloody thrills, stay for the pertinent message about humanity and their employment crisis circa 2025.▶ Streaming on Hulu · Read the full review
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The Best Comedy Movies on Disney+
TOY STORY 5 (2026)
Toy Story 5 is a funny, heartbreaking, and insightful meditation on childhood in the digital age, asking what gets lost when screens begin replacing imagination. The gang is all here but it’s newly-minted Sheriff Jessie, in her journey to help her kid Bonnie make a real friend, that this story belongs to.▶ Streaming on Disney+ · Read the full review
ENCANTO (2021)
Vibrant Afro-Latinx culture, eye-popping visuals, and toe-tapping songs from Lin Manuel-Miranda intersect with one of the House of Mouse’s most original and meaningful stories with Encanto, a dazzling showstopper that proves that Disney is still capable of magic.▶ Streaming on Disney+ · Read the full review
TOY STORY 4 (2019)
Toy Story 4 succeeds as a fleet-footed and charming animated spectacle but its underlying deconstruction (and denouncement) of the moral imperatives of blind love and loyalty that have always driven the franchise make it worth dwelling upon long after closing time. Another deep endeavor from Pixar.▶ Streaming on Disney+ · Read the full review
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (2014)
A ragtag crew of space misfits, including a talking raccoon and a tree, team up to save the galaxy and steal a few scenes along the way. James Gunn’s irreverent space opera is pure fun, powered by Chris Pratt’s charm and a killer mixtape.▶ Streaming on Disney+ · Read the full review
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The Best Comedy Movies on Tubi
THEATER CAMP (2023)
Fueled by a script that absolutely sings and the thespian talent and improvisational ingenuity to back it up, Theater Camp is a hysterical and delightful trip to mockumentary perfection that stands as one of the best comedy films of the 2020s. More Molly Gordon in everything please.▶ Streaming on Tubi · Read the full review
DINNER IN AMERICA (2022)
Dinner in America is a rough-around-the-edges ode to love on the fringes of society, where a criminal punk rocker and a bizarre loner court an unlikely flirtation, all while navigating the suburbs, musical aspirations and the law. Expect a brash curb-stomp of a coming-of-age saga and prepare for impact.▶ Streaming on Tubi · Read the full review
THE SISTERS BROTHERS (2018)
The Sisters Brothers subverts every waking expectation one has for the Western genre, currying favor with rich, strange performances and a bold penchant for charging down the dirtroad less traveled. Poetic, eccentric, and surprisingly heartrending at times, consider this one from Jacques Audiard a flashbang must-see.▶ Streaming on Tubi · Read the full review
WILD TALES (2014)
Six standalone stories of everyday people pushed to the breaking point and beyond. Damián Szifron’s Argentine anthology is a vicious, hilarious study of revenge, and the wedding finale is a masterclass in escalation. Ricardo Darín’s demolitions expert who snaps at bureaucracy is a cathartic highlight.▶ Streaming on Tubi · Read the full review
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The Best Comedy Movies on Kanopy
PARASITE (2019)
Like a rival organism depleting its host, Parasite may lay waste to the mind but it nests in the soul, lingering with the viewer long after its conclusion. Bong Joon-ho’s masterful and indefinable parable is a creation of layer upon layer of storytelling skill matched to standout technical prowess across the board. An easy contender for best film of 2019.▶ Streaming on Kanopy · Read the full review
ANORA (2024)
Mikey Madison rules the screen as a Brooklyn stripper who falls for the wealthy son of a Russian oligarch and the fallout their entanglement entails in the truly alive Anora. As their story unfolds, writer-director Sean Baker puts the romantic-comedy through a fun house mirror, where the promises of love and wealth distort into vapor and illusions, unraveling as the well-drawn characters confront the tricks they’ve played on themselves.▶ Streaming on Kanopy · Read the full review
ANOMALISA (2015)
Charlie Kaufman finds new ways to stretch the imagination with stop-motion character study Anomalisa. A tender piece on insecurity and the mundanity of human relations, Kaufman’s mind-trip is as thought-provoking as it is tragic and hilarious.▶ Streaming on Kanopy · Read the full review
WEREWOLVES WITHIN (2021)
Josh Ruben continues to make a name for himself in the horror-comedy game with his adaptation of Werewolves Within, which employs a supremely-affable ensemble cast, a goofy premise, and plenty of directorial gags to monstrously-amusing effect. Continue to keep a close eye on this guy, he’s apt to transform into a big-timer one of these lunar rotations.▶ Streaming on Kanopy · Read the full review
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FAQ
What are the best comedies streaming right now?
The four strongest picks from each service are above, and every section links to that service’s full guide.
How often is this list updated?
The picks come from my service-by-service guides, which are refreshed every two weeks as titles come and go.
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By: Matt Oakes
Started blogging about film in college when the university paper wouldn’t have him. Dislikes your consensus film Twitter favorites. Devotee of horror movies that make him die a little inside. Catches films at festivals when he can. Proud SFCS and OFCS member and Tomatometer-approved critic. Editor-in-chief of Silver Screen Riot.
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