Best comedies to watch on Netflix

Showing 1 to 24 of 37 results

• Remake of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s mockumentary The Office, following employees at the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. Starring Steve Carell and John Krasinski.

• American sitcom following the life of Liz Lemon, a neurotic TV sketch show writer, and her efforts to deal with the chaos caused by her eccentric colleagues. Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin star.

• Satirical fantasy comedy starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. When blonde and bubbly Barbie experiences a series of sudden crises, she must leave Barbieland to track down her human owner and make things right. But the adoring Ken follows her to Los Angeles where he discovers something called the “patriarchy” and develops some radical ideas…

• Going back to his hometown of Crawley, England, Romesh Ranganathan will talk about vegan-ism, his kids – and offers a peek into the making of his comedy special.

• Based on his podcast, comedian and former Saturday Night Live (1975) alumni Norm Macdonald and his sidekick Adam Eget sit down and chat with celebrity guests about their life, career and views in a somewhat unconventional and often irreverent way.

• Finding out that their husbands are not just work partners, but have also been romantically involved for the last twenty years, two women with an already strained relationship try to cope with the circumstances together.

• A hotheaded widow searching for the hit-and-run driver who mowed down her husband befriends an eccentric optimist who isn’t quite what she seems. Comedy drama, starring Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini

• Reunited after 15 years, famous chef Sasha and hometown musician Marcus feel the old sparks of attraction but struggle to adapt to each other’s worlds.

• Madcap sketch show featuring Tim Robinson and his guests, who focus each episode on making someone want to leave

• Animated spin-off from Big Mouth featuring the voices of Nick Kroll and Maya Rudolph.

• Six tales of life and violence in the Old West, following a singing gunslinger, a bank robber, a travelling impresario, an elderly prospector, a wagon train, and a perverse pair of bounty hunters. Western, starring Tim Blake Nelson

• Award-winning French comedy drama set at the fictional ASK (Agence Samuel Kerr) talent agency following the death of the founder.

• A coming-of-age story about four bright, street-savvy friends navigating their way through high school in gritty South Central Los Angeles, trying to get their friend out of a gang, and having friendship turn into something more.

• American sitcom set in New York following the exploits of stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld, his best friend George, former girlfriend Elaine and neighbour from across the hall Kramer.

• At a major university, the first woman of color to become chair tries to meet the dizzying demands and high expectations of a failing English department.

• Three suburban mothers suddenly find themselves in desperate circumstances and decide to stop playing it safe and risk everything to take back their power. Comedy drama, starring Christina Hendricks, Retta and Mae Whitman

• Dark comedy starring Ricky Gervais. Struggling to come to terms with his wife’s death, a journalist adopts a gruff new persona in an effort to push away those trying to help.

• Finding out that their husbands are not just work partners, but have also been romantically involved for the last twenty years, two women with an already strained relationship try to cope with the circumstances together.

• Sam, an 18-year-old on the autism spectrum, decides it’s time to find a girlfriend, which sets Sam’s mom on her own life-changing path as her son seeks more independence.

• A young gay man with cerebral palsy branches out from his insular existence, hoping to finally go after the life he really wants.

• US comedy. When Eleanor Shellstrop finds herself in the afterlife, she’s both relieved and surprised that she’s made it into the Good Place. But Eleanor realises she’s there by mistake.

• American adult animated comedy-drama series. Bojack was the legendary TV sitcom horse of the 1990s. Since his heyday, he’s struggled through life in a haze of whisky and self-loathing.

• Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin star in an award-winning comedy about a washed-up actor turned acting-coach and his long-suffering agent.

• American comedy drama set in Stars Hollow, Connecticut. It follows the lives of single mother Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham) and her teenage daughter Rory Gilmore (Alexis Bledel).