With a new year comes a whole new slew of titles to add to your watchlist, including the hundreds of shows you keep saying you are going to watch but never get around to it. We are all guilty of that, but now, more than ever, there are so many choices of what to watch, it can be hard to determine which show will be your next favorite and which one will end up on your “Worst Of” list 11 months from now.
You can’t really go wrong with good comedy shows, and since there are so many to choose from on so many different platforms, here we have narrowed it down to the 30 funniest Netflix shows as of this moment. Whether or not you’ve seen them, it’s always nice to be reminded that there are full seasons of your favorite light-hearted comfort show out there, or your next go-to show to put on while you’re falling asleep, only to wake yourself up by laughing too hard.
You can see the full list of the funniest shows on Netflix below:
Last updated on October 1, 2023.
1. I Think You Should Leave
Year: 2019
Cast: Tim Robinson, Sam Richardson
Genre: Sketch Comedy
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 2 seasons
Created By: Tim Robinson, Zach Kanin
Trailer: Watch here
If you are looking to lean into the selection of absurd shows on Netflix, this is the one. Tim Robinson’s series features now-classic sequences that will go down in history as the most bizarre but strangely heartwarming sketch shows. There are two seasons of the series, and a third is on the way, so now is the time to research why exactly everybody is buying these really neat hats.
2. Community
Year: 2009
Cast: Joel McHale, Danny Pudi, Donald Glover, Alison Brie
Genre: Comedy, Sitcom
Rating: TV-14
Runtime: 6 seasons
Created By: Dan Harmon
Trailer: Watch here
Even though Community didn’t immediately get the same amount of love as other sitcoms of its time, the Joel McHale-led comedy has secured a lasting legacy thanks to its dedicated fan base, who would not rest until a movie was ordered (spoiler: it was ordered). The comedy series follows a group of misfits as they attend the local Greendale community college, where they encounter various shenanigans and over-the-top bits that are almost too hard to explain. There are alternate realities, bottle episodes, and a dramatic pillow war that has since gone down in history. Be sure to catch up before the movie comes out. It’s happening this time! Really!
3. Arrested Development
Year: 2003
Cast: Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, Portia de Rossi
Genre: Comedy, Sitcom
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 5 seasons
Created By: Mitchell Hurwitz
Trailer: Watch here
Arrested Development is one of those perfectly acted and written shows, it makes you wonder if this is a real family that might actually hate each other. After a series of bad business decisions, Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman) is forced to keep his family’s real estate development company alive after his father is arrested. Of course, this all goes downhill in a disastrous way, but it’s very entertaining! Netflix even revived the series for two more seasons in 2013 and 2018.
4. Seinfeld
Year: 1989
Cast: Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Genre: Comedy, Sitcom
Rating: TV-14
Runtime: 9 seasons
Created By: Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld
Trailer: Watch here
While it’s often described as a show about nothing, there is definitely something about this show that helps it remain one of the most beloved sitcoms of the 20th century. It really is just a group of four friends who lead ordinarily hilarious lives, while also annoying the heck out of each other. People really love their shows about quirky misfit friends, right? With classically awkward run-ins and timeless bits that are always referenced in other shows, it’s never too late to watch the landmark series again…or for the first time.
5. Key And Peele
Year: 2012
Cast: Keegan-Michael Kay, Jordan Peele
Genre: Sketch Comedy
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 3 seasons
Created By: Keegan-Michael Kay, Jordan Peele
Trailer: Watch here
Before Jordan Peele was crafting innovative horror stories and churning out the biggest blockbusters of the summer, he was part of the aptly named comedy duo Key and Peele. The two had a sketch show which consisted of various spoofs on movies, pop culture, and intense substitute high school science teachers.
6. Bojack Horseman
Year: 2014
Cast: Will Arnett, Aaron Paul
Genre: Comedy, Animated
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 6 seasons
Created By: Raphael Bob-Waskberg
Trailer: Watch here
Don’t let the ‘comedy’ tag and animation fool you: this show is a deep dive into what it’s like to be a good person. Only it’s about a horse, so it seems funny and quirky at first, and then you’ll get hit with some heartbreakingly realistic scenes about family and growing up. Will Arnett voices the titular BoJack, a former sitcom star who has to navigate Hollywood after his golden years and subsequent downfall. Still, there are some great laughs in between each emotional crisis!
7. Cobra Kai
Year: 2018
Cast: Ralph Macchio, William Zabka, Xolo Maridueña
Genre: Comedy, Action
Rating: TV-14
Runtime: 5 seasons
Created By: Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg
Trailer: Watch here
The series picks up three decades after the original story that was introduced in The Karate Kid, with Johnny Lawrence slowly getting back to his karate roots by helping some kids learn how to defend themselves. Sometimes violence is the answer? While fans still have no answer on if Netflix will bring the boys back for a sixth season, a re-watch is never a bad idea.
8. The Good Place
Year: 2016
Cast: William Jackson Harper, Jameela Jamil, Kristen Bell, Ted Danson
Genre: Comedy
Rating: TV-14
Runtime: 4 seasons
Created By: Michael Schur
Trailer: Watch here
Yes, this former NBC comedy is about death, but there is also other stuff going on here! After dying, Eleanor Shellstrop finds herself in The Good Place due to a tiny little error in which she was mistaken for someone else. The good news is that this inspires her to be a better human in the afterlife! In order to avoid being sent to The Bad Place, Eleanor is desperate to stay, with the help of her also recently-deceased new pals.
9. Chapelle’s Show
Year:2005
Cast: Dave Chapelle
Genre: Reality
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 2 seasons
Created By: Dave Chapelle
Trailer: Watch here
You’ve probably seen (or at least heard of) Dave Chapelle’s various raunchy and controversial stand-up specials, but it’s always good to go back to where it all started. In this case, the comedian began his career on the groundbreaking Comedy Central sketch show which has been quoted (and memed) a million times over, featuring some of his most iconic characters. The series will leave the steamer at the end of June, after that, you’ll have to settle for his more recent (and controversial) Netflix specials.
10. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Year: 2015
Cast: Ellie Kemper, Jane Krakowski, Titus Burgess
Genre: Comedy
Rating: TV-14
Runtime: 4 seasons
Created By: Tina Fey, Robert Carlock
Trailer: Watch here
If you’re looking for a show to fill the 30 Rock void but even more ridiculous, this is for you! Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, starring Ellie Kemper, follows the lovable but naive Kimmy after being rescued from a doomsday cult led by Jon Hamm. Can you really blame her? Slowly but surely, she is taken in by various new friends who help her out along the way. It does tend to get a little absurd at points, but hey, females are strong as hell!
11. GLOW
Year: 2017
Cast: Alison Brie, Marc Maron, Betty Gilpin
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 3 seasons
Created By: Liz Flahive, Carly Mensch
Trailer: Watch here
Full of bright neons and sequin suits, GLOW shows a group of aspiring actresses in the ’80s as they train to become to strongest (and most gorgeous) ladies in the women’s Southern California wrestling circuit while participating in various shenanigans and spending hours on those updos. While we never got the ending we deserved, there are still three seasons of the misfit comedy that are well worth watching.
12. Santa Clarita Diet
Year: 2017
Cast: Drew Barrymore, Timothy Olyphant, Liv Hewson
Genre: Comedy
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 3 seasons
Created By: Victor Fresco
Trailer: Watch here
Santa Clarita Diet didn’t live long enough to give fans a proper conclusion, but the comedy/zombie series was able to bring together the most iconic TV couple of all time, portrayed by Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant, who won’t let something like dying get in the way of being a happy family. Just because someone may crave flesh and blood doesn’t mean they are a bad parent!
13. Sex Education
Year: 2019
Cast: Asa Butterfield, Gillian Anderson, Emma Mackey
Genre: Comedy
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 4 seasons
Created By: Laurie Nunn
Trailer: Watch here
High school is tough enough for any teenager, but imagine if your mom was a sex therapist? There’s a lot of complex feelings there. The series created by Laurie Nunn follows Otis, a teen who struggles with his own sexuality and befriends Maeve, a rebellious outsider who wants to run a sex therapy clinic to help the repressed teens at their high school, including one who writes Alien erotica. It was ahead of its time! The series highlights the highs and very low lows that come from being a young person who is constantly bombarded with sex in their daily life. Plus–Gillian Anderson!
14. American Vandal
Year:2018
Cast: Tyler Alvarez, Griffin Gluck, Jimmy Tatro
Genre: Comedy, Mockumentary
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 2 seasons
Created By: Tony Yacenda, Dan Perrault
Trailer: Watch here
Riffing on the true crime craze of the 2010s, American Vandal is a gripping (fake) documentary about the aftermath of a gruesome high school prank and the subsequent effect it had on a small town. The show might be fake, but everyone can relate to at least some part of it. Everyone knew that one kid in high school who just drew penises on every school surface, right? That was a thing that just always happened?
15. That ’90s Show
Year: 2023
Cast: Debra Jo Rupp, Kurtwood Smith, Callie Haverda
Genre: Sitcom
Rating: TV-14
Runtime: 1 season
Created By: Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner
Trailer: Watch here
When you’re hanging out down the street, sometimes you end up doing the same old thing you did last week, which is the case with Netflix’s latest revival, That ’90s Show. Taking place almost 15 years after That ’70s Show (because that’s how time works) the sitcom introduces Leia Foreman, daughter of Eric and Donna, who stays at Red and Kitty’s comfy basement on her summer break. There, she meets her quirky neighbors, makes new friends and, of course, tries marijuana for the first time. History repeats itself!
16. Beef
Year: 2023
Cast: Steven Yeun, Ali Wong
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 1 Season
Created By: Lee Sung-Jin
Trailer: Watch here
Beef is what happens when a bad day gets worse by a minor interaction that haunts you for days. In the Netflix original series, Ali Wong and Steven Yeun star as two strangers who butt heads in the parking lot of a home improvement store, and the events that follow them both in the aftermath.
17. Shameless
Year: 2011
Cast: William H. Macy, Emmy Rossum, Justin Chatwin
Genre: Drama
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 11 Seasons
Created By: Paul Abbott, John Wells
Trailer: Watch here
If dysfunctional families are more your jam, Shameless is the way to go. Before Jeremy Allen White was Carmie in The Bear, he got his start on the hit family drama alongside William H. Macy and Emmy Rossum. The long-running series follows the eclectic Chicago family as they deal with the tribulations of living with their alcoholic father.
18. Russian Doll
Year: 2019
Cast: Natasha Lyonne, Charlie Barnett, Greta Lee
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 2 seasons
Created By: Leslye Headland, Natasha Lyonne, Amy Poehler
Trailer: Watch here
Half “comedy” and half “what am I watching,” Russian Dollis a psychedelic experience that is a great example of how shows can (and should be!) pure fun and a little mind-bendy. Natashia Lyonne stars as Nadia, a woman who gets trapped in a time loop on her 36th birthday, and becomes faced with her own morality over and over (and over).
19. The Woman In The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window
Year: 2022
Cast: Kristen Bell, Michael Ealy
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Suspense
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 8 Episodes
Created By: Rachel Ramras, Hugh Davidson, and Larry Dorf
Trailer: Watch here
Yes, the name of this show is just as absurd as the show itself, and that’s why it works! A troubled young woman (played by Kristen Bell) is mourning the death of her daughter when she begins to think her neighbor is a murderer. Who hasn’t been there? But her mind begins playing tricks on her and Anna might be in more danger than she thought. She makes a lot of casseroles, though.
20. Documentary Now!
Year: 2019
Cast: Fred Armisen, Bill Hader
Genre: Comedy, Mocumentary
Rating: TV-14
Runtime: 3 seasons
Created By: Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Seth Meyers, Rhys Thomas
Trailer: Watch here
What do a bunch of SNL alums do after they leave the late-night sketch show? Honestly, they just make shows likeDocumentary Now!, which parodies the absurdity of various celebrated documentary styles. Each episode brings in a familiar face (the likes of Cate Blanchett, Jack Black, and Owen Wilson, just to name a few) to tell the story of some absurd “documentary” subject that just you might start believing in! Hey, maybe Michael C. Hall really is a bowling league champion.
21. Insecure
Year: 2016
Cast: Issa Rae, Yvonne Orji, Jay Ellis
Genre: Comedy
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 5 seasons
Created By: Issa Rae
Trailer: Watch here
Before she was President Barbie, Issa Rae played a comedic version of herself on HBO’s Insecure. Partially based on Rae’s popular web series Awkward Black Girl, the show follows best friends Issa and Molly as they juggle men, work, and modern-day millennial woman problems, like having to buy emergency underwear at Rite Aid.
22. Dead To Me
Year: 2019
Cast: Christina Applegate, Linda Cardellini, James Marsden
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 3 seasons
Created By: Liz Feldman
Trailer: Watch here
Sometimes, death and grief can be funny, because the human brain is a strange thing to understand. And sometimes, death makes for a good comedic arch! In Dead To Me Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini star as an unlikely duo, who must deal with very morbid life events and lean on each other in order to survive and thrive.
23. Emily In Paris
Year:2020
Cast: Lily Collins, Ashley Park
Genre: Comedy
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 3 Seasons
Created By: Darren Star
Trailer: Watch here
You all know her, and you may not love her, but one thing’s for certain: nothing will keep Emily away from Paris. Except maybe a Visa issue but that hasn’t been a problem yet. Lily Collins stars as a young woman who gets the chance of a lifetime to pursue her job in Paris, only to realize things aren’t always sunshine and rainbows and baguettes. She has to juggle work, her Parisian social life, and some handsome Paris men. It cannot be easy…but it’s Emily in Paris! (You have to say it ion a French accent for the joke to rhyme).
24. Big Mouth
Year: 2017
Cast: Nick Kroll, John Mulaney, Jessi Klein
Genre: Comedy, Animated
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 6 seasons
Created By: Nick Kroll, Andrew Goldberg, Mark Levin, Jennifer Flackett
Trailer: Watch here
Inspired by real-life buds Nick Kroll and Andrew Goldberg, Big Mouth is a modern take on the worst years of your life: puberty. The animated series follows a group of high schoolers as they discover the ins and outs of being a teenager in the 21st century. Spoiler: it involves a lot of hormones and a whole subplot about dating a pillow. Teenagers are scary!
25. Gilmore Girls
Year: 2000
Cast: Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel, Scott Patterson
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Rating: TV-14
Runtime: 7 seasons, 1 revival season
Created By: Amy Sherman-Palladino
Trailer: Watch here
It doesn’t matter if you love Dean, Jess, or Logan (or if you are smart enough to realize that Marty has more potential than all of them), it’s still always a good idea to take a trip to visit those Gilmore Girls in Connecticut. The cult classic show stars mother-daughter duo Lorelai and Rory as they go bout their daily lives in the quirky town of Stars Hollow, where everybody knows everyone’s business.
26. Master Of None
Year: 2015
Cast: Lena Waithe, Naomi Ackie, Aziz Ansari
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 3 seasons
Created By: Aziz Ansari, Alan Yang
Trailer: Watch here
This acclaimed series focuses on Dev and Denise, two thirtysomethings experiencing the great big world of New York City, where people are always cutting in front of the line at ice cream parlors! But Aziz Ansari’s witty one-liners paired with Lena Waithe’s seemingly effortless humor makes this a must-watch.
27. Derry Girls
Year: 2018 – 2022
Cast: Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Louisa Harland, Tara Lynne O’Neill, Nicola Coughlan
Genre: Comedy
Rating: TV-14
Runtime: 3 seasons (19 episodes)
Created By: Lisa McGee
Trailer: Watch here
Before she was injecting gossipy chaos into Bridgerton, Nicola Coughlan joined up with an ensemble gathering of rowdy Northern Ireland Catholic young women. They do everything that would earn them a lot of penance with the church, including making life slightly annoying for both nuns and priests, and all of this happens as the 1990s era of Northern Ireland conflict swirls against the bigger picture of everyday life during a time of war.
28. Never Have I Ever
Year: 2020
Cast: Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Rocha Moorjani, John McEnroe
Genre: Teen drama, Comedy
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 4 seasons
Created By: Mindy Kaling, Lang Fisher
Trailer: Watch Here
After having a socially challenged freshman year, 15-year-old Devi is determined to make up for lost time and have the best high school experience ever…though it’s pretty hard to do so when everything is (seemingly) against you. Devi and her friends set out to get into college, deal with their overbearing families, and, of course, date a ton of teenage boys.
29. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Year: 2015
Cast: Rachel Bloom, Vincent Rodriguez III, Santino Fontana
Genre: Comedy
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 4 seasons
Created By: Rachel Bloom, Aline Brosh McKenna
Trailer: Watch Here
Rachel Bunch is your classic BFF from high school, smart, funny, and still obsessed with her ex from over a decade ago. Whoops! Bunch moves from NY to California in order to pursue her long-lost ex, though she tries to find herself along the way. Also, she tends to break out in song at random intervals, but it always makes sense!
30. Grace And Frankie
Year: 2015 – 2022
Cast: Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Sam Waterston
Genre: Comedy
Rating: TV-14
Runtime: 7 seasons (94 episodes)
Created By: Marta Kaufman, Howard J. Morris
Trailer: Watch here
The longest-running sitcom (that somehow racked up even more episodes than Orange Is The New Black) finally came to an end in 2022. That didn’t happen without the show racking up a few dozen Emmy nominations and bringing us the wonderous team of Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin to bring us stories from their “grand generation”
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