The Best Comedies on Netflix to Stream Now

Need a laugh? Netflix has you covered.

From favorite modern rom-coms like Always Be My Maybe and The Lovebirds to newer comedies like Kinda Pregnant and Saturday Night, the streaming service has plenty of options for your next movie night. Interested in a movie marathon? Consider watching classics like Sixteen Candles or 13 Going on 30.

No matter what comedy you’re in the mood for, we did the work for you and rounded up some of the most amusing films available on Netflix at the moment. So before you start mindlessly scrolling through the streamer yet again, keep reading to find the best comedies on Netflix to watch now.

13 Going on 30

She’s 30, flirty and thriving! On her 13th birthday, the not-so-popular Jenna Rink (Christa B. Allen) sprinkles a dash of magic wishing dust and fast-forwards 17 years into the future. Now played by Jennifer Garner, Jenna’s got the money, the job and the ideal man, but soon finds that adulthood isn’t all it’s cracked up to be when she realizes she’s drifted from those who loved her the most.

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Always Be My Maybe

Childhood best friends who went their separate ways reunite in 2019’s Always Be My Maybe. Ali Wong plays Sasha, a celebrity chef, while Randall Park plays her former best friend and high school hookup, Marcus, who still lives in their hometown. The pair need to decide if there’s still romance between them while they’re confronted by their differing lifestyles and Sasha’s new connection to Keanu Reeves — yes, the Keanu Reeves.

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Anyone But You

The classic enemies-to-lovers trope is alive and well in this 2023 rom-com starring Euphoria‘s Sydney Sweeney and Top Gun: Maverick‘s Glen Powell. Grossing more than $200 million at the box office worldwide and already breeding a future sequel, Anyone But You dishes out the fiery tension between law student Bea (Sweeney) and Goldman Sachs employee Ben (Powell), who play pretend lovers while secretly hating each other’s guts.

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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Directed by the Coen brothers, this 2018 anthology film — which earned several Academy Award nominations and won best screenplay at the Venice Film Festival — adapts several Western short stories for the big screen. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs features a stellar ensemble cast including Tim Blake Nelson, James Franco, Zoe Kazan, Harry Melling, Liam Neeson and many more.

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Book Club

Fifty Shades of Grey had readers everywhere tied up in its pages, so when four lifelong friends — Diane (Diane Keaton), Vivian (Jane Fonda), Sharon (Candice Bergen) and Carol (Mary Steenburgen) — choose the steamy best seller for their next book club read, they begin to explore what they truly want in their love lives (and in the bedroom).

Watch Book Club on Netflix though Feb. 20

Bruce Almighty

Cynical Bruce Nolan (Jim Carrey) complains to God (Morgan Freeman) that he’s bad at his divine duties, calling him a “a mean kid sitting on an anthill with a magnifying glass,” and is then tasked with God’s omnipotent position for a week. The 2003 fantasy comedy also stars Steve Carrell, Jennifer Aniston and Lisa Ann Walter.

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The Dead Don’t Die

In Jim Jarmusch’s absurdist apocalypse comedy, flesh-craving zombies raid the once-tranquil town of Centerville, picking off its residents one by one. The Dead Don’t Die is just as overflowing with carnage as it is with Hollywood A-listers, featuring Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Tilda Swinton, Iggy Pop, Selena Gomez and more.

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Do Revenge

Released in 2022, Do Revenge is inspired by the Alfred Hitchcock movie Strangers on a Train, in which two strangers make a trade to enact revenge for the other so neither gets caught. In this updated dark comedy set in high school, Eleanor (Maya Hawke) wants revenge on a student who started a rumor about her, while Drea (Camila Mendes) is looking to get back at her ex-boyfriend.

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Dolemite Is My Name

Eddie Murphy stars in the 2019 comedy biopic Dolemite Is My Name as comedian and filmmaker Rudy Ray Moore, who was known for his character and eponymous crime film Dolemite. Set in the 1970s, the movie also features Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Keegan-Michael Key and Wesley Snipes.

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Don’t Look Up

Adam McKay’s climate change satire Don’t Look Up stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence as two scientists who discover that an asteroid — one big enough to wipe out all of humanity — is heading toward Earth. They struggle to convince a complacent media, the U.S. government and an apathetic general public to do something about it. Cate Blanchett, Meryl Streep and Jonah Hill costar.

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Down Low

If you think your hookup stories are wild, think again. This off-the-walls comedy stars Zachary Quinto as Gary: a recently divorced, not out gay businessman who hires sex worker Cameron (Lukas Gage) to give him a happy ending but instead gets a crash course in LGBTQ life. But what starts as an already unconventional night takes a turn for the worst, with a murder taking place on Gary’s property  — and that’s just the beginning.

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Dumb Money

Adapted from executive producer Ben Mezrich’s 2021 book The Antisocial Network, Dumb Money recounts the true story of Keith Gill (Paul Dano), an amateur stock trader and video creator known as “Roaring Kitty” on Twitter (now called X) and YouTube who, in 2019, disrupted Wall Street by democratizing the financial system. Encouraging his followers to invest in video games store GameStop Corp., Gill helped surge its value up 1,700 percent and triggered a stock short squeeze affecting short sellers. The film also stars Pete Davidson, Vincent D’Onofrio, America Ferrera, Nick Offerman, Anthony Ramos, Sebastian Stan, Shailene Woodley and Seth Rogen.

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Dumplin’

Dumplin’ is a coming-of-age comedy about teenager Willowdean (Danielle Macdonald) as she is raised by her aunt (Hilliary Begley). When Willowdean’s mother Rosie (Jennifer Aniston) — a former beauty queen who calls Willowdean by the nickname Dumplin’ — begins running the local pageant, Dumplin’ joins the pageant herself as a form of protest.

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Family Switch

Ah, the classic body swap trope — seen in films like The Hot Chick (2002), Freaky Friday (2003) and Jumanji: The Next Level (2019) — never fails to earn laughs. In Family Switch, spouses Jess (Jennifer Garner) and Bill Walker (Ed Helms) work hard to keep their family bonds strong as their kids (Emma Myers, Brady Noon) grow up. However, a chance encounter with an astrological reader (Rita Moreno) leads to a chaotic morning when each member swaps bodies on the most pivotal day of their lives.

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The Forty-Year-Old Version

Radha Blank stars in The Forty-Year-Old Version, which she also wrote and directed. The 2020 film follows a teacher and playwright who decides to become a rapper as she nears her 40th birthday. Comedy and drama ensue as she juggles careers, starts a relationship with her music producer (Oswin Benjamin) and has the opportunity to put on a production of one of her plays.

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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

In Rian Johnson’s 2022 standalone sequel to Knives Out, Det. Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) joins a group of seemingly successful public figures who visit their tech billionaire friend, Miles Bron (Edward Norton), on his private island — where secrets, betrayals and murder come to shore. Glass Onion features plenty of famous faces, including Janelle Monáe, Kate Hudson, Kathryn Hahn, Dave Bautista and Leslie Odom Jr.

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How to Be Single

After graduating from college, Alice (Dakota Johnson) and her boyfriend (Nicholas Braun) have agreed to take a temporary break from their relationship to explore being single in New York City. However, when Alice finds being alone is harder than anticipated, she turns to her co-worker–turned–best friend (Rebel Wilson) and older sister (Leslie Mann) for support and guidance.

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Incoming

Four first-year high school students get the rare chance to attend an upperclassmen rager. When their squad crashes the party for one unforgettable night and revels in total debauchery, it’s a chance for them to make names for themselves instead of be stuck with the labels they’ve been given. Created by It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia writers Dave and John Chernin, Incoming boasts an ensemble including Mason Thames, Ramon Reed, Raphael Alejandro, Loren Gray, Kaitlin Olson, Bobby Cannavale and more. 

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The Incredible Jessica James

Jessica Williams stars in 2017’s The Incredible Jessica James, a romantic comedy about a playwright who starts dating a new man, Boone (Chris O’Dowd), while getting over her ex. Turns out, Boone is also struggling to get over his ex-wife, and the pair bond over that shared connection.

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Kinda Pregnant

When her best friend announces she’s pregnant, slightly envious Lainy (Amy Schumer) tries on a fake baby bump to see what the fuss is all about. Relishing the sudden flood of kindness from strangers, what begins as a harmless lie soon snowballs into a full-blown ticking time bomb — especially since she might have found the man of her dreams.

Watch Kinda Pregnant on Netflix on Feb. 5

Leo

In this 2023 animated musical, Adam Sandler voices a 74-year-old lizard named Leo, who’s been stranded in the same Florida classroom for decades alongside his turtle sidekick (voiced by Bill Burr). As Leo faces the reality of having only one year left to live, his pursuit of an adventurous life outside takes an unexpected turn, entangling him in his students’ personal problems.

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Look Both Ways

After taking a pregnancy test the night before her college graduation, aspiring artist Natalie’s life splits into two parallel worlds depending on the result: one where she is a career-driven woman and one where she handles motherhood as a young adult. Starring Lili Reinhart, this 2022 rom-com should be on your radar.

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The Lost City

This 2022 odd-couple action flick is a wild escape from reality. When romance adventure novelist Loretta Sage (Sandra Bullock) and her hunky cover model Alan (Channing Tatum) go on a promotional tour for her new book, she’s abducted by an out-of-touch billionaire (Daniel Radcliffe) who believes she can lead him to her fictional Lost City and its treasure.

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The Lovebirds

In this 2020 adventure comedy, Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani play an unhappy couple on the brink of splitting up. After getting entangled in a puzzling murder, the two go on the run to solve the case while also trying to piece their relationship back together.

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Marry My Dead Body

In a fabulous genre-bending twist, this 2022 Taiwanese supernatural comedy isn’t your typical LGBTQ rom-com — it’s also a murder mystery and action-adventure rolled into one. Prejudiced cop Wu Ming-han (Greg Hsu) stumbles upon a red wedding envelope, only to discover it’s from Mao Mao, a male ghost proposing to him before he enters his next life. In an attempt to dissolve this spectral wedlock, Wu teams up with his ever-present ghost hubby to solve a drug case and seek retribution for Mao Mao’s unjust demise.

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The Meet the Parents films

Before Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) even thinks about putting a ring on girlfriend Pam’s (Teri Polo) finger and officially joining her family, he must earn the rare approval of her ex-CIA agent father, Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro), who’s not afraid to strap him to a lie detector.

Along with sequels Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers, this family-based comedy franchise makes for a laugh-filled binge with performances from stars like Blythe Danner, Barbra Streisand, Dustin Hoffman, Owen Wilson and more.

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Migration

Safe and sound in their quiet New England pond, a family of ducks don’t see much beyond their reeds … until they meet another group en route to Jamaica. Inspired by the birds’ adventurous tales, matriarch Pam persuades her anxious husband to have their flock experience one epic ride to the Caribbean. Penned by The White Lotus creator Mike White, Migration features an all-star voice cast of Kumail Nanjiani, Elizabeth Banks, Keegan-Michael Key, Awkwafina and Danny DeVito.

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Miss Congeniality

FBI agent Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock) may not be the poster girl for ladylike elegance, but when a suspected terrorist attack threatens to disrupt the Miss America Beauty Pageant, Grace is forced to ditch her tough exterior and strut her stuff — heels and all — by going undercover as a contestant.

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Murder Mystery 2

When first costarring in 2011’s Just Go with It, it was no mystery that real-life pals Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston have effortless on-screen chemistry, but now they’ve raised the stakes with their co-produced Netflix film series. After being reeled into a murder investigation on an opulent yacht in 2019’s Murder Mystery, married couple Audrey (Aniston) and Nick Spitz (Sandler) return for a second installment where they have restarted their careers as private detectives and are invited to a private island wedding where an abduction takes place.

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No Hard Feelings

In this 2023 sex comedy, Jennifer Lawrence takes the wheel as Maddie Barker, a 32-year-old Uber driver and bartender on the verge of losing her house after her car was already repossessed. Desperate to secure transportation for her livelihood, Maddie takes on an unconventional side hustle: offering an asocial 19-year-old (Andrew Barth Feldman) a hands-on education in the skill of dating before he goes to college in exchange for a Buick.

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The Out-Laws

Meet Owen Browning (Adam DeVine), a by-the-book bank manager gearing up for marriage with his soulmate, Parker (Nina Dobrev). But just as wedding bells chime, chaos ensues when his bank is raided by the notorious Ghost Bandits, and Owen suspects his soon-to-be in-laws (Pierce Brosnan, Ellen Barkin) to be the masterminds behind the heist.

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Saturday Night

A dramatized version of a one-of-a-kind origin story, Saturday Night takes you inside Studio 8H on Oct. 11, 1975, when Lorne Michaels (Gabriel LaBelle) has just 90 minutes to get his hard-to-define comedy creation on air for the very first time. With studio execs eager to see Lorne fail, last-minute sketch cuts, set disasters and every other obstacle imaginable, see how Saturday Night Live overcame it all to become the iconic show we know today, celebrating its 50th anniversary this season.

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The Scooby-Doo films

Zoinks! This 2002 adventure comedy and its 2004 sequel bring the iconic Mystery Inc. crew — Velma (Linda Cardellini), Daphne (Sarah Michelle Gellar), Fred (Freddie Prinze Jr.), Shaggy (Matthew Lillard) and Scooby (voiced by Neil Fanning) — to life as they unmask villains, battle spooky demons, save trapped souls and devour an ungodly amount of Scooby snacks (well, that’s mostly Shaggy and Scooby).

Watch Scooby-Doo on Netflix through Feb. 28

Set It Up

Two assistants scheme to set up their respective demanding bosses in order to get them off their backs. Naturally, these assistants also form a connection along the way. Zoey Deutch, Glen Powell, Lucy Liu and Taye Diggs star in this 2018 rom-com.

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Shiva Baby

The very last place college student Danielle (Rachel Sennott) wants to be is at a family shiva — for a relative she’s not entirely sure has died — where everyone is lined up to interrogate her about her future. But things go from annoying to unbearable when more guests arrive, including Danielle’s current sugar daddy (Danny Deferrari), his wife (Dianna Agron) and their baby … oh, and her far-more-put-together ex-girlfriend (Molly Gordon).

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Shortcomings

When his girlfriend (Ally Maki) relocates to N.Y.C. for an internship, Ben (Justin H. Min) — an unsuccessful California filmmaker who commits his days to binging Criterion Collection DVDs — is left to navigate life on his own terms. Guided by his queer serial-dating bestie, Alice (Sherry Cola), Ben begins to explore what he envisions for his future.

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Sixteen Candles

In this 1984 teen dramedy, a young girl’s 16th birthday raises familial issues, new romances and more adolescent angst. Starring Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall and Michael Schoeffling, Sixteen Candles was the first feature directed by teen film legend John Hughes, who gave the genre a lot of the credibility it has today.

Watch Sixteen Candles on Netflix through Feb. 28

Someone Great

Gina Rodriguez stars in 2019’s Someone Great as Jenny, a woman whose longtime boyfriend (LaKeith Stanfield) breaks up with her right before she moves across the country for a new job. To cope, she embarks on a wild day and night of partying in New York City with her best friends (DeWanda Wise and Brittany Snow).

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Tully

In Tully, Charlize Theron stars as Marlo, a mother who hires nanny Tully (Mackenzie Davis) after the birth of her third child. The pair form a close relationship as they raise Marlo’s children, while Marlo works through her relationship with her husband Drew (Ron Livingston).

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Wendell & Wild

From the minds that brought you films like 1993’s The Nightmare Before Christmas and 2017’s Get Out, Henry Selick and Jordan Peele came together to write this 2022 stop motion animated horror comedy. After enrolling at an all-girls Catholic school, 13-year-old orphan Kat (Lyric Ross) learns she is a “hell maiden” and summons two cunning demons (Peele and Keegan-Michael Key) to revive her parents.

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White Noise

Based on Don DeLilio’s titular novel, Noah Baumbach’s 2022 absurdist dramedy set in the ’80s tells the story of the Gladney family leaving their suburban life after a train derailment led to a chemical leak, known as “The Airborne Toxic Event,” near their Ohio home. The film stars Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig and Don Cheadle, among others. (Though the film is fictional, something similar did happen in East Palestine, Ohio, in February 2023.)

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Wicked Little Letters

In 1920s England, spinster and devout Christian Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) finds herself bombarded with hate mail filled with expletives and points the finger at her neighbor, single mother Rose Gooding (Jessie Buckley). This scandal causes quite the commotion in their small seaside village, but as some of the town’s women dig deeper into this whodunnit, they start to suspect that the real author is still at large.

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You’re So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah

Adam Sandler is teaming up with his whole family for this 2023 coming-of-age comedy. Directed by Sammi Cohen, this film centers on Stacy Friedman (Sunny Sandler), whose bat mitzvah plans are hilariously derailed by trivial mishaps. Featuring a stellar ensemble, including Idina Menzel, Jackie Sandler, Jackie Hoffman and more, this is a party you don’t want to miss!

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