100+ Good Grown-up Comedy Movies & Shows to Watch

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast

After losing a former friend, you would think that the three women in How to Get to Heaven from Belfast…

Margo’s Got Money Troubles

Because of the format, Margo’s Got Money Troubles doesn’t quite have the same laugh-out-loud humor as the original novel– televised…

DTF St. Louis

At first glance, DTF St. Louis seemed to be a nonchalant comedy that would poke fun at domestic dissatisfaction. David…

The Chair Company

Dir. Aaron Schimberg & Andrew DeYoung

After being promoted as a project lead, Ron falls down due to his office chair breaking. At first he tries…

Twinless

Dir. James Sweeney

Twinless starts off something like one of those quirky indies in the 2010s about awkwardly navigating grief and sharing that…

Haunted Hotel

Why worry if your place is haunted, when it’s so difficult to even get one nowadays? These uncertain times make…

His Three Daughters

Dir. Azazel Jacobs

Not everybody holds a good relationship with their sisters, but ideally, we get to reunite and repair things in a…

The Gentlemen

After the successful release of The Gentlemen (2019), it would have been easy to just continue the story with the…

Brian Simpson: Live from the Mothership

Dir. Baron Vaughn

Demonstrating that a great stand-up routine should always stem from strong writing first and foremost, Brian Simpson makes common subjects…

Fallout

Upon first watch, it’s easy to relegate Fallout to the heap of video game adaptations that are all show and…

Killer Soup

Dir. Abhishek Chaubey

How far would you go to please the one you love? You might indulge your spouse with a white lie…

House of Ninjas

From the fantasy-powered folktales to superhero-like depictions, ninjas have captivated the world, but seem to be a relic of the…

Maamla Legal Hai

Dir. Rahul Pandey

With the stakes involved in plenty of cases, legal dramas tend to be more serious and dramatic. However, sometimes, ludicrous…

A Round of Applause

Dir. Berkun Oya

A Round of Applause is just so darn weird. We’ve seen stories about people remembering their past lives, but we’ve…

Coppola, the Agent

Dir. Ariel Winograd

Sports is undeniably exciting, but behind the scenes, there’s a whole world constructed just to get the players in the…

Diarra from Detroit

It’s best to go into Diarra from Detroit with zero knowledge and expectations, but even if you do know a…

Delicious in Dungeon

When watching fantasy anime, there’s a wonderfully whimsical world that viewers can fully explore. Spectacular magic, brave warriors, and strange…

The Curse

That The Curse is squirm-inducingly awkward won’t be news to anyone who’s watched a Nathan Fielder show before, but TV’s…

This World Can’t Tear Me Down

This World Can’t Tear Me Down is a timely release on friendship, punk, and anti-fascism. From the Italian cartoonist Zerocalcare,…

Terrestrial Verses

Dir. Ali Asgari & Alireza Khatami

Since we live in a society, interacting with authority is inescapable. Terrestrial Verses depict fairly mundane day-to-day interactions– getting a…

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

Watching the trailers, and even the first ten minutes, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off just seems like a rehash of the…

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

Dir. Radu Jude

With a title like this, it was expected that Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World…

Carol & the End of the World

The end of the world isn’t the most optimistic thing to think about, but the scenario leads you to thinking…

Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person

Dir. Ariane Louis-Seize

When vampires choose not to kill a human, it’s usually played up with so much drama, angst, and maybe a…

Feedback

Dir. Leszek Dawid

After years of trying to regain sobriety, it’s totally chilling to wake up the next day, with no memory of…

Such Brave Girls

In an early scene in Such Brave Girls, Josie (Kat Sadler) compares herself and her sister Billie (Lizzie Davidson) to…

Nothing to See Here

When a comedy is centered around people with disabilities, there’s a worry that the humor would be unfunny or demeaning…

Extraordinary

Imagine if the show Girls was Marvel-ized (or if you like, Derry Girls blended with Encanto): that’s kind of what…

Rye Lane

Dir. Raine Allen-Miller

Rye Lane knows it’s treading familiar ground by having its charming leads fall in love as they walk and talk…

Ralph Barbosa: Cowabunga

Dir. Eric Abrams & Eric Adams

Being an awkward comic is a very difficult trick to pull off; even self-deprecating humor and long, quiet beats in…

Survival of the Thickest

Michelle Buteau is the hilarious and charismatic lead of this amazingly diverse and body-positive comedy. In her post-breakup glow-up, Buteau’s…

The Artful Dodger

Dir. Jeffrey Walker

The Artful Dodger’s leads might literally come from a Charles Dickens novel, but there’s something more playful about the way…

The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy

With the show transporting us straight into its colorful alien world without context, The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy…