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

Looking for a chuckle? Kids will laugh at anything, but a good adult-friendly comedy can be harder to come by. From laugh-out-loud misadventures to inky black humor, here are the best grown-up comedies to stream right now.

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast
How to Get to Heaven from Belfast
7.5
Show

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
Margo’s Got Money Troubles
7.2
Show

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
DTF St. Louis
7.2
Show

DTF St. Louis

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

Send Help (2026)
Send Help (2026)
7.5
Movie

Send Help (2026)

Warning: this film is incredibly gory, terribly gruesome, and horrendously disgusting. We urge you to go in without any food.…

The Chair Company
The Chair Company
7.8
Show

The Chair Company

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

Twinless (2025)
Twinless (2025)
7.7
Movie

Twinless (2025)

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

Haunted Hotel
Haunted Hotel
7.5
Show

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 (2024)
His Three Daughters (2024)
8.2
Movie|Spirit Winner

His Three Daughters (2024)

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

Babes (2024)
Babes (2024)
7.5
Movie

Babes (2024)

Babes tells the story of Eden (Ilana Glazer) and Dawn (Michelle Buteau), codependent best friends who are forced to reevaluate…

The Gentlemen
The Gentlemen
7.7
Show

The Gentlemen

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

Jacqueline Novak: Get on Your Knees (2024)
Jacqueline Novak: Get on Your Knees (2024)
7.5
Movie

Jacqueline Novak: Get on Your Knees (2024)

We’re familiar with dick jokes from stand-up comedians, especially male stand-up, but Jacqueline Novak’s 90-minute show about the blow job…

Fallout
Fallout
7.8
Show

Fallout

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

Killer Soup
Killer Soup
7.6
Show

Killer Soup

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

House of Ninjas
House of Ninjas
7.5
Show

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…

Saturday Night (2024)
Saturday Night (2024)
7.7
Movie|Venice

Saturday Night (2024)

As the title suggests, Saturday Night takes place in all of one night, during the very first airing of the…

Maamla Legal Hai
Maamla Legal Hai
7.3
Show

Maamla Legal Hai

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

A Round of Applause
A Round of Applause
7.4
Show

A Round of Applause

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
Coppola, the Agent
7.5
Show

Coppola, the Agent

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

Diarra from Detroit
Diarra from Detroit
7.6
Show|Spirit

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
Delicious in Dungeon
7.3
Show

Delicious in Dungeon

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

Hannah Gadsby’s Gender Agenda (2024)
Hannah Gadsby’s Gender Agenda (2024)
7.0
Movie

Hannah Gadsby’s Gender Agenda (2024)

As host Hannah Gadsby explains at the beginning of this stand-up showcase, Netflix only really gave her and these other…

The Curse
The Curse
8.3
Show

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…

Terrestrial Verses (2023)
Terrestrial Verses (2023)
7.8
Movie|Cannes

Terrestrial Verses (2023)

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

This World Can’t Tear Me Down
This World Can’t Tear Me Down
8.4
Show

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,…

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
8.2
Show

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

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

Carol & the End of the World
Carol & the End of the World
8.0
Show

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…

Widow’s Bay
Widow’s Bay
8.1
Show

Widow’s Bay

In the modern age, superstition can seem a bit silly. There has to be a logical, reasonable explanation for every…

Feedback
Feedback
7.8
Show

Feedback

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

Shortcomings (2023)
Shortcomings (2023)
7.6
Movie|Sundance

Shortcomings (2023)

It’s always tricky translating literature to screen. In Shortcomings’ case, it struggles to make its Berkeley and New York settings…

Such Brave Girls
Such Brave Girls
7.9
Show

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
Nothing to See Here
7.8
Show

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
Extraordinary
8.0
Show

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 (2023)
Rye Lane (2023)
7.5
Movie|Sundance · BAFTA

Rye Lane (2023)

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

Leo Reich: Literally Who Cares?! (2023)
Leo Reich: Literally Who Cares?! (2023)
7.7
Movie

Leo Reich: Literally Who Cares?! (2023)

Generation-centric comedy is often of the “kids these days” variety — in which comedians make uninspired jibes about the youth…

LaRoy, Texas (2024)
LaRoy, Texas (2024)
7.0
Movie

LaRoy, Texas (2024)

Sometimes, especially when you’ve gone without it for so long, you would do anything for a shred of respect. LaRoy,…

Ralph Barbosa: Cowabunga (2023)
Ralph Barbosa: Cowabunga (2023)
7.8
Movie

Ralph Barbosa: Cowabunga (2023)

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
Survival of the Thickest
7.8
Show

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
The Artful Dodger
7.5
Show

The Artful Dodger

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

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