The 20 Best Comedy Shows Streaming in 2025

Comedy on streaming has evolved far beyond the multi-camera sitcom. The funniest shows available right now include workplace satires, dark comedies, mockumentaries, animated series, and half-hour dramedies that make you cry as often as they make you laugh. Here are the 20 best comedy shows streaming across every major platform.

How We Reviewed: Our analysis rests on noting how character development serves or undercuts theme and side-by-side comparison with competing series in the same genre. Ratings reflect full-season viewing, critical analysis, and production quality assessment. This content is editorially independent; no brand provided compensation for coverage.

The Must-Watch Tier

1. Hacks (Max) stars Jean Smart as Deborah Vance, a legendary Las Vegas comedian whose career gets an unexpected second act when she is paired with a younger comedy writer played by Hannah Einbinder. The dynamic between the two leads is electric: Smart delivers the kind of performance that justifies awards ceremonies, while Einbinder’s deadpan timing is perfectly calibrated. Three seasons of sharp, emotionally rich comedy heading into its announced final season.

2. Abbott Elementary (Hulu) is the best network sitcom in years. Quinta Brunson created and stars in this mockumentary about underfunded Philadelphia public school teachers who refuse to give up on their students. The ensemble, including Tyler James Williams, Janelle James, and Sheryl Lee Ralph, delivers consistent laughs while treating its subject matter with genuine warmth. Four seasons and counting.

3. The Bear (FX on Hulu) straddles comedy and drama so effectively that the Emmys keep fighting over where to categorize it. Jeremy Allen White’s Carmy runs a chaotic restaurant kitchen with an intensity that is both hilarious and anxiety-inducing. Ayo Edebiri’s Sydney and Ebon Moss-Bachrach’s Richie get standout arcs that are simultaneously funny and devastating.

4. What We Do in the Shadows (Hulu) wrapped its six-season run in 2024 with a perfect finale. The mockumentary about vampire roommates in Staten Island was the funniest fantasy comedy ever made, and the complete series is a perfect binge. Matt Berry, Natasia Demetriou, Kayvan Novak, and Harvey Guillen are comedic geniuses individually and an unstoppable ensemble together.

5. Only Murders in the Building (Hulu) pairs Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez as amateur true-crime podcasters who keep stumbling into murders in their Upper West Side apartment building. Four seasons of clever mysteries wrapped in delightful comedic chemistry, with celebrity guest appearances that consistently surprise.

Highly Recommended

6. The Studio (Apple TV Plus) is a new workplace comedy featuring Seth Rogen as a newly appointed head of a movie studio navigating Hollywood politics, ego-driven directors, and corporate mandates. Sharp industry satire with a stacked cast.

7. Ghosts (Paramount Plus) adapts the BBC original about a couple who inherits a mansion haunted by ghosts from different historical eras. The dead characters are hilarious, the living leads are charming, and the show maintains a sweetness that makes it ideal family viewing.

8. Curb Your Enthusiasm (Max) completed its legendary twelve-season run in 2024. Larry David’s improvised cringe comedy remains the gold standard for the genre, and the final season delivered a series finale that perfectly captured the show’s spirit. All twelve seasons streaming.

9. Reservation Dogs (Hulu) follows four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma navigating adolescence, grief, and the desire to escape to California. Sterlin Harjo’s three-season series is funny, melancholy, and unlike anything else on television.

10. Shrinking (Apple TV Plus) stars Jason Segel as a grieving therapist who starts telling his patients exactly what he thinks. Harrison Ford’s supporting role as his cantankerous senior colleague is a career-best comedic performance.

Worth Your Time

11. Ted Lasso (Apple TV Plus) follows Jason Sudeikis as an American football coach hired to manage a struggling English soccer team. Three seasons of genuine warmth, quotable dialogue, and optimism that somehow never becomes saccharine.

12. English Teacher (FX on Hulu) is a half-hour comedy about a gay English teacher navigating culture wars in an Austin, Texas high school. Sharp, timely, and funnier than its premise suggests.

13. Somebody Somewhere (Max) stars Bridget Everett as a woman returning to her Kansas hometown after a family loss and finding community in unexpected places. Gentle, honest, and deeply funny.

14. The Other Two (Max) follows two adult siblings whose teenage brother becomes a viral pop star overnight. A vicious Hollywood satire with genuine heart.

15. Poker Face (Peacock) stars Natasha Lyonne as a woman with an innate ability to detect lies, traveling across America and solving crimes Columbo-style. Rian Johnson’s case-of-the-week format delivers consistently entertaining episodes.

16. Noughts + Crosses (Peacock) is a British alternate-history drama with darkly comedic undertones.

17. The Afterparty (Apple TV Plus) is a murder mystery comedy where each episode is told from a different character’s perspective in a different film genre. Two seasons of inventive storytelling.

18. Black Mirror (Netflix) returned in 2025 with episodes that balance satire and horror. The anthology format means quality varies, but the best episodes rank among the sharpest comedy-horror on television.

19. I Think You Should Leave (Netflix) is Tim Robinson’s absurdist sketch show that has become the most quotable comedy of the decade. Three seasons of escalating awkwardness.

20. Interior Chinatown (Hulu) adapts Charles Yu’s novel about an Asian American actor trapped in a procedural TV show, breaking free from background extra roles in a sharp meta-comedy about representation.

For drama recommendations, check our best drama series guide. For shows the whole family can enjoy, see our family shows roundup.