Summary

• The funniest movies on Netflix include Blazing Saddles (1974) staring Gene Wilder and Cleavon Little as lawmen keeping the peace in the Wild West, as well as modern hits like Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020), the hilarious comedy with Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams.
• From classics of the 1970s and 1980s to movies released as recently as 2023, there's an incredibly wide range of movies among the funniest on Netflix.
• Netflix offers multiple sub-genres of comedy, with highlights including everything from the best rom-coms to absurd time-travel comedies and satires.

Netflix's best comedy movies collect together some of the most hilarious films of all time and some truly laugh-out-loud originals exclusive to the platform. Netflix is one of the most prominent global streaming platforms, a status it acquired in part thanks to the wide selection of comedy movies available in the ever-expanding library. Comedies on Netflix include big-budget original content and Hollywood blockbusters new and old, meaning there's plenty available for subscribers seeking sidesplitting viewing experiences.

The best comedy movies on Netflix include films that are filled with ridiculous premises, entertaining characters, and laughs all the way through, and include some of the best movies ever made. Whether it's huge and hilarious box office hits featuring A-list comedic talent, underrated gems, or Oscar-winners, the funniest comedy movies on Netflix are an almost-unrivaled selection of laugh-a-minute films guaranteed to satisfy almost every subscriber.

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30 Twins (1988)

Arnold Schwarzenegger & Danny DeVito Star As Twin Brothers

In the 1980s, there wasn't a bigger action movie star on the planet than Arnold Schwarzenegger. As a result, studios wanted to find any way to use him that they could, and this led to a series of comedies with the action star mostly playing the straight man while crazed action took place around him. In Twins, it was a little different. Here, Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito play twins, genetically inseminated into their mother using the sperm of six fathers.

The movie sees the two twins learn of each other's existence after their 35th birthday, and they set out to find their birth mother, who does not know she has twins and has been told the one baby she did give birth to had died. However, their journey to find her leads to danger as one of them owes a lot of money to loan sharks and this leads them to have to fight for their lives.

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29 The Disaster Artist (2017)

James Franco Recreates The Making Of The Room

The Disaster Artist stands out among comedy movies on Netflix because it is also a biopic of one of the worst movies ever made. James Franco directs the movie and also stars as Tommy Wiseau, the man who, in 2003, directed and starred in the movie The Room. That movie falls on most lists as the worst movie ever made, becoming so notorious that Fracno and the creative team behind The Disaster Artist couldn't resist turning its bizarre behind-the-scenes story into a movie of its own.

Franco recreates many moments and scenes from The Room and the videos of the making of that movie with great love and attention, and his performance as Tommy Wiseau is both hilarious and scarily accurate.

Franco does a perfect imitation of Wiseau.

It seems the joke through all the years has been at Tommy Wiseau's expense. Franco does a perfect imitation of Wiseau and makes himself the brunt of the jokes in the biopic, but it is also a movie with great heart and shows Tommy as someone who just wants to achieve his dream of making a movie. The Disaster Artist was a critical success, earning nominations at the Golden Globes, Oscars, and Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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28 Long Shot (2019)

A Political Rom-Com Starring Seth Rogen & Charlize Theron

Long Shot is a romantic comedy starring the unlikely duo of Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen. Theron stars as U.S. Secretary of State Charlotte Field, a politician who decides she wants to run for U.S. President. Rogen stars as journalist Fred Flarsky, a man whom Charlotte babysat when he was a child. Charlotte hires Fred to be her speechwriter, and the two begin to develop a relationship, one that could destroy her political aspirations.

The movie premiered at South by Southwest and was released in theaters in 2019. Unfortunately, it was a box office disappointment, releasing just one week after Avengers: Endgame. However, it has an 81% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics praising its humor.

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27 Something's Gotta Give (2003)

Jack Nicholson & Diane Keaton In A Mature Rom-Com

Something's Gotta Give is a very unusual romantic comedy that breaks the mold by showcasing new love later in life, with hilarious and often heartwarming results. The stars of Something's Gotta Give are Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton. Nicholson is Harry, a 63-year-old wealthy playboy who only dates women under 30. However, when he meets his new girlfriend's mother (Keaton, 56), he might have not only found his true love, but it takes a lot for him to finally put his playboy life behind him.

The comedy movie on Netflix not only has great actors in the lead roles, but the director is a master of the rom-com in Nancy Meyers (What Women Want, The Holiday). Keaton earned an Oscar nomination and won the Golden Globe for her performance.

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26 The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs (2018)

The Coen Brothers Bring Dark Comedy To The Wild West

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is not only one of the best comedy movies on Netflix, but also an incredibly solid modern western. The anthology movie includes several stories, each with a different look and feel, but all set in the Wild West. Tim Blake Nelson stars as Buster Scruggs in the opening act, as a singing cowboy who leaves dead bodies in his wake. Each of the parts of the movie, directed and written by the Coen Brothers, contains their brand of dark humor and the movie earned them an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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25 Fletch (1985)

Chevy Chase As The Bumbling Detective

Chevy Chase has some true comedy classics in his filmography from the 1980s, and one of the funniest is Fletch. In this movie, Chase stars as Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher, an undercover reporter who is investigating drug trafficking before meeting a man named Stanwyk, who pays Fletch to kill him and stage it as a burglary. As a result, Fletch starts investigating him. What makes the movie so funny is the characters that Fletch impersonates in his undercover work, each more ridiculous than the last.

The movie was a huge success, making $59 million on an $8 million budget (via Box Office Mojo) and receiving mostly positive reviews. It also spawned a sequel in 1989 and a reboot in 2022 with Jon Hamm in the Fletch role.

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24 Meet The Parents (2000)

Robert De Niro & Ben Stiller In An Odd Couple Comedy

Ben Stiller found his most successful franchise in 2000 with the romantic comedy Meet the Parents. It was also one of the rare successful comedy movies that saw Robert De Niro in a leading role. Stiller plays Greg Focker, a nurse who goes to meet his girlfriend's parents with the intent of proposing. However, when he meets her dad, Jack, he learns he is a former CIA operative who doesn't like or trust Greg and puts the man through hell to win his daughter's hand in marriage.

The movie was a monster success, making over $330 million worldwide on a $55 million budget. It also spawned a sequel, with two more movies coming in 2004 and 2010. It also earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song and De Niro picked up a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor.

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23 Kindergarten Cop (1990)

Arnold Schwarzenegger Goes Undercover As A Kindergarten Teacher

Arnold Schwarzenegger found a successful role in the 1980s and early 1990s as a comedy action hero. While he already made his name in violent action movies, he parlayed his awkward mannerisms into some quality comedy roles, and with Kindergarten Cop, he merged his action career with his comic timing. Schwarzenegger plays an LAPD detective named John Kimble, who takes on the role of a substitute kindergarten teacher as he searches for a possible thief whose son is in the class.

The movie earned poor reviews, but it was a huge success, making $202 million on a $26 million budget (via Box Office Mojo). It proved that Schwarzenegger could succeed as a comedy star as well as an action star. There may be several movies starring Schwarzenegger on Netflix, but Kindergarten Cop stands out as one of the most hilarious.

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22 Blazing Saddles (1974)

The Classic Mel Brooks Western That Spoofs Hollywood

The man who mastered the spoof movie genre early on was Mel Brooks, who released movies like Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles. The latter movie is on Netflix and tells the story of the American Wild West in 1874 when the current attorney general can lead outlaws into a small town to scare off residents. He appoints Bart (Cleavon Little), a Black railroad worker, believing he can't keep the peace, but soon learns the error of his ways.

By the time the movie broke the fourth wall by moving through film sets, Blazing Saddles ended up as a cultural masterpiece. It entered the National Film Registry in 2006.

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21 The Other Guys (2010)

Will Ferrell & Mark Wahlberg Portray Perfectly Mismatched Cops

A buddy cop movie made by Adam McKay and Will Ferrell, The Other Guys starts on a wild note and never lets up to the end. From the start, where Samuel Jackson and Dwayne Johnson play super-cops who end up dying in a blaze of glory, to the story of mismatched misfit cops (Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg), The Other Guys plays the entire buddy cop genre for laughs from start to finish.

Whether it is Ferrell's cop being a former pimp or Michael Keaton's captain always quoting TLC, the movie remains one of the funniest comedies on Netflix.

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