The best comedy movies to watch on Netflix: August 2022

Do you need a good laugh? You’ve come to the right place.

Netflix’s vast library can be hard to sift through, even if you know what mood you’re in. Netflix has a wide range of content, including romantic comedies and satires as well as action comedy, dramedies and musical comedies. We’ve put together a list of some of our very favorites that you can watch at home right now.

If you’re looking for comedies beyond just Netflix, check out our list of some of our favorite comedy movies currently streaming across platforms. You can also find more Netflix movies at our regularly updated Netflix Movies & TV List.

Hustle

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Adam Sandler’s latest basketball project is one of our favorite new movies of 2022 — it’s a terrific showcase of his skills as a dramatic actor, his love for the game of basketball, and the merits of casting real athletes as performers in sports movies.

Sandler portrays Stanley Sugerman. He is a down-on–his-luck scout and is about to get a promotion to assistant coach. It will give him more time to spend with his family. But when the one person who knows how good Stanley is at his job dies, Sugerman must prove himself all over again and find a diamond in the rough — Bo Cruz (real-life NBA player Juancho Hernangómez), who the scout discovers playing pickup basketball.

My write-up on Hustle As one of the top movies of the year

Hustle’sThese performances are truly outstanding. Sandler’s centered, grounded portrayal of a man who loves what he does but would rather have the job he was promised is another terrific, layered role for one of our great modern actors. The cast is also filled with NBA players who deliver memorable performances, led by Hernangómez as the temperamental and talented Cruz and Minnesota Timberwolves superstar Anthony Edwards as his trash-talking rival Kermit Wilts, a terrific addition to a long line of sports movie heels.

Edwards deserves to be highlighted here since it is a list full of comedy. His performance as Wilts is one of the funniest of the year, repeatedly taunting Cruz with hilarious jabs and making full use of the NBA star’s magnetic charisma. —Pete Volk

Paper Tigers

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Warmhearted action comedy on martial arts about three middle-aged martial artists prodigies. Paper Tigers It is charming, funny and has excellent Martial Arts sequences. This video was made possible by The Martial Club YouTube group. You Can Have Everything at Once). —PV

The Debt Collector

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Jesse V. Johnson is a director and expert on direct-to video action. He has created many short action movies, action comedy movies and quick action movies of around 90 minutes. But my favorite movies are his Debt Collector films with Scott Adkins or Louis Mandylor.

Adkins, one of the greatest action stars of his generation, and Mandylor — likewise an underrated screen presence perhaps known best for his part in My Big Fat Greek Wedding — have terrific chemistry as a pair of mismatched tough guys collecting debts for the mob. Adkins, who is French and a martial artist instructor, was forced to enter the debt collection world in order to save his studio. He’s assigned to partner up with Mandylor’s Sue, a veteran debt collector who is supposed to show French (or “Frenchy,” as Sue often calls him) the ropes.

When a job they’re sent on goes wrong, the two must work together to extricate themselves from a sticky situation. Both Debt Collector movies can be seen as a DTV movie and as a buddy comedy. —PV

Paddington

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PaddingtonThe cinematic equivalent of a heated blanket is the warmest and most cozy movie. Ben Whishaw stars in Paul King’s 2014 live-action comedy as the eponymous Peruvian bear cub with a love of a marmalade who stows aboard a boat to London in search for a new home. Paddington is taken in by the Browns and embarks upon a series misadventures to find a mysterious explorer. This inadvertently puts him in the crosshairs a savage taxidermist (Nicole Kidman), as well as a local curmudgeon (“Peter Capaldi”). Do you want to have a family-friendly comedy that is both funny and heartwarming? This movie is for you. —Toussaint Egan

We are sorry to bother you

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Boots Riley’s 2018 directorial debut We are sorry to bother you has it all: incisive class politics, a potent example of the pernicious nature of “code-switching,” the commodification of identity in the workplace, elaborate earring designs, horse people (aka “Equisapiens”), et cetera. It is not easy to pull all this together and make it one of the best, most original, funny, and offbeat comedies that came out in 2010. If you haven’t seen We are sorry to bother youYet, this is one you must give a try. —TE

The Unauthorized Bash Brother Experience

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This is a forgotten Lonely Island project that was launched in 2019, straight to Netflix Lemonade Parody arrived as a pleasant surprise and continues to entertain with its silly, funny and charming musical rendition. Following Oakland A’s teammates Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire as they mash a metric ton of home runs in the 1980s, the movie features an ensemble cast that includes Maya Rudolph, Jenny Slate, and Sterling K. Brown in addition to Akiva Schaffer and Andy Samberg as the Bash Brothers themselves. —PV

Hail, Caesar!

Universal Pictures

Comedy of 2016 Hail, Caesar!The Coen brothers have created another brilliant work of genre pastiche that is gut-busting. This story is about Eddie Mannix, played by Josh Brolin. He’s a Hollywood fixer who must track down George Clooney (a kidnapping gang of Communist screenwriters). But you’re not here for all that; you’re here to see Alden Ehrenreich as actor Hobie Doyle flub his lines in a comedy of manners, and Channing Tatum playing a tap-dancing sailor in an infectiously catchy musical number that could put La La LandShame. —TELECOMM ENGINEERING

The Ballad about Buster Scruggs

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Back-to-back Coen brothers picks here, but it’s hard to go wrong with their movies. The 2018 anthology features Tim Blake Nelson, who is always funny and often moving. What’s not to love? —PV

The 2018 Annual Review

The Ballad about Buster Scruggs plays like the ultimate acceptance of this repetitive process, providing some of the most side-splitting laughs of the year at the cost of human lives (albeit fictional ones), even as we’re made to question this long-standing narrative paradigm. Moments of entertainment between the dread — nuggets of gold, much as Tom Waits’ prospector finds, while putting humanity’s worst foot forward — make The Ballad about Buster Scruggs One of the most empathetic and heartbreakingly sad films they have made in many years. It asks if there are any answers to questions regarding how or why humans exist.

The Meyerowitz Stories

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Noah Baumbach, a well-known actor and director for his unique form of dramedy is Frances Ha As a singular example. Frances Ha Netflix is not streaming the heartfelt, underseen content. Meyerowitz Stories is.

Drama about family members who visit their grandfather after returning from different life experiences. Meyerowitz The film features layered, brilliant performances from the dysfunctional siblings, Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller and Elizabeth Marvel, as well as Dustin Hoffman’s powerful portrayal of an elderly patriarch. The ensemble also features Sigourney and Adam Driver as well as Judd Hirsch, Emma Thompson, Candice Bergen, Judd Hirsch, Judd Hirsch, Judd Hirsch, Judd Hirsch, Judd Hirsch and Emma Thompson. This is, most importantly, very funny. It is often very funny to see intergenerational and intra-family disputes. The specificities of the characters as well as the different ways family members interact can make it quite amusing. It’s a hugely impressive list You can make a modern comedy out of all sorts of things. —PV

The Nice Guys

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Ryan Gosling, Russell Crowe and Russell Crowe are stars in The Nice Guys, Shane Black’s second-best neo-noir buddy cop comedy, as Holland March and Jackson Healy, an unlikely pair of down-and-out private eyes in 1970s Los Angeles who could generously be described as two of the most likable terrible people you will ever meet. Holland and Jackson must team up in order to uncover a sinister conspiracy after they are involved in the disappearance of a girl and the murder of a pornstar star. —TELECOMM ENGINEERING

From Matt Essary’s write-up of 10 great detective movies to watch at home:

Shane Black creates a twisty, fascinating mystery about Ryan Gosling. He plays a corrupt private investigator in Los Angeles in the late 1970s. His case involves arson, death of an actress from adult movies, and possible conspiracy by government officials involving Kim Basinger (a politician). Gosling’s only help in this situation, where he is clearly outmatched and in over his head, is a local bruiser-for-hire played by Russell Crowe (in what is his most fun on-screen performance in years). The pair laughably argue and bumble their way to understanding the connections between everything, while almost avoiding the angry hitmen or the authorities. You only need to know Shane Black through his work. Iron Man 3,You owe to yourself to make sure you check it out The Nice GuysYou’ll see why he is a favorite of noir fans.

Don’t Go Breaking My Heart

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Johnnie To’s 2011 rom-com is one of the best love triangle movies of the century. The leads are hot and bothered, the meet-cutes are adorable, and there’s a playful energy that doesn’t undercut the sincerity of the drama at play.

To might be most well-known for his Gangster Terrorist films, but he is also a director. Don’t Go Breaking My Heart shows, he’s one of the most versatile directors working today. Soon after a breakup, Chi-yan (Gao Yuanyuan) finds herself torn between two men vying for her heart — a CEO (Louis Koo) who works across the street and makes images with Post-it notes on the glass wall that separates them, and Kevin (Daniel Wu), an alcoholic ex-architect with whom Chi-yan finds mutual inspiration. —PV

Black for Men

Columbia Pictures

Will Smith is the star of this 1997 comedy about sci-fi and actionBlack for MenJames is an ex-NYPD detective, who encounters a strange alien creature and is asked by Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones), to become a member of a secret government agency that maintains coexistence between Earthlings and humans. Besides spawning a franchise consisting of an awesome animated spinoff with a kick-ass theme song and a series of sequels that run the gamut from “pretty good” to “unfortunate,” the original Black for MenIt is an action comedy that delivers solid laughs with its lead couple and memorable villain performances by the pre-recorded cast.Daredevil Vincent D’Onofrio, and a rich universe of colorful supporting characters. —TE

Sally Met Harry

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A quintessential romantic comedy of the late 1980s, Rob Reiner’s Sally Met Harry Nora Ephron wrote a screenplay that was nominated for an Oscar. She went on as to direct. Seattle is sleepless You’ve Got MailYou can also see: The movie’s origins are worth mentioning. It attempts to answer the question about what happens when friends and family sleep together. After Rob Reiner and fellow director Penny Marshall’s (A League of Their Own) divorce, he came up with the idea for the movie, and Ephron interviewed him to come up with the “Harry” character (played by Billy Crystal). Ephron based the “Sally” character (Meg Ryan) partially on herself, and Crystal (a long-time friend of Reiner’s) came in to add his own comedic edges. —PV

My colleague Toussaint stated it when the platform was updated in May.

More than just a question of “Will they or won’t they,” the drama, humor, and heart of Sally Met HarryThe root of their friendship lies in whether or not men and women can ever become friends. Harry and Sally seek out the answers to these questions and find that they can be friends.

The Mean Girls

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The Mean Girls is, quite simply, one of the 21st century’s most iconic comedies. There are many other memorable quotes that I could not name. “She doesn’t even go here!” “You go, Glen Coco!” “Get in loser, we’re going shopping!”

After being home-schooled in the United States, a young girl named Lindsay Lohan is forced to enroll at an American high school. The cast is a who’s who of stars of the time and the future (Lohan of course, as well as Rachel McAdams, Lizzy Caplan, and the film debut of Amanda Seyfried), and was written by Tina Fey (who also co-stars). Lohan does a great job in this role, and McAdams plays Regina George the sinister high school bully. (Fun fact: Lohan was originally cast for Regina’s part by Seyfried). —PV

Om Shanti Om

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Farah Khan was a classical Bollywood choreographer who also works as a director. Starring Hindi superstar Shah Rukh Khan, it’s an absolute delight of a musical comedy, with plenty of romance and thrills along the way. —PV

From Sydney Wegner’s list of the best Hindi-language movies on Netflix:

Om Shanti OmThe story of a man who falls in love with his favorite actress is one epic tale about romance and reincarnation. [It has]There is plenty to laugh at, lots of romance, laughter, and action.

Miss Congeniality

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Sandra Bullock plays the role of an FBI agent who works undercover to stop a bomb threat. It’s a perfect fit for her particular combination of movie-star screen presence and down-to-earth charisma, and lives on as a standout fish-out-of-water comedy of the era. —PV

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

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Matthew Broderick stars in John Hughes’ 1986 teen comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day OffFerris Bueller is a popular, talented high school student who pretends to be sick in order for him to go home and spend a day in Chicago. As much a love letter to the Windy City’s most iconic landmarks as it is a heartening story about taking the time to appreciate the small pleasures of life, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is in the Library of Congress for a reason: It’s not just nostalgic hype, it really is ThisA movie that is good. —TE

Eurovision

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David Dobkin’s Eurovision Song Contest – The Story of Fire SagThe title of a is as absurd and funny as the name. Will Ferrell, Rachel McAdams and Sigrit star as the two countrymen who will be representing their country at Eurovision Song Contest. As we said in our review, “Director David Dobkin doesn’t land every single beat, but he taps into that well of carefree exultation so potently that the movie’s stumbles hardly register.” It’s a joyous, goofy, irreverent film that’s not without its foibles, but nonetheless wins you over with through its sheer absurdity and silliness. —TELECOMM ENGINEERING

Dolemite is my name

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Rudy Ray Moore (a comic, actor and large-than-life character best known for his role as Dolemite) is played by Eddie Murphy. Murphy’s performance is outstanding. A movie very much about who gets to make movies (and which get made — Murphy’s Moore remarks in disgust that a movie has “no titties, no funny, and no kung fu”), Dolemite works best as a display of Murphy’s outrageous talent (and of Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s, as well), and it’s shame his performance went mostly unnoticed in awards circles. —PV

Murder Mystery

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One of Adam Sandler’s least Sandler-y comedies, this is a fun mystery movie send-up pairing him with Jennifer Aniston and directed by television veteran Kyle Newacheck (The Workaholics, The Shadows: What Do We Do?). Sandler is a police officer, and Aniston his mystery-loving wife. The two of them get involved in an actual murder mystery while on an anniversary vacation. They must cooperate to solve it. It’s a funny, breezy 97 minutes that also cleverly inverts some expectations about the genre and the roles “husbands” and “wives” typically play in them. —PV

Other Guys

Columbia Pictures

If Other Guys The opening sequence, which is a hilarious parody of high-octane action movies with Samuel L. Jackson star Dwayne Johnston, was all that it needed to be included on the list. It’s often a hilarious, odd-couple comedy with Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg that follows. Wahlberg always works better for me in comedic roles than in dramatic ones, and he thrives as the straight man to Ferrell’s usual oblivious fool. —PV

Monty Python and The Holy Grail

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There’s a fair bit of Monty Python material on Netflix at the moment, including the British comedy troupe’s four-season original TV run, a collection of live specials, and a few documentaries about the group’s origins and importance. But Monty Python and The Holy GrailThis is the most straightforward test film that newbies to the world of Python will be able to dive into. It is the easiest way for them see if the Python style of straight-faced, dry absurdity suits them. This episodic feature built around the King Arthur story has the six Python members playing a wide variety of kings, knights, peasants, and buffoons, as they face a dragon and a killer rabbit, a sneering coterie of French knights and a mysterious dark knight who won’t stay down even with his limbs hacked off. There’s singing and dancing, banter, repetition gags, and a whole lot more, but above all, there’s that incredibly influential specific Python sense of humor. British humor was defined by the way that this group dealt with childish absurdity and haughty self-importance. —Tasha Robinson

Last Action Hero

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A parody must accurately mimic the elements that attract people to the genre. It’s the reason why Wes Craven’s Scream movies work so well, and the same could be said about Last Action Hero.

A young movie-obsessed child (Austin O’Brien) is thrown into the world of his favorite action franchise, while the movie’s villain (a deliciously over-the-top Charles Dance) is sent to the real world. The child and the movie’s hero (Arnold Schwarzenegger) have to get back to the real world to stop the villain.

John McTiernan directed the filmPredator, Die Hard), Last Action Hero A professional camera operator and a true action star playing a key role in the film are both huge assets. His use of prop glasses and dance is my favourite part. —PV

The Legend of Ron Burgundy’s Anchorman

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Adam McKay’s endlessly quotable satire on American TV journalism is one of the bona fide comedy classics of the the early aughts. Will Ferrell stars as Ron Burgundy, a braggadocious anchorman at the height of his career in the mid-’70s who’s forced to reckon with his own bad behavior when a rival female anchorwoman (Christina Applegate) rises to challenge his primacy. Fire-spewing jazz solos, Fourth Wall-breaking freeze frames jokes, and outrageous back alley street brawls. AnchormanThis movie is hilarious from beginning to end. —TE