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What are the best comedy Series on Netflix to watch right now?
That’s the question I aim to answer in this list. I don’t know about you, but I love a good comedy. Nothing beats a good old belly tickle!
So, I’ve created a list of the 15 best comedy shows on Netflix to watch right now.
Use the list to decide what to watch and determine your personal favorite.
The 15 best comedy shows on Netflix to watch right now:
- Friends
- Cheers
- Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
- New Girl
- Grace and Frankie
- Master of None
- iZombie
- Orange Is the New Black
- The IT Crowd
- Jane the Virgin
- The Good Place
- The Inbetweeners
- Trailer Park Boys
- Santa Clarita Diet
- Space Force
Netflix Best Comedy Web Series
The comedy shows and figures mentioned below have been compiled from various sources around the web, including Ranker.com & IMDB.
These are the 20 best comedy series on Netflix to watch right now:
1. Friends – Best Comedy Web Series on Netflix
An absolute classic and some comedy gold, Friends marks the start of our top five and well deserves its place as one of the best comedy shows on Netflix.
Rachel Green, Ross Geller, Monica Geller, Joey Tribbiani, Chandler Bing and Phoebe Buffay are an average group of friends living in New York City.
We see them all go through some pretty hilarious fights, laughs, tears, surprises and mayhem.
It’s brilliant! Nothing more to say. Go watch this one as soon as you can…
Friends appears 1st on this list of the best comedy web series on Netflix.
2. Cheers – Best Comedy Show on Netflix
Starring Will Arnett as BoJack Horseman, the show takes place in an alternate world where humans and human-like animals live side by side.
Bojack, a washed-up TV star from the 1990s sitcom Horsin’ Around, now spends most of his days complaining about life whilst living in Hollywood.
However, he’s planning a big return to celebrity relevance with a new autobiography!
3. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt – Best Comedy Show
Rescued from a doomsday cult that imprisoned her and three other women for 15 years, Kimmy Schmidt (Ellie Kemper) decides to move to New York City to enjoy a normal life.
She quickly makes friends with her new roommate Titus (Tituss Burgess) and finds herself a job as a waitress.
Adapting to the world around her, Kimmy makes the best of her new life and remains positive.
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt appears as 3rd on this list of the best comedy shows on Netflix.
4. New Girl – Best Comedy Series on Netflix
New Girl is an American television sitcom created by Elizabeth Meriwether.
After a terrible break-up, Jess Day (Zooey Deschanel), a bubbly young woman, moves into a new apartment with three single men, Nick (Jake Johnson), Schmidt (Max Greenfield), and Winston (Lamorne Morris).
The show follows the group’s interactions with each other and their romantic relationships.
Awkard is an understatement!
5. Grace and Frankie – Best Comedy Show on Netflix
Created by Marta Kauffman and Howard J. Morris for Netflix, Grace and Frankie is an American comedy web television series that is great fun to watch!
Starring Jane Fonda (Grace Hanson) and Lily Tomlin (Frankie Bergstein), the story follows two friends after they find out that both their husbands are not just work partners, but have also been lovers for the last twenty years!
A must watch – Hysterical!
6. Master of None – Best Comedy Series on Netflix
Released in 2015, Master of none follows Dev Shah (Aziz Ansari), a 30-year-old actor, living in New York City.
It mostly showcases his romantic, professional, and cultural experiences as he tries to make his way through life.
However, Dev finds it difficult to choose the correct pathway, let alone what he want’s to eat each day. His story takes him on a diverse journey and many interesting experiences.
One of the best Netflix comedies available to watch right now.
7. iZombie – Best Web Series on Netflix
Developed by Rob Thomas and Diane Ruggiero-Wright, iZombie is a loose adaption of comic book series of the same name.
Medical student Olivia Moore (Rose McIver) gets invited to a party which crazily turns into a zombie nightmare! Olivia dies and wakes up as a zombie herself.
Like most zombies, in order to survive she needs to eat human brains, so she gets herself a job at a coroner’s office, which is kind of like a zombie buffet!
It turns out that eating brains passes on memories and traits of that person, so she ends up helping detective Clive Babineaux (Malcolm Goodwin) solve a murder case.
8. Orange Is the New Black – Best Web Series on Netflix
Piper Chapman is a public relations executive whose life takes a turn for the worst when a previous association with a drug runner 10 years earlier catches up with her.
From her corporate career to a 15-month prison sentence, Piper is forced to trade her swanky suits for prison orange and adjust to her new life behind bars.
9. The IT Crowd – Best Web Series on Netflix
The IT Crowd is a British sitcom about a team of IT professionals set in fictional Reynholm Industries.
The show centres around Maurice Moss (Richard Ayoade), Roy Trenneman (Chris O’Dowd), and Jen Barbers (Katherine Parkinson) antics, as they try to do their job as best they can.
In most cases, their work and social antics end badly, which makes for a good laugh.
This is definitely one of the best comedy shows on Netflix right now!
10. Jane the Virgin – Best Web Series on Netflix
Set in Miami, Jane the Virgin is about exactly that. Jane Gloriana Villanueva (Gina Rodriguez) is a young religious Latina waitress that gets artificially inseminated by accident by her doctor on a routine checkup.
Her mother is concerned that she will be making a big mistake by bringing the baby into the world, but her grandmother encourages her to do what she wants.
It turns out the child’s biological father is actually her former teenage crush!
11. The Good Place – Best Comedy Web Series on Netflix
American fantasy-comedy The good Place is about a town of the same name, where people that have been good throughout their life go to when they die.
It follows Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell) as she finds herself waking up in the town, but totally undeserving of her place.
So, in order to fit in and earn her rightful place, she tries to hide her morally imperfect behaviour whilst working on becoming a better version of herself.
12. The Inbetweeners – Best Comedy Web Series on Netflix
The Inbetweeners is a British sitcom series following four friends shenanigans during their final years of school.
Simon Cooper (Joe Thomas), Jay Cartwright (James Buckley) and Neil Sutherland (Blake Harrison) have been friends for years and make it their mission to get as much sex, beer and adult activities as they can.
When Will McKenzie (Simon Bird), a slightly posh, nerdish character transfers to their school after his mum could no longer afford the private school tuition, he becomes the fourth member of their squad and more often than not becomes the butt of their jokes.
13. Trailer Park Boys – Best Comedy Show on Netflix
Ricky, Julian, and Bubbles, three American men living in a trailer park, spend their days making a living committing petty crimes, whilst avoiding the police.
Their hair-brained schemes are complicated by the trailer parks alcoholic supervisor, Jim Lahey, and his lover Randy.
Ricky and Julian end up in and out of jail throughout the series and each final episode sees them on the road to success. However, this is soon short-lived as by the next series they’re discussing how everything went wrong.
14. Santa Clarita Diet – Best Web Series on Netflix
Sheila and Joel are a loving married couple, both working as real estate agents in Santa Clarita, California.
However, things quickly turn dark, when Shelia transforms into a human flesh-craving zombie. Horrified by what happened to his wife, Joel has to adapt to the unique situation and deal with living in a normal neighbourhood with a gruesome secret.
In the end, the whole family are in on it and try to get to the bottom of the undead mystery.
15. Space Force – Best Comedy Show on Netflix
Steve Carell makes a long-awaited return to the small screen in this timely sitcom from Greg Daniels – previously involved with the US Office, King of the Hill, Parks and Recreation and The Simpsons. Carell plays the Mark Naird, the general in charge of America’s newest branch of the armed forces, tasked by Trump with bringing US hegemony to the moon, stars and beyond – but as expected things don’t quite go off with military precision.
Not only is the Space Force derided by the more traditional military organisations, but it’s staffed by a bunch of misfits and eccentrics that make Naird’s professional life a nightmare. And his personal life isn’t much better…
