The Best Comedy Movies on Netflix Right Now

When a crime novelist is found dead after his birthday party, everyone in his dysfunctional family is a suspect. Rian Johnson's whodunit is endlessly witty, constantly subverts its own genre, and features Daniel Craig doing his best work. The smartest comedy on this list.

Two strangers get stuck in a Groundhog Day-style time loop at a desert wedding. Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti have crackling chemistry. Smarter than it looks — uses its premise to ask genuine questions about meaning and choice. Also very funny.

Based on the true story of comedian Kumail Nanjiani and his now-wife Emily Gordon. Warm, heartfelt, and genuinely funny — particularly the scenes with Holly Hunter and Ray Romano as Emily's parents. One of the best romantic comedies in a decade.

A couples' game night turns dangerously real when one of the group is actually kidnapped. A well-constructed comedy that earns every laugh — clever plotting that actually makes sense, and Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams make a genuinely funny pair.

Two astronomers discover a planet-killing comet heading for Earth and struggle to make anyone take it seriously. Adam McKay's pointed satire of media, politics, and social media features an extraordinary cast — DiCaprio, Streep, Jonah Hill, Blanchett, Timothée Chalamet.

A quirky family's road trip to drop their daughter at college coincides with a robot apocalypse. Hilarious, visually inventive, and secretly a really touching film about family communication and growing up. One of Netflix's best original films.

Childhood sweethearts reunite as adults with very different lives — she's a celebrity chef, he's still working for his dad. Ali Wong and Randall Park have genuine chemistry. Keanu Reeves' cameo as a fictional version of himself steals the whole film.

Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams play a pair of Icelandic musicians desperate to win Eurovision. Funnier than it should be — Ferrell commits completely, the music is genuinely catchy, and the film is surprisingly sweet alongside the comedy.

Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston play a bickering New York couple who become suspects in a murder on a European billionaire's yacht. Deliberately silly and enormously entertaining — the rare Sandler Netflix film that delivers exactly what it promises.

Two overworked New York assistants scheme to set up their demanding bosses with each other to buy themselves some free time. A charming, fizzy romantic comedy that knows exactly what it is and executes it very well.