What Comedies Are You Watching These Days?

Starstruck is fun and so funny! Hacks is wonderful and hilarious and gets so much right about stand-up. Jean Smart is a gift to us all. PEN15!!!! Better Things is hilarious and brilliant. The Other Two is gut-busting. Crazy, but Succession has some of the best comedic writing out there. The British Ghosts is fun comfort viewing, and I’ve just started Upload since it’s a Greg Daniels production (The Good Place) and it has a lot of promise!

late to this, but just started The After Party and I AM IN LOVE

The Middle, it’s on HBO MAX. So funny, I laugh every episode.

LOVED Crash Landing on You!

We just discovered Chef Whites, an ensemble comedy, only one season but it is hilarious with an unexpectedly touching ending. From early 2000s but it feels like it was made yesterday. Also, the first season of Spy, which we discovered trying to find other shows with Darren Boyd who is a comedic genius.

Also not a comedy, but inspired to add this by a few commenters who wrote about watching with kids (a topic for another post?!). We’ve been watching the original Wonder Years (on Hulu) with our kids, ages 9 & 12, and we are all really enjoying it. I watched it at the time with my family (when I was in middle school, like Kevin!). I remembered it being good, but my husband and I keep being amazed at how impressive and unlike other 80s primetime shows it is. It was really ahead of its time. The episodes are so well done, and such a mix of comedy and real family and life issues. Also the music is fantastic, and I keep exclaiming, I can’t believe I wouldn’t have appreciated any of these songs the first time I watched this! Which of course my kids don’t now — it’s all classic 60s.

Very late to the party, but SyFy’s “Resident Alien” currently has my vote for laugh-till-you-cry/snort-gasping-for-breath comedy gold. Alan Tudyk is a GENIUS, and so is everyone else on the show, especially the 2 little kids who are the bane of his character’s existence! It’s already into Season 2 and honestly I hope they continue this show for at least 3 more seasons.

Also, I feel like The Rookie also has serious comedic chops even though it’s basically a cop show? I will forever love me some Nathan Fillion (another Firefly alum; seeing a pattern here) even though he seems to play basically the same character in every show he’s ever been on, ha!

I’m excited to see the new Amy Schumer series. Did anyone watch “Expecting Amy” on HBO Max recently? I watched all three parts of the movie in one night and I found it pretty interesting! It’s funny because I had a baby 10 years ago and there was a lot I didn’t know, especially in regards to postpartum care of myself, not just the baby. Amy got a really raw deal with her pregnancy, hyperemesis to the extreme and multiple hospital visits for IV fluids. Her pregnancy wasn’t typical but it just goes to show the way women have to push through despite being taken hostage by our bodies and the growing life inside of us. I guess it’s something that’s been going on since the dawn of time but the way she puts everything out there from her relationship to her dark red nipples postpartum is eye opening. It’s definitely worth a conversation.

HBO, Hulu and Prime – how to get all three without breaking the bank?

Acapulco on Apple TV is lighthearted and funny; it left me feeling as good Ted Lasso!

My husband just introduced me to Taskmaster and it is such a hilarious guilty pleasure. The basic premise is that 5 comedians compete at ridiculous tasks. It’s totally fluffy and funny and pointless and just what I needed to watch lately. For more worthy but still very soothing tv, I recommend Gardener’s World.

Somebody Somewhere!!! I’m almost done with the season and I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a show that is equal parts sad and funny and the result is SO endearing.

Wolf like me is a short series on Peacock, but it’s SO good!!!! So funny and unexpected!

I just rewatch Schitts Creek and Gilmore Girls as I need comfort and familiarity right now, but if your young kid is watching along with you, Young Sheldon is a crowd pleaser. Doesn’t matter that I don’t watch Big Bang Theory… and there are some great characters. It’s hard to find something everyone likes but we do old school sometimes and watch The Middle too.
If you’re after something with dry humour, Detectorists (BBC) is lovely and very, very British in that self deprecating way we do so well!

Detectorists is an absolute joy, such quirky characters, clever dialogue and gorgeous British countryside. It’s a gem!

No comedy suggestions here…. We are all glued to our screens 24/7 in anticipation of WW3 which will affect every single continent and not just Europe.

I finally watched and just finished Call My Agent after many friends recommended it. Much better Paris show than Emily in Paris, and it also features the delightful Phillippine-Roy Beaulieu. Can’t get better style than Camille Cottin as Andrea Martel or Matthias Barneville’s immaculately cut suits and coats or even schlumpier Gabriel’s trainers and warm-looking mod jackets. Characters are well drawn and from different generations. Smart, funny and humanist.
Another smart and humanist show is All Creatures Great and Small. I’d watched and enjoyed the 1970s/80s one before, but the new one is delightfully worthy too. Great ensemble cast. I love the Farnam house and vet clinic, and I’d eat any meal Mrs. Hall cooks up.

What a FANTASTIC thread! I just took copious notes!!
A few comedies my husband + I have had fun watching together:
*Catastrophe (super short seasons and I feel like no one has heard of it?? It’s so funny!)
*Fleabag
*Hacks
*Shrill
*And of course Schitts Creek <3 <3 <3

I just watched I Want You Back and ohhh it was a treat! I haven’t laughed that hard at a movie in a while. I kept having to rewind it because I was laughing so much and couldn’t hear the next joke. So cute and funny!

Can You Keep a Secret? Suuuuper cute romcom starring one of the women who is in White Lotus. It’s adorable

This Way Up on Hulu. So funny and sweet! Aisling Bea is a comic genius!

Everybody Hates Chris. A sitcom about a family with 3 kids. Watched it over Christmas and rewatching every night while we eat dinner.

So many great recs and favorites (Afterparty, Derry Girls, Ted Lasso, Somebody Somewhere, BetterThings, Sex Education) — love ’em all! I can’t believe no one has mentioned “Superstore” on Peacock. My husband and I started watching after getting desperate for something lite and new to us and boy, does “Superstore” hit the spot. We just started the 5th season and it’s losing us a bit, but the first few seasons had me laughing/barking/snorting out loud.
My husband also really loved “Schmigadoon” on Apple – and now he calls our dog Schmigadoon pretty much all the time.

Black-ish. I haven’t watched network shows in awhile, but when the series dropped on Disney+, I started catching up on it. OMG… it is amazing. I watched/loved Black AF on Netflix and loved that too… but Black-ish has so much heart and is so funny and there are so many themes and topics that are universal to all of us. Loving it so much.

Just finished Somebody, Somewhere and I want to watch it all over again (ok, I did actually watch the first ep over, they’re short!).