12 Must-Watch Comedy Movies on Netflix Right Now (September 2025)

Jim Carrey was in peak comedic form when he starred in Liar Liar as a lawyer with a flimsy relationship with the truth. Fletcher Reede (Carrey) has never come across a situation he wouldn’t lie his way out of, even though it cost him his marriage with Audrey (Maura Tierney).

On his birthday, Fletcher and Audrey’s son, Max (Justin Cooper), wishes his dad could only tell the truth for a single day. When that wish comes true, Fletcher faces a disastrous day in court that may ruin his legal career.

Liar Liar is streaming on Netflix.

Bridesmaids features a powerhouse lineup of female comedians in the leading roles, including Kristen Wiig, Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Ellie Kemper and Wendi McLendon-Covey as the wedding party for Lillian Donovan (Maya Rudolph).

Annie Walker (Wiig) is facing some hard times in her life, and she feels threatened by Lillian’s friendship with Helen Harris III (Byrne). This rivalry doesn’t really work out in Annie’s favor. Now, the only way she can salvage her connection with Lillian is by remaining true to their bond.

Bridesmaids is streaming on Netflix.

Yesterday was Groundhog Day for TV weatherman Phil Connors (Bill Murray), and so is today, tomorrow and every day for the rest of time from his perspective. The genius of Groundhog Day is that it never explains how Phil got stuck in a time loop, because that’s not the important thing. What matters is the kind of man that Phil chooses to be when he has endless time to play with.

Somewhere along the way, Phil develops romantic feelings for his producer, Rita Hanson (Andie MacDowell). But even on the rare occasions that Phil wins her heart, everything resets the next morning. This is a heartfelt and profoundly funny movie that stands as a masterpiece three decades after its release.

Groundhog Day is streaming on Netflix.

American Pie was the sex comedy sensation of 1999. The culture has certainly changed a lot in the last 26 years, but this is still a very funny movie with a great cast. Jason Biggs stars as Jim Levenstein, a teenager who will do anything to land a girl. Any girl, really, but he particularly likes a foreign exchange student named Nadia (Shannon Elizabeth).

In their senior year, Jim and his friends resolve to lose their virginity to their respective crushes. This proves to be a hilariously transformative experience for Chris “Oz” Ostreicher (Chris Klein), Kevin Myers (Thomas Ian Nicholas) and Paul Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas). Alyson Hannigan has a great supporting turn as Michelle Flaherty, a girl who is even wilder than Jim can imagine.

American Pie is streaming on Netflix.

Released nearly 30 years after the original, Happy Gilmore 2 checks in on the titular character after he saved his grandmother’s house and won the heart of Virginia Venit (Julie Bowen). 

Happy (Adam Sandler) and Virginia are now married with kids, with one daughter wanting to go to an expensive ballet school. Low on funds, Happy decides to do what he does best — golf and beating people up. Will that be enough to make his daughter’s dreams come true?

The sequel doubles down on everything that made the original such a sleeper hit to begin with: crude humor, a supporting cast full of great comedic actors Ben Stiller and Eric André and cameos from actual golf pros like Rory Mcllroy and John Daly. Those expecting Uncut Gems should look the other way as Happy Gilmore 2 is strictly for fans of Sandler’s ‘90s era comedies like Billy Madison and The Waterboy.

Ben Stiller‘s title character in Zoolander is one of the top male models in the world and a nuclear-grade moron. Derek Zoolander is at least smart enough to realize that his rival, Hansel McDonald (Owen Wilson), is stealing his thunder. But he has no idea how to turn his fortunes around.

That leaves Zoolander vulnerable to a plot by Jacobim Mugatu (Will Ferrell) to turn him into an assassin. Journalist Matilda Jeffries (Christine Taylor) knows something is off with Mugatu, but Zoolander’s arrogance may completely blind him to the truth.

Zoolander is streaming on Netflix.

Dan Aykroyd and the late John Belushi were original cast members of Saturday Night Live, and the stars of the first real SNL spinoff movie, The Blues Brothers. “Joliet” Jake Blues (Belushi) reunites with his brother, Elwood (Aykroyd), after a stint in prison.

After Jake and Elwood share a religious epiphany, they go “on a mission from God” to save the orphanage that raised them. Along the way, Jake’s jilted ex-lover (Carrie Fisher) attempts to murder them. And she isn’t the only one who wants them dead. Several music legends appear in cameo roles, including Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and James Brown. As you might expect, the film’s music is incredible and the comedic action is still funny over four decades later.

The Blues Brothers is streaming on Netflix.

Nothing says “American mainstream comedy” like Saturday Night Live. But when the series first hit the airwaves, it was a counterculture experiment that everyone expected to flop. This film from Jason Reitman (Juno, Thank You For Smoking) tells the story of that first fateful show, when Lorne Michaels (played here by Gabriel LaBelle of The Fabelmans) managed to push through a successful 90 minutes of live comedy sketches on NBC. The show would go on to change the face of American entertainment, but it wasn’t an easy journey to get there. 

Just like the original cast of SNL, the cast of Saturday Night is populated mostly by newcomers, but their impressions of comedy legends like John Belushi (Matt Wood), Gilda Radner (Ella Hunt) and Chevy Chase (Cory Michael Smith) are impeccable and entertaining. The story is told in real time, 90 minutes before the start of the show, and the tension is palpable — but that’s what makes it all so funny.

The earth is being threatened by an extremely dangerous natural phenomenon that mankind could, theoretically, stop. Yet somehow, it seems like no one in power is doing anything about it. This is the premise of Don’t Look Up, a climate change allegory from Anchorman director Adam McKay. Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence play Dr. Randall Mindy and Kate Dibiasky, two astronomers who discover a cataclysmic, “planet-killer” comet hurtling towards Earth. They try to sound the alarm, only to find that getting the government to take action to protect its citizens is shockingly difficult.

The cast of Don’t Look Up is a laundry list of A-listers, from Meryl Streep as a clueless president to Timothée Chalamet as a young shoplifter who befriends Kate. As the crisis nears, Dr. Mindy becomes a celebrity while Dibiasky becomes a target for hate and derision. The more people talk about the comet, the further they seem to get away from doing anything about it. The whole story feels simultaneously fantastical, funny, and all too real. 

Keke Palmer and SZA bring back the buddy comedy in a big way in this hilarious “day in the life” adventure flick. Dreux (Palmer) and Alyssa (SZA) are best friends and roommates, despite their very different outlooks on life. (Dreux is organized and type-A, while Alyssa is a free-spirited dreamer.) But their friendship is tested when Alyssa’s boyfriend steals their rent money on the day that it’s due. In danger of being evicted, the girls come up with ever-escalating schemes to raise the money in less than 12 hours.

Palmer is as spectacular as ever, and SZA brings surprising depth to her first-ever onscreen role. Their chemistry as besties is totally believable and entertaining. The supporting cast is full of fun cameos from stars like Katt Williams and Abbott Elementary‘s Janelle James. You’ll root for Alyssa and Dreux the moment you meet them, and you’ll laugh your way to the finish line of their desperate quest for that rent money. Don’t miss this roller coaster of a comedy!

Camila Mendes (Riverdale) and Maya Hawke (Stranger Things) star in this dark comedy about two high school girls who team up to “do each other’s revenge” — in other words, each girl will take down the other girl’s sworn enemy. This hyper-stylized gumball of a movie is subversive and nasty, but it hides some intelligent commentary about grudges and female anger at its center.

Do Revenge feels like a tribute to ’80s and ’90s teen comedies like Heathers and Cruel Intentions (Sarah Michelle Gellar, who starred in that film, even appears as the Headmaster at the protagonists’ private school), but it has a distinctly 2020s aesthetic and philosophy. It’s a sharp satire whose many twists will leave you gasping from shock in between laughs.

Have you ever had a boss completely take over your life? That’s the situation for Harper (Zoey Deutch) and Charlie (Glen Powell), who are assistants to extremely demanding executives. Harper works for Kirsten (Lucy Liu), a sharp-tempered sports journalist who demands perfection from her staff. Charlie works for Rick (Taye Diggs), a businessman with severe anger management issues. Realizing their bosses need a distraction so they can regain control of their own lives, Harper and Charlie manipulate Rick and Kirsten into falling in love. “When they’re boning, we’re free!,”  says Harper. Of course, the two assistants end up falling in love along the way.

Set It Up hearkens back to when big-budget rom-coms were commonplace and successful. Deutch and Powell have irrepressible chemistry together, and the situations they manufacture for their bosses are absurd in a way that feels endearing. It’s a perfect “watch on your couch with pizza” movie.

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