Hulu Here are the 13 best, funniest comedies you can watch right now on Hulu. This list is updated regularly as titles come and go from Hulu.
Best comedies on Hulu right now
1. Happiest Season (2020)
Between this and Palm Springs, Hulu can boast arguably the two best romantic comedies of 2020. Kristen Stewart delivers her strongest comic turn to date in Clea DuVall‘s winning charmer opposite Mackenzie Davis, as a young woman who pretends to be her girlfriend’s straight roommate at Christmas to appease a conservative family. The all-star cast includes Alison Brie, Aubrey Plaza, Victor Garber, Dan Levy and Mary Steenburgen. Now streaming exclusively on Hulu.
2. Booksmart (2019)
Even in a golden age of coming-of-age pictures (see: Love, Simon, Eighth Grade, The Miseducation of Cameron Post) Olivia Wilde‘s howlingly funny directorial debut stands out. You’d be hard-pressed to find a film that more perfectly captures intelligent modern high school students: how they talk, what their rooms look like, their embarrassing parents, things like that. With no shortage of heart to match the humor, this can comfortably be called one of the best teen comedies ever made.
3. Parasite (2019)
Bong Joon-ho‘s funny, terrifying, tragic, tense, erotic, gross and compulsively, feverishly entertaining crime film examine the internationally relevant topic of classism. In light of its astounding, highly deserved nod for top honors at the SAG Awards, Parasite became the first foreign-language film to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
4. Palm Springs (2020)
A dark horse (and fully-deserving) contender for Oscar attention is The Lonely Island’s time-loop rom-com sci-fi extravaganza—which set the all-time record for a film bought at Sundance. Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti star as wedding guests living the same day over and over. The premise may sound familiar, but the execution is relentlessly imaginative, heartfelt and frequently gut-bustlingly hilarious. Palm Springs is now streaming exclusively on Hulu. If you haven’t seen it yet, prepare to be wowed.
5. Hustlers (2019)
Lorene Scafaria‘s exciting, funny and humanistic crime picture pulled from real-life headlines was one of the best and most entertaining films of 2019. Jennifer Lopez’s Ramona Vega, a mother hen with a career criminal edge, is a screen presence we’re all going to remember for a long time. This was a lamentable Oscar snub, one of the most scandalous of recent years. Hustlers is a terrific film; Lopez’s career will continue to thrive. One day she’ll likely have Oscar redemption.
6. Big (1988)
Even in 1988, this kind of body-swap comedy setup felt mined to death. With a winning script by Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg (focused more on character than high jinks and yuks), Penny Marshall’s Big, about a 12-year-old whose magic wish turns him into a 30-year-old man, defied expectations. Co-starring Elizabeth Perkinsand the ever-underrated Robert Loggia, Big was a massive hit and received two Oscar nods: for best original screenplay, and Hanks’ first for Best Actor. All these years later, Big is utterly bewitching.
7. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Still going strong in limited theaters after nearly five decades, 20th Century Fox’s sweetly bizarre and affably raunchy spectacular thrives on a larger-than-life Tim Curry as Dr. Frank N. Furter, and catchy pop songs. Richard O’Brien‘s iconic musical tribute to ’50s schlock is both a toe-tapping musical and an immortal, generations-spanning ode to sexual discovery. This is the longest-running film in history, the ultimate cult classic.
8. Blazing Saddles (1974)
Herein lies the quintessence of American comedy. Mel Brooks’ go-for-broke Western farce about a Black sheriff (Cleavon Little) who rocks the small town of Rock Ridge is the picture people say “would never get made today.” The racial humor shocks in the best sense, still, watching it today. Gene Wilder, Harvey Korman, the extraordinary Madeline Kahn (Oscar-nominated here) and Brooks himself round out the uniformly perfect supporting cast.
9. Not Another Teen Movie (2001)
One of the better spoofs of the aughts craze (just after Scary Movie was genuinely fresh, and before fare like Disaster Movie and Epic Movie took the fad into unwatchable territory) Not Another Teen Movie is lowbrow. It’s vulgar. A lot of
10. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
George Clooney, John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson star in the Coen Brothers’ runaway musical hit that’s also a loose adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey. The first movie in history to be digitally color-corrected, the breezy, witty and highly pleasurable O Brother looks and sounds great—but doesn’t leave as much of an imprint as the finest Coen films. Buena Vista
11. Office Space (1999)
If you can believe it, Mike Judge’s workplace comedy, about software company employees who hate their jobs, was a box-office disappointment when it came out. Thanks in part to a TV rediscovery on Comedy Central, Office Space has since become an oft-referenced and much-memed cult classic. Jennifer Aniston is completely hilarious here. She shows a lot of flair.
12. 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger charm in a superior teen rom-com inspired by The Taming of the Shrew. Later adapted for the small screen; 20 episodes of the show ran from 2009-2010 on ABC Family.
13. The Proposal (2009)
Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds headline a blockbuster behemoth rom-com about a high-powered book editor who more or less bribes her charming assistant to marry her so she can avoid deportation to Canada. Craig T. Nelson and Betty White co-star. Next, check out the 100 best movies of all time.
