10 Best Comedy TV Shows Streaming On Prime Video, Ranked – TVLine

It’s no secret that the streaming app space is pretty crowded these days. There are so many great options with vast libraries of entertaining content to choose from. However, if you’re a person who loves a good chuckle, you arguably get good bang for your buck with Prime Video, which has a slew of laugh-out-loud comedies to choose from.

The streamer is chock-full of hilarious, time-tested, award-show-approved comedies. Another feather in Prime Video’s cap is that a lot of them have very decent episode counts to keep viewers engaged and binge-watching for longer.

Many of the app’s best shows, like “Invincible” or “The Boys,” have comedic elements and are often laugh-out-loud funny, but are not technically comedies. To help genre purists who are just looking for some yucks after a stressful day, we’ve compiled just 10 of the many dedicated comedies worthy of your time that will have you in stitches.

In 2011, Comedy Central and other TV networks were looking to the new frontier of online sketch comedy to identify the next big names in the genre. They struck gold with “Workaholics,” starring Blake Anderson, Adam DeVine, and Anders Holm. Based on a series of sketches titled “5thyear” written by and starring the trio and Kyle Newacheck (who went on to direct 41 episodes of “Workaholics”) while under the sketch group name Mail Order Comedy, “Workaholics” remains one of the best examples of a comedy that followed the internet-to-TV pipeline.

The premise of “Workaholics,” like the original sketches that inspired it, is pretty simple. A group of college friends, who bonded like family in the way that only college roommates can, try to keep the party going into adulthood. While the concept may not seem that creative, it’s the chemistry among its stars and the unique humor they painstakingly bring to every single minute of “Workaholics”that make this show a must-watch for comedy fans.

Even as their individual stars started to rise in Hollywood, the cast poured their all into the show that gave them their start for seven seasons, making America laugh and changing pop culture forever.

Whenever Greg Daniels gets a “creator” credit on a show, it’s usually worth paying attention to. He’s co-created hits like “King of the Hill,” “Parks and Recreation,” and, of course, “The Office.” In 2020, he brought “Upload” to Prime Video as one of its many original series. It stars Robbie Amell as Nathan Brown, a brilliant programmer who dies in the year 2033. In this near-future, human beings are able to upload themselves into a virtual afterlife, assuming they’ve got the money to do so.

Anything that Daniels touches is usually pretty funny, and when he’s at the helm of an entire show, watch out. Not only is “Upload” packed with jokes, some of which are darkly humorous given the subject matter, but the show also isn’t afraid to make its audience think.Everything from the writing, directing, and Amell’s performance areboth hilarious and heartfelt, a definite trademark of Daniels’ work. Meanwhile, the show itself has a lot to say about consumerism, relationships, and death while still finding spaces to pack in some clever humor.

“Upload” was a bit of an underrated hit, running a total of four seasons with 29 episodes between 2020 and 2025.

Those who may have thought that the content found on “Cops” or “Live PD” was so outrageous that you simply can’t make the stuff up were wrong.In 2003, series creators Robert Ben Garant, Thomas Lennon, and Kerri Kenney came out with one of the funniest mockumentaries of all time with “Reno 911!” It ended its run on Comedy Central in 2009 after six seasons and a theatrically released movie, before being revived for two more seasons and two more movies on streaming.

The show follows the wildly inept yet heavily armed members of the Reno Sheriff’s Department as they patrol around The Biggest Little City in the World. However, the real highlight is seeing the cavalcade of recognizable faces in comedy (some before they were famous, like Jim Rash), each portraying characters you’d typically see on shows like “Cops,” exaggerating the outrageousness of their criminal personas just a little bit. Because the officers can encounter literally any odd character in their work, the show proved to be a breeding ground for great sketch comedians and improvisors to thrive and get early attention.

While hilarious, the show often traffics in some pretty raunchy humor, which is perfect for people who want to pull the blinds, close the door, and laugh at some politically incorrect humor.

An underrated sleeper hit hiding in the Prime Video library, “Patriot” is a dark comedy created by Steve Conrad, who gained a lot of attention with the critically acclaimed miniseries “DTF St. Louis.” Like a lot of his work, “Patriot” deals with very complex, interesting, and totally bizarre characters as their lives cross paths in completely unexpected ways. It’s a show that isn’t afraid to shock you, leave you in an awkward silence, or make you think.In a world where most comedies are lighthearted and kind of broad, “Patriot”stands out as a must watch for any connoisseur of unique comedy.

The show follows John Tavner (Michael Dorman), a spy for the CIA who has recently been through a pretty traumatic experience. He specializes in going undercover with very in-depth secret identities so that the U.S. government can have an agent in strategic yet unexpected places. He also makes his way to open mics at dive bars in the U.S. and Europe, where he can sing about the truth of his life.

This formula not only provides space for a great, modern dark comedy, but it has some surprisingly good original music that’s sure to have viewers tapping their toes and adding songs like “AfternoonSpray”to their playlists.

“The IT Crowd” is a British series that gained a cult following of sophisticated comedy fans throughout its four seasons and one special. The show is set in the offices of the fictional Reynholm Industries and its headquarters in London. It stars Chris O’Dowd, Richard Ayoade, and Katherine Parkinson as employees of the company’s IT department. Also making regular appearances is their boss, Douglas Reynholm, played by “What We Do In The Shadows” alum Matt Berry.

It’s a classic workplace comedy, but it’s also so much more than that. The series showcases the immense strengths of its cast, with Ayoade playing a socially awkward genius, O’Dowd as an apathetic, roguish screw-up who is somehow still lovable, and Parkinson as a genuine person trying her very best every day and coming up short. Perhaps the most endearing thing about “The IT Crowd” is its relatability despite being completely wacky at times.

Much of the comedy derives from the IT department trying to mingle and be seen as valued members of the company, often going hilariously awry. What’s more relatable than failing to fit in?

For even some of the most critical TV viewers, “Fleabag” is considered by many to be as good as it gets. It’s one of the few series to earn a100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, for whatever that means to you. Regardless, one thing is clear — something about this very unique comedy captured people’s minds.

“Fleabag” is based on creator, writer, and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s deeply personal, tightly written, and, hysterical one-woman show of the same name that premiered at Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2013. The series follows a young, sexually liberated woman who calls herself Fleabag, navigating modern life in London. She’s snarky, somewhat caustic toward people who try to help her, and has a very cutting wit that she doesn’t always use for good.

However, as the series goes on, it becomes clear to the viewer that there is a lot more going on here than just seeing a sometimes abrasive old soul dealing with the modern world. The show deals heavily with grief, adulthood, and all the emotions that go with it. Despite that heavy subject matter, Waller-Bridge finds a way to fill every moment with laugh-out-loud banter.

Although “Fleabag” is only two short seasons consisting of six episodes each, it’s worth noting that things really take off in Season 2 with the addition of Andrew Scott’s character, The Priest (colloquially referred to by fans as Hot Priest). His banter with Fleabag is unparalleled in TV and well worth any comedy fan’s time.

If you came to this list because you like comedy TV shows, how about a comedy TV show about comedy? Taking place in the 1950s and ’60s, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” shows all the ways that the comedy business has changed, as well as all of the ways that it’s tragically stayed the same.

The series follows Miriam “Midge” Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) as she discovers a natural talent for stand-up comedy after her marriage to a dismally untalented aspiring stand-up comedian ends. With the help of her intrepid, off-color, and trusty manager, Susie Myerson (Alex Borstein), Midge develops a stand-up career. But what makes the series truly one to watch is that she does so alongside some of the real-life greats brought to life through talented impressions like Lenny Bruce (Luke Kirby), Carol Burnett (Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer), and Moms Mabley (Wanda Sykes).

Seeing these real-life legends on screen alongside Midge, showcasing the highs and lows of show business at the time, makes the series an enjoyable watch. However, some of the real magic of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” comes from the moments where Midge isn’t working on her career, but dealing with her immensely intrusive parents and her family life. When the show isn’t highlighting a side of show business people don’t usually get to see, it’s showing a relatable side of family life that most people get to see.

What happens when we die? What makes a person good or evil? What do human beings owe each other? These are questions that are tackled at length in the halls of university philosophy departments, as well as the Emmy-nominated NBC sitcom “The Good Place.” The show is the brainchild of acclaimed creator and producer Michael Schur, whose other credits include “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” and “Parks and Recreation.”

“The Good Place” follows a woman named Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell), who wakes up in a waiting room and learns from a man named Michael (Ted Danson), who says he’s a literal angel, that she has died. Because of the remarkably virtuous and good life she led, Eleanor went to the Good Place, where her every want and need is met, and she’ll live in a society made up of other wholly good people. The only problem is they’ve got the wrong Eleanor Shellstrop.

Due to its literal life-or-death subject matter, handled only in the way a trusted talent like Schur can, there is truly no other comedy tackling the issues that “TheGood Place” tackles. In addition to having one of the best twists in television history, the show is wall-to-wall great jokes from an impossibly talented cast including D’Arcy Carden, William Jackson Harper, Jameela Jamil, Manny Jacinto and more. Forget what we owe to each other; you owe it to yourself to check out this once-in-a-lifetime comedy.

If you’re looking for your quintessential teenage high-school series where the love lives of jocks and cheerleaders reign supreme, look elsewhere. “Freaks and Geeks” was created by Paul Feig and stars some big names like Jason Segel, Busy Philipps, Linda Cardellini, Martin Starr, Seth Rogen, and more way before they became household names. In addition, with just one season under its belt before NBC pulled the plug, the show remains a go-to example of a series that was canceled far before its time.

“Freaks and Geeks” is set in a Detroit suburb during the 1980-81 school year, and, for the most part, follows the lives the Weir children — Lindsay (Cardellini) and her little brother Sam (John Francis Daley), as he starts his freshman year at her high school. The show is a uniquely funny exploration of the wrong side of the tracks with some timeless things to say about growing up in America. There have been countless shows about the high-school experience of jocks and cheerleaders. “Freaks and Geeks”takes a much more relatable approach and shows the significantly larger population from every American high school of kids who don’t quite fit in trying to find their way.

With the bonus of seeing a stacked cast act their tails off before they were famous, “Freaks and Geeks” is arguably the foundation for a lot of today’s comedy.

Ronald Gladden is an average guy living in California who gets the dreaded call that all adults in America fear. He’s got to report for jury duty. He’s been told that a documentary crew will be filming the trial as an exploration of the United States judicial system. However, what he doesn’t know is that’s all a lie.

Ronald is the only person — including the judge, attorneys, victim, defendant, and even his fellow jurors — who isn’t an actor. Behind the scenes, producers are carefully crafting one of the most insane and intricately bizarre trials in history, all to see how this regular Joe reacts to everything falling apart around him. The real appeal of the show, though, is the fact that Ronald is such a good-natured guy that he never fails to take an empathetic approach to all the people acting totally insane around him.What could have been a mean prank show ends up being one of the most heartfelt comedies in recent memory.

The premise is wild, and the results are astoundingly hilarious. In fact, the results were so captivating that they somehow managed to do it again to a man named Anthony Norman in Season 2. This time, instead of thinking he’s on a jury, Norman thinks he’s taken a weekend job to assist a small company on its annual retreat.