The streamer’s funniest offerings include action satires, hilarious whodunits, and much more.
Here are the 20 best comedies on Amazon Prime Video right now.
Monk also deals with family and relationship issues while struggling with his newfound, unwanted fame.
Ayo Edebiri in ‘Bottoms’; Jeffrey Wright in ‘American Fiction’; Kumail Nanjiani in ‘The Big Sick’.Credit:United Artists Releasing/Courtesy Everett; Claire Folger/Orion Releasing; Nicole Rivelli/ Lionsgate/Courtesy Everett
This is truly a unique, one-of-a-kind production: stomach-achingly hilarious, mega-touching, and…all true?
(Heck, they even mention that egregious Academy oversight in the film!
Which is, quite honestly, a mystery, seeing as how it pulls off so much so well.
Jeffrey Wright in ‘American Fiction’.Courtesy of TIFF/Orion Releasing
She also befriends the mysterious new student J.D.
On paper, a plot description for this seminal cult classic sounds far from funny.
Answer: The dysfunction’s baked right in!
Jack Black in ‘Bernie’.Deana Newcomb/Millennium
The comedic antics flow like champagne in this bride-com with an edge.D.W.
“Poor Thingsbursts with an absurd perversity that is riotously fun to watch,“writes EW’s critic.
But only because such provocation is not merely for the sake of itself.
Kumail Nanjiani and Zoe Kazan in ‘The Big Sick’.Sarah Shatz/Lionsgate
The movie also possesses a deep heart.”
Though the Tenenbaum children were all gifted in their youth, they have since become disillusioned in adulthood.
Having left them in their childhoods, Royal comes back into their lives years later, causing further complications.
Sascha Baron Cohen in ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’.Amazon Studios
Rachel Sennott, Havana Rose Liu, and Ayo Edebiri in ‘Bottoms’.Courtesy of Orion Pictures
Jillian Bell in ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’.Amazon Studios
Joan Chen and Izaac Wang in ‘Didi’.Courtesy of Focus Features/Talking Fish Pictures
Ryan Gosling in ‘The Fall Guy’.Eric Laciste/Universal Pictures
Frances McDormand in ‘Fargo’.Gramercy Pictures/Getty
Sarah Jessica Parker and Helen Hunt in ‘Girls Just Want to Have Fun’.New World Pictures/Getty
Christian Slater and Winona Ryder in ‘Heathers’.New World Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection
Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in ‘His Girl Friday’.Everett
(From left to right) Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, and John Cleese in ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’.EMI Films/Getty
Cher and Nicolas Cage in ‘Moonstruck’.Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty
Maisy Stella in ‘My Old Ass’.Marni Grossman/Amazon Content Services LLC
Ben Platt and Kristen Bell in ‘The People We Hate at the Wedding’.Amazon Prime Video
Emma Stone in ‘Poor Things’.Yorgos Lanthimos/Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures
Nicholas Galitzine and Taylor Zakhar Perez in ‘Red, White & Royal Blue’.Jonathan Prime/Prime Video
(From left to right) Luke Wilson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Gene Hackman, Ben Stiller, Grant Rosenmeyer, Jonah Meyerson, Anjelica Huston, Danny Glover, and Kumar Pallana in ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’.James Hamilton/Disney
Kiernan Shipka in ‘Totally Killer’.James Dittiger/Courtesy of Prime Video
