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Source: CM<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n So you\u2019re browsing through Netflix, looking for something to watch, but you\u2019re in the mood for something light. Netflix\u2019s massive library can be intimidating, especially when you\u2019re looking for a good<\/em> comedy amidst a sea of sub-par entries in the genre. Not to fear, though, because we have you covered!<\/p>\n Below, we\u2019ve curated a list of the very best comedies on Netflix right now. We\u2019ve got everything from silly buddy comedies, big splashy commercial comedies, more esoteric indies, and even a couple of films that toe the line between comedy and drama.<\/p>\n Surely you\u2019ll find something to your liking, so scroll through our list below and find that perfect pick.<\/p>\n Source: CN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Directed and Written by: <\/strong>Noah Baumbach<\/p>\n Cast:<\/strong> Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, Amanda Seyfried, Charles Grodin, Adam Yauch<\/p>\n Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts star as a middle-aged couple living in New York City who are having trouble coming to terms with the fact that they\u2019re no longer young. Stiller plays a documentary filmmaker who strikes up a friendship with an aspiring documentary filmmaker (Adam Driver), who with his very hipster girlfriend (Amanda Seyfried) befriend Stiller and Watts\u2019 characters. A culture clash of sorts ensues, as Stiller and Watts struggle to prove they\u2019re still hip while Driver and Seyfried struggle to prove they\u2019re cool. The film has a lot to say about image and the passage of time, but it\u2019s also just incredibly funny.<\/p>\n Source: CN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Director:<\/strong> Adam McKay<\/p>\n Writers:<\/strong> Adam McKay and Will Ferrell<\/p>\n Cast:<\/strong> Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Sacha Baron Cohen, Amy Adams, Gary Cole, Leslie Bibb, Jane Lynch, and Michael Clarke Duncan<\/p>\n On the surface, it\u2019s a silly comedy starring Will Ferrell as a goofy race car driver. But at its heart, Talladega Nights<\/em> is a searing takedown of corporate culture and \u201cSouthern pride.\u201d It\u2019s darn effective, with hilarious supporting turns by John C. Reilly and Molly Shannon upping the goof factor exponentially and the late Michael Clarke Duncan showing a side of himself audiences had never seen before.<\/p>\n Source: CN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Directed by:<\/strong> Ben Stiller<\/p>\n Written by:<\/strong> Justin Theroux<\/p>\n Cast:<\/strong> Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black, Jay Baruchel, Steve Coogan, Danny McBride, Bill Hader, Nick Nolte, and Matthew McConaughey<\/p>\n Ben Stiller\u2019s 2008 action-comedy Tropic Thunder<\/em> is a great comedy for movie lovers. The film takes on self-important Hollywood types by chronicling the production of a big budget Vietnam War film that marks key career turns for its stars. Ben Stiller is a huge action\u00a0superstar trying to recover from a misstep into drama territory; Jack Black is an Adam Sandler\/Eddie Murphy-esque comedy actor with a severe drug addition; and Robert Downey Jr. is a lauded Australian performer known for going intensely method. Chaos ensues when the actors find themselves in real danger, which they think is simply their director making things as \u201creal\u201d as possible. This is a big<\/em> comedy with lots of laughs and an unforgettable RDJ performance that earned him an Oscar nod.<\/p>\n Source: CN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Director:<\/strong> Tim Burton<\/p>\n Writers:<\/strong> Phil Hartman, Paul Reubens, and Michael Varhol<\/p>\n Cast:<\/strong> Paul Reubens, Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton, Diane Salinger, Judd Omen<\/p>\n Filmmaker\u00a0Tim Burton\u2018s feature directorial debut\u00a0Pee-wee\u2019s Big Adventure<\/em> would serve as a fitting announcement of Burton as a series film-making talent, but also still stands today as a tremendously inventive comedy.\u00a0Paul Reubens\u2018 Pee-wee gets the big screen treatment as he sets out on a \u201cbig adventure\u201d to find and return his stolen bike. Shenanigans ensue, but the combination of Reubens\u2019 silly comedy and Burton\u2019s whimsy makes for a wholly unique and somewhat trippy experience unlike anything else.<\/p>\n Source: CN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Directors\/Writers:<\/strong> Joel Coen & Ethan Coen<\/p>\n Cast:<\/strong> George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Richard Jenkins, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, and J.K. Simmons<\/p>\n Burn After Reading<\/em> is a hilarious romp of sorts played very, very straight, as the Coens pack this espionage story to the brim with idiots, but shoot, edit, and score it as if it\u2019s a Michael Clayton<\/em>-esque thriller. It\u2019s a brilliant subversion of expectations, and while some certainly felt slighted by the ending, the way the story abruptly deflates is precisely the point.<\/p>\n Source: CN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Directed by:<\/strong> John Hamburg<\/p>\n Written by:<\/strong> John Hamburg and Larry Levin<\/p>\n Cast:<\/strong> Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Rashida Jones, Jon Favreau, Rob Heubel, Joe Lo Truglio, and Andy Samberg<\/p>\n This 2009 \u201cbromantic comedy\u201d pairs Paul Rudd and Jason Segel to delightfully funny results. Rudd plays a mild mannered man who recently proposed to his girlfriend, but when wedding planning begins, he discovers he doesn\u2019t really have any male friends. He meets Segel\u2019s character, a free-spirited goofball, and the two hit it off immediately.\u00a0I Love You, Man<\/em>\u00a0is basically a romantic comedy about male friendships, but what really makes it worthwhile is the chemistry between Rudd and Segel, and the ridiculous improv riffs they find that somehow spawn iconic lines.<\/p>\n Source: CN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Director:<\/strong> Noah Baumbach<\/p>\n Writers:<\/strong> Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig<\/p>\n Cast:<\/strong> Greta Gerwig, Mickey Summer, Charlotte d\u2019Amboise, and Adam Driver<\/p>\n Before 2012\u2019s Frances Ha<\/em>, filmmaker Noah Baumbach was the king of melancholy. With this breezy black-and-white indie, however, Baumbach changed course dramatically, churning out something that is much more optimistic and downright playful. In a star-making turn, Greta Gerwig plays a 27-year-old dancer living in Brooklyn who is forced to find a new place to live when her best friend opts to move out, thus meaning Frances is unable to afford rent. Frances subsequently bums around with her friends, returns to her home for Christmas, and even jets off the Paris, all the while trying stave off adulthood for as long as possible.<\/p>\n Source: CN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Director:<\/strong> Edgar Wright<\/p>\n Writers:<\/strong> Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg<\/p>\n Cast:<\/strong> Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jim Broadbent, Paddy Considine, Rafe Spall, Olivia Colman, Timothy Dalton, and Paul Freeman<\/p>\n Edgar Wright is one of the best filmmakers working today, and his 2007 take on the action genre Hot Fuzz<\/em> remains one of the best films of the past decade. Simon Pegg stars as an obsessive British cop who is assigned to work in a small village when the big city department becomes tired of his unending drive for perfection. What is meant as a means of getting him away<\/em> from the action soon turns out to be a blessing, as Pegg\u2019s character soon uncovers strange goings-on in the seemingly perfect village of Sandford.<\/p>\n Source: CN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Director:<\/strong> Adam McKay<\/p>\n Writers:<\/strong> Charles Randolph and Adam McKay<\/p>\n Cast:<\/strong> Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt, Melissa Leo, Hamish Linklater, John Magaro, Rafe Spall, Jeremy Strong, Marisa Tomei, and Finn Wittrock<\/p>\n The Big Short<\/em> is proof that you can both be amused and infuriated at the same time. The genius of Adam McKay\u2019s dark comedy is that he knows the secret weapon the financial industry has against the American public is ignorance. If you don\u2019t know a credit default swap from a collateralized debt obligation, you may feel that the particulars of the financial market are too complex, and you may just have to walk away in frustration. The Big Short<\/em> won\u2019t get rid of your frustration, but it will effectively target it. Make no mistake, McKay is making an active attempt to educate his audience, but he cleverly does it within humor.<\/p>\n Source: CN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Directors:<\/strong> Byron Howard and Rich Moore<\/p>\n Writers:<\/strong> Jared Bush and Phil Johnston<\/p>\n Cast:<\/strong> Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Jenny Slate, Idris Elba, Nate Torrence, J.K. Simmons, Bonnie Hunt, and Octavia Spencer<\/p>\n While Pixar is more hit-or-miss nowadays, Disney Animation is on a roll with 2016\u2019s Zootopia<\/em> proving to be a pleasantly surprising hit both commercially and critically. While talking animal stories have been done to death, Disney dared to use the colorful, vibrant, and diverse world of Zootopia<\/em> to tackle issues of inherent bias and racial prejudice head on, resulting in a viewing experience that\u2019s both entertaining and thought-provoking. The movie is funny and gorgeous, with top-notch world building, but it also has something to say, which ensures that it\u2019s much more than a lazy cash grab.<\/p>\n Source: CN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Director:<\/strong> Wes Anderson<\/p>\n Writers:<\/strong> Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola<\/p>\n Cast:<\/strong> Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Bruce Willis, Jason Schwarztman, Bob Balaban, and Tilda Swinton<\/p>\n Wes Anderson\u2019s ode to summer lovin\u2019 is quite possibly his most romantic film yet, as the filmmaker perfectly encapsulates what it feels like to be young and head-over-heels in love. It\u2019s a delightful picture with an undercurrent of sadness running throughout, and it features some of the most stunning production design of Anderson\u2019s oeuvre\u2014and that\u2019s saying something.<\/p>\n Source: CN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Director\/Writer:<\/strong> Patrick Brice<\/p>\n Cast:<\/strong> Adam Scott, Taylor Schilling, Jason Schwartzman, and Judith Godr\u00e8che<\/p>\n If you\u2019re in the mood for a raunchy comedy that really goes there<\/em>, then The Overnight<\/em> might be right up your alley. The film stars Adam Scott and Orange Is the New Black<\/em> star Taylor Schilling as a somewhat conservative couple who, while at the park with their son, meet a nice and somewhat mysterious parent named Kurt (Jason Schwartzman), who invites them and their son over to his family\u2019s house for a playdate. All is going somewhat normal until the kids are put to bed, at which point Kurt and his wife Charlotte (Judith Godr\u00e8che) pull Scott and Schilling\u2019s characters out of their shells, taking them to sexually adventurous places with plenty of humor to boot.<\/p>\n Source: CN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Director\/Writer:<\/strong> Ruben Ostlund<\/p>\n Cast:\u00a0<\/strong>Johannes Bah Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Kristofer Hivju<\/p>\n If it\u2019s an offbeat comedy you\u2019re looking for, Force Majeure<\/em> is your movie. This 2014 Swedish film has a great premise that gets the ball rolling: A businessman is on vacation with his wife and two children in the French Alps. One day, while eating lunch outside, a sudden avalanche heads their way. As it moves right over everybody, the husband gets up and runs for his life, neglecting his entire family. The kicker is, nobody was hurt, everybody\u2019s fine, and now he has to deal with the fallout of bailing on his family in a life-or-death situation.<\/p>\n Source: CN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Director:<\/strong> Lenny Abrahamson<\/p>\n Writers:<\/strong> Jon Ronson and Peter Straughan<\/p>\n Cast:<\/strong> Michael Fassbender, Domhnall Gleeson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Scoot McNairy<\/p>\n Filmmaker Lenny Abrahamson is now an Oscar-nominated director for his work on Room<\/em>, but his previous film, Frank<\/em>, proves the director\u2019s range as he stretches into truly strange territory. Based on true events, the film follows a young aspiring musician played by Domhnall Gleeson who joins an eccentric pop band fronted by the mysterious Frank, a character played by Michael Fassbender who wears a giant mask over his head for almost the entire film. It\u2019s a truly spectacular performance from Fassbender, who must use only his voice and body to convey the character\u2019s complex emotions, and Gleeson is terrific as a na\u00efve musician who, at heart, is just not very talented.<\/p>\n Source: CN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Directed by:<\/strong> David Dobkin<\/p>\n Written by:<\/strong> Steve Faber and Bob Fisher<\/p>\n Cast:<\/strong> Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Rachel McAdams, Isla Fisher, Bradley Cooper, Christopher Walken, and Jane Seymour<\/p>\n If you\u2019re looking for a more traditional studio comedy, Wedding Crashers<\/em> is a safe bet. This 2005\u00a0film may feel a tad<\/em> dated nowadays, but there are still plenty of funny parts throughout. Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn star as a pair of friends who crash weddings in their spare time, but things take a turn when Wilson falls for the\u00a0Maid of Honor at one wedding in particular and the duo\u2014who have introduced themselves as extended family members\u2014are invited back to the family home. Shenanigans ensue, but the film takes time to craft a love story worth investing in between Wilson and McAdams, and that goes a long way.<\/p>\n Source: CN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Director<\/strong>: Eli Craig<\/p>\n Writer:<\/strong>\u00a0Eli Craig and Morgan Jurgenson<\/p>\n Cast: <\/strong>Alan Tudyk, Tyler Labine<\/p>\n A comedic spin on the \u201cparty-going youths meet backwoods sociopaths\u201d subgenre of horror, a la\u00a0Texas Chainsaw Massacre<\/em>,\u00a0Tucker\u00a0and Dale vs. Evil<\/em>\u00a0is a straight up comedy of errors in horror movie clothing. The film follows the titular Tucker\u00a0(Alan Tudyk)\u00a0and Dale (Tyler Labine), two country bumpkins best friends renovating their dilapidated remote vacation home where they encounter a group of preppy, wildly biased college kids. When Dale\u2019s attempt at friendly conversation is perceived as a threat, it sets off a series of ever-escalating confrontations that are only as hilarious as they are deadly.<\/p>\nWhile We’re Young<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nTalladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nBurn After Reading<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nI Love You, Man<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nTucker and Dale vs. Evil<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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