Comedy TV Shows — NYT Top 100

A sharp, self-destructive London woman speaks directly to the audience while dealing with grief, sex, family, and intimacy.

An ambitious U.S. vice president and her chaotic staff stumble through Washington politics, ego, incompetence, and constant crisis.

A TV comedy writer tries to manage eccentric stars, network executives, and her own messy life behind the scenes of a sketch show.

A fictionalized Larry David turns tiny social annoyances into spectacularly awkward conflicts through stubbornness and terrible judgment.

Two cousins try to build a rap career in Atlanta while moving through money problems, race, fame, and surreal everyday life.

A mockumentary about employees at a mundane paper company, led by a painfully inappropriate but oddly lovable regional manager.

The one responsible member of a formerly rich family tries to hold everyone together after his father is arrested.

Four young women in New York stumble through work, relationships, money, friendship, and adulthood with uncomfortable honesty.

A family running a Los Angeles funeral home confronts death every day while struggling with love, resentment, identity, and change.

The original mockumentary follows an ordinary British office ruled by David Brent, a boss desperate to be funny and popular.

A young writer in London reconstructs what happened after a sexual assault and reexamines consent, friendship, memory, and identity.

Wealthy guests and resort workers collide during luxurious vacations where privilege, resentment, sex, and money slowly turn poisonous.

A fading sitcom actress lets a reality-TV crew film her attempted comeback, exposing humiliation, vanity, and the cruelty of show business.

Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key perform fast, inventive sketches about race, masculinity, pop culture, language, and social behavior.

After a public breakdown and spiritual retreat, a corporate employee returns determined to become a better person and change her company.

A wealthy family loses everything and must rebuild its life in a tiny town they once bought as a joke.

A fictionalized comedian navigates parenting, dating, embarrassment, and existential anxiety in loosely connected stories set in New York.

A legendary Las Vegas comedian and a young writer form a prickly partnership that evolves into rivalry, mentorship, and genuine attachment.

A washed-up sitcom star who is also a horse tries to revive his career while repeatedly sabotaging himself and the people around him.

Two broke best friends in New York turn jobs, dating, drugs, and everyday disasters into chaotic adventures.

An relentlessly optimistic local-government employee and her oddball colleagues try to improve their small Indiana town.

A woman wakes up in the afterlife and realizes she may not belong there, leading to a comic exploration of ethics and what makes people good.

Two Black women in Los Angeles navigate friendship, work, dating, ambition, and self-doubt while trying to figure out adulthood.

Nathan Fielder offers small businesses absurd, elaborate marketing schemes while keeping a perfectly straight face.

Short, aggressively awkward sketches push ordinary social situations into bizarre arguments, meltdowns, and unforgettable nonsense.

Dave Chappelle uses sketches and stand-up to satirize race, celebrity, politics, media, and American culture.

Two adult creators play their own awkward 13-year-old selves among real teenage actors in a painfully accurate middle-school comedy.

Two dysfunctional London flatmates narrate their selfish, anxious thoughts directly to the audience while repeatedly ruining their lives.

British government ministers and staff scramble through scandals and policy disasters while terrifying spin doctor Malcolm Tucker attacks everyone.

Nathan Fielder helps people rehearse difficult real-life situations through increasingly elaborate simulations that blur planning and reality.

A road-rage incident between two strangers escalates into an obsessive feud that wrecks both of their lives.

A depressed hitman discovers acting in Los Angeles and desperately tries to leave murder behind, but his past keeps following him.

A gifted chef returns to Chicago to run his family's chaotic sandwich shop, where grief, ambition, and kitchen pressure collide.

An upbeat American football coach is hired to manage an English soccer club despite knowing almost nothing about the sport.

A woman back in her Kansas hometown after loss finds friendship, music, and a community of outsiders who help her reconnect with life.

Three connected households navigate parenting, marriage, aging, and everyday chaos in a mockumentary-style family sitcom.

Five deeply selfish friends run a terrible Philadelphia bar and turn every petty scheme into a moral and practical disaster.

A shy New Yorker films ordinary city life while trying to explain simple tasks, wandering into funny, strange, unexpectedly moving human stories.

A working actress raises three daughters in Los Angeles while caring for family and trying to preserve a life of her own.

Four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma dream of leaving for California while dealing with friendship, grief, family, and community.

A struggling comedian's encounter with an obsessive woman becomes stalking, forcing him to confront trauma and his own complicated choices.

A washed-up, arrogant baseball pitcher returns to his hometown and tries to reclaim the fame he believes he deserves.

An American man and an Irish woman become a couple after an unexpected pregnancy, then discover how messy marriage and parenting can be.

A fake lawyer enrolls at a chaotic community college and forms a study group that becomes an unconventional family.

A fast-talking single mother and her teenage daughter navigate love, school, family expectations, and life in a quirky Connecticut town.