This list is regularly updated as movies rotate on and off of Prime Video. *New additions are indicated with an asterisk.
Who needs a good laugh? Prime Video has a deep catalog of comedies for every mood from romantic classics to modern blockbusters to the laugh-busters you loved when you were young. However, navigating their interface to find the best comedies can be tough, so we’re here to help Amazon connect with your funny bone with this updated list of the best comedies on Prime Video.
American Fiction
Year: 2023
Runtime: 1h 56m
Director: Cord Jefferson
First-time director Cord Jefferson won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for this 2023 dramedy about pop culture expectations of Black entertainment. The great Jeffrey Wright also landed his first Oscar nod for playing Monk Ellison, a writer who struggles to sell his books until he leans into exaggerated, stereotypical portrayals of Black life. Wright is the fuel to this film’s engine, but Sterling K. Brown is also strong, earning a surprise Oscar nod himself too.
American Fiction
Animal House
Year: 1978
Runtime: 1h 46m
Director: John Landis
Maybe you’ve heard of it? One of the most influential comedies of all time is a great example of a flick in which the fun everyone was clearly having on set translated to the big screen. People forget how cheaply made this movie was and how most of the major players weren’t stars at the time. They were just a bunch of friends getting together to do something funny. And they made movie history.
Animal House
Another Simple Favor
Year: 2025
Runtime: 2h 2m
Director: Paul Feig
It’s a little insane that MGM and Amazon didn’t give this a theatrical run after how well the first film did in theatres but that’s where we are in 2025. Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively return in a film that doesn’t quite match the original but is worth a look, nonetheless. And the costumes are breathtaking.
Another Simple Favor
Year: 2017
Runtime: 2h
Director: Michael Showalter
The wonderful screenwriters Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon basically told their own love story in this sweet and funny rom-com that Amazon picked up after audiences fell for it at Sundance. Nanjiani plays a loose variation on himself, a struggling stand-up who falls for a woman (Zoe Kazan) just before she becomes incredibly ill, forcing their relationship to move at an unusual pace. A smart, sweet, genuinely human film, this is one of the best romantic comedies of the 2010s.
The Big Sick
The Birdcage
Year: 1996
Runtime: 1h 56m
Director: Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols’ remake of the beloved La Cage aux Folles is a joyous comedy about acceptance and love that still works well today (which is not something you can about a lot of mid-‘90s comedies). Robin Williams and Nathan Lane are phenomenal as a gay couple forced to jump through hoops for their son’s new in-laws, played wonderfully by Gene Hackman and Dianne Wiest. It’s funny and smart from front to back.
The Birdcage
Bottoms
Year: 2023
Runtime: 1h 31m
Director: Emma Seligman
The writer/director of Shiva Baby avoided the sophomore slump with a film that feels completely different. Rachel Sennott and Emmy winner Ayo Edebiri star as a pair of high school girls who basically start a fight club to get closer to their crushes. Consistently funny in that surreal dark comedy way that Hollywood stopped doing about a quarter-century ago, it’s a movie that feels destined to be beloved by the generation to whom it’s most directly speaking to.
Bottoms
Dazed and Confused
Year: 1993
Runtime: 1h 42m
Director: Richard Linklater
Richard Linklater’s masterful comedy about teenage life is over thirty years old! The story of the final day of high school in 1976 has lost none of its heart or humor, thanks in large part to an incredible ensemble that includes future stars Ben Affleck, Milla Jovovich, Parker Posey, Joey Lauren Adams, and Matthew McConaughey. It’s hysterical and kind of perfect.
Dazed and Confused
*Death Becomes Her
Year: 1992
Runtime: 1h 43m
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future) directed this twisted horror comedy way back in 1992 (long before the current Broadway musical version) and its themes of superficiality and wealth have kept it current, along with fearless performances from Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, and Bruce Willis. The two actresses play rivals who drink a potion that promises eternal youth. It doesn’t go well.
Death Becomes Her
The General
Year: 1926
Runtime: 1h 15m
Directors: Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton
Truly classic comedies can be hard to find on streaming services, so take this chance to watch an all-timer, one of the best silent movies ever made. The phenomenally talented Buster Keaton stars and co-directs this action-adventure-comedy that has a little bit of something for everyone, and is really a great introduction to people who may not be familiar with Keaton’s remarkable skills.
The General
Hundreds of Beavers
Year: 2024
Runtime: 1h 48m
Director: Mike Cheslik
One of the biggest indie films of the year is also one of the most inspired, a slapstick comedy with almost no dialogue, an ode to the silent classics of the 1920s and 1930s. Self-financed and self-distributed, this labor of love is an unforgettably original piece of filmmaking, unlike anything else you could watch on Prime Video, that’s for sure.
Hundreds of Beavers
Knives Out
Year: 2019
Runtime: 2h 5m
Director: Rian Johnson
Daniel Craig’s mystery/comedy hasn’t been available on streamers other than Netflix (the home of Glass Onion) very often, so check it out! He stars as Detective Benoit Blanc, brought in to investigate the mysterious death of an author played by Christopher Plummer. Jamie Lee Curtis, LaKeith Stanfield, Don Johnson, Michael Shannon, Ana de Armas, and Chris Evans co-star in one of the most purely enjoyable films of the last decade.
Knives Out
The Little Hours
Year: 2017
Runtime: 1h 29m
Director: Jeff Baena
There’s a movie on Prime that features Aubrey Plaza as a profanity-spewing nun and you haven’t watched it yet? Jeff Baena’s Sundance hit also stars Alison Brie, Dave Franco, John C. Reilly, Molly Shannon, and Fred Armisen in a ridiculous, raunchy retelling of The Decameron. It’s reminiscent of classic Mel Brooks in the way it skewers classical storytelling structures with modern comic sensibilities. Watch it in honor or Baena, who passed in late 2024.
The Little Hours
Mallrats
Year: 1995
Runtime: 1h 33m
Director: Kevin Smith
After the massive success of 1994’s Clerks, Kevin Smith used his power to make another personal comedy, this one about a group of guys at a Jersey mall. Smith assembled one of his best casts here, including Jason Lee, Jeremy London, Shannen Doherty, Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, and Michael Rooker. Some of it is a bit dated but Kevin Smith’s joy in even getting to make this movie still comes through.
Mallrats
*Married to the Mob
Year: 1988
Runtime: 1h 39m
Director: Jonathan Demme
The great Jonathan Demme directed this comedy about a gangster’s widow (one of Michelle Pfeiffer’s best performances) who connects with an undercover FBI agent, played by Matthew Modine. Smart and very funny, it features excellent supporting work from Dean Stockwell, Mercedes Ruehl, and Alec Baldwin.
Married to the Mob
*Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Year: 1975
Runtime: 1h 29m
Director: Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam
During a hiatus between the third and fourth seasons of Monty Python’s Family Circus, the gang of mega-talented comedians decided to make movie history. Inspired by the King Arthur legend, Holy Grail is a timeless comedy, the rare kind of film that will still be making people laugh hundreds of years from now. And while the Monty Python boys were already famous, this film took them to another level, cementing their place in movie history.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
My Old Ass
Year: 2024
Runtime: 1h 28m
Director: Megan Park
If there’s any justice, this Sundance darling will make Maisy Stella a star. The delightfully charming actress plays Elliott, a woman at a turning point in her life, about to leave her family home and start out on her own. This naturally chaotic chapter is interrupted by a drug-induced visit from Elliott’s older self, played marvelously by Aubrey Plaza. This one will sneak up on you.
My Old Ass
Poor Things
Year: 2023
Runtime: 2h 21m
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Emma Stone took home a second Oscar for her fearless portrayal of a Bella Baxter in the latest mind-f*ck from the director of The Lobster and The Favourite. Bella is the Frankenstein-esque creation of a mad scientist (Willem Dafoe), who teaches her the way of the world, until she discovers sex and her own identity.
Poor Things
*Sixteen Candles
Year: 1984
Runtime: 1h 31m
Director: John Hughes
John Hughes defined a generation with his look at teenage life in the Chicago suburbs, and this remains one of his most beloved films (even if some of its humor hasn’t aged that well). Like a lot of Hughes movies, there’s something so likable and buoyant about Sixteen Candles, especially in the performance by Molly Ringwald (and the great Joan Cusack). Like Pretty in Pink, it’s kind of a time machine to your childhood. (Or your mom’s childhood.)
Sixteen Candles
Some Like It Hot
Year: 1959
Runtime: 1h 56m
Director: Billy Wilder
One of the best comedies ever made. It’s as simple as that. When someone in your life is struggling to watch anything made before 2000, introduce them to this Billy Wilder classic, a movie that is so good that it works as a gateway drug to classic cinema. It may have been made in 1959, but the perfect performances by Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and Marilyn Monroe, as well as Wilder’s masterful timing, mean that it’s just as funny as it was almost seven decades ago.
Some Like It Hot
They Came Together
Year: 2014
Runtime: 1h 23m
Director: David Wain
This movie is hysterical. A parody of the rom-com from the creators of Wet Hot American Summer, this unbelievably funny movie features two of the best screen performances from Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler. The direct plot is a parody of You’ve Got Mail, but it’s not the only reference in a film that features more laughs per minute than most comedies released in the near-decade since.
They Came Together
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