The 11 Best Sitcoms On Netflix

The 11 Best Sitcoms on Netflix. Photo: decider

The absolute best sitcoms streaming on Netflix gathered by KnowInsiders. This list shows the very best sitcoms currently streaming on Netflix, not just original series.

More than just good sitcoms, many of the TV comedy series found here are considered the top-rated TV shows of all time, so prepare for marathons. Whether they're old or new, the best sitcoms are all streaming on Netflix.

Sometimes there's nothing better than binge-watching a sitcom to lift the spirits or to kick back and relax.

1. F.R.I.E.N.D.S.

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Created by: Elizabeth Meriwether

Cast: Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield, Damon Wayans Jr., Lamorne Morris, and Hannah Simone

F.R.I.E.N.D.S. undoubtedly has to top this list. Spread across 10 seasons, this series revolves around the day-to-day happenings of six adults- Rachel (Jennifer Aniston), Monica (Courtney Cox), Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow), Ross (David Schwimmer), Chandler (Mathew Perry), and Joey (Matt LeBlanc) and shows their journey from being reckless and haphazard to becoming mature and understanding adults. Written by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, this show is definitely worth your time. The title track 'I’ll be there for you' is immensely popular even today, according to Scoopwhoop.

2. Schitt's Creek

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Created by: Daniel Levy and Eugene Levy

Cast: Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Daniel Levy, Annie Murphy, Emily Hampshire, Chris Elliott, and Jenn Robertson

The best way we can sum up Schitt’s Creek is that it feels like one big bear hug. From the first “ew, David” uttered from Emmy-award-winning Annie Murphy’s lips, the viewer is hooked. This Canadian series born from the minds of father-son duo Eugene and Dan Levy tells the story of an uber-rich family that loses its millions and is left with one source of salvation: the town they bought as a joke years back. The reason Schitt’s Creek is so brilliant is that while it reads like a drama, the situations the characters often find themselves in are so ridiculous that they are hysterical. That, in turn, makes this intelligent and dry series a situational comedy that anyone with a semblance of a funny bone would enjoy. If you haven’t met — and subsequently fallen in love with — Schitt’s Creek, do so immediately! And if you have, there is no reason why you shouldn’t watch it again.

3. Community

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Creator: Dan Harmon

Cast: Joel McHale, Donald Glover, Alison Brie, Chevy Chase, Danny‌ Pudi, Yvette Nicole Brown, Gillian‌ Jacobs, Jim Rash, Ken Jeong, John‌ Oliver

There's a reason Dan Harmon's community college ensemble comedy amassed a devoted cult following for its six-season run, despite it nearly always being on the brink of cancelation. The series focuses on a lovable study group of misfits played by both comedy veterans and those then just on the brink of breaking out—including consummate cool guy Jeff Winger (Joel McHale), lovable ditz Britta Perry (Gillian Jacobs), TV-obsessed Abed Nadir (Danny Pudi), anxious genius Annie Edison (Alison Brie), tough-but-firm mother Shirley Bennett (Yvette Nicole Brown), high school jock Troy Barnes (Donald Glover), and the baffling, bored, former CEO Pierce Hawthorne (Chevy Chase)—as they navigate their way through Greendale Community College. It’s a sitcom that’s goofy and delirious, but forever a lesson in how to become a better person, Thrillist cited.

4. New Girl

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Created by: Elizabeth Meriwether

Cast: Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield, Damon Wayans Jr., Lamorne Morris, and Hannah Simone

Who’s that girl? It’s Jess! New Girl follows the adorkable adventures of Jess: a young woman who moves into a loft full of guys and adds that signature girl power containing sugar, spice and everything nice into their lives as a result. Starring Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield and more, we are grateful that this modern-day take on Friends entered our lives; and, more importantly, introduced us to the best drinking game ever created: True American, Decider wrote.

5. Big Mouth

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Created by: Nick Kroll, Andrew Goldberg, Mark Levin, and Jennifer Flacket

Cast: Nick Kroll, John Mulaney, Jessi Klein, Jason Mantzoukas, Jenny Slate, Fred Armisen, Maya Rudolph, and Jordan Peele

Netflix’s new animated series, from creators Nick Kroll, Andrew Goldberg, Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin, follows four friends through the earliest stages of puberty: Andrew (John Mulaney) sports inconvenient erections; Nick (Kroll) awaits his first pubic hairs; Jessi (Jessi Klein) begins menstruating at the Statue of Liberty; Jay (Jason Mantzoukas) conceives rococo ways to get off with his pillow. It’s wickedly bawdy—one episode’s end credits roll over an extended description of Andrew’s dad’s testicles—and devilishly funny—another uses a note-perfect Seinfeld send-up to explain the blowjob “head push” and the term “mons pubis”—but as implied by its theme song, Charles Bradley’s “Changes,” the series is sweeter than it appears at first blush. Its goal is to cut through the humiliations of sex, to break through the shame shellacked atop our “gross little dirtbag” selves to reveal the perfectly normal yearning underneath: for pleasure, for touch, for emotional connection; for approval, confidence, intimacy, love. By admitting, as Andrew does in the series premiere, that “everything is so embarrassing”—and not only for teens—Big Mouth squares a space in which there’s no question that can’t be asked, and no answer that applies the same way to everyone. It’s the streaming version of your sex-ed teacher’s anonymous slips of paper, except the laughs aren’t sniggers—they’re hard-won, empathic guffaws, Pastemagazine noted.

6. Glow

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Created by: Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch

Cast: Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin, Sydelle Noel, Brittney Young, Marc Maron, Britt Baron, Kate Nash, Gayle Rankin, Kia Stevens, Jackie Tohn, and Chris Lowell

The Netflix original series GLOW has one of the more original premises in recent TV history: It chronicles the life of a fledgling professional wrestling promotion called the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, as various aspiring actresses and generally women down on their luck audition and agree to take a stab at a wholly new field. The show about the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling is way more than just a parody of leotards and ‘80s hairdos. Over two seasons, it’s become a delicately balanced look at female friendship and competition, anchored by great performances from Alison Brie, Marc Maron, and Betty Gilpin, Vulture reported.

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7. The Good Place

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Created by: Michael Schur

Cast: Kristen Bell, Ted Danson, William Jackson Harper, Jameela Jamil, Manny Jacinto, and D’Arcy Carden

The Good Place is an American fantasy-comedy television series created by Michael Schur. It premiered on NBC on September 19, 2016, and concluded on January 30, 2020, after four seasons and 53 episodes.

Although the plot evolves significantly over the course of the series, the initial premise follows Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell), a woman welcomed after her death to "the Good Place", a highly selective heaven-like utopia designed and run by afterlife "architect" Michael (Ted Danson) as a reward for her righteous life. However, she realizes that she was sent there by mistake and must hide her morally imperfect past behavior while trying to become a better and more ethical person. William Jackson Harper, Jameela Jamil, and Manny Jacinto co-star as other residents of a Good Place, alongside D'Arcy Carden as Janet, an artificial being who assists the residents.

The Good Place received critical acclaim for its writing, acting, originality, setting, and tone. In addition, the first season's twist ending and the show's an exploration and creative use of ethics and philosophy have been positively singled out. Among other accolades, the series has received a Peabody Award and three Hugo Awards for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form. It has also been nominated for fourteen Primetime Emmy Awards, including the Outstanding Comedy Series for its third and fourth seasons, according to Ranker.

8. Sex Education

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Created by: Laurie Nunn

Cast: Asa Butterfield, Gillian Anderson, Ncuti Gatwa, Emma Mackey, Connor Swindells, Kedar Williams-Stirling, Alistair Petrie

For most people, being a teenager is awkward, weird, random, and confusing. Netflix’s 8-episode series Sex Education, created by Laurie Nunn, not only understands that but leans into it completely. The show stars Asa Butterfield as Otis, a sixth former (high schooler, for Americans — the series is set in the UK) who starts an underground therapy clinic for his peers. Or, as one classmate describes him, he is “that weird sex kid who looks like a Victorian ghost.”

This British comedy-drama series ultimately tries to educate people about sex in an entertaining way. This series doesn’t shy away to talk about anything important that is essential to enhance sexual awareness among its audience. This show casts Emma Mackey, Asa Butterfield, Ncuti Gatwa, Gillian Anderson, Aimee Lou Wood, Connor Swindells, Kedar Williams in lead roles.

9. Russian Doll

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Created by: Leslye Headland, Natasha Lyonne, and Amy Poehler

Cast: Natasha Lyonne, Greta Lee, Yul Vasquez, Charlie Barnett, and Elizabeth Ashley

The first major hit of 2019 for Netflix already deserves placement on this list. It’s the show everyone has been telling you to watch, the one that uses a Groundhog Day premise of a day lived over and over again to comment on trauma, isolation, and the modern midlife crisis. Natasha Lyonne plays a woman who keeps dying and reliving her 36th birthday party, and … well, that’s all you need to know. This is one you’ll probably do in a straight, 4-hour blast. And then you’ll want to watch it again.

10. Trailer Park Boys

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Created By: Mike Clattenburg

Cast: John Paul Tremblay, Robb Wells, Mike Smith, John Dunsworth, Patrick Roach

Fair warning: You will either love Trailer Park Boys or you will hate it. Its minimalistic hand-held camera style and improvisational dialogue are particularly halting and jerky in its early seasons, but once it settles in, the show develops into a bizarrely meta world that has spawned 10 seasons, 3 movies, and a live tour. Mike Clattenburg’s series, which launched in 2001 and has been running off and on ever since, follows the exploits of two dwellers of the Sunnyvale Trailer Park in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia — Julian (John Paul Tremblay) and his best friend Ricky (Robb Wells) — as they try and clean up their lives after a stint in prison. It doesn’t work, and the two are constantly getting involved in crazy schemes with their friend Bubbles (Mike Smith, sporting huge Coke-bottle lenses) and other colorful characters while trying to steer clear of the petty trailer park supervisor Jim Lahey (John Dunsworth) and his perpetually shirtless assistant Randy (Patrick Roach).

Make no mistake, these are Canada’s ultimate rednecks, and there is a ton of booze, weed, gunfire, and idiocy that fuels all of the show’s plots. Still, it’s hard not to get caught up in Julian and Ricky’s stories, especially since the two actors have such a fantastic rapport, and Ricky’s malapropisms never fail to delight. There are lots of catchphrases to latch onto, and the show never ceases to escalate its audacious humor, while never acknowledging it is anything other than real. Trailer Park Boys is not for everyone, but for some, there are few things better than having out with these sh— birds.

11. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

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Created By: Tina Fey & Robert Carlock

Cast: Ellie Kemper, Jane Krakowski, Tituss Burgess, Lauren Adams, Sara Chase

Listen, we all miss 30 Rock. That gloriously offbeat tone and pitch-perfect cast made for one of television’s all-time greatest sitcoms, and it will never be replaced. However, the Netflix original series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is the next best thing. 30 Rock showrunners Tina Fey and Robert Carlock turn their attention to a “fish out of water” story as Kimmy Schmidt follows Ellie Kemper’s titular character, a woman who was held captive for years in an underground bunker and is now trying to start her life anew in New York City. Not only is the show genuinely hilarious, carrying flourishes of the same snappy goofiness that made 30 Rock so much fun, but the series simultaneously works perfectly as a sexual assault survivor story, making it all the more bold and impactful. First and foremost, though, it’s incredibly funny, with Tituss Burgess turning in a genuine breakout performance. And you’ll have the theme song stuck in your head forever, Collider reported.

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