Or, in my case, of repeating full scenes to people as a clueless, obsessive nerd. Nowadays, when we hear a “flesh wound,” a “ni!” or a “huge tracts of land,” our first thoughts are often of having full scenes repeated to us by clueless, obsessive nerds. It sucks that some of the shine has been taken off Holy Grail by its own overwhelming ubiquity.

Stars: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Connie Booth Here are the best comedies on Netflix as of May 2023. Again, for the purpose of these rankings I’m looking at how funny a movie is alongside how well made it is-meaning you might see some absolutely hilarious comedies that aren’t that well respected by critics coming in higher than better reviewed, more technically proficient films. Let’s take a quick trip through the funniest movies on Netflix right now. It might not be as deep of a roster as it was five years ago, but there’s still a great variety of comedies to choose from.Īnyway. To Netflix’s credit, they’ve been slowly building up a roster of legitimately good Netflix exclusives like The Mitchells vs. At this point we might have to sit through every one of those Adam Sandler movies to see if any are actually good enough to recommend.

At one point this list had 50 movies on it every month now it’s usually less than 30 movies deep. You’ll see a lot of Netflix originals on the list below, but not enough to make up for all the classics that have fallen out of rotation over the last few years. Netflix’s focus on original content is really starting to impact its lineup of movies.

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