Amazon Prime video has many best films. Owing to the fact that this is a great platform for a lot of people to indulge in their entertainment time, Amazon Prime as a streaming service has always kept its expectations to the point. People always enjoy laughing, and it would not be wrong to say that the most searched movies on streaming services like Amazon Prime would be for the finest comedy movies.
Hilarious movies are always in fashion! However, it would definitely not be great to search for the movies that we are looking for, and not find the authentic ones! So, let us list out the top 31 Best Comedies on Amazon Prime starting from the bottom to the higher scoreboard.
31 Best Comedy Movies on Amazon Prime Video:
31. Ocean’s 8
- Director: Gary Ross
- Writer: George Clayton Johnson, Gary Ross, Olivia Milch
- Cast: Anne Hathaway, Sandra Bullock, Mindy Kaling, Cate Blanchett, Rihanna, Sarah Paulson, Helena Bonham Carter, Awkafina
- IMDb Rating: 6.3/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 68%
This Gary Ross directed American comedy film is about a heist. It is a part of Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s trilogy. The movie’s cast is terrific and did a great job.
Ocean’s 8 Plot:
Danny Ocean’s sister, Debbie Ocean, a con artist, gets released from jail and soon starts executing her plan of million dollars heist. She gathers a group of seven women to steal a $150 million dollars diamond necklace from the New York City’s yearly Met Gala. Will they succeed or will they fail?
30. Porky’s
- Director: Bob Clark
- Writer: Bob Clark
- Cast: Dan Monahan, Kim Cattrall, Alex Karras
- IMDb Rating: 6.2/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 35%
Porky’s Plot:
A few Floridian high school boys visit a titular strip club to lose their virginity, however, the owner of the club intends on only taking their money and humiliating the boys. Realizing the humiliation, they want to revenge on Porky and his brother who is a sheriff. Will they succeed in it? Or get further humiliated?
29. Paper Moon
- Director: Peter Bogdanovich
- Writer: Alvin Sargent
- Cast: Ryan O’Neal, Tatum O’Neal, Madeline Kahn
- IMDb Rating: 8.1/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 93%
Ryan O’Neal and Tatum O’Neal, the father and daughter duo, Ryan plays the character named Moses, and Tatum plays the character named Addie.
Paper Moon Plot:
Moses is from Kansas; he is a con man. He meets a nine-year-old girl named Addie; she is an orphan. Feeling bad for Addie, Moses makes her promise to send her home to her aunt who was living in Missouri. On the journey, they two become a great team and they start conning people on the journey.
28. Napoleon’s Dynamite
- Director: Jared Hess
- Writer: Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess
- Cast: Jon Heder, Jon Gries, Aaron Ruell
- IMDB Rating: 6.9/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 72%
Napoleon’s Dynamite Plot:
A boy named Napolean is a strange teenager and does not fit in his school. His home was a place that was even more bizarre, because of an uncle who seemed strange. Not fitting into any of one’s social circles is definitely not what one would want.
Desperately looking to make a connection with someone to have a new life, he makes friends with a boy called Pedro, a new kid in the school, though he’s new campaign is already being set up to make him the class president.
27. My Name Is Nobody
- Director: Tonino Valerii
- Writer: Ernesto Gastaldi
- Cast: Henry Fonda, Terence Hill, Jean Martin
- IMDb Rating: 7.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 100%
My Name Is Nobody Plot:
The character of the show named Jack Beauregard is from the West, he is considered to be the fastest gunslinger in the West for a very long time. However, all that he wishes to do is to retire in Europe.
As he plans on retiring from his position, he meets a man who has a weird name- Nobody! Nobody seems to be a great fan of Jack and he takes him as his idol. Nobody wants his idol to take over the entire Wild Bunch and go into a blaze of glory.
26. McLintock
- Director: Andrew V.McLaglen
- Writer: James Edward Grant
- Cast: John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Yvonne De Carlo
- IMDb Rating: 7.1/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 57%
About McLintock:
The wealthiest man of his territory, George Washington “GW” McLintock, is a rancher as well as a cattle baron by profession. No matter how wealthy is, he has an estranged wife and has to deal with her, along with spending his time keeping his properties to himself, also maintaining peace between the neighbors.
The movie is a mess and filled with contradicting matters, John Wayne stars in the movie. McLintock is a slapstick Western! The Native Americans are played mostly by the white actors who have some kind of red face.
However, this movie is one of that eras in which the Natives were sympathetic. In the movie, we see how GW takes on the side of the Natives and goes against the Government. The movie also portrays how a woman is punished by being spanked!
25. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
- Director: Wes Anderson
- Writer: Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach
- Cast: Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchett
- IMDb Rating: 7.3/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 56%
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou Plot:
An oceanographer is the main character of the show. Steve Zissou and his crew members once while shooting a documentary, something terrible happened! A rare shark gets to one of his crew members and kills him.
This came as a big shock for Zissou, immediately he plotted for revenge against the shark by making a document of him tracking down the shark and taking revenge for his crew member’s life.
However, in the beginning, he made a wrong choice by selecting a misfit crew for the adventure, and eventually, they had to face many obstacles, both aquatic and not related aquatic too.
24. Late Night
- Director: Nisha Ganatra
- Writer: Mindy Kaling
- Cast: Emma Thompson, Mindy Kaling, John Lithgow
- IMDb Rating: 6.5/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 79%
Late Night Plot:
The main role plays as a popular host in a TV show, being scared of getting replaced the host hires a new writer. The main challenge is that the newly hired writer is an Indian American woman, whereas the rest of the writing staff are white men. Some tragic things do happen in between, and the host will have to hire her new writer due to the reaction of her writer which she did not approve of.
However, in the movie we see how the host apologizes to the writer for her haste and illogical move and hires the writer back into the job. The show gets back on the air with the same zeal. As a year passes by, there are great improvements in both the host’s as well as in the writer’s career.
23. The Kentucky Fried Movie
- Director: John Landis
- Writer: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
- Cast: Nill Boxby, George Lazenby, Evan C. Kim
- IMDb Rating: 6.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 81%
About The Kentucky Fried Movie:
Though the name of the movie itself states “The Kentucky Fried Movie” it cannot be completely called a movie. There are a series of unconnected scenes bringing in a connection. There are many genres that are part of the movie, like fake commercials, kung fu flicks, absurd news reports, and educational films.
Celebrity bit parts, like Donald Sutherland, George Lazenby, and many more are in dozens. Though the scene seems to be very chaotic, it is really funny as these chaotic items find their way in and out of the scene.
22. John Tucker Must Die
- Director: Betty Thomas
- Writer: Jeff Lowell
- Cast: Jesse Metcalfe, Sophia Bush, Ashanti
- IMDb Rating: 5.7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 27%
John Tucker Must Die Plot:
John Tucker is a basketball player in high school, he is dating three different girls from his school, and he thinks that he is doing a great job, hiding it well from each of the other girls. Do you think that it is possible? Is it possible to hide such scams?
He is certainly successful in asking each of the girls to keep the relationship a secret and not let anybody else know about it. But as the saying goes ‘You cannot fool the same person all the time”, eventually the three girls find out the truth about being cheated on by John. They decide to team up together along with a new girl and come up with plans so that they can publicly humiliate John!
21. Jennifer’s Body
- Director: Diablo Cody
- Writer: Diablo Cody
- Cast: Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Adam Brody
- IMDb Rating: 5.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 45%
About Jennifer’s Body:
A high school cheerleader, Jennifer, gets possessed by a demon, and she starts to devour her male classmates. Needy, is Jennifer’s nerdy friend, she realizes that something is not right about Jennifer and in the movie, it is up to Needy to get Jennifer out of her possession by the demon.
The movie was released when Megan Fox was struggling as both her most popular and most reviled, resulting in the movie being a big flop. However, after the movement of #MeToo caught pace the movie started gaining fame. This movie is now recognized as a feminist cult classic!
20. Jay And Silent Bob Reboot
- Director: Kevin Smith
- Writer: Kevin Smith
- Cast: Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith, Harley Quinn Smith
- IMDb Rating: 5.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 66%
Jay And Silent Bob Reboot Plot:
Jay and Silent Bob get arrested and then get swindled by a lawyer, the two of them get tricked into signing their own right with their own names. Due to the sign, they both get to have a cross-country adventure, the final scene of the reboot is shot at San Diego Chronicon.
As they travel to San Diego, they discover that Jay has a daughter, and she is named Millennium “Milly” Faulken, she joins the journey later. The film takes place on a roadshow journey.
19. His Girl Friday
- Director: Howard Hawks
- Writer: Charles Lederer
- Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy
- IMDb Rating: 7.9/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 98%
Cary Grant and Rosalind Russel share a sizzling chemistry in the movie “His Girl Friday“, this movie is one of the most recognized and acclaimed screwball comedy movies of all time on Amazon Prime.
His Girl Friday Plot:
The story revolves around a newspaper editor who is called Walter Burns who is on the verge of losing his ace reporter. He also finds out that his ex-wife, Hildy Johnson got engaged to another man.
The show further revolves around a case of murder of Earl Williams, as it was seen how Burns was desperately trying to win his ex-wife back into his life. He was not happy that his wife was moving on, whereas he was stuck in his past and waiting for her to get back into his life.
18. Heathers
- Director: Michael Lehmann
- Writer: Daniel Waters
- Cast: Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty
- IMDb Rating: 7.2/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 93%
Heathers Plot:
The girl Veronica is part of a clique along with three girls who are the most popular in school. They are all named Heather, at first even though she wanted to be in the famous gang, later she started getting uncomfortable and wanted to go back to her nerdy gang of friends.
She meets a new student who is compelling, named J.D, leading her in a dark direction. The story of the movie is a dark humor teen comedy classic making it one of the best comedy movies on Amazon Prime.
17. Guess Who
- Director: Kevin Rodney Sullivan
- Writer: David Ronn, Jay Scherick, Peter Tolan
- Cast: Ashton Kutcher, Zoe Saldana, Bernie Mac
- IMDb Rating: 5.9/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 42%
About Guess Who:
“Guess Who“, is a remake movie of the original screenplay “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” there is a major twist in the movie. In the first film, it can be seen that a white woman is introducing her black boyfriend to her family, whereas in the remake movie, the main concentration is given to a Black woman introducing her boyfriend who is white, the boyfriend is played by Ashton Kutcher, the avatar of mid-aughts whiteness.
16. The Grand Budapest Hotel
- Director: Wes Anderson
- Writer: Wes Anderson
- Cast: Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Tony Revolori
- IMDb Rating: 8.1/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 92%
The Grand Budapest Hotel Plot:
A writer encounters, Zero Moustafa, the owner of the dilapidated Grand Budapest Hotel, recalling his days when the hotel was bringing great glory.
In the story we see this man’s journey as a lobby boy under the tutelage of Monsieur Gustave H, Monsieur was the concierge of the Grand Budapest Hotel. We see how Gustave indulges in unusual relationships, the priceless painting, and how everything changed politically on the Alpine land which surrounds the hotel due to the war.
15. Girls Just Want to Have Fun
- Director: Alan Metter
- Writer: Amy Spies
- Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker, Helen Hunt, Lee Montgomery
- IMDb Rating: 5.9/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 38%
Girls Just Want to Have Fun Plot:
As an army brat, Janey moves to Chicago as her father gets retired from active duty. She is quick at making friends, and she becomes friends with Lynn, who is her classmate. They became close after they realized that both of them love the show called “Dance TV”.
Later on, they hear that “Dance TV” is looking for potential couples to join the show, and the two friends try to join the show. However, there is one problem, which is a major problem, that is Janey’s father won’t give her permission for a so-called Dance show!
14. Funny Girl
- Director: William Wyler
- Writer: Isobel Lennart
- Cast: Barbara Streisand, Omar Sharif, Walter Pidgeon
- IMDb Rating: 7.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 93%
Funny Girl Plot:
The story of Funny Girl revolves around the story of Broadway star and comedian Fanny Brice. Fanny can be seen working and moving her way up through the theater scene in New York.
Well, career is not the only aspect of her life, along with her paving her way up to her passion she is also navigating her relationship with her husband, which seems to have been complex and turbulent.
13. Dude, Where’s My Car
- Director: Danny Leiner
- Writer: Philip Stark
- Cast: Ashton Kutcher, Seann William Scott, Jennifer Garner
- IMDb Rating: 5.5/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 17%
Dude, Where’s My Car Plot:
The two characters Jesse and Chester are two potheads who are always a party and do not belong to the smart criteria. Once they both wake up with splitting headaches after a party, they do not remember what happened during the party, they seem to have lost their memory about the party night.
However, everything seems normal around them, in their apartment, even the answering machine has messages from their girlfriends to give them a ‘special treat’! This is when they realize that Jesse’s car is nowhere to be found and they decide to track down all the places they had been to so that they could use the car to get their ‘special treat’. On their way, they happen to see strange things, places, and people.
12. Doris Day In The Pajama Game – A Musical Comedy Classic!
- Director: George Abbott, Stanley Donen
- Writer: Based on a 1954 novel by Richard Pike Bissell
- Cast: Doris Day, John Raitt, Carol Haney
- IMDb Rating: 6.7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 87%
If you are wondering if this movie’s name is really that big! Oh yes, it is. However, it is widely known as “The Pajama Game“.
Doris Day In The Pajama Game – A Musical Comedy Classic! Plot:
The scenario is where the workers demand a seven and a half-cent raise in their salary. The workers belonging to a pajama factory. However, a very typical and stereotypical boss figure enlists a supervisor named Sid Sorokin to suppress the demand of the workers.
While Sid is on the mission of fulfilling the duty assigned to him, he meets a man named Babe Williams who is a worker in the factory. As a worker, Babe Williams supports the raise that is being demanded. Though the two are working and expecting different outcomes they seem to have a connection, which seems weird.
11. Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot
- Director: Gus Van Sant
- Writer: John Callahan
- Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara
- IMDb Rating: 6.8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 77%
About Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot:
A tragicomic biopic on a cartoonist John Callahan is the story of “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot“, this is an indie film by Gus Van Sant. In the story, we see how Callahan meets with a car accident and becomes quadriplegic(paralysis of all four limbs).
He is a predator of alcohol and the accident does not change the fact of his drinking, however, he is forced into treatment and during the process, he discovers his talents in the drawing! Well, this discovered talent was one that created macabre and irreverent comics for many years including Nicktoon ‘Pelswick’.
10. Despicable Me
- Director: Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin
- Writer: Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio
- Cast: Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand
- IMDb Rating: 7.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 81%
Despicable Me Plot:
A supervillain named Gru is planning the biggest heist that nobody would have even thought about and that is to steal the moon! oh, yes the MOON. However, all the gadgets and the villainy play that he puts does not scare the three orphan girls that gets into his house, they seem to like him and show a lot of love for him.
This is shocking to him as they are distracting him from completing his mission. Minions are his helpers, and these minions though they do not talk the language, they are the cutest and funniest in the whole movie.
9. Damn Yankees
- Director: George Abbott, Stanley Donen
- Writer: George Abbott
- Cast: Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston
- IMDb Rating: 7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 78%
Damn Yankees Plot:
Joe Boyd is a middle-aged man and a big fan of the Lousy Washington Senators. Joe is such a diehard fan that he is even willing to sell his soul if he is asked to, to see the Senators beat the ‘Damn Yankees”.
The devil appears in the form of Appelgate. Joe is been tempted and made a deal, that is he can become a young and talented baseball player who will help his favorite team win against the Yankees. Well, what is the other side of the deal? If he stays on the team of Senator throughout the season, his soul will belong to the devil.
8. Coming 2 America
- Director: Craig Brewer
- Writer: Kenya Barris, Barry W.Balustein, David Sheffield
- Cast: Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Leslie Jones
- IMDb Rating: 5.3/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 49%
Coming 2 America Plot:
Coming 2 America is a comedy classic, it depicts the new adventures of Prince Akeem and Semmi. They find out that Akeem is a father to a son who is living in Queens, this happened when they were on an adventure a long time ago.
After hearing the news of Akeem’s son they travel back to New York to find the son. In the meantime, in Zamunda’s neighboring country of Nexdoria, one of them gets married to Akeem’s family and takes over the country.
7. Brittany Runs A Marathon
- Director: Paul Downs Colaizzo
- Writer: Paul Downs Colaizzo
- Cast: Jillian Bell, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Michael Watkins
- IMDb Rating: 6.8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 88%
Brittany Runs A Marathon Plot:
Belonging to New York, a city that never sleeps, Brittany is a person who loves to party hard as she is in her late 20s. She has an Adderall prescription and she visits the doctor, unfortunately, she does not have great news waiting for her. Brittany discovers that she is unhealthy and overweight, and she will not be able to continue like that.
She starts going to the gym but gets priced out of the gym, which leaves her to resort to methods that won’t cost her any money. She starts running at smaller scales to attain her goal but later gets an invitation to compete in the vaunted New York Marathon.
6. Borat Subsequent Movie Film
- Director: Jason Woliner
- Writer: Sacha Baron Cohen
- Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen, Maria Bekalova, Rudy Giuliani
- IMDb Rating: 6.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 85%
Borat Subsequent Movie Film Plot:
Approximately after 15 years after the event that took place in the first “Borat” movie. Reporter Borat Margaret is bought out for a new assignment, which is to hand over a gift from Kazakhstan to President Donald Trump.
However, things don’t go as planned after reaching America. His daughter, Tutar, gets stowed away on the trip. Borat and his daughter make a backup plan to offer her as a gift to Vice President Mike Pence.
5. The Big Sick
- Director: Michael Showalter
- Writer: Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani
- Cast: Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter
- IMDb Rating: 7.5/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 98%
The Big Sick Plot:
Big Sick is based on a real-life story of star Kumail Nanjiani and his present wife Emily V, the genre of the story is tragicomic. Kumail is a stand-up comic, he starts to date, Emily. When things start getting serious he worries about how his parents who are from Pakistan might react to him dating a white woman.
Later Emily falls sick, during this time Kumail gets a chance to bond with her family and realizes that he has fallen in love with Emily, a chance he got due to her Big Sick.
4. The Big Lebowski
- Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
- Writer: Coen brothers
- Cast: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi
- IMDb Rating: 8.1/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 83%
The Big Lebowski Plot:
The lovable slacker Jeffrey Lebowski’s rug gets destroyed as he is mistaken by a bunch of goons for someone else. They were looking for another Jeffrey Lebowski. He starts looking for compensation, he is being helped by bowling buddies, who get spiraled down a rabbit hole!
3. The Bad News Bears
- Director: Michael Ritchie
- Writer: Bill Lancaster
- Cast: Walter Matthau, Tatum O’Neal, Vic Morrow
- IMDb Rating: 5.8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 97%
The Bad News Bears Plot:
A drunk ex-minor league pitcher, Morris Buttermaker gets appointed as the in charge of the Bears. Bears is a little league team that is filled with seemingly talentless outcasts.
The team is aware of their weakness and wanting a good player Buttermaker recruits Amanda Wurlitzer who is an 11-year-old girl, she is the daughter of an ex-flame with a cannon for an arm. Slowly these kids start to get better.
2. Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
- Director: Steve Oedekerk
- Writer: Steve Oedekerk
- Cast: Jim Carrey, Ian McNeice, Simon Callow
- IMDb Rating: 6.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 25%
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls Plot:
“When Nature Calls” is about Ace Ventura doing an investigation on the whereabouts of a white bat that is missing. The white bat is considered to be a sacred animal, this bat is required to bring peace between the two African tribes that have been warring.
1. (500) Days Of Summer
- Director: Marc Webb
- Writer: Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber
- Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, Chloe Grace Moretz
- IMDb Rating: 7.7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 85%
(500) Days Of Summer Plot:
Tom is a romantic but emotionally immature, Summer is a woman who does not believe in the existence of true love. They both are a couple for 500 days, and after that Summer dumps Tom. Tom is not aware of why he got dumped and starts looking for answers, on this journey of finding answers he also discovers harsh truths about himself, also figures out what his real passion is.
Worth It?
These movies are definitely worth watching, as they are the finest comedies and will have a good laugh. These are the best comedy movies on Amazon Prime mentioned above, they vary in different genres of comedy itself, like, dark humor, influential comedies, and tragicomic. However, there are very few movies that can give us the feeling of good comic timing and the feeling that the title character has done justice to their role.
