Best TV Shows for humor

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Best for humor

The Pitt, Season 2

4.8 feature score

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Safest pick

Rivals, Season 2

4.8 feature score

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Best overall product

Kylie, Season 1

4.5 overall score

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#1 The Pitt, Season 2
4.8

Humor is a quiet strength: reviewers mention gross-out laughs, workplace quips, and a deceptively funny tone that offsets the heavy medical drama. It does not turn the show into a...

Pros: episode structure, main cast performance

Cons: age appropriateness, plot clarity

#2 Rivals, Season 2
4.8

The comedy ranges from sharp dialogue to full physical farce, with many critics highlighting the season’s relentless laughs and eccentric English silliness.

Pros: score quality, critic appeal

Cons: character consistency, plot clarity

#3 Kylie, Season 1
4.8

The humor mostly comes through the interviewees, especially Nick Cave and Jason Donovan, whose candor adds funny, sharp moments amid the heavier material.

Pros: episode pacing, season finale quality

Cons: episode structure, season pacing

#4 Widow's Bay
4.6

Humor is one of the show’s clearest strengths: dry, dark, character-driven, and often working with the scares instead of against them.

Pros: episode structure, main cast performance

Cons: family friendliness, language level

#5 Dark Winds, Season 4
4.6

Humor appears in small, odd flashes rather than broad comedy. Reviewers respond to the season’s willingness to get weird, especially around Irene’s unsettling behavior.

Pros: costume design, directing quality

Cons: family friendliness, age appropriateness

#6 Adventure Time: Side Quests, Season 1
4.6

Humor is one of the strongest points across the set. Reviewers repeatedly call the season funny, silly, quotable, and full of bizarre comic ideas, with Ice King often singled out...

Pros: production design, animation quality

Cons: pilot episode quality, score quality

#7 The Boroughs, Season 1
4.6

Humor was a consistent plus. Reviewers liked the witty banter, dry senior-citizen comedy, and the way the show balances jokes with horror and grief.

Pros: main cast performance, acting quality

Cons: cancellation satisfaction, plot clarity

#8 What It Feels Like For A Girl, Season 1
4.5

Humor is a major part of the show’s appeal, even when the material is grim. Camp moments, bawdy jokes, and cutting one-liners keep the series from becoming purely bleak.

Pros: genre satisfaction, main cast performance

Cons: family friendliness, violence level

#10 It's Not Like That, Chapter 1
4.4

Light banter, awkward family moments, and Foley's easy humor keep the grief-heavy story from becoming oppressive without turning it into a broad comedy.

Pros: season finale quality, screenplay quality

Cons: character consistency, continuity

#11 Rick and Morty, Season 9
4.1

Humor remains a core strength, from scabrous jokes to dark comedy and refined punchlines. A few reactions flag individual jokes or the premiere as less laugh-heavy, so the comedy is...

Pros: critic appeal, genre satisfaction

Cons: family friendliness, age appropriateness

#12 Alice and Steve, Season 1
4.1

Humor is one of the season’s biggest draws, with many finding the feud, zingers, and social disasters very funny. A smaller group thought the comedy was only mild, dated, or...

Pros: directing quality, cast chemistry

Cons: family friendliness, language level

#13 The Bear, Season 5
4.1

Humor works best when it comes from Richie, kitchen pressure, or tragedy-comedy fusion. The Fak material is a recurring weak point for at least one reviewer, but several others found...

Pros: directing quality, cinematography

Cons: dialogue quality, plot originality

#14 Spider-Noir, Season 1
4.0

Humor often works when Cage's dry delivery, screwball banter, and odd physicality mesh with the mystery. Some critics find the broad comedy too sweaty or ineffective, but most positive reviews...

Pros: plot twists, cliffhanger effectiveness

Cons: family friendliness, age appropriateness

#15 Every Year After, Season 1
3.9

Humor is a modest bright spot when the ensemble is allowed to breathe. Viewers call out funny moments, Shantel-and-Jordie banter, and a few early reaction-worthy scenes.

Pros: directing quality, cinematography

Cons: character consistency, writing quality

#16 Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, Season 1
3.8

The comedy works best as dark, situational relief around Paula’s chaos. Several reviewers enjoy the jokes and banter, but others say the humor is too soft or too sparse for...

Pros: acting quality, main cast performance

Cons: family friendliness, age appropriateness

#17 I Will Find You
3.8

Humor is not a central strength, but one reviewer enjoyed the dry, no-nonsense energy of the FBI agents. Other jokes and quips were treated as limp or awkward.

Pros: cinematography, drama quality

Cons: writing quality, plot clarity

#18 The Listeners, Season 1
3.8

Humor appears lightly through Claire’s skeptical, wise-cracking edge rather than through jokes or comic set pieces.

Pros: main cast performance, critic appeal

Cons: character consistency, finale satisfaction

#19 The Season (2026), Season 1
3.5

Humor is light and intermittent rather than a major draw. The show can be a little funny, but it plays more as breezy soap than sharp comedy.

Pros: world-building, cinematography

Cons: finale satisfaction, season finale quality

#20 Louis C.K.: Ridiculous
3.4

The humor is intensely polarizing: fans call it hilarious, daring, and even masterpiece-level, while detractors find it creepy, repetitive, or built too heavily on bad words. Dark jokes about aging...

Pros: main cast performance, dialogue quality

Cons: accountability handling, family friendliness

#21 Rafa, Season 1
3.2

Humor is uneven. Decider and Tucson note funny, humanizing moments around young Rafa and his team teasing him, while The Guardian felt the series has almost no levity.

Pros: genre satisfaction, soundtrack quality

Cons: writing quality, plot clarity

#22 Mating Season, Season 1
2.9

Humor is the show’s biggest split: fans call it hilarious, bold, and well-timed, while detractors find the sex jokes repetitive, lazy, or gross without enough payoff. Enjoyment depends heavily on...

Pros: realism, cultural representation

Cons: age appropriateness, violence level

#24 Not Suitable for Work, Season 1
2.7

Humor is one of the most contested traits. Some pieces call it genuinely funny with laugh-out-loud punchlines, while others find the jokes flat, predictable, or not clever enough.

Pros: renewal interest, bingeability

Cons: plot clarity, soundtrack quality

#25 Human Vapor, Season 1
2.6

The show has a campy streak, but reviewers split on whether that helps. One found bits of humor and weirdness off-putting, while another still saw some fun in the serious...

Pros: plot originality, emotional impact

Cons: humor, writing quality

#26 Elle, Season 1
2.5

The humor rarely reaches Legally Blonde levels. Light comic energy and June Diane Raphael’s lines help, but the season often plays too mildly or too dramatically for a comedy.

Pros: cast chemistry, bingeability

Cons: episode length, episode pacing

#27 A Woman of Substance, Season 1
2.2

Humor is not a major strength. The show is often enjoyable as heightened melodrama, but multiple notices say it lacks the wit that might have made the camp sharper.

Pros: season finale quality, main cast performance

Cons: humor, plot clarity

#28 Star City, Season 1
2.0

Humor is one of the show’s weakest traits. More than one critic finds the Soviet setting so dour and humorless that some characters struggle to pop.

Pros: cliffhanger effectiveness, main cast performance

Cons: humor, family friendliness

#29 Summerwater, Season 1
1.5

The show is not treated as a source of comic relief. One critic’s comparison frames it as a Withnail and I-like ordeal stripped of humor.

Pros: supporting cast performance, season finale quality

Cons: season pacing, humor