Best comedies on Peacock

Peacock's comedy shelf is where Monty Python lives. The Pythons take two of the top three spots, which is the correct number, and their 2014 farewell show is further down the page. Around them: a prep school over Christmas break, a manhunt through the New Zealand bush, a Dublin soul band, and Shrek, twice. For the full movie shelf beyond one genre, the Peacock what-to-watch page updates daily, and the scary side of the catalog has its own list in the Peacock horror top ten.

The 10 best comedies on Peacock right now

1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

91 min · IMDb 8.2 · RT 92 · Metascore 91

King Arthur recruits his Knights of the Round Table and goes looking for the Grail, by way of the Black Knight, who loses all four limbs and keeps fighting. The best-rated comedy on Peacock on IMDb and on Metascore, and 91 minutes long.

2. Life of Brian (1979)

94 min · IMDb 8.0 · RT 96 · Metascore 77

Brian is born in the stable next door to the famous one and spends his life being mistaken for the Messiah. Romans, a shrill mother, a splinter group with an acronym problem. A 96 on Rotten Tomatoes, four points above Holy Grail.

3. Shrek (2001)

90 min · IMDb 7.9 · RT 89 · Metascore 84

An ogre, a talking donkey and a princess guarded by a dragon. Fairy-tale parody, the most-voted title on this page at 19,510 TMDB votes, and the one for a room with kids in it.

4. The Holdovers (2023)

133 min · IMDb 7.9 · RT 97 · Metascore 82

A prep school instructor nobody likes is stuck on campus over Christmas break with the students who have nowhere to go and a head cook carrying her own grief. 1970s New England, tagged melancholy. The longest film in the top ten at 133 minutes, and the one to queue for the holidays.

5. Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)

101 min · IMDb 7.8 · RT 97 · Metascore 81

A city kid and his foster uncle go on the run in the New Zealand bush and a national manhunt follows them. Take this over The Holdovers for a group: the same 97 on Rotten Tomatoes, 32 minutes shorter, and it has a wild boar.

6. The Commitments (1991)

118 min · IMDb 7.6 · RT 91 · Metascore 73

Jimmy Rabbitte puts a soul band together in a north Dublin slum, starting with three singers from his own back yard and a lead named Deco. Wilson Pickett covers, and the oldest film in the top ten after the two Pythons.

7. Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2010)

89 min · IMDb 7.5 · RT 86 · Metascore 65

Two hillbillies at their West Virginia cabin get mistaken for killers by a group of camping college kids, and the kids keep dying by accident. Horror comedy, and the shortest film in the top ten at 89 minutes.

8. Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

113 min · IMDb 7.5 · RT 73 · Metascore 67

An IRS agent starts hearing a narrator describe his life, and the narrator is a novelist with writer's block who plans to kill him off. The lowest Rotten Tomatoes score in the top ten at 73, and IMDb users rate it level with Tucker and Dale.

9. The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025)

100 min · IMDb 7.4 · RT 97 · Metascore 78

A lottery winner alone on a Welsh island pays his favourite folk act to play his house, and the two musicians are former lovers who have not spoken in years. The newest film in the top ten and the smallest sample, at 230 TMDB votes.

10. Shrek 2 (2004)

92 min · IMDb 7.4 · RT 89 · Metascore 75

Shrek meets Fiona's parents, and the trip to the in-laws brings a potion-brewing Fairy Godmother, Prince Charming and an ogre-killer named Puss in Boots. The same 89 on Rotten Tomatoes as the first one.

More comedies on Peacock worth a look

• Monty Python Live (Mostly) (2014). 138 min · TMDB 7.2 (89 votes).
  The Pythons' last night on stage, filmed: Cleese, Idle, Gilliam, Jones and Palin doing the sketches one more time.
• Psych: The Movie (2017). 88 min · TMDB 7.2.
  Shawn and Gus get the gang back together over the holidays after an assailant targets one of their own. A 100 on Rotten Tomatoes.
• Psych 2: Lassie Come Home (2020). 89 min · TMDB 7.0.
  Lassiter is ambushed and left for dead, and Shawn and Gus come back for him.
• Psych 3: This Is Gus (2021). 96 min · TMDB 6.9.
  A shotgun wedding before Baby Guster arrives, with an estranged husband to track down first.
• Begin Again (2014). 104 min · TMDB 7.2.
  A songwriter dumped by her boyfriend and a record label executive record an album on the streets of New York.
• Despicable Me 2 (2013). 98 min · TMDB 7.0.
  Gru gets recruited by the Anti-Villain League. Single father, a bakery, a first date.
• Stuck in Love (2013). 97 min · TMDB 7.4.
  A novelist, his ex-wife and their two teenagers over one year, Thanksgiving included. The one for this month.
• Tai-Chi Master (1993). 96 min · TMDB 7.2.
  Two friends banished from the Shaolin Temple end up on opposite sides of a civil war. Kung fu with a comedy tag.
• Limbo (2020). 104 min · TMDB 7.0.
  A Syrian musician waits for asylum on a remote Scottish island, carrying his grandfather's oud. A Metascore of 83, the highest in this section.
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023). 93 min · TMDB 7.6.
  Two Brooklyn plumbers go down a pipe. A 7.6 from audiences on TMDB against a 46 Metascore.
• The Stunt Man (1980). 131 min · TMDB 6.6.
  A fugitive hides out as the stunt man on a film set and falls for the leading lady under a director who enjoys the leverage. A 90 on Rotten Tomatoes.
• Finding Emily (2026). 111 min · TMDB 6.9.
  A lovesick musician gets the wrong number for his dream girl and recruits a psychology student to find her. The newest title on the page.
• Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie (2023). 97 min · TMDB 6.8.
  Monk comes out of retirement when his stepdaughter's fiancé dies in a bungee jump. A 92 on Rotten Tomatoes.
• Sliding Doors (1998). 99 min · TMDB 6.5.
  A London publicist catches her train in one timeline and misses it in the other, and the film follows both.
• Polite Society (2023). 104 min · TMDB 6.3.
  A teenage martial artist plans a wedding heist to get her sister out of a marriage. A 91 on Rotten Tomatoes.
• The Phoenician Scheme (2025). 102 min · TMDB 6.5.
  An industrialist names his daughter, a nun, as sole heir, and the tycoons and assassins show up. Espionage as dark comedy.
• Kajillionaire (2020). 105 min · TMDB 6.3.
  Two con artists raised their daughter to scam, then a stranger joins the heist and the family stops working. A 90 on Rotten Tomatoes.
• Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025). 124 min · TMDB 6.3.
  Bridget, widowed, back at work and on the apps, with a younger man in pursuit and Daniel still around.
• Better Watch Out (2017). 89 min · TMDB 6.7.
  A babysitter defends a twelve-year-old from a home invasion that is not what it looks like. Christmas horror comedy, filed here for December.
• The Grinch (2018). 85 min · TMDB 6.9.
  The animated one. Peacock also has the 2000 live-action How the Grinch Stole Christmas, 105 min and a TMDB 6.8, so the household can have the argument.

Pick one before the popcorn goes cold

Comedy night stalls on the same question every time: something for the kids, or something with Romans. Start a Peacock swipe room, let everyone swipe through the deck, and watch whichever one matches. The concessions machine handles the snacks.