If you’re looking for a break from the stresses of everyday life, open up your streaming service and check out one of the best comedies of winter 2024.
Tickle Your Funny Bone With a Winter 2024 Streaming Comedy
Today’s streaming services offer people the opportunity to enjoy high-quality entertainment from the comfort of their own homes. You can become immersed in Oscar-winning movies, play Juicy Stakes Casino and other online games, learn from documentaries and more. If you’re looking for a dose of laughter, you have you choice of hundreds of comedy films and TV shows that will lighten your heart and allow you to forget the stresses of the modern world.
Some of the top streaming comedies of Winter 2024 include:
Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)
The appearance of Monty Python’s Life of Brian on Netflix is an event to be celebrated by a new generation (actually several generations removed) of movie-goers. The film spares nothing held sacred in its mixture of early Christianity, the history of Roman rule over Israel, romance, rebellion and…..just about every plot imaginable.
The movie follows Brian, a ner do well who is actually a disciple of Jesus as the crowds start to confuse him with Jesus. He soon finds himself the object of the messiah-worshiping crowd – and the target of Roman wrath. Brian, as in the story of the real founder of Christianity, is sentenced to be crucified and the movie ends with him singing “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” together with his co-crucified buddies.
Throughout the movie the lunacy of crowd madness and the willingness of people to “follow the leader” is highlighted but in the end, Life of Brian manages to achieve its goal of offending every dreed and denomination equally.
Hazbin Hotel
Hazbin Hotel is Amazon Prime’s newest adult animated musical series that follows the efforts of Charlie Morningstar, the princess of Hell to find a way to get demons into Heaven. Morningstar thinks that, with a little bit of effort, the demons can be rehabilitated. She opens a rehab hotel to help them become better people and really does believe that they can redeem themselves.
However, at the same time, she is attempting to find a solution to Hell’s overpopulation crisis which is typically handled by angels who come down from Heaven periodically to kill demons. Charlie finds herself teaming up with powerful Radio Demon Alastor who decides to amuse himself by joining the effort.
Legally Blond
This classic from 1989 is now streaming on HBO Max, offering a light-hearted look into how a ditzy blond gets into Harvard Law School, shows up the stupid jerk who dumped her and takes on the courtroom in a spectacular display of how being yourself is always the best way to go.
Elle elevates from California sorority queen to legal eagle and in the process, saves an innocent woman from jail and establishes herself – along with her pooch Bruiser – as a force with which to be contended.
Elemental
In recent years Disney has been showing that it’s not afraid to experiment in new directions and Elemental takes that experimentation to a new level.
The animated film follows Ember, a Fire Element, and Wade, a Water Element, as they try to save a convenience store owned by Ember’s father Bernie in Element City. In their efforts, they discover a hole in a dam that allows ships’ wave runoff to flood the city’s plumbing and save the city.
You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah
Adam Sandler returns to movie-making in You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah in which he stars along with his real-life wife and real-life daughters. It tells the story of two best friends who vie for the attentions of the same boy as they prepare for their Bat Mitzvas (rite of passage for Jewish girls). The Bat Mitzva ceremony and party fade into the background as the girls get into crazier and crazier situations in order to advance their respective crushes on one boy. You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah is a coming-of-age comedy finds fresh humor in as two girls navigate their entrance into adolescence.
Two and a Half Men
The Peacock streaming service has access to all the old NBC shows so it can offer a wide selection of oldies-but-goodies including Everyone Loves Raymond, Parks and Recreation, The Office, Frasier and 30 Rock.
But if you don’t mind a bit of raunchy humor, you can binge on the 12 seasons of Two Two and a Half Men which stretched the limits of how far sexual innuendo could go on TV. For 10 seasons, the series tracked Charlie, a randy, wealthy single guy living in Malibu with no cares and plenty of women friend, who finds himself hosting his socially-awkward brother and son.
Keeping everyone happy while living his carefree life is his main focus in life. For the last two seasons, Charlie went AWOL (when real-life actor Charlie Sheen went off the rails) and his place in the house was taken by Walden, played by Ashton Kutcher.
The People We Hate at the Wedding
In The People We Hate at the Wedding, Lou, matriarch of a fun and dysfunctional family, gets ready to host scattered relatives as they arrive for a family wedding in England. Based on the book by Grant Ginder, the movie explores themes of relationships, family dynamics, and the complexity of human emotions.
The film does this with a humorous and satirical tone, using sharp humor and wit to navigate through family tensions and conflicts, eventually leading to acknowledgements of each family member’s quirks and personal struggles. The People We Hate at the Wedding is now streaming on Amazon Prime.
The Naked Gun
In what is probably one of the most madcap comedies of all time, Leslie Nielsen led a cast of lunatics from an unsuccessful TV series Police Squad!, into a successful franchise that spoofs cop shows and cop films. In the film, Nielsen’s Frank Drebin discovers a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth.
The movie is, in the words of one reviewer, “gloriously stupid” but it’s definitely worth an evening of viewing for movie fans who enjoy mindless entertainment. Now on HBO MAX.
