Best African comedy series

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch comedy shows from Africa, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for Finding Ola

    Finding Ola 2022

    After a life-altering event, Ola embarks on a journey of self-discovery while dealing with the challenges of raising two children and making ends meet.

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  • Poster for Family Matter

    Family Matter 2021

    Ibrahim reluctantly accepts becoming the legal guardian of his estranged daughter for six months, setting himself up for hilarious and lifechanging experiences.

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  • Poster for Balto

    Balto 2023

    In a comic framework, (Atef), the newly graduated young doctor, is assigned to a health unit in a village, and then he suddenly finds himself becoming the director of the health unit and responsible for everything.

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  • Poster for Al-Kabir Awy

    Al-Kabir Awy 2010

    Al Kabeer seeks to find love again after his wife was gone, unaware that what he is looking for is closer than he imagines.

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  • Poster for House Duties

    House Duties 2024

    A forensic doctor named Hamdi Abdel Rahim and his wife are expecting twins after a long marriage. They make the difficult decision to hire a home manager to look after the twins, but they struggle a lot to find someone.

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  • Poster for How to Ruin Christmas

    How to Ruin Christmas 2020

    Prodigal daughter Tumi tries to make things right after completely ruining what should have been her sister's picture-perfect Christmas wedding.

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  • Poster for El Le'ba

    El Le'ba 2020

    The series revolves around the personality of a hotel manager named "Wassim", during which he is exposed to many comical situations with tourist destinations and others.

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  • Poster for El Soffara

    El Soffara 2023

    Shafeeq, a tour guide, steals Tutankhamun's time travel whistle. A golden opportunity to get a do-over for his life and achieve his dreams.

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  • Poster for Multifaceted

    Multifaceted 2020

    Sokkar is a professional swindler who gets outdone by Omar, another swindler. As she enters into a series of conflicts to get her money back from him, she eventually decides to unite with him to carry out bigger defrauding operations.

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  • Poster for Home is My Home

    Home is My Home 2022

    In a setting of comedy and horror, Benno is forced to return to Cairo in order to settle his inheritance, but is soon shocked to learn that what he inherits will expose him to terrifying adventures.

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  • Poster for Take Care of Zizi

    Take Care of Zizi 2021

    After lashing out at her husband and causing him a severe injury that amounts to a felony, a nervy young woman embarks on a journey to prove her innocence.

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  • Poster for I Want to Get Married

    I Want to Get Married 2010

    The story of a pharmacist who wants to settle down and get married before reaching the age of thirty, and her family's insistence that she accepts the first groom who proposes, as well as her hilarious stories and experience with the men who propose to her.

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  • Poster for Yoh! Christmas

    Yoh! Christmas 2023

    Single, 30 and under pressure, Thando lies to her family that she has a boyfriend. Now she has 24 days to bring one home for Christmas. Can she do it?

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  • Poster for Choufli Hal

    Choufli Hal 2005

    Sboui lives next to his brother and mother. Many funny adventures ensue in the old building of a fortune teller as he falls in love with her daughter. Sboui works as a secretary at his brother's office, a psychotherapist.

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  • Poster for His Excellency

    His Excellency 2014

    After his retirement, Bahgat constantly runs into trouble with his family, thanks to his wife’s intense jealousy, his issues with his children and their spouses, and the generational gap between him and his grandchildren.

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  • Poster for Gaafar El Omda

    Gaafar El Omda 2023

    When rich businessman and village elder Gaafar is approached by the young Aida about a loan, he offers to give her the money on one condition: being his wife for 400 days.

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  • Poster for Nelly and Sherihan

    Nelly and Sherihan 2016

    Nelly is a wealthy girl, and Sherihan is the opposite. They happen to be cousins, with completely different personalities. When they find out that they will be getting an inheritance from their grandfather, they put their differences aside to solve the 'Mickey Mystery' which should get them to the inheritance.

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  • Poster for Miseducation

    Miseducation 2023

    After a public humiliation, a wannabe influencer enrolls in a small-town university, where she aspires to regain her social status.

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  • Poster for I Won't Live in My Father's Robes

    I Won't Live in My Father's Robes 1996

    The events of the series revolve around the story of the rise from the bottom to the top of Abdel Ghafour Al Borai (Noor Al Sharif), starting from the agency of Hajj Ibrahim Sardinah (Abdul Rahman Abu Zahra) until he becomes a private business owner who makes a fortune, during which he has admired Fatima (Abla Kamel), a saleswoman. Al-Kushari, whom he admired, passes the days and marries Fatima and gives birth to his son Abdel-Wahhab (Mohamed Riyad), and four girls (Sunni, Bahira, Nafisa, and Nazira), and despite the availability of the elements of happiness in the life of Abdel Ghafour Al-Borai, he suffered from the separation of his only son. About him, and Abdel Wahab's insistence on building a very special world away from his father and his influence.

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  • Poster for Abla Fahita: Drama Queen

    Abla Fahita: Drama Queen 2021

    After disappearing from the limelight due to an ethical scandal, Abla Fahita falls victim to the ploy of a nightclub owner who seeks to exploit her, and when he is murdered under mysterious circumstances, Fahita soon becomes the prime suspect in the crime.

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  • Poster for Full Count

    Full Count 2023

    When Ahmed, a plastic surgeon, and Laila, the owner of a cosmetics project, meet, they soon fall in love with each other, but their different family circumstances stand in the way of their relationship, but they decide to get married and defy the circumstances.

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  • Poster for Date with Destiny

    Date with Destiny 2022

    Galal's life turns upside down as a result of an odd meeting with a random stranger, as he finds everything that will happen to him during the day written on his body, turning his days into a series of funny situations.

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  • Poster for Nesr El Scene

    Nesr El Scene 2022

    A young, ambitious rapper mayor struggles to establish himself as the "eagle" of the Egyptian rap scene, watching him go on a short bizarre journey with his friends and supporters.

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  • Poster for Sons of the Sun

    Sons of the Sun 2025

    Wala’a and Miftah grew up together in Dar Al-Shams, bound by a deep friendship. They believe they are protecting the orphans, but when they try to defy Majed, the ruthless director, everything changes. They face a tough test as they fight for survival in a merciless world.

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  • Poster for Omar Affendi

    Omar Affendi 2024

    A man in his thirties finds a secret basement that takes him back to the year 1943 and reveals a past he did not know about. Driven by his curiosity, he chooses to live a double life in two different times...

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  • Poster for Toil & Pursuit

    Toil & Pursuit 2025

    Disagreements between Hind and her husband Farouk escalate and he throws her out of the house. She seeks to obtain a divorce and demands her right to toil and pursuit and to obtain half of his property. A long war begins between them over this, and many parties intervene on both sides.

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  • Poster for Catalog

    Catalog 2025

    A recently widowed workaholic clumsily navigates life with his kids, guided by his late wife's online tips. Can he ace this crash course in parenthood?

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  • Poster for In The La La Land

    In The La La Land 2017

    A group of people travel to Indonesia, but a failure in the engines of the plane forces the pilot to change its course and land them in one of the islands of Thailand. They try to get out of the island in any way, exposing them to many problems and comedic situations.

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  • Poster for رانيا وسكينة

    رانيا وسكينة 2022

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  • Poster for My Sisters

    My Sisters 2025

    Trapped in a toxic marriage, Nagla dreams that her husband died—only to later find his corpse at her doorstep. With the mystery engulfing her, she turns to her three sisters for a way out.

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  • Poster for 80 Bako

    80 Bako 2025

    Struggling hairstylist Boussy needs 80,000 pounds for her dream wedding. When she takes a job as a private stylist for elite clients, she’s thrust into a world she never knew. As her fiancé scrambles to help, Boussy faces surprises that could change her life forever.

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  • Poster for The Hibiscus-Man

    The Hibiscus-Man 2013

    This science-fiction show revolves around a mad scientist, known by his friends as the "Al Ragol Al E'naab." The mad scientist concocts an elixir that gives regular human beings supernatural abilities. Though he tries to use his potion to help people, the government hinds him out and goes after him. In the midst of his manhunt, Egypt undergoes a major disaster, prompting the Egyptian government to seek out his help rather than his arrest.

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  • Poster for 6 Months

    6 Months 2024

    Murad and Latifa compete for the same job during a 6-month trial, but their plan to launch a startup may be their biggest challenge yet.

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  • Poster for Khaled Nour and his son Nour Khaled

    Khaled Nour and his son Nour Khaled 2024

    Years after the death of his parents, a strange phenomenon brings Nour and his father together, and they seek to overcome the shock of the encounter and discover the truth about what is happening...

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  • Poster for Al Daheeh

    Al Daheeh 2017

    From little known facts about the Cold War to tips on how to win an argument with your wife (you can't), Ahmed Al-Ghandour draws on his trademark wit and humour as he addresses different topics in this hugely popular series.

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  • Poster for Sakho & Mangane

    Sakho & Mangane 2019

    Two cops with very different methods, solving mysterious murder cases surrounded by black magic.

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  • Poster for Kabour and Lahbib

    Kabour and Lahbib 2016

    This comic series tackles the clash between the Bedouin nature of the new residents of the cities and the modern lifestyle in a comic form, as Kabour and Lahbib live a new life in a room on the roof of a building in the city of Casablanca and confront with the modernity of Khadija the landlord and Aziz the concierge.

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  • Poster for Al Waseya

    Al Waseya 2018

    When Ebbo's father dies, he leaves behind a will that compels Ebbo to complete a list of tasks to be able to get his inheritance. Ebbo enlists his friend Semsem's help to complete the tasks.

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  • Poster for Daddy came

    Daddy came 2024

    Hisham finds himself at a crossroads after being laid off from his job in a hotel, due to Corona, and he must find work and take care of his family under difficult circumstances.

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  • Poster for Masrah Masr

    Masrah Masr 2013

    A collection of comedy theater presents a new type of separate plays in titles and events with each episode.

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  • Poster for Farthest Neighbor

    Farthest Neighbor 2017

    A group of middle-class neighbors who live in the same building get exposed to situations regarding their way of living. They each face their own struggles, without the knowledge of their neighbors, even when faced with particularly complex problems.

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  • Poster for Hidden Worlds

    Hidden Worlds 2018

    When a prominent writer finds confidential documents incriminating government officials, he decided to publish them, risking his own life and his family's.

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  • Poster for Keep Your Wife Happy

    Keep Your Wife Happy 2017

    A comic TV series in which Sultan is a commercials director who is addicted to multiple secret relationships which seems to always get him in trouble. He is also challenged by his wife, Dalia's short-term memory loss as she forgets who he is every day. Together with his friend, Bahgat, they set daily plans in motion so he could win his wife's heart and face all his other dilemmas.

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  • Poster for Drop Dead Diva

    Drop Dead Diva 2018

    (Dalida) dreams to be a famous model, but fate prevents it. When she has an accident and finds that she can't go to heaven because of being selfish. She returns back to the earth in the body (Alyiaa) where she has to face reality and accept herself.

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  • Poster for Zienhom

    Zienhom 2023

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  • Poster for At the Building's Door

    At the Building's Door 2023

    Unexpected events force a rich, self-centered, and snobbish man from Upper Egypt to work as a janitor in Cairo, where he begins a journey that would ultimately make him a hero.

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  • Poster for Vetkoekpaleis

    Vetkoekpaleis 1996

    Frikkadel Delport starts a take-away business when he is retrenched. In the process of finding his feet in his new venture, he appoints two staff members without really meaning to.

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  • Poster for Naji Attallah's Squad

    Naji Attallah's Squad 2012

    A retired Egyptian officer working at the Egyptian embassy in Tel Aviv decides to plot revenge against Israel for freezing his bank accounts when he objected to its monstrous conduct in Palestine. In Egypt, he recruits five of his former students to rob Israel’s largest bank.

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  • Poster for Saleema Arrived

    Saleema Arrived 2023

    Follows a girl who starts reading an old book and once she reads it, she travels through many different times to face many funny situations.

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  • Poster for El Nos

    El Nos 2025

    Everything changes in the life of (Abdulaziz Al-Noss) and he turns from just a notorious pickpocket to a popular hero, after he established a national resistance movement against the English occupation, in which many people from different sectors of society join, and events follow.

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  • Poster for Bimbo

    Bimbo 2021

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  • Poster for L'Couple

    L'Couple 2013

    The diaries of a couple in their sixties in the Moroccan countryside, showing their arguments and their humorous discussions about the situations they encounter.

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  • Poster for Boarding House No. 24

    Boarding House No. 24 2014

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  • Poster for Click Click Bang

    Click Click Bang 2022

    A footballer turns to petty crime when his sporting career stalls. Under the wing of a crooked cop, he soon descends deeper into the criminal underworld.

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  • Poster for Al Habayeb Restaurant

    Al Habayeb Restaurant 2024

    Chef Abu El Magd reopens his family's restaurant with the hesitant help of his daughter, Didi. But a magical book in the pantry soon pulls her into a fierce fight to protect the restaurant from its rivals.

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  • Poster for The Ghosts of Adly Allam

    The Ghosts of Adly Allam 2017

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  • Poster for interview

    interview 2024

    The events revolve around Nadine, who works as a data analyst. She goes for a job interview, but she did not know that this interview would turn her life upside down, and the events continue.

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  • Poster for Ending with Style

    Ending with Style 2017

    A conflict between men and women becomes a third world war. All humans die except for a number of men and women in Egypt. After the Haj and Hajja appear, a truce is called between the commander of the men's army (Sultan) and the leader of the women army (Karma), but what will happen during this truce?

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  • Poster for Three Stories

    Three Stories 2019

    A series divided into 3 stories (10 episodes each) with different characters and events in each story.

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  • Poster for Orkney Snork Nie

    Orkney Snork Nie 1989

    Orkney Snork Nie, a popular Afrikaans sitcom, originally broadcast by the SABC in South Africa. The name translates directly into Orkney Doesn't Snore, but the message being conveyed in Afrikaans is that the town isn't sleepy, there's always something happening.

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  • Poster for Tita Zuzu

    Tita Zuzu 2024

    Within a social dramatic framework, the events deal with the story of the widowed grandmother Zuzu, who worked in agriculture and had two sons and two daughters. We follow her relationship with her grandchildren, and her dealings with them and the problems they face.

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  • Poster for Lucky Charm

    Lucky Charm 2016

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  • Poster for LOL: Last One Laughing South Africa

    LOL: Last One Laughing South Africa 2024

    Ten well-known South African comedians and performers compete to discover who can maintain composure while simultaneously trying to make their opponents laugh and lose.

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  • Poster for The Captain

    The Captain 2025

    The events of the Captain series revolve around Hossam Waly, a pilot captain who makes an unintended mistake during one of his flights, causing a malfunction that leads to the plane crashing. After he survives as the only one who survived the accident, he is surprised by the appearance of the souls of some passengers who ask him for help in completing some pending tasks that they were unable to accomplish before their death, as their souls become suspended until they are carried out.

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  • Poster for The Thief

    The Thief 2020

    After a family unexpectedly returns home, an unprofessional young man who plans to steal the family finds himself in a difficult situation, where he becomes stealthy inside the house without the family noticing that he is on the run, during the curfew due to the Corona virus.

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  • Poster for Lahfa

    Lahfa 2015

    A comedy about an aspiring actress who enlists the help of her uncle, a casting agent, in order to land her breakthrough role, because the last thing she wants is to end up being an extra like her father.

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