Best New Zealand comedy series
Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch comedy shows from New Zealand, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!
Wellington Paranormal (2018)
Wellington Paranormal (2018)
New Zealand's capital is a hotbed of supernatural activity... so Officers Minogue and O'Leary, who featured in the vampire documentary What We Do In The Shadows, take to the streets to investigate all manner of paranormal phenomena.
Happiness (2025)
Happiness (2025)
Charlie Summers, ex-Kiwi Broadway director, is forced by circumstance to return to his home town of Tauranga, where his mum makes him join her amateur theatre society, Pizzaz
Taskmaster NZ (2020)
Taskmaster NZ (2020)
Jeremy Wells and his loyal assistant Paul Williams torment some of Aotearoa's best, brightest, and most available comedians. Who will earn the Taskmaster's respect and a gold statue of his head?
The Almighty Johnsons (2011)
The Almighty Johnsons (2011)
The four Johnson brothers have inherited the powers of the Norse gods. Because the gods lived eons ago, however, time has diluted the powers. The unique ability that each brother possesses isn't very strong, and they still have the same desires and faults that mortals do. Their lives include sibling rivalry, trying to get girls, and hanging out; but they also want to be stronger, and so they embark on a quest to fulfill an ancient prophecy in hope of gaining the full strength of their abilities.
Have You Been Paying Attention? (2019)
Have You Been Paying Attention? (2019)
New Zealand's best and brightest comedians showcase their current affairs prowess unpacking the hot topics of the week: politics, sports, pop culture news and international affairs to test just who’s been paying attention…
Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee (2023)
The Late Night Big Breakfast (2014)
The Late Night Big Breakfast (2014)
The Late Night Big Breakfast is an energetic, eclectic, and original weekly half-hour comedy show hosted by comedy team Leigh Hart, Jeremy Wells and Jason Hoyt. As the title suggests, the programme mimics lifestyle and chat show formats. The structure, tone and content reminds the viewer of morning television, the only difference being the set is dysfunctional, the banter is ill-informed, and the weekly guests are for the most part, perplexed.The show combines mock infomercials, topical reports, live entertainers and a surprising array of guests from the well known to the unknown to produce the perfect parody of morning television.
Patriot Brains (2021)
Patriot Brains (2021)
The fast-paced comedy panel show will see each country’s greatest comedian’s pitted against each other to find out who knows their country best, with our host the only thing keeping them apart.
Talkback (2021)
Talkback (2021)
Malcolm White is the hard-talking, right-leaning king of talkback radio. But when a younger, left-leaning personality takes the number one spot, how far will Malcolm go to rule the airwaves again?
Creamerie (2021)
Creamerie (2021)
Creamerie is set in a post-apocalyptic future where a viral plague has wiped out 99% of men, and Earth has become a planet run by and for women. There’ll be plenty to laugh at when three Kiwi-Asian women running a dairy farm encounter – shock, horror – a man!
Outrageous Fortune (2005)
Outrageous Fortune (2005)
The Wests are a one-family crime wave with a proud tradition in thievery, larceny and petty crime, until now. When patriarch Wolfgang West is sentenced to four years in jail, his wife Cheryl decides enough is enough; the family are cleaning up their act and going straight. Can the Wests live up to Cheryl's resolve and stay out of crime? It's not easy to be a saint when you have the DNA of a sinner.Outrageous Fortune follows one cheerfully trashy crime family's attempts to stay out of trouble: matriarch Cheryl, determined to save her brood from following in their father's footsteps, eldest son Jethro, an ambitious lawyer-to-be with a few secrets, Jethro's twin Van (identical except in the brains department) who only wants to be like his dad, 18-year-old Pascalle, who wants to be Rachel Hunter, 15-year-old movie buff Loretta, who is blackmailing her teacher, and Grandpa Ted, who may have Alzheimer's - unless he's just playing it up to annoy people.Then there's Detective Sergeant Wayne Judd, the West family nemesis; the Hongs, a wealthy Asian family who may or may not have Triad connections, Caroline Darling, Loretta's deputy principal, who has been having an affair with Jethro since he was a 15-year-old student, Munter, Van's best mate and partner in crime, and Wolf himself, who does not intend to take his wife's sudden wave of righteousness lying down.Outrageous Fortune is a family comedy-drama about the wrong sort of people trying to do the right thing when the rewards for going straight are neither immediate nor bountiful. Outrageous Fortune is a bold, fresh comedy-drama which is by turns bawdy, action-packed, satirical and trashy - but only ever a heartbeat away from reality.
Would I Lie To You? (NZ) (2012)
Would I Lie To You? (NZ) (2012)
Hosted by mischievous and brilliant broadcaster Paul Henry, Would I Lie To You? is a panel comedy show in which two teams compete to separate believable truths from unbelievable lies.Jesse Mulligan and Jon Bridges drive their celebrity guests (two per team) to reveal incredible facts and embarrassing personal tales for the consideration of the opposing teams.
Duckrockers (2022)
Duckrockers (2022)
In the fresh, funny and heart-warming prequel to Sione's Wedding, Pacific Island teenagers and best friends Michael, Albert, Sefa and Stan come of age in inner-city Auckland in 1984.
Short Poppies (2014)
Short Poppies (2014)
Journalist David Farrier goes on a quest to small town New Zealand to find the average Kiwi. What he finds in this mockumentary series, is a lovable bunch of people who are anything but ordinary or average. Each week he meets a new local, all played by Rhys Darby.
Epic NPC Man (2016)
Aotearoa Social Club (2012)
Aotearoa Social Club (2012)
TV2's brand new series: Aotearoa Social Club is an irreverent, off the wall new show featuring an array of well-known Kiwi panellists.The all Maori panel include celebrities such as Nesian Mystik's Te Awanui (Awa) Reeder, actor Tammy Davis, Silver Fern Catherine Latu and radio DJ and singer K'Lee where they discus, dissect and disrespect all things pop-culture.
New Zealand Today (2019)
New Zealand Today (2019)
New Zealand Today began on Jono And Ben as a parody of click-bait journalism and modern media culture. The segment went on to become its own 'show within a show' and clips have since racked up hundreds of thousands of views online. New Zealand Today takes Guy Williams around the country checking out strange and unusual goings-on in regional New Zealand.
Lego Masters NZ (2022)
Lego Masters NZ (2022)
Teams of Kiwi master brick builders are put through their paces in the New Zealand version of the hugely popular reality challenge. Who will dream, create it, and win it?!
#KOMTR (2015)
#KOMTR (2015)
KIA ORA MO TE RETA is a comedy panel “man show” that talks about interesting man stuff like chicks, balls, and jokes. Nothing is off limits in this show. We will cover a whole lot of topics which guys aren’t allowed to talk about around their girlfriends and wives. Hosted by Te Arahi Maipi and Tammy Davis.
Word Up (2015)
Word Up (2015)
What do you get when you blend out loud laughs and outrageous antics with genuine information and trivia? Word Up is the hot new Kiwi comedy quiz show with a difference!
Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby (2005)
Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby (2005)
Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby is a satirical New Zealand television series, created and written by Danny Mulheron, Dave Armstrong and Tom Scott. It stars David McPhail as the titular Mr Gormsby, whose politically incorrect attitudes and "old school" teaching style clash and contrast with the environment at the fictional Tepapawai High School. The show pokes fun at the New Zealand education system but also at modern New Zealand social attitudes more generally.Two seasons have so far been made; the first was broadcast in 2005 on TV ONE in New Zealand and the ABC TV in Australia. The second series was shown in New Zealand in 2006 and in Australia, on ABC2, April 2008. DVDs of the series are sold in Australia through the ABC Shop.The program was filmed at two disused schools in the suburbs of Lower Hutt: the first season at Wainuiomata College and the second at Petone College.
Westside (2015)
Westside (2015)
The story of legendary safe cracker and career criminal Ted West and his firecracker of a wife, Rita. Combining real events and the rich folklore of the West family and associates, this is rollicking history, and a tempestuous romance, set at a time of great social upheaval.
7 Days (2009)
7 Days (2009)
It’s been a big week. There’s been stupid news, big news, unbelievable news and news about us right here in New Zealand. Enter Jeremy Corbett and two teams of New Zealand’s finest comic talent to blast the news out of the water, dissect it, lambast each other and have fun! This is 7 Days, a comedy satire show where our best stand-up comedians aren’t afraid to do what they do best – take the piss out of everything, but mostly all the news of the week and each other.
Under the Vines (2021)
Under the Vines (2021)
Rebecca Gibney and Charles Edwards star as two city slickers who inherit a failing vineyard in rural New Zealand.. the only problems are that neither of them has ever done a hard days' work- and they despise one another.
Double Parked (2023)
Double Parked (2023)
Young lesbian couple Nat and Steph are left dumbfounded when a 'disappointing' trip to the IVF clinic and a 'botched' home insemination job actually leaves both women pregnant.
Far North (2023)
Far North (2023)
The (mostly) true story of how the most comically inept gang to ever join forces got half a billion dollars' worth of meth to New Zealand shores - and nearly to market. And they would have got away with it too, if it wasn't for a pesky 70-year-old Māori diesel mechanic and his aqua-aerobics instructing wife!
Vince (2025)
Nothing Trivial (2010)
Nothing Trivial (2010)
Nothing Trivial is funny, warm and romantic and about people at a crossroads in their lives, particularly when it comes to finding that significant other to love and grow old with. It’s about people trying to find the answers to life’s big questions, while answering a whole lot of small and trivial ones… and winning the bar tab while they’re at it!
Madam (2024)
Madam (2024)
Mack Leigh, faced with a philandering husband and a mountain of debt starts up an ethical brothel in small town New Zealand to provide for her family and put a new spin on sex and work.