Looking for your next hilarious comedy show binge watch for date night? Here are some of our favorite comedy tv series to watch with your spouse. We give you 18 hilarious tv shows to watch with your husband.
From our marriage & parenting contributor, Mary Carver.
I don’t know how it works at your house, but here, it can sometimes feel impossible to find something good on tv to watch with my husband.
Occasionally, he’ll indulge me and watch something I like that he does not (this would include every Hallmark movie he’s ever watched), and sometimes I do the same for him (hello, American Pickers and Pawn Stars).
But we really do enjoy having something we can call, “our show,” something we enjoy together–so I am constantly on the lookout for TV series that I think might fit the bill.
Now, in addition to having very different tastes in what we find entertaining, we also tend to avoid shows with too much violence, sex, or other mature content.
For the most part, we stick to shows rated PG-13 or TV-14. (The exception is a show rated higher because of language.
That’s not something that particularly bothers us.
Obviously every couple has their own parameters and choices!) It’s a boundary we agree on and value, but it does make finding our next show even harder!
If you’re in a similar situation, you’re not alone.
And it’s not actually impossible! I’m here to share some of the shows my husband and I have most loved watching together.
So grab your remote, your snacks, and a blanket big enough to share, and get ready for your next couple binge!
Today I’m giving you recommendations for comedies because, let’s be honest, we all need a little lightness these days.
Not to mention, laughing with my husband strengthens our connection more than just about anything else. So, here goes!
18 Comedies Perfect to Watch with Your Husband
Comedies about friends
Community
A motley crew of adults end up in a community college study group.
If you love pop culture references and a heavy dose of sarcasm with your comedy, this often outrageous show is for you.
Watch this show on Netflix.
Happy Endings
A close-knit group of friends has to deal with one of the friends leaving her fiance (and another member of that group) at the altar.
Awkward!
The jokes in this one come fast and while the characters are sometimes kind of (okay, a lot) mean, they also love each other and you can tell.
Watch on Hulu.
New Girl
What started as a sitcom about a quirky single gal moving in with three guys quickly became an ensemble about a friends figuring out how to do life.
I love this show so much that I’ve watched the entire thing twice and am halfway through season two with my husband. In case you’re wondering, he loves it too.
Watch on Netflix.
The Unicorn
This was a new show last fall, and I did not expect to like it.
But I did!
And so did my husband.
It’s about a widowed dad and the two couples he and his late wife have been close friends with for years.
It’s sweet but also sharply funny, and even better?
It is about real, grown-up people (which I can’t really say about the other friend-centric shows on this list).
Watch on CBS.com.
Comedies about the afterlife (strangely, we have two options)
The Good Place
This show. It is so good!
After watching the first season, I made my husband watch it and from then on, we watched together.
Starring Kristen Bell and Ted Danson, this show is about what happens after we die.
And it’s about specific people who find themselves in “the good place” at the same time.
And it’s smart and thoughtful and sharp and hilarious and so very twisty and surprising.
I can’t say any more.
Just watch it!
Watch on Netflix.
Upload
This is a fairly new show (only one season so far) also about the afterlife.
This one is more sci-fi-ish, but it’s also laugh-out-loud funny and moving in a way that surprised me.
Upload is rated TV-MA for language and brief nudity.
Watch on Amazon Prime.
Comedies about families
Arrested Development
You thought your family is dysfunctional?
Wait ‘til you meet the Bluths.
This was another one I watched alone before deciding my husband would love it.
I forced him to watch, and he was glad.
A show about rich, messed up people dealing with the consequences of their insane behavior, this one is incredibly quirky and funny in that dry, sarcastic way that my husband and I both love.
Watch on Netflix.
Black-ish
This is a traditional family sitcom that happens to focus on a Black family and their unique experience.
The kids are goofy and mouthy, the in-laws are around to criticize and offer wisdom, and the parents are juggling a whole lot of important things like parenting, marriage, career, and culture.
Yep, just what you’d expect from a family sitcom–and so much more.
It’s sweet and funny, for sure, but for me (as a white person) I really love how this show gives me another perspective on our world, from politics and history to business and family life.
Watch on Hulu.
Bob’s Burgers
Like cartoons made for grown-ups?
A quirky family and dry humor?
May I offer you Bob’s Burgers?!
Sometimes I need a palate cleanser after watching something more serious, and for me (and my husband), that’s where the very funny Bob’s Burgers comes in.
Watch this animated series on Hulu.
Kim’s Convenience
This is currently my treadmill show, but I am planning to rewatch with my husband as soon as I finish it!
The Kims are a Korean-Canadian family who own and operate a neighborhood convenience store.
They have some issues, both individually and collectively, but they also love each other a lot.
I adore both the parents and the grown daughter and son, but the supporting characters are lot of fun, too.
Watch on Netflix.
One Day at a Time
No, not the old one! I’m talking about the reboot, truly inspired by the original but absolutely modern.
The show is about a Cuban-American family — single mom, son, daughter, and mother/grandmother played by the fabulous Rita Moreno — and it is so stinking good. It’s laugh-out-loud funny but don’t be fooled.
This show addresses so many real, hard issues in a sympathetic and authentic way that it’s impossible not to be moved.
Watch on Netflix.
Schitt’s Creek
It might seem a little tone deaf to our current times to recommend a show about a spoiled rich, white family who loses everything and finds themselves facing poverty.
Or, is it exactly right for these times? I don’t know. What I know is that Schitt’s Creek was my husband’s idea and though it took me a few episodes, I’m now the one suggesting we watch it!
Like so many of these shows, it’s deeply funny and moving all at the same time.
And Eugene Levy!
For what it’s worth, the show has given us the best collection of GIFs of anything in recent years.
Watch on Netflix.
The Goldbergs
Speaking of recent years, that’s not what this show is about.
The Goldbergs takes a look at a middle-class, suburban family growing up in the 80s.
It’s sweet, funny, and all the nostalgia a gal (and her husband) could want.
Watch on Hulu.
Comedies in the workplace
Better Off Ted
One of the first shows I rewatched by introducing it to my husband (and one of the shows I’ve watched, start to finish, most), this is a good one.
It’s a satirical look at a giant corporation, with the most sincere and loveable characters playing all the stereotypical roles you find in such a company.
Quirky, hilarious, and one of our favorites!
Watch on Hulu.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
In our current climate all TV shows about police are being reconsidered.
I think that’s a good thing, but I also hope that this one comes back whenever TV comes back.
It’s a goofy take on the police procedural, but it’s also a show with one of the diverse (and excellent) casts on TV right now.
Watch on Hulu.
Parks & Recreation
Ahhhh, my beloved Parks & Rec!
Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope!
This truly is one of my top favorite shows of all time, and I was beyond thrilled when my husband loved it, too.
The characters are co-workers (at a small Indiana town’s parks and recreation department) who become friends and, by the end, family.
It has some of the cringe humor we know from The Office, but it also has exponentially more heart.
I love you.
You should watch it.
Watch on Netflix.
Superstore
If you’ve ever worked retail or have a Jim-and-Pam-sized hole in your TV-loving heart, Superstore is the comedy series for you.
Set in a quasi-Walmart in Missouri, it somehow makes you fall in love with the most ridiculous characters ever.
Watch on Hulu.
Veep
If you can’t stomach real world actual politics right now, this outrageous satire might be more your speed.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is the vice president, and hijinks ensue.
As so the expletives, so be prepared for incredibly creative (but possibly offensive) language.
Watch on Hulu.
What TV show have you loved watching with your husband?
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