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2020s cable and streaming comedies

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Hello Tomorrow!

Hello Tomorrow! is a 2023 Apple TV+ retro-futuristic sci-fi dramedy created by Amit Bhalla and Lucas Jansen, starring Billy Crudup as salesman Jack Billings selling moon timeshares; one 10-episode season, cancelled.

High Desert

High Desert: Apple TV+ dark comedy (2023) created by Nancy Fichman, Katie Ford, and Jennifer Hoppe, starring Patricia Arquette as Yucca Valley addict-turned-private-investigator Peggy Newman; directed by Jay Roach, executive produced by Ben Stiller, canceled after one season.

How I Met Your Father

How I Met Your Father, Hulu's 2022-2023 sequel sitcom to How I Met Your Mother created by Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, starring Hilary Duff and narrated by Kim Cattrall; cancelled September 1, 2023 after two seasons and 30 episodes.

How to Die Alone

How to Die Alone: Hulu/Onyx Collective comedy-drama created by and starring Natasha Rothwell as Mel, a broke JFK airport worker, premiering September 13, 2024; eight episodes, 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, canceled February 2025 after one season.

I Love LA (TV series)

I Love LA is an HBO comedy series created by and starring Rachel Sennott as talent agent Maia, following an ambitious friend group of influencers in Los Angeles. Premiered November 2, 2025; eight episodes; renewed for season 2.

I Woke Up a Vampire

I Woke Up a Vampire is a Canadian tween live-action comedy-fantasy series created by Thomas Lynch for WildBrain, Family Channel, and Netflix. Carmie Henley, a half-vampire Vampling, premiered May 5, 2023; 16 episodes; ended after two Netflix half-seasons.

Kevin Can F**k Himself

Kevin Can Fk Himself is an AMC dark comedy-drama (2021–2022, 16 episodes) created by Valerie Armstrong, starring Annie Murphy as a sitcom wife who escapes; it switches between multi-cam sitcom and single-cam drama formats.

Laid (American TV series)

Laid is a 2024 Peacock dark romantic comedy series, a remake of the 2011 Australian show, starring Stephanie Hsu as Ruby, whose exes die in the order she slept with them; canceled after one season in May 2025.

Leanne (TV series)

Leanne is a Netflix multi-camera sitcom co-created by and starring comedian Leanne Morgan with Chuck Lorre and Susan McMartin, premiering July 31, 2025. It follows a Southern grandmother whose husband of 33 years leaves her; Season 2 arrived August 27, 2026.

Life & Beth

Life & Beth is a semi-autobiographical Hulu comedy-drama created, written, directed by, and starring Amy Schumer, with Michael Cera; two seasons, 20 episodes, 2022-2024, cancelled after season 2.

Loot (TV series)

Loot is an Apple TV+ workplace comedy created by Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard, starring Maya Rudolph as Molly Novak, an $87-billion divorcee running the Wells Foundation, three seasons 2022-2025.

Love Life (American TV series)

Love Life is a 2020-2021 HBO Max romantic comedy anthology series created by Sam Boyd with Paul Feig; Anna Kendrick stars in season 1 as Darby, William Jackson Harper in season 2 as Marcus; canceled after 20 episodes, now on Netflix.

Maggie

Maggie is a 2022 Hulu romantic comedy series created by Justin Adler and Maggie Mull, based on Tim Curcio's short film. Psychic Maggie (Rebecca Rittenhouse) sees others' futures; 13 episodes, one season, cancelled 2022.

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Margo's Got Money Troubles, also called Margo's Got Money Problems, is a 2026 Apple TV comedy-drama by David E. Kelley, adapted from Rufi Thorpe's 2024 novel, starring Elle Fanning as a single mother who turns to OnlyFans; renewed for season 2.

Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed

Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed is a 2026 Apple TV dark comedy thriller created by David J. Rosen, starring Tatiana Maslany as divorced Queens mom Paula, blackmailed after witnessing an attack on a camboy; ten episodes, renewed for Season 2 in October 2026.

Medical Police

Medical Police is a 2020 Netflix action-comedy series, a spin-off of Childrens Hospital, created by Rob Corddry, David Wain, Krister Johnson, and Jonathan Stern. Doctors Owen Maestro and Lola Spratt join a secret CDC division to fight a global virus; canceled after one 10-episode season.

Mid-Century Modern (TV series)

Mid-Century Modern is a Hulu multi-camera sitcom (2025) by Will & Grace creators Mutchnick and Kohan, starring Nathan Lane, Matt Bomer, Nathan Lee Graham, and Linda Lavin as gay friends in Palm Springs; canceled after one season.

Middleditch and Schwartz

Middleditch & Schwartz is a 2020 Netflix limited series of three completely improvised long-form comedy specials by Thomas Middleditch and Ben Schwartz, filmed at NYU Skirball Center and premiered April 21, 2020.

Minx (TV series)

Minx is an American half-hour comedy created by Ellen Rapoport, set in 1970s Los Angeles, where feminist Joyce Prigger and porn publisher Doug launch the first erotic magazine for women; it ran on HBO Max from 2022, moved to Starz for season 2, and was later canceled.

Mr. Throwback

Mr. Throwback is a Peacock mockumentary comedy (2024) starring Adam Pally as memorabilia dealer Danny Grossman and Stephen Curry as himself, created by Caspe and the Libmans, canceled April 2025 after one six-episode season.

Neon (2023 TV series)

Neon is a 2023 Netflix comedy series, 8 episodes, created by Shea Serrano and Max Searle, about aspiring reggaeton singer Santi (Tyler Dean Flores) and friends moving to Miami; Daddy Yankee executive produced, filmed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, later canceled.

No Good Deed (TV series)

No Good Deed is a Netflix dark comedy created by Liz Feldman, premiering December 12, 2024, with 8 episodes starring Lisa Kudrow and Ray Romano as sellers of a Los Feliz villa; cancelled after one season in July 2025.

Nobody Wants This

Nobody Wants This is a Netflix romantic comedy series created by Erin Foster, starring Kristen Bell as agnostic podcaster Joanne and Adam Brody as rabbi Noah. Three seasons (2024, 2025, 2026), a Golden Globe-nominated hit, loosely based on Foster's conversion to Judaism.

Not Suitable for Work

Not Suitable for Work is a 2026 Hulu comedy series created by Mindy Kaling about five work-obsessed twenty-somethings in Manhattan's Murray Hill. Nine episodes aired from June 2 to June 23, 2026; Hulu canceled it that August.

Only Murders in the Building

Only Murders in the Building is a Hulu comedic murder-mystery series (2021–) co-created by Steve Martin and John Hoffman, starring Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez as podcasters solving murders in their New York apartment building, the Arconia; Season 6 moves to London in December 2026.

Oswald (2027 TV series)

Oswald (2027 TV series), also called Oswald the Lucky Rabbit series, is a Jon Favreau three-part Disney+ live-action/2D-animated comedy miniseries premiering February 17, 2027, reviving Disney's pre-Mickey 1927 rabbit character with Sergio Pablos' SPA Studios animation.

Overcompensating (TV series)

Overcompensating is a Prime Video college comedy created by and starring Benito Skinner, premiering May 15, 2025 with eight episodes about a closeted freshman at Yates University; renewed for a second season in September 2025.

Palm Royale

Palm Royale is an Apple TV period comedy-drama created by Abe Sylvia, loosely based on Juliet McDaniel's novel Mr. and Mrs. American Pie. Kristen Wiig stars as Maxine Simmons seeking entry into 1969 Palm Beach high society; it ran two seasons (2024-2026, 20 episodes) and won one Emmy from 11 nominations before cancellation in March 2026.

Platonic (TV series)

Platonic is an Apple TV+ comedy series created by Nicholas Stoller and Francesca Delbanco, starring Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne as platonic best friends Will and Sylvia; premiered May 24, 2023, renewed for season 3 in December 2025.

Pretty Smart

Pretty Smart: Netflix multi-camera sitcom created by Jack Dolgen and Doug Mand, starring Emily Osment as Harvard intellectual Chelsea; premiered October 8, 2021, 10 episodes, canceled April 2022 after one season.