Given what Discovery is doing to this streamer, you might want to watch ‘em sooner rather than later-they could all be gone tomorrow. Here are the funniest movies on HBO Max today. With that out of the way, let’s get to it. Acting, storytelling, and technique are all apart of the equation, but the most important single facet is how much it makes me laugh. That’s a good thing.Īlso, my standard disclaimer for these comedy lists: I’m not judging these exclusively on their cinematic qualities. HBO Max today feels like Netflix did a decade ago, before the streaming world splintered into a dozen different walled off rivals. Good luck finding this many classics or pre-’90s comedies on the other services.

Makes perfect sense to let the Naked and Afraid channel blow the whole thing up.ĭespite all that recent turmoil, HBO Max still has the best, deepest, and most varied selection of comedies of any streamer at the moment. It’s an incredibly weird and unsteady time for HBO Max, which of course has turned out to be the best streaming service in terms of both the depth of its library and the quality of its originals. HBO Max has also pulled down a variety of original movies and TBS/TNT TV shows with no fanfare, including Seth Rogen’s An American Pickle and Melissa McCarthy’s Superintelligence. It seems like David Zaslav, the former head of Z-grade unscripted shlock factory Discovery and now CEO of the new Warner Brothers Discovery, does believe a streamer can have too much content, as under his watch the company has shockingly canceled a number of movies and TV series, including several that were deep into production. That’s how I’ve started this monthly list of the best comedies on HBO Max for over a year now. “Can a streaming service have too much content?”

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