New Comedy Movies and TV Shows 2022

Updated: July 16, 2022 by Steve

Get all of the important details about new comedy movies and TV shows on the way for 2022. Watch preview videos, learn rare facts, find out who stars in them and more.

Bad Sisters

Release Date: Friday, August 19, 2022 on Apple TV+. Series Overview: After the unexpected death of their father, the Garvey sisters gather together to steal back a very important family heirloom.

Starring:

• Sharon Horgan
• Anne-Marie Duff
• Eva Birthistle
• Sarah Greene
• Eve Hewson

Look Both Ways

Release Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2022 on Netflix. Series Overview: Lili Reinhart as Natalie is on the eve of college graduation when her life splits into parallel realities. In one reality she remains in her hometown after becoming pregnant; the other in which she moves to LA to pursue her dream career as an artist.

Starring:

• Lili Reinhart
• Danny Ramirez
• David Corenswet
• Aisha Dee
• Andrea Savage
• Luke Wilson
• Nia Long

I Love My Dad

Release Date: Friday, August 5, 2022 in theaters. Series Overview: Chuck (Patton Oswalt) is an estranged father blocked by his troubled son Franklin (James Morosini) on social media. Desperate, he goes as far as creating an imaginary online identity resulting in many twists and turns. James Morosini is also the writer and director in this film that's based on his true life experience.

Starring:

• James Morosini
• Patton Oswalt
• Claudia Sulewski
• Rachel Dratch
• Ricky Velez
• Lil Rel Howery
• Amy Landecker

13: The Musical

Release Date: Friday, August 5, 2022 on Netflix. Series Overview: Based on the immensely popular Broadway musical 13, Eli moves from New York City to the small town of Appleton, Indiana after his parents divorce. Now he must fit in socially by turning his Bar Mitzvah into the coolest party ever.

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The Outlaws - Season 2

Release Date: Friday, August 5, 2022 on Prime Video. Series Overview: In this comedy crime thriller Set in Bristol, seven strangers from different backgrounds are forced together to complete a Community Payback sentence but when they find a bag of money everything changes. The Outlaws have more time to serve on their sentences, and find out that the criminal underworld in Bristol isn't even remotely close to being done with them yet.

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DI4RIES

Release Date: Tuesday, July 26, 2022 on Netflix. Series Overview: At Galileo Galilei Middle School students experience first crushes, first kisses, fun with their friends, feuds.

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Wedding Season

Release Date: Monday, August 4, 2022 on Netflix. Series Overview: Asha (Pallavi Sharda) and Ravi (Suraj Sharma) pretend to be dating during a summer of weddings after finding themselves under parental pressure to find spouses. The situation suddenly changes for them when feelings turn real.

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Honor Society

Release Date: Friday, July 29, 2022 on Paramount+. Movie Overview: Honor (Angourie Rice) is an ambitious high school senior willing to do whatever it takes to get into Harvard. While in the midst of trying to take down her top three competitors she finds herself falling for her biggest competition, Michael (Gaten Matarazzo).

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The Upshaws Season 2

Release Date: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 on Netflix. Series Overview: Bennie (Mike Epps), Regina (Kim Fields) and Lucretia (Wanda Sykes) return. Can they keep the family together when new problems and trust issues arise?

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Not Okay

Release Date: Friday, July 29, 2022 on Hulu. Movie Overview: Desperate for friends and fame, a young woman fakes a trip to Paris to update her Instagram status but things get complicated when a terrifying incident happens in real life.

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Reservation Dogs - Season 2

Release Date: Wednesday, August 3, 2022 - FX on Hulu. Series Overview: A group of Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma with a dream to move to California sometimes end up on the wrong side of the law to fulfill this desire.

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Man Vs Bee

Release Date: Friday, June 24, 2022 on Netflix. Series Overview: Trevor (Rowan Atkinson), a housesitter in a mansion, goes to battle with a bee but instead of making things better the battle escalates into choas.

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Wednesday

Release Date: Coming Soon to Netflix. Series Overview: A comedy horror series series that focuses on Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) as a student in her teen years where she attempts to master her psychic abilities to stop a killing spree and solve the mystery that affected her family years ago.

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The Menu

Release Date: Friday, November 18, 2022 in theaters. Movie Overview: In this dark comedy, young couple Margot (Anya Taylor-Joy) and Tyler (Nicholas Hoult) travel to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant named Hawthorne that is run by Chef Slowik (Ralph Fiennes), whose cuisine delivers shocking surprises for its wealthy guests.

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A League of Their Own

Release Date: Friday, August 12, 2022 on Prime Video. Series Overview: A comedy drama series that follows the formation of the All-American professional women's baseball league in 1943 and the fight to keep it alive through challenging and uncertain times.

Starring

• Abbi Jacobson
• Chanté Adams
• D'Arcy Carden
• Roberta Colindrez
• Gbemisola Ikumelo
• Kelly McCormack
• Priscilla Delgado
• Nick Offerman

Solar Opposites - Season 3

Release Date: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 Series Overview: When a family of aliens move to middle America they wonder if life is better at their new Earthly home or on their home planet.

Starring

• Justin Roiland
• Thomas Middleditch
• Sean Giambrone
• Mary Mack
• Sagan McMahan

Maggie

Release Date: Wednesday, July 6, 2022 Series Overview: A young psychic woman can see everyone's future except her own and does her best to cope with it all.

Starring

• Maggie Mull
• Chase Yi
• Adam Korson
• Trent Garret

Puss In Boots: The Last Wish

Release Date: Wednesday, December 21, 2022 in theater. Movie Overview: Realizing that while in his pursuit for adventure he has used up eight of his nine lives, Puss embarks on an audacious endeavor to recover his nine lives.

Starring

• Antonio Banderas
• Salma Hayek
• Harvey Guillen

Tuca & Bertie - Season 3

Release Date: Sunday, July 10, 2022 on HBO Max Adult Swim. Series Overview: The two inseparable apartment building bird women, Tuca & Bertie, are back for a new season.

Starring

• Tiffany Haddish
• Ali Wong

Cristela Alonzo: Middle Classy

Release Date: Tuesday, June 28, 2022 on Netflix. Overview: Comedian Cristela Alonzo returns with her new Classy TV special for 2022: Cristela Alonzo: Middle Classy. It was in 2017 that she dropped her first Classy TV special: Cristela Alonzo: Lower Classy.

Starring

• Cristela Alonzo

Only Murders in the Building - Season 2

Release Date: Tuesday, June 28, 2022 on Hulu. Series Overview: Three strangers, Charles, Oliver & Mabel share an obsession with true crime then suddenly find themselves implicated in a board president's homicide.

Starring

• Steve Martin
• Martin Short
• Selena Gomez

Rap Sh*t

Release Date: Wednesday, July 21, 2022 on HBO Max. Series Overview: Shawna and Mia are two high school friends who reunite to form a rap group in Miami.

Starring

• KaMillion
• Aida Osman
• Victoria Richards
• Anna Mezentseva
• Nijah Brenea

Boo, Bitch

Release Date: Thursday, July 7, 2022 on Netflix. Series Overview: A high school senior named Erika Vu (Lana Condor) seizes the opportunity to change her direction in life but finds out the next morning that she's a ghost.

Starring

• Lana Condor
• Jami Alix
• Mary Aldousary
• Madison Thompson

BLASTED

Release Date: Tuesday, June 28, 2022 on Netflix. Movie Overview: While attending a bachelor party, childhood friends Sebastian and Mikkel have to reunite as a laser tag force to take on alien invaders.

Starring

• Axel Bøyum
• Fredrik Skogsrud
• Bolsø Berdal

The Bear

Release Date: Thursday, June 23, 2022 FX on Hulu. Series Overview: In this new FX comedy series, Carmy, a young chef from the world of fine dining returns to Chicago to run his family's sandwich shop where he surprisingly becomes very close to his rough but dedicated kitchen staff.

Starring

• Chris Witaske
• Jeremy Allen White
• Ebon Moss-Bachrach

Gordita Chronicles

Release Date: June 23, 2022 on HBO Max. TV Series Overview: In the comedy series Gordita Chronicles, twelve-year-old Carlota "Cucu" Castelli and her family immigrated from the Dominican Republic to Miami in the 1980s. Cucu takes on her strange new life with humor in pursuit of the American dream.

Starring

• Diana Maria Riva
• Juan Javier Cardenas
• Cosette Hauer
• Savannah Nicole Ruiz
• Noah Rico
• Onix Janiel Serrano

Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank

Release Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 in theaters. Movie Overview: This animation comedy, a hound named Hank with dreams of being a samurai ends up in a town with loads of cats who need a hero to save them from a villain's plot to destroy them.

Starring

• Michael Cera
• Ricky Gervais
• Samuel L. Jackson
• Mel Brooks
• George Takei
• Aasif Mandvi
• Gabriel Iglesias
• Djimon Hounsou
• Michelle Yeoh
• Kylie Kuioka
• Cathy Shim

Not Dead Yet

Release Date: Coming soon to ABC. TV Series Overview: In this comedy television series Nell Stevens (Gina Rodriguez) has restarted her life and that includes a career change where she ultimately finds a job writing obituaries and getting life advice in the process.

Starring

• Gina Rodriguez
• Josh Banday
• Jessica St. Clair
• Mary Elizabeth Ellis
• Angela Gibbs
• Josh Banday
• Rick Glassman

What We Do in the Shadows

Release Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 on FX on Hulu. TV Series Overview: This comedy horror television series follows the lives of four vampires who have been living on Staten Island for over 100 years.

Starring

• Kayvan Novak as Nandor the Relentless
• Matt Berry as Leslie "Laszlo" Cravensworth
• Natasia Demetriou as Nadja of Antipaxos
• Harvey Guillén as Guillermo de la Cruz
• Mark Proksch as Colin Robinson

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I'm an expert at collecting fun, rare facts about celebrities. When I'm not blogging about celebrities, I do a lot of adventuring on forest trails where I photograph Florida wildlife like this big alligator in a lake (2022), and a gopher tortoise (2021) below.