25 Great Workplace Comedies to Stream (That Aren't 'The Office')
There are only so many times you can rewatch The Office (or even The Office). In fact, in the likely event that you aren't a Peacock Premium subscriber, you can't even stream much of the American series at all anymore.
But fear not: As some of us enter our second year of working at home there are still plenty of critic-approved streaming workplace comedies to satisfy any nostalgia you may have for days of toiling in a crowded office surrounded by your coworkers. (Or merely to kill the extra hours you have to spend at home.) Our suggestions for your next workplace comedy binge—including information on where to stream each show—can be found in alphabetical order in the gallery above. Most of these shows are from the past few decades, but at the end of the gallery we have compiled suggestions for some additional classic workplace sitcoms, as well as a few titles that are just getting started. (Shows such as Sports Night and NewsRadio not currently streaming in full on any free or subscription service are excluded.)
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The workplace: NBC headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, and specifically the writers' room, production offices, and soundstage of a sketch comedy series taping there.
The best series to date created by SNL vet Tina Fey, NBC's 30 Rock (which stars Fey alongside Alec Baldwin and Tracy Morgan) is known for its rapid-fire, surreal humor and use of cutaway clips. (As well as its frequent use of the phrase "rural juror.") Among 30 Rock's numerous accolades were 103 Emmy nominations, a Peabody Award, and a Television Critics Association Award for best comedy.
Fey and longtime writing partner Robert Carlock have since produced two additional (but lesser) workplace comedies: Great News, a newsroom sitcom which ran for two seasons, and the currently airing Mr. Mayor, which was originally conceived as a 30 Rock spinoff centering on Baldwin's character.
“For seven seasons it churned out brilliant jokes with the efficacy and precision of a finely calibrated fart machine. ... At its worst it was good. At its best it was transcendent.” —Andy Greenwald, Grantland