25 Great Workplace Comedies to Stream (That Aren't 'The Office')

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – April 8, 2021

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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95 The Larry Sanders Show (1992–98)

90 episodes (6 seasons) streaming at HBO Max and HBO

The workplace: A late-night network talk show.

Depicting the behind-the-scenes production of a nightly talk show as well as showing pieces of that fictitious show-within-the-show itself, Garry Shandling's brilliant second TV series is not only wildly funny, it's also one of the most influential TV shows of all time, and many of the shows on this list (as well as The Office itself) might not exist without it. Characters that aren't always likeable and get into embarrassing situations? A single-camera, cinema-like production with numerous "walk-and-talk" scenes and lacking a laugh track or studio audience? Celebrities playing twisted versions of themselves? These were not exactly sitcom staples prior to Larry's Emmy-winning, six-season run on HBO but are commonplace now (as is the idea that HBO is a home for quality original programming).

The tremendous cast also features Jeffrey Tambor, a never-better Rip Torn, Janeane Garofalo, Wallace Langham, Jeremy Piven, and Mary Lynn Rajskub (plus recurring guests like Jon Stewart and Bob Odenkirk), and the show also helped boost the career of Judd Apatow, who served as a writer and producer on the series.

“Extraordinary ... one of the funniest, smartest comedies ever.” —Howard Rosenberg, Los Angeles Times

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