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.)
23 episodes (4 seasons) streaming at HBO Max and Prime Video
The workplace: The Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship, a relatively minor UK government bureau.
Before there was Veep, there was The Thick of It, an even more foul-mouthed and biting political comedy set within the UK government. Created by Armando Iannucci (then a veteran of the cult classic news spoof The Day Today and several Alan Partridge shows, including I'm Alan Partridge, which is on the cusp of qualifying as a workplace comedy) and written by (among others) future Succession creator Jesse Armstrong, the much-lauded comedy's British political minutiae may be lost on American viewers, but the gamesmanship and humor, most assuredly, are not—especially when coming out of the mouth of Peter Capaldi's ever-spinning Malcolm Tucker, one of TV's all-time memorable characters.
Capaldi and several other The Thick of It stars would reprise their roles (or take other roles) in Iannucci's terrific 2009 feature film spinoff In the Loop, which is set mostly in the U.S.
“It’s so wall-to-wall with great lines that on a second viewing, you’ll always catch something you didn’t the first time around.” —Hana Glasser, Slate