5 Top 2010s Comedies That Deserve to Be Rewatched: ‘This Is the End’ and More

Have you ever watched a fantastic comedy for the first time and laughed the whole way through, then watched it a second time, and it’s even funnier?

Or maybe you watched another comedy and dismissed it the first time, then on a second watch, it finally worked for you.

Sometimes, revisiting a comedy movie offers brand new viewing pleasures. Either way, Watch With Us recommends five comedies from the 2010s that deserve a second go.

Our list includes the apocalypse hilarity of This Is the End, starring Seth Rogen and pretty much every Hollywood star under 30 at the time, and the historical farce The Death of Stalin.

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‘This Is the End’ (2013)

An ensemble cast of Hollywood comedy actors play versions of themselves in this hilarious take on the Rapture. When Jay Baruchel reluctantly joins his best friend Seth Rogen at a rager party at James Franco‘s new mansion, he finds himself trapped there alongside Rogen, Franco, Craig Robinson, Jonah Hill and Danny McBride when a global biblical apocalypse rips the world apart. This event leaves the wicked and sinful (like Hollywood actors) on Earth or casts them into the pits of Hell, while those of true faith ascend to heaven. Surrounded by flames, demons and increasingly desperate celebrities, the six actors struggle to survive and also get along with one another.

If you saw This Is the End while in high school, it was likely the funniest movie you had ever seen up until that point (McBride shouting that he will “c–m anywhere he wants” in Franco’s home is one of the best scenes ever put to film). But thirteen years later, it still reigns as a high point of 2010s comedy. Poking fun at their own celebrity personas, the deft comic actors of This Is the End navigate a fun apocalypse narrative that includes screwball humor, showbiz satire and a hysterical The Exorcist parody.

‘Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie’ (2012)

Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim are given a billion dollars by the powerful corporation Schlaang, Inc. to make a movie, but when they premiere only three minutes of Bonjour, Diamond Jim, they reveal that they’ve actually wasted all the cash on their own personal indulgences. The executives of Schlaang, Inc. are furious, threatening legal action against Tim and Eric unless they pay back their billion-dollar debt. In a desperate bid, the duo accepts an offer to buy and fix the S’Wallow Valley Mall, which has fallen into disrepair. Will Tim and Eric be able to rehabilitate the mall enough to make $1 billion in profit? Or will the evil Schlaang, Inc. executives enact bloody revenge?

Tim and Eric are purveyors of a very particular brand of absurdist, surreal humor, so if you aren’t accustomed to it, or you came into Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie with little familiarity with their Adult Swim series, it would make sense why you might find it odd, unsettling or downright distasteful. But if you enjoy comedy akin to Mr. Show, I Think You Should Leave and The Eric Andre Show, you will find ample strange pleasures in the rags-to-riches tale of the S’Wallow Valley Mall. The cast also includes Will Ferrell, Will Forte, Zach Galifianakis and John C. Reilly.

‘Hail, Caesar!’ (2017)

In 1950s Hollywood, Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin) is head of production at Capitol Pictures in addition to being a “fixer,” a guy who goes around trying to solve the problems of all the biggest movie stars — covering up affairs, hiding pregnancies, making things disappear and quelling tabloid gossip. All at once, he must tend to a disgruntled director, a synchronized swimmer, a singing cowboy and a musical star. But when one of Mannix’s clients, the handsome but dim actor Baird Whitlock (George Clooney), gets kidnapped, it sends him down a comedy of errors to find Baird and pay the $100,000 ransom to get him back.

Convoluted and deeply silly, Hail, Caesar! may prove difficult to follow for some, but its vast delights become more apparent when you sit back, relax and stop thinking too hard. Once you do, you can enjoy the simple pleasures of such riotous scenes as “Would that it were so simple,” and “No dames!” while Clooney hams it up doing one of his best types of roles: the beautiful idiot. As ever, the Coen brothers craft an energetic crime caper filled out by a fantastic ensemble cast that includes Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Tilda Swinton and Ralph Fiennes.

‘The Death of Stalin’ (2017)

Based on the graphic novel La Mort de Staline, The Death of Stalin satirizes the moments before and after the death of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin (Adrian McLoughlin) in 1953. Following Stalin’s sudden death from a cerebral hemorrhage, his cabal of parasitic companions bicker and backstab frantically over who will be the next leader of the Soviet Union. In contention are cronies Nikita Khrushchev (Steve Buscemi), Lavrenti Beria (Simon Russell Beale), Vyacheslav Molotov (Michael Palin) and Georgy Malenkov (Jeffrey Tambor). As they squabble amongst themselves, they also have to deal with Stalin’s unruly adult children, Vasily (Rupert Friend) and Svetlana (Andrea Riseborough).

Director Armando Iannucci (Veep) is a master at depicting the sheer buffoonery that hides behind the veneer of respect in politics, played out to perfection by a brilliantly cast roster of hilarious A-list character actors. Iannucci manages a delicate dance of articulating the reality of the place and time period as well as the malfeasance of our core players, while crafting a truly laugh-out-loud farce that exposes both the horror and the absurdity inherent to political ineptitude. In the end, the events that transpire in The Death of Stalin end up mirroring our own stupid reality

‘What We Do in the Shadows’ (2014)

Vampires Viago (Taika Waititi), Deacon (Jonathan Brugh), Vlad (Jemaine Clement) and the “introverted”, coffin-dwelling Petyr (Ben Fransham) live together as flatmates in an old house in Wellington, New Zealand. A documentary crew takes a look at bloodsuckers’ day-to-day balancing being ancient vampires with adapting to modern ways of life. Together, they navigate doling out chores, bringing home victims, dealing with their familiars and trying to have rich social lives. But things take an unexpected turn when they accidentally turn an annoying young man named Nick (Cori Gonzalez-Macuer) into a vampire, who is desperate to join their crew.

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The popularity and critical acclaim of What We Do in the Shadows and the subsequent emergence of co-director Waititi into mainstream filmmaking spawned a successful TV series of the same name that ran from 2019 to 2024. Largely improvised from a very loose screenplay, What We Do in the Shadows is New Zealand comedy at its best and a must-watch for fans of Flight of the Conchords. With constant gags, hilarious line reads, great deadpan performances and some gnarly gore, What We Do in the Shadows is handily one of the funniest horror-comedies ever.