The 7 Best Sitcoms On Peacock Right Now

There’s nothing as fundamentally entertaining as a worthwhile TV sitcom.

Allowing us to end the day on a blessed light note, sitcoms have a way of engaging our immediate attention with their indelible humor, likable characters, and captivating episodic plotlines. Whether looking at a classic sitcom like Seinfeld or a more recent series like Abbott Elementary, most viewers share nothing but love and enthusiasm at the feel-good nature of most television sitcoms airing on our screens.

With its basis in regular NBC programming, Peacock’s digital library boasts a healthy lineup of memorable sitcoms for viewers to laugh at. From meta-aware cult classics to revolutionary mockumentary series, here are some of the best sitcoms currently streaming on Peacock.

30 Rock

As 2024’s biographical comedy Saturday Night shows us, working on a series as well-known as Saturday Night Live isn’t exactly a walk in the park. As an extension of this, Tina Fey’s NBC sitcom 30 Rock humorously portrays the anarchic experience of working backstage at SNL, from contending with the series’ rambunctious cast to navigating the corporate suits representing the network’s standards and practices. Featuring sharp writing, self-referential humor, and an unending list of surprise celebrity cameos, 30 Rock is the ultimate love letter to SNL’s production history, complete with some of the series’ most defining cast members (Fey, Tracy Morgan, Rachel Dratch, Jason Sudeikis, and a scene-stealing Chris Parnell).

Community

Surviving through network changes, untimely cancellations, continuous cast changes, and the departure and eventual return of lead showrunner Dan Harmon, Community’s unwavering fanbase is proof enough of the series’ larger appeal among mainstream viewers. Growing from a decent if unremarkable college-based sitcom into one of the most inventive comedy shows of the 2010s, Community routinely defied expectations when it came to conventional storytelling and episodic subject matter. Whether lampooning Star Wars, Spaghetti Westerns, zombie films, or David Fincher-esque mystery movies, Community’s metaware humor and remarkable homages makes it a network series unlike any other, leaving little reason to wonder about its dedicated cult status today.

Scrubs

More often than not, ordinary hospital settings provide the basis for melodramatic medical dramas like ER, Grey’s Anatomy, and St. Elsewhere. Yet when mixed with a healthy dose of comedy, these all-important medical facilities can provide some truly gargantuan laughs, as seen with a genre-bending series like NBC’s Scrubs. Though packed to the brim with absurdist gags and slapstick humor, Scrubs doesn’t shy away from the more serious aspects of working in the medical field, including all the stress, fatigue, and the mental anguish that can come from losing a patient under your care.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Just as the medical genre has become oversaturated by increasingly formulaic melodramas, so too has the police procedural series found itself overwrought with CSI, Criminals Minds, and Law & Order spin-offs. Enter: the laugh-out-loud police parody series, Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Led by an exceptionally well-rounded ensemble cast, rapid-fire writing, and endlessly entertaining characters, Brooklyn Nine-Nine is a more than fitting network successor to Parks and Rec or The Office, tickling every viewers’ funny bone with its playful banter and indelible sense of humor.

Parks and Recreation

Following in the footsteps of its creative predecessor in The Office, Parks and Recreation found a way to turn its attention from the average corporate workplace to the low-level bureaucracy of regional government departments. Focusing on the eccentric members of an Indiana Parks Department, Parks and Recreation somehow rises to the same level as its Steve Carrell-led counterpart, conjuring up as unforgettably colorful a cast as The Office before it. In spite of their obvious similarities, however, Parks and Rec also emphasizes the fundamental importance of small-town government, routinely showing that significant changes often come from the grit, persistent, and unwavering enthusiasm of a single individual (like Amy Poehler’s unfailingly upbeat Leslie Knope).

Modern Family

Thanks to the phenomenal success of The Office, ABC decided to pursue their own creative vision for the mockumentary genre with 2009’s Modern Family. Spanning 11 seasons and focusing on three separate yet interlinked families in the suburbs of California, Modern Family provides a wondrous illustration of the contemporary American household. Renowned for its inclusiveness and judicious representation of the LGBTQ+ community, it’s a rare long-running sitcom that remains just as side-splittingly funny in its later seasons as it is in its earliest opening episodes.

The Office

With the release of its so-so first season, most people justifiably saw NBC’s 2005 adaptation of The Office as little more than a line-for-line remake of the original. Beginning with the show’s second season, however, the American version of The Office quickly distanced itself from its predecessor, allowing the series to adapt itself to the tastes and sensibilities of its network audience. Pioneering the mockumentary format for primetime TV, The Office’s off-beat sense of humor and deadpan comic delivery quickly captured the hearts and minds of viewers throughout the decade, garnering as iconic a place in pop culture as Cheers, Seinfeld, or Friends.