While announcing their biggest upcoming titles, Netflix have let slip that some of the biggest 2025 comedy titles are led by women. And why wouldn't they be? With the 2024 success of rom-com hit Nobody Want This – created by Erin Foster and fronted by the hilarious Kristen Bell – as well as the hype around Ali Wong's stand up show Single Lady, it looks like women are claiming the comedy world for their own.
The new series has dropped with a whole new slew of incredible actors.
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Given the fact that the comedy space, like so many spaces, can feel very male-dominated, this is music to our ears.
Movement is happening: while a 2023 study found that women still only represent 27.4% of UK comedy circuit comedians, it was recently confirmed that 54% of films last year were led or co-led by women, up from 30% the previous year. So seeing Netflix feature such amazing female talent at the forefront of their comedy slate is what we love to see.
Here's what we've got to look forward from our comedy ladies in 2025.
Kinda Pregnant, with Amy Schumer
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Amy Schumer's comedy credentials speak for themselves. She has always smashed stand up, chatting chewable Viagra, post-partum life and lasering her face – and no one does the offbeat rom-com character like her… see I Feel Pretty and Trainwreck for the receipts.
Her latest movie, Kinda Pregnant, sees her play Lainy, who gets herself caught up in a rather outrageous charade. In a moment of insecurity and jealousy, she pretends to be pregnant to her best friend. But during her period of pretence, she meets the man who could be the love of her life.
Watch Kinda Pregnant on Netflix now.
Running Point, created by Mindy Kaling
Executive produced and co-written by comedy genius Mindy Kaling, we can't wait for Running Point, starring Kate Hudson and Brenda Song, as well as New Girl's Max Greenfield.
Kate will play Isla, who is appointed president of her family basketball business the Los Angeles Waves, after a scandal. She must prove herself not just as a leader, but against all the stereotypes and stigma around women in sport and power.
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Not to worry, though, as she has Brenda Song's Ali Lee by her side to help her navigate business life.
Watch Running Point on Netflix from 27 February.
Too Much, from Lena Dunham
We truly, truly can't wait for this one. Girls creator Lena Dunham is back with a corker of a rom-com series, Too Much, this time set in London.
It centres around workaholic New Yorker Jessica who moves to London post-breakup and immediately has her life upended by Felix (played by White Lotus star Will Sharpe) – who is described as “less Hugh Grant in Notting Hill and more Hugh Grant’s drunken roommate.” Dunham says the show will create the joys of love, as well as the “jagged edges of life”.
Too Much will be dropping on Netflix later this year.
The Residence, produced by Shonda Rhimes
The latest genius from Shonda Rhimes (following producing credits such as Grey's Anatomy, Bridgerton, Inventing Anna) is screwball whodunnit The Residence, starring Orange Is The New Black star Uzo Aduba.
Uzo will play detective Cordelia Crupp, who is tasked with solving a murder and finding the culprit within The White House. It's been aptly described as “comedic, almost farcical”, and we can't wait to see more.
The Residence drops on Netflix on 20 March.
Stand up and sitcom magic from Leanne Morgan
After the success of her stand-up show I'm Every Woman, US comedian Leanne Morgan will be bringing us another stand-up special this year, hopefully full of big knicker humour and intimate stories of being a wife and mother.
Leanne will also star, co-create and executive produce new sitcom Leanne, which follows the story of a woman whose husband of 33 years leaves her. So far, so sad right? It'll be approached with a comedic twist, touching on themes from Leanne's stand-up – including the realities of the menopause – and the importance of family for pulling through hard times.
