What To Watch If You Love 'Hacks'

Fans of: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.Series focuses on female comedians.

Fans of: Grace and Frankie.Comedy series featuring mature women.

A London woman deals with city life and a tragedy.

Fans of: Broad City.Writer/showrunner Paul W. Downs.

Fans of: Ted Lasso.Offbeat comedy centered on a profession.

Fans of: The Kominsky Method.Comedy series featuring mature leads.

Fans of: Master of None.Comedy series about comedians.

Fans of: GLOW.Comedy series about show business.

Fans of: Mare of Easttown.Series features Jean Smart.

Fans of: Curb Your Enthusiasm. Dark comedy. Comedies focusing on comedians.

A comic reevaluates his life after his wife cheats.

Fans of: Fargo.Series features Jean Smart.

Kumail, a Pakistani comic, meets American graduate student Emily at a stand-up show. Their relationship grows. Kumail worries about his traditional Muslim parents' reaction to her. Emily gets sick, falling into a coma. Kumail builds a strong bond with her worried mother and father.

Fans of: Feel Good.Comedy-drama series about a female comedian.

Tim Robinson and guests drive people to the point of needing to leave.

Fans of: Get Shorty.Dark comedies about the entertainment industry.

Fans of: I'm Dying Up Here.Comedy-drama series about comedians.

Fans of: Difficult People.Dark comedies about show business.

Fans of: Designing Women.Shows featuring Jean Smart.

Anxiety over his stalled career and pressure to marry Lauren Ambrose push commitment-shy comic Mike Birbiglia to sleepwalk.

An immature, unemployed comic Jenny Slate handles adulthood after a fling with grad student Jake Lacy results in an unplanned pregnancy.

Two Black women share friendship and tough experiences.

Jo Jo Dancer (Richard Pryor) achieved stand-up success but lacks happiness. After severe burns from a narcotics incident, Jo Jo enters a coma. In this state, he recalls his troubled childhood and his rise to fame and subsequent decadence. He must decide if he wants to keep living.

Garry Shandling plays a late-night talk-show host.

Rupert Pupkin (Robert De Niro) is a failure but a celebrity in his mind, hosting an imaginary talk show in his mother's basement. He meets actual host Jerry Langford (Jerry Lewis) and believes it will launch his career, but Langford ignores him. Pupkin stalks Langford and then kidnaps him, offering his release for a guest spot.

People (Martin Lawrence, John Witherspoon, Jedda Jones) discuss sex onstage and backstage at a Los Angeles comedy club.

Fans of: Comedies about show business.

Fans of: Comedies about show business.

A man with a business degree thinks he can advise people with failing businesses.

Jim Carrey plays the late Andy Kaufman. Kaufman was one of the most innovative, eccentric, and strange performers of his time. Kaufman mastered audience manipulation. He generated laughs, silence, tears, or fights. Kaufman invited people for milk and cookies or challenged women to wrestle. He created performances so real, even his friends could not tell what was true.

For fans of:Comedies about show business.

The comic leads a group satirizing TV stereotypes.

For fans of:Series featuring Jean Smart.

For fans of:Dark comedies about the entertainment industry.

A man's life includes a talkative father, a religious mother, and a hustling brother.

For fans of:Comedy series about female comedians.

Jackie Burke, an old comic icon, is struggling. Despite trying to reinvent himself and his comedic talent, the audience only sees the TV character he played. Jackie strains his younger brother and wife. Jackie must do community service accosting an audience member. There, he meets Harmony, the daughter of a sleazy Florida real estate mogul, and they find inspiration in each other.

Learning he has a fatal disease, comic George Simmons (Adam Sandler) finds a struggling performer named Ira (Seth Rogen). George decides to mentor Ira. The men become close friends as George teaches Ira stand-up comedy. Ira helps George define his legacy. When an old flame (Leslie Mann) returns and the disease improves, George can re-evaluate his life and find what matters.

The life of the head writer for a late-night TV variety show.

An abrasive stand-up comic (Gregg Turkington) travels to perform shows at dirty venues.

For fans of:Offbeat comedy centered on a profession.

Buddy Young Jr. (Billy Crystal) succeeded early in TV. You might expect Buddy Young Jr. and his wife, Elaine (Julie Warner), to retire happily. Instead, Buddy is a sharp blowhard. He alienates his brother, Stan (David Paymer), and everyone who does not submit to his bullying. His agent, Annie Wells (Helen Hunt), puts elderly Buddy in a big movie role. However, Buddy's disrespect might cause problems again.

Marco Mejia, a gender non-conforming queer person, gets a job with a makeup mogul.

Divorcee Dottie Ingels (Julie Kavner) works in retail. She wants to be a comedienne. After getting an inheritance, Dottie moves to New York City with her kids, Erica (Samantha Mathis) and Opal (Gaby Hoffmann). Dottie finds success on the stand-up circuit. This leaves little time for her daughters. Dottie dates her manager, Arnold Moss (Dan Aykroyd). This becomes the breaking point for Erica and Opal.

Fans of:These are dark comedies about the entertainment industry.

Fans of:These are offbeat series focused on a writer.

Performer Rudy Ray Moore creates the outrageous character Dolemite. Dolemite becomes an underground sensation and star in a kung-fu, anti-establishment film. This film could make or break Moore.

Fans of:Dice is dark. Dice are comedies about comedians.

Fans of:Legion features Jean Smart.

Andre Allen (Chris Rock) started in stand-up comedy. He became the star of a trilogy of action-comedies about a talking bear. Andre spends a day with Chelsea (Rosario Dawson), a New York Times profile writer. Her critic just slammed Andre's passion project about the Haitian Revolution. Andre opens up to Chelsea. As they travel through New York, Andre tries to reconnect with his comedic roots.