The five best Christmas comedies to watch on Netflix right now

As 2017 winds down, we all need a bit of a laugh.

Fed up of cheese, both literal and movie-related? When December rolls around we always binge on our favourite Christmas classics but too much Miracle on 34th Street, Elf and The Holiday can us craving something different to cleanse the palate. Netflix has a serious selection of festive films, so why not watch a Christmas comedy? Here are five of the best to stream now.  

The Night Before                             

Three best friends (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen and Anthony Mackie) decide to end their tradition of wild holiday partying – but not before one final drug-fuelled Christmas Eve in New York.

 

Last Holiday                       

Shy New Orleans salesclerk's (Queen Latifah) doctor informs her that she has less than a month to live. She jets off on a dream holiday to live life like there's no tomorrow. Georgia shakes up a glamorous European resort spa while enthusiastically embracing a new look, new moves, and a new attitude.

 

Uncle Nick          

At his brother's traditional Christmas Eve party, lecherous, drunken slacker Nick (Brian Posehn) works hard to make the celebration a raucous disaster.

 

Scrooged!                            

High-spirited high jinks on Christmas Eve put Frank Cross (Bill Murray) in a ghostly time warp in this take-off of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." Cross, who has made the meteoric rise from the depths of the mailroom to TV network president, is mean, nasty, uncaring, unforgiving and has a sadistic sense of humor - perfect qualities for a modern-day Scrooge. Before the night is over, he'll be visited by a maniacal New York cab driver from the past, a present-day fairy who's into pratfalls and, finally, a ghoulish, seven-foot headless messenger from the future.

 

Happy Christmas                             

Irresponsible 20-something Jenny (Anna Kendrick) arrives in Chicago to live with her older brother Jeff, a young film-maker living a happy existence with his novelist wife Kelly and their two-year-old son. Jenny's arrival shakes up their quiet domesticity as she and her friend Carson instigate an evolution in Kelly's life and career. Meanwhile, Jenny strikes up a rocky relationship with the family's baby sitter-cum-pot dealer.