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- Parrot Analytics provided Business Insider the top 10 most in-demand comedy shows on Netflix and other streamers from the last month.
- They include Netflix’s "Orange Is the New Black," Hulu’s "Shrill," and YouTube Premium’s "Cobra Kai."
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Netflix is the streaming champion, but it has some competition when it comes to original comedy TV shows.
Hulu has been making strides in this area recently, most notably with the Aidy Bryant-starring "Shrill," which was renewed for a second season this week. And Amazon still has a winner with the Emmy-winning "Marvelous Mrs. Maisel."
READ MORE: The top 10 drama TV shows on Netflix and other streaming services
Parrot Analytics provided Business Insider the most in-demand drama shows currently streaming on Netflix and elsewhere, based on the average demand expressions of the last 30 days for each series.
Demand expressions are the globally standardized TV demand measurement unit from Parrot Analytics. Audience demand reflects the desire, engagement, and viewership weighted by importance.
Four of the 10 shows are Netflix originals, compared to the six that were on the list of the top streaming drama shows Parrot Analytics provided last week.
Below are the top 10 comedy shows on streaming services:
10. "Mystery Science Theaters 3000: The Return" (Netflix)
Netflix
Description: "Captured by mad scientists, new host Jonah survives a blitz of cheesy B movies by riffing on them with his funny robot pals."
Number of seasons: 2
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 100%
What critics said (Season 2): "Jonah’s finding a strong dynamic with the Bots, the riffs are tighter, and the shorter episode order allows for a more eclectic (if uneven) batch of enjoyably bad movies." — Clint Worthington, Consequence of Sound
Average demand expressions (last 30 days): 6,510,869
9. "Future Man" (Hulu)
Hulu
Description: "Future Man stars Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games) as ‘Josh Futturman,’ a janitor by day/gamer by night who is recruited by mysterious visitors to travel through time in order to prevent the extinction of humanity."
Number of seasons: 2
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 91%
What critics said (Season 2): "Future Man’s strength as a series has been the writers’ willingness to take the sci-fi seriously, and indeed there are times when you almost want the joke to be done so you can find out what happens next in the story." — Adam Chitwood, Collider
Average demand expressions (last 30 days): 6,543,969
8. "Wayne" (YouTube Premium)
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Description: "In this gritty and sometimes bloody tale, sixteen year-old Wayne sets out on a dirt bike with his new crush Del to take back the 1978 Pontiac Trans Am that was stolen from his father before he died. It is Wayne and Del against the world."
Number of seasons: 1
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 100%
What critics said (Season 1): "Tender and violent, profane and thoughtful, simple and complicated, obvious and subtle, sweet and upsetting, an intermittently bloody hymn to goodness and innocence, and delicately acted even as it runs to extremes, it will not be everybody’s cup of tea." — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times
Average demand expressions (last 30 days): 7,396,152
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