Shows Like PEN15
If you liked PEN15 (2019), a comedy series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Big Mouth (2017)
★ 7.6/10Also comedyTeenage friends find their lives upended by the wonders and horrors of puberty in this edgy comedy from real-life pals Nick Kroll and Andrew Goldberg.
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The Inbetweeners (2008)
★ 7.7/10Also comedySuburban teenage friends Will, Simon, Jay and Neil, students at Rudge Park Comprehensive, attempt to navigate the social scene, attract members of the gentler sex, and saunter amongst the cool crowd. However, despite…
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Duncanville (2020)
★ 7.7/10Also comedyLike most 15-year-olds, Duncan can see adulthood on the horizon: money, freedom, cars and girls; but the reality is more like: always being broke, driving with one's mom sitting shotgun and babysitting one's sister…
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On My Block (2018)
★ 8.3/10Also comedyIn a rough Los Angeles neighborhood, four smart, funny and streetwise teens find their lifelong friendship tested as they begin high school.
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Adults (2025)
★ 6.5/10Also comedyA group of twenty-somethings in New York trying to be good people, despite being neither "good" nor "people" yet.
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Platonic (2023)
★ 6.9/10Also comedyA platonic pair of former best friends approaching midlife reconnect after a long rift. The duo’s friendship becomes more consuming—and destabilizes their lives in a hilarious way.
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Ten Year Old Tom (2021)
★ 6.9/10Also comedyThe misadventures of an average kid as he contends with questionable guidance from the well-meaning grownups around him.
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Blue Mountain State (2010)
★ 7.6/10Also comedyThree incoming freshman in a big-time, Midwestern college football program have to juggle football, girls, class and nonstop hazing.
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Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later (2017)
★ 6.5/10Also comedyA decade after their wild summer as junior counselors, the gang reunites for a weekend of bonding, hanky-panky and hair-raising adventures.
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A.P. Bio (2018)
★ 6.9/10Also comedyWhen disgraced Harvard philosophy scholar Jack Griffin loses out on his dream job, he is forced to return to Toledo, Ohio, and work as a high school Advanced Placement biology teacher.
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A Black Lady Sketch Show (2019)
★ 7/10Also comedyA narrative series set in a limitless magical reality full of dynamic, hilarious characters and celebrity guests presenting sketches performed by a core cast of black women.
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Jackass (2000)
★ 6.7/10Also comedyJoin sadomasochistic superheroes Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, and the rest of the Jackass crew as they terrorize your TV screens and everyone that gets in their way (especially themselves) with their own sick and…
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The Larry Sanders Show (1992)
★ 7.8/10Also comedyComic Garry Shandling draws upon his own talk show experiences to create the character of Larry Sanders, a paranoid, insecure host of a late night talk show. Larry, along with his obsequious TV sidekick Hank Kingsley…
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grown-ish (2018)
★ 7.8/10Also comedyZoey Johnson heads to college and begins her hilarious journey to adulthood but quickly discovers that not everything goes her way once she leaves the nest.
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Bad Education (2012)
★ 6.9/10Also comedyWelcome to Abbey Grove Secondary School, where the students are struggling to grow up and the teachers are struggling to convince everyone they already have. After all, it’s difficult to teach teenagers about becoming…
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Fakes (2022)
★ 6.9/10Also comedyTeenage best friends Zoe and Becca set out to build their own fake ID empire, but when business starts booming, their life of crime gets way too real.
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Smack the Pony (1999)
★ 7.2/10Also comedyThe stylish, original and uninhibited Emmy award-winning sketch show starring Fiona Allen, Doon Mackichan and Sally Phillips. Distinctly contemporary. Decidedly maverick.
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South Park (1997)
★ 8.3/10Also comedyFollow the misadventures of four irreverent grade-schoolers in the quiet, dysfunctional town of South Park, Colorado.
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Vice Principals (2016)
★ 7.2/10Also comedyAfter North Jackson High's long-time principal steps down to tend to his ailing wife, Neal Gamby and Lee Russell, the school's vice principals, are forced to put their mutual disdain aside and form an unholy alliance…
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Portlandia (2011)
★ 6.9/10Also comedySatirical sketch comedy set and filmed in Portland, Oregon that explores the eccentric misfits who embody the foibles of modern culture.