Raunchy comedies exploded in the 2000s and 2010s. It all started with 1999's American Pie, a film about a group of high school boys who make a pact to all lose their virginity before they go off the college. From there, Hollywood seemed obsessed with pushing the limits for the sake of making audiences laugh. Comedy movies took off, and the biggest hooks revolved around excessive sex, drugs, alcohol, and generally promiscuity.
While raunchy comedies have dropped off over the last ten years, they may be primed for a comeback. 2023's No Hard Feelings starring Jennifer Lawrence showed that audiences might be ready to give sex comedies a try again. In it, Lawrence plays a broke Uber driver who takes money from a couple to date their awkward son Percy (Andrew Barth Feldman). If you're looking for some great raunchy comedy movies from the 2010s to check out, here are the best picks.
20 Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
If you wanted to travel back to the 1980s, you'd transport through a portal in the time-space continuum, right? Nope. In Hot Tub Time Machine, four unhappy middle-aged dudes find a magic hot tub at a ski resort and blast themselves back to 1986. To get home, the buddies must re-live their past traumas, which include but are not limited to getting stabbed in the eye with a fork, having sex with an ex-girlfriend, and performing with an old high school rock band.
Hot Tub Time Machine was full of dirty references, but they didn't translate into big laughs. The film was met with largely middling reviews, and it fell flat upon its release in 2010. Somehow the movie earned a modest profit against its production budget, which earned it a raunchy sequel. Hot Tub Time Machine 2, however, is often cited as one of the worst movies of 2015.
19 Get Him to the Greek (2010)
Judd Apatow was one of the hottest comedy directors and producers around in the 2010s. One of his lesser-known productions is 2010's Get Him to the Greek, which brought back a character named Aldous Snow (Russell Brand) from 2008's hilarious movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall. In Get Him to the Greek Jonah Hill plays a young record executive named Aaron who is tasked with getting Aldous to the Greek theater in Los Angeles to play an epic 10th-anniversary show. Aldous has other plans.
Feeling depressed because his girlfriend dumped him, Aldous just wants to drink, party, and forget his problems. Aaron ends up tagging along, trying to get Aldous off the hedonistic path and back to regular life as a successful rock star. Humor ensues when Aaron is pulled into the antics, which include some raunchy scenes like Aaron being taken advantage of in the bedroom by a girl he just met.
18 She's Out of My League (2010)
She's Out of My League stars Jay Baruchel as a meek TSA agent named Kirk who can't seem to get any girls. One day, a business executive named Molly comes through security and catches Kirk's eye. He saves her from her terrible boss and returns her cell phone when she leaves it behind. Impressed that Kirk isn't being genuinely nice and not just trying to catcall her like his peers, she decides to go out with him.
The movie contains some pretty vulgar humor, highlighted by a scene reminiscent of the hit comedy There's Something About Mary. As Kirk and Molly are making out, Kirk accidentally finishes early just before her parents arrive. He's left in an awkward situation and takes off to hide his embarrassment. She's Out of My League delivers these types of sex jokes throughout and stands as one of the raunchiest movies of 2010.
17 The Hangover Part II (2011)
The Hangover Part II takes a page from the first film. When Phil (Bradley Cooper), Alan (Zach Galifianakis), and Doug (Justin Bartha) arrive in Thailand for Stu's (Ed Helms) wedding, they soon find themselves caught up in a mystery once again. After a quiet night on the beach, the group wakes up with little recollection of what happened the night before. Stu's future brother-in-law Teddy is missing, and it's up to the guys to find him.
The guys travel through Bangkok looking for Tedday and discover they started a riot the night before, had sex with hookers, and stole a monkey that's used for doing drug deals. Leslie Chow (Ken Jeong) returns to help them, but he's quickly sidelined by a suspected drug overdose. The Hangover Part II delivers the same raunchy, hilarious plot devices as the first one and plays up vulgar dialogue for maximum laughs.
16 The Change-Up (2011)
In 2011's The Change-Up, Mitch (Ryan Reynolds) and Dave (Jason Bateman) are old friends who have taken completely different life paths. Mitch is single and enjoys casual encounters with women, while Dave has settled down with a wife and three kids. One night, the two buddies get drunk in a bar and end up urinating in the same fountain at the same time. It turns out to be a magic fountain that makes the men switch bodies.
Mitch and Dave soon realize the other man's life is not what they expected. Mitch finds Dave's life to be square, and he can't control himself around other women. Dave discovers that Mitch works on adult films, and he feels like he is betraying his wife. The guys give each other tips on how to live in each other's shoes, which includes dating advice, male grooming, and having sex with the wrong people. Needless to say, Dave is not one of Jason Bateman's best characters.
15 Bridesmaids (2011)
Kristen Wiig plays Annie and a down-and-out baker who has lost her bakery and her lust for life. Everything seems to be going wrong for her: her car is missing a tail light, her job at a jewelry store didn't work out, and she lives with her Mom because she's broke. On top of that, her best friend Lillian (Maya Rudolph) is getting married, but she's recently found a new friend name Helen (Rose Byrne) to hang out with - one whose life is way more put together than Annie's.
Annie's breakdowns and tantrums provide the bulk of the laughs in Bridesmaids. As the audience gets to know the women more, the jokes get more and more extreme. Byrne has already said she'd be game for a sequel, and with the movie making over $300 million ($394 million today) at the box office, why the heck not?
14 A Good Old Fashioned Orgy (2011)
The premise of A Good Old Fashioned Orgy is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. Jason Sudeikis plays Eric, a 30-something-year-old guy who loves to throw big parties at his dad's place in the Hamptons. When his father informs him that he's selling the house, Eric decides that he and his friends should throw a party for the ages and have an orgy.
While planning the orgy, Eric seeks out terrible advice from his uncle Vic (David Koechner). If you've ever watched The Office, you know that Koechner is never afraid of raunchy comedy. A Good Old Fashioned Orgy scored mixed reviews for its raunchy premise, and it's currently sitting at a flaccid 35% on Rotten Tomatoes.
13 Bad Teacher (2011)
In Bad Teacher, Cameron Diaz plays Elizabeth, a lazy teacher whose main goal in life is to just scrape by. She isn't afraid to swear, drink, and party. Her objective is to find a rich man who will allow her to quit her job forever. When a teacher named Scott (Justin Timberlake) starts working as a substitute at her school, Elizabeth thinks she's got it made if she can just latch on to him.
Elizabeth does some pretty devious things to get Scott's attention, like raising money for breast implants through a school car wash. She's also trying to fend off a competing teacher named Amy (Lucy Punch) who she sees as an enemy also vying for Scott's attention. Bad Teacher was rated R for sexual content, foul language, nudity, and drug use, making it one of the raunchiest comedies of 2011.
12 Friends with Benefits (2011)
Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake joined up in 2011 for Friends with Benefits, a movie about a couple who meet during a job interview and become friends. One night, they decide to have casual sex, insisting that it wouldn't ruin their relationship or their work prospects as colleagues. They couldn't be more wrong.
The film is very similar to another 2011 sex comedy called No Strings Attached, starring Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher. The themes of causal encounters resonated with a modern audience, as Friends with Benefits crushed it at the box office. The film earned $149.5 million ($196.2 million today) and was nominated for Favorite Comedy at the 38th People's Choice Awards.
11 American Reunion (2012)
2012's American Reunion brings the gang from American Pie back for another romp under the sheets. Jim (Jason Biggs) is married to Michelle (Alyson Hannigan) from band camp, and the couple has a two-year-old. Some of the other guys are unhappy with their lives, and that leads to them reconnecting with their old high school girlfriends. Jim and Michelle decide to spice up their sex lives by trying BDSM.
The moral of American Reunion is the same as American Pie; the group is looking for stability, security, and love, rather than sex and promiscuity. Stifler's Mom (the always great Jennifer Coolidge), on the other hand, is still just looking for sex. American Reunion provided some good raunchy laughs and was a great piece of nostalgia for those who liked the first film.
10 The Hangover Part III (2013)
2013's The Hangover Part III was the conclusion of the epic trilogy that first began in 2009. Finally diverging from the formula that made the first two films popular (and hilarious), Part III sees the gang of Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms), and Doug (Justin Bartha) trying to get help for their friend Alan (Zach Galifianakis) who has stopped taking his medication.
The group gets caught up in a gold heist with their former friend and enemy Leslie Chow (Ken Jeong) tricking them into stealing from a drug lord in Mexico. They end up back in Vegas where they have to find Chow, getting into the usual parties and shenanigans along the way. The Hangover Part III is one raunchy comedy you don't want to miss.
9 Sex Tape (2014)
Another raunchy 2010s comedy starring Cameron Diaz is 2014's Sex Tape. Jay (Jason Segel) and Annie (Diaz) live a happy life as a married couple, but they're finding more and more that they don't have sex. To spice things up in the bedroom, they decide to make a sex tape of themselves trying out the positions in the popular book "The Joy of Sex."
When the duo is unable to get the tape off the cloud on their iPads, they discover it's been shared around the internet. Jay and Annie hatch an elaborate plan to steal iPads and delete the videos, but everything goes downhill. It's a race against time before one of their kids grabs a tablet and sees a video of their parents getting busy. It may not feature one of Jason Segel's best performances, but Sex Tape is still worth a dirty chuckle or two.
8 Walk of Shame (2014)
You'd be forgiven if you've never heard of the 2014 comedy Walk of Shame. Elizabeth Banks plays a TV news anchor named Meghan Miles who goes out for a night of drinking after missing out on a big promotion. She winds up sleeping with a bartender named Gordon (James Marsden) and wakes up in his bed the next morning with no memory of how she wound up there.
Walk of Shame was full of raunchy stereotypes, sex jokes, crass humor, and vulgar sight gags. Audiences groaned as Banks put herself through numerous silly situations for barely any laughs. Entertainment Weekly gave the movie a "D" grade and called it "a laughless farce." On the plus side, Banks is doing much better with her more recent movies, such as 2023's hit Cocaine Bear.
7 Sausage Party (2016)
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Sausage Party may be an animated film, but it certainly isn't for kids. The movie was co-written by comedian Seth Rogan and focuses on a hot dog named Frank (Rogan) who thinks life in the supermarket is grand. He hangs out with his friend Carl (Jonah Hill) and thinks about being with his hot dog bun girlfriend Barbara (Kristen Wiig). Suddenly (and violently), Frank realizes that food is meant to be eaten, and he's horrified at his inevitable fate.
As the name of the movie implies, Sausage Party is filled with sex jokes, physical comedy, and crude sight gags. There's also drug addiction, several murders, and orgies in the film, making it one of the raunchiest cartoon feature films ever made. Rogan himself admitted that the major movie studios had issues with the film's content, but in the end, Sausage Party made a ton of money, raking in $141.3 million ($172 million today) on a measly $19 million budget ($23.1 million today).
6 Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
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The Lonely Island was on fire in the mid-2010s. After successful fun creating shorts for Saturday Night Live, the comedy troupe successfully transitioned to movies. In 2016, they released Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, a raunchy comedy mockumentary about a pop star named Connor4Real (Andy Samberg) who has to reinvent himself after his tour suffers from poor ticket sales.
Connor's life spirals out of control after a series of embarrassing stunts, including being stripped naked on stage by accident and unleashing a pack of wolves on the audience. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping pushes the boundaries of good taste with some gross sight gags as well. Overall, it's a funny movie for those who have the stomach for The Lonely Island's more R-rated antics that they weren't able to do on TV.
5 A Bad Moms Christmas (2017)
A Bad Moms Christmas is a sequel to the hit 2016 film Bad Moms. Amy (Mila Kunis) is happily living a simple life with her family. All she wants is an easy Christmas with time to relax, but her Mom Ruth (Christine Baranski) thinks it's a mother's job to go all out at Christmas. She expects Amy to pull everything together to make the holiday perfect, even though Amy and other moms are tired, overworked, and ready for a break.
When Amy's friend Carla learns about a "Sexy Santa" competition taking place, she ropes in Amy, and the friends let loose. A Bad Moms Christmas isn't as raunchy or over-the-top as the original, but it still packs in plenty of swearing, strippers, drinking, and gambling. A third Bad Moms movie was announced in 2019, but it's unclear if it's still in the works.
4 Rough Night (2017)
Rough Night takes place in 2006 when five female friends get together for an epic bachelorette party. The ladies take cocaine and decide it would be fun to hire a male stripper, but the man dies when one of the girls gets too excited and jumps on him. None of the women want to go to jail, so they dispose of the body and try to steal any videotape that might have recorded the incident.
The rest of Rough Night is filled with more drugs, threats of murder, and stolen diamonds. With an all-star cast consisting of Scarlett Johansson, Kate McKinnon, Demi Moore, and Zoe Kravitz, you'd think Rough Night would be a sure-fire hit. For all of its raunchy craziness, it's just an OK movie that's worth a chuckle.
3 The Happytime Murders (2018)
Whenever puppets show up in an adult-oriented movie or TV show, you know they're going to be up to no good. The Happytime Murdersis about a private investigator puppet named Phil Phillips (Bill Barretta) who teams up with Detective Connie Edwards (Melissa McCarthy), a human cop, to solve a series of murders that seem to be targeting ex-stars of a popular fictional sitcom called The Happytime Gang.
As the two dive into the seedy underworld of puppets, they encounter places like puppet porn shops and strip clubs, cracking inappropriate jokes along the way. With the first part of the film being especially crass, critics were not kind to The Happytime Murders. The shock value of foul-mouthed puppets was not enough to carry a feature film and the movie was nominated for several Razzie Awards.
2 Blockers (2018)
The 2018 comedy Blockers is about three parents who are trying to stop their daughters from having pre-marital sex at their prom. Lisa (Leslie Mann) is a single mother who is the most overprotective. She learns that her daughter Julia has made a pact with her friends to lose her virginity at prom, so she teams up with dads Mitchell (John Cena) and Hunter (Ike Barinholtz) to stop them.
Blockers is a hilarious movie that excels at physical comedy. It works with its raunchy subject matter with ease and never ventures into disgusting or gross territory. Blockers was critically acclaimed and it contains one of John Cena's best performances. The movie holds an impressive 84% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and is highly re-watchable.
1 Good Boys (2019)
The 2019 movie Good Boys centers around three boys who are dealing with typical adolescent issues. They've been invited to a kissing party but have no idea how to kiss a girl. Come to think of it, the boys know very little about themselves, or their sexuality, so they set out to learn about it through their hilarious means.
Good Boys is driven by the great performances of child actors Jacob Tremblay, Keith L. Williams, and Brady Noon. Along the way, the boys end up drinking alcohol, running across a busy highway, accidentally playing with a sex toy, and mistaking a sex doll for a CPR dummy. Good Boys pushes good taste to the limits and reveals itself to be a charming, funny, and raunchy adventure.
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