Review: Jeff Dunham, “Beside Himself” on Netflix
After more than 40 years of performing ventriloquism on TV, Jeff Dunham not only remained popular heading into the pandemic, but commanded arena-sized audiences around …
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After more than 40 years of performing ventriloquism on TV, Jeff Dunham not only remained popular heading into the pandemic, but commanded arena-sized audiences around …
My gut instinct was to write a review based on his title: This is what he does. But Gary Owen’s 2019 special, which premiered on …
As I wrote for Decider when this special came out last fall: Don’t let the trailer fool you. The rat-a-tat-tat of hot-button words rattled off …
Producers/directors Paul Toogood and Lloyd Stanton enjoyed so much access to so many comedians over the last several years to make their documentary, This Is Stand-Up, …
About that title. Ilana Glazer means it literally, telling the audience early in her first stand-up comedy special that The Planet Is Burning, adding: “and …
How poetically full circle must Kevin McDonald feel this week, performing a new solo show across the street from the Hell’s Kitchen venue where Kids …
Some 15 years ago, Dave Chappelle cared so much about what people thought of him and his comedy that he up and quit his successful …
As I wrote in Decider: Whether or not you already know who Simon Amstell is, you can figure out rather quickly just by looking at …
Tiffany Haddish used her leverage in show business, circa 2019, to get some of her friends on Netflix, too. Who’d she pick and why? Let’s …
Joel McHale’s first ever full-length comedy special, Live From Pyongyang, which actually was filmed at the San Jose Improv, is out now on the Comedy Dynamics …