Review: “Yearly Departed” on Amazon Prime Video
by If Rachel Brosnahan’s Marvelous Mrs. Maisel telling truth to 1960 wasn’t enough for you, how about the real Brosnahan and Phoebe Robinson getting together a …
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Phoebe Robinson to host Year-End 2020 Comedy Special for Amazon Prime Video, ‘Yearly Departed’
Amazon Prime Video has ordered a year in review comedy special to be hosted by Phoebe Robinson, executive produced by The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel star …
Review: Jim Gaffigan, “The Pale Tourist” (Amazon Prime Video)
It’d be both easy and a gross oversimplification for me to merely say, I enjoy Jim Gaffigan’s older stuff better, as if I’m a hipster …
Review: Gina Brillon, “The Floor Is Lava” on Amazon Prime Video
The encore of Gina Brillon’s first Amazon Original comedy special is more powerful and moving than what precedes it, as she reveals who influenced her …
Review: Jimmy O. Yang, “Good Deal” on Amazon Prime Video
Jimmy O. Yang went from Silicon Valley on HBO to Space Force on Netflix. That’s a great deal! That’s not the Good Deal he’s talking …
Review: Russell Peters, “Deported” on Amazon Prime Video
Back when he made an original docuseries for Netflix in 2013, Russell Peters Vs. The World, Peters talked in one of the episodes about how he …
Review: Rob Delaney, “Jackie” on Amazon Prime Video
Rob Delaney provided an early example of how comedians could become big stars thanks solely to Twitter. But it wasn’t until Delaney left America for …
Review: Jayde Adams, “Serious Black Jumper” on Amazon Prime Video
Jayde Adams began her career in drag bars in Britain with an uncanny Adele impersonation. Her comedy career has gone big across the pond since …
Review: Ilana Glazer, “The Planet Is Burning” on Amazon Prime
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 …
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s “Fleabag” wins Emmy Awards for writing, acting, best comedy series of 2019
We knew critics loved Fleabag. We loved Fleabag. Now we know the Emmy Awards voters did, too, bestowing four Emmys this year to the British …