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Tag: Amazon Prime Video

Episode #374: Phat Tuesdays: Guy Torry & Reginald Hudlin
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Episode #374: Phat Tuesdays: Guy Torry & Reginald Hudlin

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyJanuary 31, 2022January 31, 2022

In the late 1990s, between the comedy booms, perhaps the hottest live stand-up show in Los Angeles happened every week on a Tuesday night. That’s …

Review: “Yearly Departed” on Amazon Prime Video
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Review: “Yearly Departed” on Amazon Prime Video

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyDecember 31, 2020February 13, 2021

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 …

Phoebe Robinson to host Year-End 2020 Comedy Special for Amazon Prime Video, ‘Yearly Departed’
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Phoebe Robinson to host Year-End 2020 Comedy Special for Amazon Prime Video, ‘Yearly Departed’

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyOctober 14, 2020October 14, 2020

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)
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Review: Jim Gaffigan, “The Pale Tourist” (Amazon Prime Video)

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyAugust 18, 2020August 18, 2020

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
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Review: Gina Brillon, “The Floor Is Lava” on Amazon Prime Video

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyJuly 2, 2020July 2, 2020

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
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Review: Jimmy O. Yang, “Good Deal” on Amazon Prime Video

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyJuly 2, 2020July 2, 2020

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
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Review: Russell Peters, “Deported” on Amazon Prime Video

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyJuly 2, 2020July 2, 2020

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
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Review: Rob Delaney, “Jackie” on Amazon Prime Video

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyJuly 2, 2020July 2, 2020

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
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Review: Jayde Adams, “Serious Black Jumper” on Amazon Prime Video

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyJuly 2, 2020July 2, 2020

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
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Review: Ilana Glazer, “The Planet Is Burning” on Amazon Prime

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyJanuary 4, 2020January 14, 20201

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 …

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