The Definitive Guide to Comedy
When Netflix held its first-ever Netflix Is A Joke festival in Los Angeles 2022, stand-up comedian Leslie Liao was working for Netflix in human resources and had to buy tickets to see shows in the festival. For the second Netflix Is A Joke fest in 2024, Liao had just quit …
How popular was Chris Rock’s first LIVE special for Netflix, anyhow? We dive into the numbers, look for some perspective, pay tribute to MAD magazine’s Al Jaffee, realize just how many Dry Bar Comedy specials have been released on their subscription-only platform in 2023 already, plus all of the past …
Lance Reddick stars as Renzo, an egotistical human warrior who has liberated the planet Farzar from evil aliens — it’s all part of the new Netflix sci-fi animated comedy series, Farzar, created by Roger Black and Waco O’Guin, whose previous animated projects include Brickleberry and Paradise PD. Black and O’Guin …
Bo Burnham’s acclaimed new Netflix special, Inside, is getting an even more special honor: A theatrical run. For one night only — July 22, 2021 — Bo Burnham: Inside will screen in cinemas nationwide. Tickets are available now at www.boburnhaminside.com. Burnham’s pandemic special premiered May 30 on Netflix, just in …
Netflix is getting back into the business of producing half-hour comedy specials. Today the streaming giant announced the six-pack of stand-up comedians who’ll tape their half-hours for season three of The Standups. This new season will tape before live audiences in New York City this summer, and premiere on Netflix …
In 2019, rapper and movie star Will Smith crossed stand-up comedy off of his “Bucket List” by performing at a gig for his Facebook Watch series. Later that year, Smith also met up with several stand-ups to hang with them for a would-be Quibi series, This Joka, which has yet …
The inaugural Netflix Is A Joke Fest had plans for multiple specials and showcases to be filmed in Los Angeles at the end of April 2020 the for future enjoyment of Netflix subscribers everywhere. You can still see the big ol’ lineup Netflix had lined up for Netflix Is A …
I love, love, loved Bo Burnham’s Inside on Netflix. My full review is forthcoming on another website, so until then, please enjoy these images from one of the special’s songs, in which Burnham wonders if now is the appropriate time for him, as a white man, to tell jokes. Who …
Eric Andre may just be America’s, if not the world’s greatest prankster (with all due respect to Britain’s Sacha Baron Cohen and Canada’s Nathan Fielder). After first rising on the comedy scene as a stand-up, Andre first made waves in TV with appearances on Don’t Trust the B— in Apartment …
Loyiso Gola, aka “the Jon Stewart of South Africa” before his fellow South African comedian Trevor Noah actually replaced Stewart instead on The Daily Show, has a new hour of stand-up out on Netflix. Gola performed indoors in Cape Town with pandemic protocols in place. As I wrote in Decider: …
