The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Netflix has ordered up another round of half-hour stand-up comedy specials, this time with a twist. Instead of calling them The Standups, Netflix is calling these comedians The Degenerates. What does that mean, exactly? Here’s the official description: The country’s funniest, delinquent comedians are teaming up for this RAW and …
Move over Fluffy. Here comes Mr. Iglesias. Netflix announced today it has ordered a 10-episode season of Mr. Iglesias, a new multi-cam sitcom starring stand-up comedian Gabriel Iglesias, as well as two comedy specials from him to come. In his sitcom, Iglesias will star as a good-natured public high school teacher …
Say what you will about Kevin James. I did in my review of his new Netflix special, Never Don’t Give Up, over on Decider.com. No matter what you think of his comedy, or his choices of material (I can’t bring myself to watch Kevin Can Wait, although I have somehow …
It sounds like pure schtick, but it works great both as a touring stage act, as well as a collection of streaming episodes. I’m talking about The Honeymoon Stand Up Special on Netflix, which takes newlywed comedians Natasha Leggero and Moshe Kasher, finds them in the middle of their 2017 …
Greg Davies is and has been famous in Britain on the telly for decades now. Of course, if you’re not devoted to Britcoms, then you might not know who Davies is, or why we should care. So here’s the stats: Davies is almost 50, upward of six-foot-eight, and full-bodied. Most …
If you can get past all of the unnecessary dick jokes from the host, Seth Rogen’s Hilarity For Charity, which he actually co-presents on Netflix with actress Lauren Miller Rogen (whose mother has Alzheimer’s), there’s an interesting and special take on the comedy special going on here, with fund-raising for …
The five surviving members of SCTV’s original cast, plus Martin Short, will reunite for a Netflix special filming this spring in the United States and Canada. Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Catherine O’Hara and Dave Thomas also are joining Short for “An Afternoon with SCTV” panel talk, moderated by …
The Netflix catalog of original programming keeps growing and growing, as the streaming giant has announced two more new comedy series in just the past two days. The first project, Paradise P.D., is an animated look at a poorly-run small-town police department, from the creators of Brickleberry, Waco O’Guin and …
If you thought releasing two stand-up comedy specials simultaneously was big, how about four at once?! James Acaster did just that on Tuesday with Repertoire on Netflix. Only one of the four performances in the collection is actually new, although all four were filmed just this past fall in Notting …
That Hilarity For Charity fund-raiser I told you about last fall that would be presented on Netflix? Yeah, that’s still happening. Now with an official lineup and release date. Roll the clip! The event films this Saturday at the Hollywood Palladium, with a lineup including Tiffany Haddish, Sarah Silverman, Michelle Wolf, …
