The Definitive Guide to Comedy
More like the greatest affable American, am I right? That’s how great Nate Bargatze is, and the COVID-19 pandemic couldn’t slow him down from writing and performing a new Netflix hour. Even if it meant performing outside, where helicopters whirred overhead. As I wrote in Decider: As much as I …
All hail Tiffany Haddish, who has now won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for the audio recording of her 2019 Netflix special, Black Mitzvah. The other nominees this year for Best Comedy Album were Bill Burr (Paper Tiger), Jim Gaffigan (The Pale Tourist), Jerry Seinfeld (23 Hours to …
The 26th annual Critics Choice Awards declared a tie tonight, with both Michelle Buteau’s Welcome to Buteaupia and Jerry Seinfeld’s 23 Hours to Kill named Best Comedy Special of 2020. Other winners included Palm Springs, the Andy Samberg and Cristin Milotti time-looping movie on Hulu, as Best Comedy Movie, and …
If you’re on the go and just need a fast laugh, and wondering why Quibi hasn’t filled that need for you, well then, now Netflix has something for you. It’s called Fast Laughs. From Netflix HQ: Fast Laughs offers a full-screen feed of funny clips from our big comedy catalog …
Gary Anthony Williams has been improvising since the 1980s, when he was part of an Atlanta troupe called Laughing Matters. You’ve seen Williams on TV shows such as Boston Legal, where he played a crossdressing lawyer, or as Abe on Malcom in the Middle. He also co-starred on The Soul …
Dan Ahdoot is a stand-up comedian who has performed on The Tonight Show, and developed TV shows with FOX, CBS, NBC and Freeform. But Ahdoot is enjoying his greatest success now, with recurring roles on not one but two Netflix hit series — as a car salesman for “Karate Kid” …
Brian Regan is a great comedian. Has been for decades now. His new hour, out now on Netflix, is pretty great, too. It’s just. It’s just, well, so baffling that Regan filmed his new special, On The Rocks, to a packed audience in the middle of this pandemic, and pretended …
Daily Show correspondent, Lexus spokesman and stand-up comedian Ronny Chieng has big things in the works for the coming year with Netflix. Chieng’s new Netflix deal has him booked for two new stand-up specials, plus one special shot as a documentary. He previously released his funny Netflix debut special in …
The first season of They Ready featured comedians Tiffany Haddish worked with in the trenches of the L.A. comedy scene, and vowed to bring them up behind her. The second season of They Ready, filmed in the pandemic, offered shorter sets from more established comedians who were more than ready: …
An opening sketch set in her dressing room finds Hughes delivering a pep talk in the mirror, in which she reminds herself, “Because you are comedy Beyonce. Yes, you are.” She also compares herself to the late great Richard Pryor, and then to current megastar Kevin Hart. The gag ends …
