Review: Bill Burr “Walk Your Way Out” on Netflix
by Timing is everything in comedy. Including the decision when to record your album/special and when to release. Which really came into focus sitting down to …
Tag: Netflix
Episode #135: Mike Royce
Mike Royce was a stand-up comedian and audience warm-up guy for The Maury Povich Show and Spin City before he broke through as a writer …
Cristela Alonzo on enjoying the Netflix effect
Cristela Alonzo couldn’t help noticing, and stopping to notice, the massive Netflix billboards promoting her first stand-up hour for the streaming platform, Cristela Alonzo: Lower Classy, …
Review: Neal Brennan “3 Mics” on Netflix
I’d already seen and reviewed Neal Brennan’s one-man, three-microphone show (3 Mics) for his Off-Broadway run last year. You can read that here. Watching it …
Netflix nabs Seinfeld for new stand-up special plus new seasons of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
Netflix has new stand-up specials already this month from Jen Kirkman, Jim Gaffigan, Neal Brennan, Cristela Alonzo and Bill Burr, with specials forthcoming in 2017 …
Review: Jim Gaffigan, “Cinco,” on Netflix
Jim Gaffigan is keeping pace, producing as many stand-up specials now as he has reproduced children with his wife, Jeannie. Cinco is the magic number. …
Episode #132: Colin Quinn
Colin Quinn is the godfather of contemporary New York city comedy in more ways than one. After his first TV break as the sidekick on …
Interviews / TV
One Day at a Time: Behind the reimagining of a sitcom classic with Netflix showrunners Gloria Calderon Kellett and Mike Royce
One of Norman Lear’s classic beloved TV sitcoms has new lives breathed into it, as One Day at a Time debuts today on Netflix complete …
Review: Jen Kirkman, “Just Keep Livin’?” on Netflix
Jen Kirkman‘s second Netflix comedy special is out now, and she gets the name of it from a celebrity’s mantra, that’s also tied into her …
Humor in Hindsight revisits Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
HBO aired a documentary on Don Rickles, directed by John Landis, only a few weeks into the official start of The Comic’s Comic. So I …