The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Leslie Jones debuted her first Netflix comedy special this January, fresh off a five-year run on Saturday Night Live. And Jones let us know that the spirit of the late Sam Kinison lives on through her, engaging audience members at full volume, and reminding us that when she was in …
Ronny Chieng’s Netflix special gets better with age. Take this already great bit about Amazon Prime and how it encapsulates America, and remember, he wrote and performed this pre-pandemic. As I wrote back in December: Chieng delivers a brilliant analogy early on in his hour, observing how the Internet is …
“It seems like, over the past couple of years, we’ve developed this amazing ability to get mad at anyone for any reason.” That’s how Michelle Wolf opens her HBO special. Wolf would know. Last the nation saw her all at once, she was tearing up the White House Correspondents Dinner …
Tiffany Haddish celebrated her 40th birthday in 2019 with a “Black Mitvah” comedy special on Netflix. And she’s more than willing to dish about past gigs gone horribly wrong. As I wrote last year: Even though Haddish began her comedy career as a teenager attending the Laugh Factory Comedy Camp …
Mike Birbiglia’s 2019 Netflix special enjoyed a successful run on Broadway first, with an epic showstopper moment. But as I wrote last year: Birbiglia has created a show designed to stop you in your tracks multiple times to take stock of your own love life and your own priorities. He’s …
For her fifth Netflix comedy special, Iliza focused on her wedding, deconstructing the whole process for laughs. As I wrote last year: Having gone through the process of getting married, Iliza knows firsthand that nobody wants wedding advice, and yet as a comedian who has already “written four f—ing Netflix …
You probably recognize Jeff Garlin from the TV thanks to his two long-running roles, on ABC’s The Goldbergs and/or HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm. But this Second City product also has a long history with stand-up, too; in fact, his first hour, Young and Handsome, directed by Bob Odenkirk, originally streamed on …
Seth Meyers is a better stand-up comedian than you might expect from a late-night TV talk-show host whose previous experience came primarily from sketch and improv. In his Netflix debut, Meyers shines especially by straying away from topical political bits, and focusing on his family. As I wrote last year …
“One great thing about being old and rich is you can do what you want to do!” That’s Arsenio Hall telling “TMZ Live” why money is making him an even BETTER comic — because he can do all the risky material he wants without the fear. “Comics are supposed to …
Jenny Slate, like Gary Gulman before her, also put out a 2019 comedy special that included documentary footage following the comedian into retreat back into the home of his/her parents. But Slate makes this hour her own. As I wrote for Decider last year: For one thing, she’s always wanted …
