Vir Das almost broke through in a broadcast primetime sitcom in America this year, starring in a backdoor pilot spinoff episode of Fresh Off The Boat on ABC. ABC executives said this year they weren’t ready to move forward with his spinoff, but i…
Continue ReadingWhat I wrote when Fortune Feimster’s Netflix special dropped in January: The hour is full of memorable anecdotes, as she recounts her slow evolution from tomboy to out lesbian, and how she skipped the closeted part by not understanding her sexual…
Continue ReadingLeslie 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 remi…
Continue ReadingRonny 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 …
Continue Reading“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…
Continue ReadingTiffany 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 …
Continue ReadingMike 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…
Continue ReadingFor 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 a…
Continue ReadingYou 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,…
Continue ReadingSeth 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 …
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