Amy Schumer should win the Emmy for best “For Your Consideration” video for her Netflix special “Growing”

Congrats, Amy! Whether or not you win the Emmy this year, or even get nominated, you’ve already won the hearts and minds with this “FYC” video message. Watch Amy Schumer’s 2019 stand-up special, Growing, on Netflix.

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Rachel Bloom review – contagious joy and brutal truths from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend star

London PalladiumThe exhilarating comedian known for her hit Netflix series puts on an addictive night of comedy and songAmerican comedian Rachel Bloom gets musical theatre tropes drunk and horny. The Golden Globe-winning writer and star of Netflix’s mu…

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Jo Koy will be “Comin’ In Hot” with a new Netflix special on June 12th

Jo Koy’s live stand-up has been on fire the last few years, selling a lot of tickets in the process,… MORE
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Review: “Historical Roasts” on Netflix

Jeff Ross is host, executive producer and presumably the star of Historical Roasts on Netflix. But it’s not about him. Nor is about living people, for that matter. Historical Roasts wants us to enjoy seeing dead celebrities brought to task via th…

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Gabriel Iglesias’s school-based sitcom is set to premiere on Netflix June 21st

Strap yourselves in because Gabriel Igleias is about to teach us all a history lesson. Iglesias stars in a new… MORE
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Ricky Gervais review – anti-woke tittering over Liam Neeson and Louis CK

Bournemouth International CentreCasting himself as a taboo breaker for his Netflix show Supernature, the cacklesome comic delivers a squarely liberal-baiting set‘That’s not going in … That won’t make it in … ” Ricky Gervais’s new standup set Supernat…

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The “Between Two Ferns” movie with Zach Galifianakis and big stars will debut on Netflix on Sept. 20, 2019

The Emmy-winning Funny or Die web series officially is going big-screen, via Netflix. Directed by Scott Aukerman, Between Two Ferns: The Movie will follow star Zach Galifianakis out of his makeshift talk-show studio and into the rest of the world. Why?…

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Review: The Lonely Island Presents “The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience” on Netflix

Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone grew up in the East Bay when the Oakland A’s ran the American League in the late 1980s. In a brand-new surprise Netflix special, The Lonely Island has dropped a half-hour collection of music videos a…

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Review: Wanda Sykes, “Not Normal” on Netflix

The first Netflix special for Wanda Sykes also is the first for any black woman in stand-up, which jeepers creepers, should not be considered normal for 2019. And yet. Here we are. Onscreen, Sykes has found a lengthy and lucrative career as the audienc…

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Review: “Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate” on Netflix

What weird, wacky stuff. Then, and now. In 1969 and 2019. The star that ties it all together still? Lily Tomlin! Laugh-In landed right in the middle of the zeitgeist, finding the seam between the broad strokes of The Carol Burnett Show and the scandalo…

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