Since he started doing comedy, Tom Segura has been on the slow climb to success through silliness. With Your Mom’s House, the podcast he co-hosts with his wife/fellow comedian Christina P, Segura says the couple is simply “embracing silliness” and “just trying to have fun.” And despite some recent complaints from angry Cajuns and concerned […]
Continue ReadingI’ve enjoyed Todd Glass since even before I knew exactly who he was, seeing him in the introduction movies for the Improv comedy clubs. Then came Last Comic Standing. Then came podcasts. Now comes his first Netflix special. Things I particularly enjoyed in Act Happy: Telling jokes while his band plays The Battle Hymn of […]
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Netflix is giving a bunch of standups a very literal 15 minutes of fame this year. As first reported by Vulture, the streaming network has added a round of quarter-hour standup specials for an untitled series set to debut sometime in 2018. Here are the 16 comedians who will be featured with their own 15-minute […]
Continue ReadingNetflix made waves two years ago by ramping up production of stand-up specials to almost one per week. Last year, the streaming giant also introduced a handful of half-hour specials called The Standups. In 2018, they’re halving that half! Netflix will make at least 16 new stand-up specials that each only last 15 minutes. As […]
Continue ReadingFriday morning comedian and actress Mo’Nique posted a video on her Instagram page expressing her concern over deal negotiations she had with Netflix regarding her newest special. The multi-billion-dollar streaming giant offered the critically praised Academy-Award winning actress $500,000 for a comedy special last week and she questioned why she was offered that amount when […]
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Continue ReadingYou may think you know Katt Williams, but you don’t know the Katt Williams behind the headlines. You may know him from his role as Money Mike on Friday After Next, or from Wild ‘N Out, or from his four HBO specials: The Pimp Chronicles, Pt. 1; It’s Pimpin’ Pimpin’; Kattpacalypse; and Priceless: Afterlife. He […]
Continue ReadingIf you miss The Soup, and you particularly missed Joel McHale, then Netflix has great news for you. The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale, a new weekly topical half-hour series, debuts Feb. 18, 2018, with 13 episodes ordered. It’ll tape on Thursdays and air new episodes Sundays. The official description? It’s a fast and […]
Continue ReadingJoel McHale is getting back into the talk show game. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix has ordered 13 episode of a weekly half-hour topical series hosted by McHale called The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale. The show will “take a sharp, absurdist look at pop culture as well as news around the world” […]
Continue ReadingKatt Williams views his live show as a conversation between himself and a room full of his friends, friends he’s made by touring the country and returning to cities again and again. In his new special Great America, which just dropped on Netflix, he opens with a masterful display of his particular art of conversation […]
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