Episode 4 of Kevin Hart Presents: The Next Level airs this Sunday at 11/10c on Comedy Central. If you haven’t been keeping up, The Next Level is a seven-episode series showcasing comedians hand-picked by Hart to do their first ever televised half-hour sets. This week’s featured comic is the LA-based energetic Air Force veteran Vincent […]
Continue ReadingLast month, Ari Shaffir announced he had a Netflix standup special in the works called Double Negative, and today the streaming network released the trailer. The special is split into two parts — Double Negative: Children and Double Negative: Adulthood – and marks Shaffir’s fourth standup special following Revenge for the Holocaust (2012), Passive Aggressive […]
Continue ReadingErik Griffin is a workaholic. Workaholics, the show that introduced him to a broader audience with his portrayal of Montez Walker, recently ended its seventh and final season. But Griffin is keeping himself on the radar this summer with his role in I’m Dying Up Here and his first hour-long comedy special, The Ugly Truth, […]
Continue ReadingErik Griffin is a workaholic. Workaholics, the show that introduced him to a broader audience with his portrayal of Montez Walker, recently ended its seventh and final season. But Griffin is keeping himself on the radar this summer with his role in I’m Dying Up Here and his first hour-long comedy special, The Ugly Truth, […]
Continue ReadingWith only four comedy specials released last month it would be easy to say that we’re in a bit of a summer drought compared to previous months. But instead of complaining about the metaphorical weather, let’s just spend some time reviewing what fell from the skies in June. In case you missed it, here’s a rundown […]
Continue ReadingNetflix is adding so much standup this year that now they’re even inviting non-comedians to host their own comedy specials — first there was Michael Bolton’s Valentine’s Day special, and now country singer Brad Paisley has a special of his own in the works. The streaming network has added an hourlong standup special hosted by […]
Continue ReadingMan on Fire, Chris D’Elia’s third standup special, dropped today on Netflix. Filmed at the Vogue Theatre in Vancouver, the special captures the 37 year old comedian at a bit of an existential crossroads: “I’m at the point where in five years I’m going to be in my 40s…not to get all heady, but I’m […]
Continue ReadingKevin Hart Presents: The Next Level on Comedy Central. Following that, his new Comedy Central series Hood Adjacent premieres next Wednesday at 9:00/8:00c. Hood Adjacent is Davis’ move to bridge the gap between urban and mainstream comedy by exploring topics through his point of view, a point of view that has always straddled the fence […]
Continue ReadingDoug Stanhope has been called all sorts of things like depraved, rude, hostile, and raunchy. All of those are fitting descriptions, but one trait stands out above all others: honesty. His candor extends from the stage to his everyday interactions. Take this interview, for instance. The goal was to promote his new special The Comedians’ […]
Continue ReadingNetflix has been on a roll this year when it comes to hourlong standup specials, so it makes sense that the streaming network wanted to take things one step further by adding some half-hour specials in the form of a new series similar to last year’s The Characters. Today Netflix released the trailer for The […]
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