Following the comedian stars on I’m Dying Up Here getting their own Showtime stand-up specials, Tiffany Haddish will be next in line to have an hour stand-up special.
To self-proclaiming herself a black unicorn to positive affirmations, this teaser promises a fun, energetic hour.
Look for the premiere of She Ready! on Friday, August 18th at 9PM on Showtime.
In addition to the fireworks, hot dogs, and general stars, stripes, red, white and blue themes today, Netflix has a whole batch of half hour stand-up specials now streaming for you to enjoy under the series banner The Standups.
Nikki Glaser, Nate Bargatze, Beth Stelling, Deon Cole, Fortune Feimster, and Dan Soder all recorded a half hour stand-up special a few months ago in DTLA and they’re definitely worth your time.
Again, as there is no cutting away for a commercial break, there ought to be a much better arc and flow in these than what you’re probably used to seeing on TV over the years.
If you love Doug Stanhope, Brendon Walsh, Morgan Murphy, and Glenn Wool like we do, you’ll be very happy to know that there’s a whole comedy special with all of them together that just started streaming on Seeso today.
Also, how can you not love the title: Doug Stanhope: The Comedians’ Comedian’s Comedians?
We’ve said it over and over and we’ll say it again: Rory Scovel is one of the funniest comedians working today.
This special, Rory Scovel Tries Stand-Up For The First Time, is proof of it as Scovel, in a deceptively casual way, shows off all of his many skills. He has well crafted material that carefully meshes the absurd, keen observations, and the truth. Yet, he’s always willing to chase the fun of a moment wherever it will take him. It’s a balance that few comics can manage, much less keep going for an hour.
Also, it has a damn great opening (hats off to director Scott Moran as well).
Basically, free up an hour and change as soon as you can and stream Rory Scovel Tries Stand-Up For The First Time ASAP.
T.J. Miller is one of a handful of comedians that are expertly skilled in the art of controlled chaos. Tonight, Miller will be exhibiting said expertise in his brand new HBO special in the very appropriately titled, Meticulously Ridiculous.
You can see a bit of what we’re talking about in this preview clip. Also, take note and appreciate that T.J. has been laboriously honing how to drench himself in water for quite some time now.
Judd Apatow to Tape a Stand Up Special at JFL Montreal
Before he became a big time writer/director/producer, Judd Apatow had enveloped himself in comedy through stand-up. It makes sense for someone who was one of the biggest comedy nerds ever (he scored interviews with the biggest comedians of his time while he was in high school) well before podcasts or YouTube was around.
Having gotten tapped for writing and producing gigs like The Larry Sanders Show, Apatow’s stand-up then rested on the backburner for several years.
After carving out a niche as a Hollywood power player, especially in regards to comedy, Apatow returned to stand-up a few years ago, performing regularly all throughout LA’s most respected venues (Largo, Improv, etc.).
So, as he has a comedy series on Netflix, Love, he has been sharpening his stand-up over the last few years, and Netflix loves making big time comedy specials now, this special was inevitable.
If you like to see it live, it tapes at JFL Montreal on July 24th.
Basically, Rory Scovel is one of the best out there in comedy right now. Even if this upcoming special claims that he “has never tried stand-up before”, he is still one of the best.
You’ll see with this trailer and then when Rory Scovel Tries Stand-Up For The First Time starts streaming Tuesday, June 20th next week.
Nick Kroll and John Mulaney have taken their characters, Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland, to a proverbial mountaintop. From sketches to the hallowed streets of NYC’s Broadway, Faizon and St. Geegland have slyly goofed their way to the brightest spotlight.
Here’s the trailer to whet your appetite.
Look for the special to start streaming next Tuesday, June 13th on Netflix.
Following up We Are Miracles, the title to Sarah Silverman’s latest special seems to naturally progress some sort of greater, existential theme as it’s called A Speck of Dust.
That being said, Silverman has brought her signature blue cleverness to a more personal level on this special than she has in the past. A brush with almost dying adds some more gravitas throughout the hour and the closer, in an age where notable closing jokes in specials are becoming increasingly rare, is pretty spectacular.
Also, Sarah made this devilishly mischievous promo for it.
Netflix tweeted, “Looks like it’s been 15years since you did a stand-up special, @theellenshow. How about one for Netflix?”
Ellen responded, “Let me think about it. Ok I’m in.”
So, there you have it. It would appear that Netflix just started to make a deal for stand-up special that’s probably worth millions of dollars through some tweets. This follows Netflix’s move to develop the buddy comedy starring Rihanna and Lupita Nyong’o that started as a fan’s dream vision.
It would appear that if you’re big enough of a deal, you could tweet at Netflix and Netflix will be listening.
With Homecoming King as a special, Hasan Minhaj offers up an hour that’s equal parts heartfelt, innovative, clever, crucially relevant, slick, and expertly executed.
Along with killing it in hosting the WHCD this year, we wouldn’t be surprised if he ends up getting his own show very soon.
When doing things live on stage, you’ve probably seen that TJ Miller is never afraid to get silly.
This notion will especially be reinforced in his hour long HBO special aptly titled “Meticulously Ridiculous” as shown in this promo.
Look for the premiere on Saturday, June 17th at 10PM on HBO.
You may or may not be done with getting through the latest season of Master of None, but Netflix has more peak TV comedy ready and waiting for you as they just started streaming all the episodes of season 3 of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt today.
On top of that, comedy’s favorite couple Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally’s Summer of 69: No Apostrophe comedy special will premiere at 10PM on Epix tonight.
OK, you’ve got your “work” for this weekend cut out for you.
This seems like a great balance between letting chaos reign millennial style with Derrick Beckles and Eric Andre leaning into their particular brand of comedy madness and Jena Friedman getting another special to say exactly what the f she wants to say.
We’re excited to see both, even though they’ll probably be on either ends of some sort of spectrum.
Mark Normand’s very first hour comedy special premieres tonight and is presented by none other than Amy Schumer.
In fact, you can see Amy give Mark a pep talk right before he taped the special and just how much she believes in him.
Catch “Amy Schumer Presents Mark Normand: Don’t Be Yourself” tonight at Midnight on Comedy Central.
2017 might just be Hasan Minhaj’s year. In addition to his stellar WHCD performance, he has an hour special coming out.
From solo show to The Moth to Off-Broadway to touring around the country, Hasan Minhaj’s Homecoming King has been not only a great hour of comedy, but an incredibly relevant story that he has gotten to share.
Now, Homecoming King will be presented as a comedy special on Netflix very soon, starting Tuesday May 23rd.
Watch the trailer here.
It has been six years since Norm’s last special “Me Doing Stand-Up” in addition to a long and illustrious career of being the delightfully clever, yet subtle rascal spanning decades. Still, Norm finds way to stick to being Norm and still be refreshing.
Norm has pretty much always stuck to his particular brand of refined silliness always honing more and more over the years. His latest special “Hitler’s Dog, Gossip and Trickery” is exactly what you’d expect from Norm, but completely satisfying and still surprising in its layers.
See for yourself as it it just started streaming on Netflix yesterday.
Tracy Morgan goes full 70s with his attire in this latest special “Staying Alive” and wears it pretty damn well.
After a near death experience, Morgan seems back to being a tireless goofball, but with a new outlook on life. See for yourself in this teaser.
Tracy Morgan: Staying Alive starts streaming on Netflix on Tuesday, May 16th.
If you didn’t get a chance to catch it at UCB or Off-Broadway in NYC, tonight is your chance to see Chris Gethard’s Career Suicide solo show as an HBO special.
Specifically, it airs at 10PM on HBO tonight.
Before then, here’s Chris giving you some backstory of how he got here with this show and what it has meant to a lot of the audiences that have seen it.
If the title of this special refers to what we think it refers to, you guys are in for one hell of a story somewhere in Al Madrigal’s new special.
So, catch the premiere of Al Madrigal: Shrimpin’ Ain’t Easy at 9PM tonight on Showtime.
It’s been almost 6 years since Norm Macdonald’s last special, Me Doing Stand-Up.
Macdonald, as you probably know by now, likes to take his time to craft his bits and the wait is really worth it.
Fortunately, next Tuesday, on May 9th, you’ll get his latest hour “Hitler’s Dog, Gossip & Trickery” streaming on Netflix.
Backyards, theaters, book stores, bowling alleys, and living rooms, with or without a stage, are where Maria Bamford brings her comedy to the people.
She takes the idea of “stand-up” quite literally in the trailer for her latest special, Old Baby, coming to Netflix. As you can see, there is almost no place that Maria can and will spread her life-affirming humor to.
Her special starts streaming next week on Tuesday, May 2nd on Netflix.
A New Brent Weinbach Stand-Up Special “Appealing to the Mainstream” Is Now Streaming
To all subscribers of Seeso, Amazon Prime, and Apple TV, you now get the expressed privilege of having access to a brand new comedy special from Brent Weinbach, one of the best weirdos in comedy.
Even though it’s called “Appealing to the Mainstream”, Brent’s comedic voice has always stood uniquely, brilliantly and respectfully on its own and has done so much to our delight for many years.
Michelle Wolf Will Tape Her First Hour Special for HBO with Neal Brennan Directing
Michelle Wolf, who you’ve probably seen rise from being a great stand-up to Late Night with Seth Meyers to The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, is now making her way to an hour long HBO stand-up special.
Between HBO, Netflix, Comedy Central, Showtime, and Seeso, you can now definitely see each network building up their reserves of comedy specials that they exclusively own and HBO made a pretty solid choice with Wolf.
It’ll tape this summer on Saturday, August 12th at NYC’s Skirball Center and the one and only Neal Brennan will be directing.
Here’s a recent set of Wolf performing in the UK at Live at the Apollo as a bit of a preview of what’s to come.
The Lucas Brothers get really political, specifically taking on Richard Nixon and the aftermath of his presidency in their Netflix special, “The Lucas Brothers: On Drugs”.
Well, they do that in addition to touching on Deion Sanders’ music career amongst other things all in their confidently laid back, slightly meta comedic style.
It’s now streaming on Netflix and actually comes in under an hour and has a great animation at the end too.