Trump vs Bernie’s second comedy special on Fusion, Trump vs. Bernie: Shout The Vote! featuring James Adomian’s Bernie Sanders and Anthony Atamanuik’s Donald Trump in a bunch of great sketches is now available for your viewing pleasure, especially since it’s on Fusion’s YouTube page.
You can actually watch both the debate special and the sketch special all without trying to find what channel Fusion is again.
Comedy Central’s latest hour special is coming this weekend from NYC comedy stalwart Dan Soder. More specifically, it’s airing on Saturday, May 21st at 11PM.
Here’s a taste of Not Special if you’re curious what you’re in for.
Michael Ian Black’s brand new stand-up special Noted Expert premieres tonight at 10PM on Epix.
To get you in the proper mood, here’s a promotional clip for said special wherein Michael Ian Black’s exploits your weakness for the cuteness of puppies.
Next month, Quincy Jones’ dream of a stand-up special will come true when HBO premieres Quincy Jones: Burning the Light on Thursday, June 2nd at 10PM.
You can see a condensed version of Quincy’s amazing story of how all of this came to be in this featurette.
This should make for a really strong season of The Half Hour on Comedy Central.
Getting their own half-hour specials in the fall this year will be:
Cy Amundson
Erik Bergstrom
Ahmed Bharoocha
Matthew Broussard
Naomi Ekperigin
Nate Fernald
Noah Gardenswartz
Emily Heller
Martha Kelly
Joe Machi
Drew Michael
Aparna Nancherla
Jacqueline Novak
Mike Recine
Ramon Rivas II
Ali Saddiq
Nick Turner
There is a great deal of the folks above that it would be worth going to YouTube and checking out whether you’re familiar with them or not.
If you happen to be in New Orleans in the beginning of June, you can go to the tapings of these half hour specials.
Today is the day to really get into Ali Wong. Whether you’re already a devoted fan or you’ve only seen her recently start popping up in your social media feeds, her very first hour special Ali Wong: Baby Cobra (which she also amazing taped while 7 months pregnant) is now streaming at Netflix.
Here are a couple more clips to give you a taste of what you should be watching today.
Also, Ali is on WTF with Marc Maron today in the probably case that you can’t get enough of her.
It’s $4.99 to rent (stream for 48 hours) and $8.99 to buy.
Again, the very first comedy special from the wondrous, secretly edgy musical duo of Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci, better known as Garfunkel and Oates is finally here.
Vimeo-On-Demand has just made Trying To Be Special, a comedy special that follows Riki and Kate trying to make a special, available to rent or buy.
Also, as you can see from this opening title sequence/dance number, Anthony Jeselnik is also featured.
Intrigued? More than intrigued? Already intrigued before you read any of this
Good. Get Trying To Be Special here.
Very few comedians are craftsmen with their jokes quite like Gary Gulman. One can always marvel in his detail in timing, delivery, diction, etc.
His latest hour stand-up special “It’s About Time” just started streaming on Netflix this past Sunday and you should watch how wonderfully precise he is with his jokes.
See for yourself in this preview.
When Quincy Jones the comedian was diagnosed with cancer, he wanted to shoot a comedy special before his time was up.
His goal has been realized to its fullest potential and, as a bonus, it’s going to premiere on HBO.
Quincy Jones: Burning the Light premieres on Thursday, June 2nd at 10PM on HBO and you can your first preview of it right here.
Last week, W. Kamau Bell had the premiere of his CNN series, United Shades of America. This week, Bell continues his big return to TV with a brand new hour stand-up special on Showtime called Semi-Prominent Negro.
At least this week, he’ll be in the safety of a theater as opposed to hanging with KKK without a total idea of what might happen.
We have a feeling that the latest comedy special that will be coming to Netflix might be a hell of a good one as it is an hour long stand-up special from the fantastic Ali Wong.
What might make it extra special aside from it being a “special” is that she dissects about becoming a mom and everything connected to that while pregnant.
Called Baby Cobra, it starts streaming on Friday, May 6th.
You can see a bit of what Ali has cooked up in this preview.
11PM on Comedy Central.
This will be Rachel Feinstein’s third Comedy Central special, not to mention her biggest to date.
The hour of Only Whores Wear Purple allows room for Feinstein to go beyond the voices and characters to skewer things like her own love life and her overly excited mother. It’s Feinstein most personal and, consequently, best special yet.
Again, catch it its premiere at 11PM on Comedy Central.
Patton Oswalt’s latest hour stand-up special has arrived.
Odds are that you need something to lift your spirits right now. That may be the case for many people for a lot of the time, but the passing of an icon like Prince always looms heavy over the collective consciousness for awhile.
So, try give watching the great Patton Oswalt’s latest hour special “Talking for Clapping”, now streaming on Netflix, to feel better, even if it’s just for the hour that you spending watching it.
Clear out 10PM on both April 24th and April 29th.
Next week will be a big one for W. Kamau Bell as his brand new exploratory series of discriminatory subcultures, United Shades of America, and a brand new Morgan Spurlock directed comedy special, Semi-Prominent Negro, are both premiering.
More specifically…
United Shades of America will premiere on CNN on Sunday, April 24th at 10PM
Semi-Prominent Negro will premiere on Showtime on Friday, April 29th at 10PM
Bell’s last series, Totally Biased on FX/FXx, came to an end far too early (especially with the popularity of shows like Full Frontal and Last Week Tonight) and both his new show and special should be well worth catching.
You can hear Bell chat about both with Trevor Noah from last week’s Daily Show here.
We thought a Trump vs. Bernie special would look promising and this preview sure does.
Anthony Atamanuik, who plays Trump, dons a Rabbi outfit and character to appeal to James Adomian’s Bernie Sanders’ Jewish side.
Look for the Trump vs. Bernie debate special to premiere Wednesday, April 27th followed by a sketch special on Wednesday, May 11th on Fusion.
For something that’s entitled Trying to be Special and features a lot of supposed behind-the-curtain action as well as some roasting from Anthony Jeselnik, Garfunkel and Oates’ very first special actually does look quite special.
See for yourself what Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci in the trailer.
When that has you hooked, you can pre-order the special on Vimeo for $8.99 before its release on Thursday, May 5th.
After being diagnosed with terminal cancer last year, comedian Quincy Jones has gotten more than he might have imagined in the time since then.
In the last few months, he has gotten a stand-up special crowdfunded and shot, been on Ellen twice, got his special picked up by HBO, and now, a Conan set that marks his late night stand-up debut. Also, it was just announced that his special Burning the Light will premiere on HBO on Thursday, June 2nd at 10PM.
For someone that was given a year to live, he seems to be doing alright.
Patton Oswalt’s follow-up to fantastic Tragedy Plus Comedy Equals Time will be coming to Netflix in a few weeks.
Talking for Clapping, his latest hour special, will start streaming on April 22nd.
Here’s the first trailer in case you weren’t intrigued already.
One of the sticking points of marriage that probably doesn’t get brought up enough is the one of a wife automatically taking her husband’s last name, leaving her last name out in the cold.
Fortunately, Nikki Glaser perfectly shines a light on the issue in her new hour Comedy Central special “Perfect” and illustrates how little we collectively regard a maiden name.
Oh yeah, you should definitely watch Perfect when it premieres on Saturday, April 9 at 11PM on Comedy Central. It’s damn good.
Tickets are already sold out for the Trump vs. Bernie taping.
If you’re not going to the taping, be sure to tune into the “Trump vs Bernie: The Debate Special” premiere on Wednesday, April 27th at 9PM on Fusion.
Perhaps, by the end of next month, their real life counterparts will be getting closer to making this a real thing?
If you’re still somehow subscribed to Seeso, you can still get into Cameron Esposito’s latest hour offering of stand-up.
Her special, Marriage Material, which is streaming exclusively on Seeso, can now be purchased as an album on iTunes.
It doesn’t matter which way you go to watch/listen to Marriage Material so long as you do indeed go for one of them.
This week, they got to go toe-to-toe on @midnight. Next week, they’ll get to tape a special that goes back to their roots of raising their voices, gesturing with their hands wildly, and saying “uuuuge”.
On Tuesday, March 29th at 8PM, the fantastic comedy debate phenomenon Trump vs. Bernie starring Anthony Atamanuik and James Adomian will tape a special that will air on Fusion at Burbank’s Colony Theatre.
Tickets are $20 and no matter if you’re a tenth-of-the-one-percent-percenter or one of the 99%, you should get them as soon as possible.
Cameron Esposito’s very first hour stand-up special Marriage Material has just started streaming over at Seeso today. If you haven’t heard us go on about Cameron before, we’ll let you know that anything she does is absolutely worth getting into.
Cameron not only gives greater exposure to LGBTQ voices, perspectives, and identity through her comedy, but she is so funny and disarming while doing so.
If you don’t have Seeso, you might want to take care of that today.
Nearly all comedy specials are just a single person on a stage talking through some form of amplification. Maria Bamford’s Special Special Special taped at her house with her parents, Harland Williams’ A Force of Nature taped in the desert, Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel’s Crash Test taped on a party bus, and even Netflix’s Characters are starting to buck that trend. However, those are only a handful of specials out of the dozens and dozens that are just someone talking in front of a crowd.
However, Sandy Danto wants to snap that trend even harder by going as big as he imagination will let him. He wants to do a comedy special in a way that would put most lavish hip hop music videos to shame (he apparently also wants to get the last bit of his wild youthful days out of his system before going forward with settling down with his family).
His idea is that he would want to be on a jet ski that’s riding in a pool that has been built into the deck of a yacht. Then, that yacht would be on an 18-wheel flat bed truck that drive across the country.
Read that back and watch his presentation video just to ensure that you didn’t read that wrong.
Knowing that such a project would actually cost millions of dollars, Sandy is only asking to raise $10K on Kickstarter for this dream special. With that money, Danto can put something together to shop around to bigger investors that might actually fork over the time, money, and resources to make this American fever dream of a comedy special a reality.
Quincy Jones got to return to The Ellen DeGeneres Show for an even bigger surprise than he got last time.
Last time, Ellen gave Quincy an appearance on the show to share his story and a plea to Netflix or HBO to air his special as well as a $10K donation from Shutterfly.
This time, Quincy got the news that HBO will indeed air his special and also received an additional $15K from Shutterfly.
So, in total from the Kickstarter and Shutterfly, Quincy has received $75,273 in donations for the special and living expenses.
His special is set to tape on Monday, April 4th at the Teragram Ballroom, which is in Westlake, just west of Downtown LA. There is a 7PM and 10PM show that you can attend. Tickets are $10-$20.
We’re guessing tickets are going to go fast, FYI.