After a tumultuous journey with his sitcom at Fox, John Mulaney made a return to the thing that put him on the map in the first place: stand up.
This new hour stand-up special coming to Netflix, The Comeback Kid, should prove that John Mulaney is still one of those funniest comedians around.
You can get your first glimpse of it here and here, then look for its release on Netflix this Fri. Nov. 13th.
DVR either Fuse or HBO at 10PM, then watch the other live.
Both Amy Schumer: Live at The Apollo and The Gentlemen Jerry Rocha have their premieres tonight at 10PM on HBO and Fuse, respectively.
Both are solid choices to watch, so try and watch both however you can pull that off.
If you’re going to use your lunch break to watch this, make sure you work at some place that’s maybe cooler with NSFW than elsewhere.
Anthony Jeselnik’s latest hour special, Thoughts and Prayers, has just arrived on Netflix. Taped in San Francisco, Jeselnik makes a point, as he always expertly does, to leave no sacred cow undesecrated.
Watch in on Netflix here.
So, you should be tuning into Comedy Central at 11PM-1AM tonight.
On what will be balmy summer evening in LA, even though its technically fall, and probably much cooler elsewhere, there will be two hours of great stand-up tonight on Comedy Central.
11PM–Paul F. Tompkins “Crying and Driving
12AM–The Half Hour with Randy Liedtke
12:30AM–The Half Hour with Beth Stelling
Set a reminder/your DVR/etc. Just don’t miss out.
For his latest hour special, Anthony Jeselnik decided to test himself by taping it in a very politically correct town like San Francisco. Having seen Jeselnik alive, well, and still toeing the line with his villainously clever material after he finished the taping, we’re thinking that it went pretty well.
You can see for yourself in a trailer for Thoughts and Prayers here, then, in full, on Netflix on Oct. 16th.
Coming yet again from Comedy Dynamics is another hour special that we’ve been waiting awhile to see. Sentenced to Live is the brand new hour special from the always sharp, politically savvy Jimmy Dore and you can now watch it on Hulu at your convenience.
Here’s a trailer and then the whole thing.
It’s been more than couple of years since we’ve seen an hour long comedy special from the great Paul F. Tompkins. Of course, that has a lot to do with him churning out his other great works like No, You Shut Up!, Dead Authors, Spontaneanation, Superego, Thrilling Adventure Hour, Comedy Bang! Bang!, and way more.
However, the wait, even though there has been plenty of Paul to go around in the meantime, for a new Tompkins special is over as Crying and Driving will premiere this Sat. Oct. 10th at 11PM on Comedy Central.
If you still don’t want to wait those dozens of hours, there are these preview clips here…
…here…
…and here to keep your hunger for more PFT in check.
11PM on Showtime.
Tonight, you can see Rachel Feinstein, Wyatt Cenac, Joe DeRosa, Jon Huck, Todd Glass, and W. Kamau Bell and all the heck of a show they brought to Austin, TX for SXSW in the second part of Showtime’s SXSW Comedy special.
So, make sure to switch whatever TV you’re watching to Showtime later tonight.
You might want to be in Seattle near the end of October.
With plenty of albums of subversive pop comedy hits under their belt, many would think that Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci might have already just done an hour comedy special by now.
However, that is not the case and Garfunkel and Oates are correcting that next month.
Riki and Kate will be shooting their first hour long special live at The Neptune Theatre in Seattle on Fri. Oct. 23rd at 7:30PM and 10:30PM. You can and should get tickets here, especially since there will be kazoos.
Brian Regan is set to make comedy and TV history on Sept. 26th, 2015, (i.e. tonight).
Brian Regan and Comedy Central are doing their first ever completely live stand-up special tonight, broadcasting from Radio City Music Hall in NYC.
Starting at 9PM EST/6PDT on Comedy Central, do yourself a favor and either watch the highlights of whatever sporting even you were planning on watching or DVR whatever else you were planning on watching.
It might seem like a high wire act doing an hour live on TV, but Regan is undoubtedly one of the few that could pull it off.
(via Deadline)
Looks like Buffalo Wild Wings and Comedy Central have taken different approaches to handling this week’s Steve Rannazzisi debacle.
Despite getting a lot of heat for his admission that his 9/11 escape story was a lie, Steve Rannazzisi’s apologies seem to have been enough to keep his new hour special, Breaking Dad, from being pre-empted, moved, etc. at Comedy Central.
Its premiere is set for 11PM tonight on Comedy Central and we’re sure that some folks will be probably trying to fact check every single bit.
Seeing how all this spun out of control years after the lie was told, it would be thoroughly intriguing now to see Steve be interviewed Brian Williams on his new show if they went in-depth into their fabrications.
(via Deadline)
If you haven’t committed the name Jermaine Fowler to memory yet, you’ll end up doing that soon with what he has in the works.
Not that it’s a surprise to us, but Jermaine Fowler has got a lot of great irons in great fires.
An hour comedy special, Jermaine Fowler: Give ‘Em Hell Kid, that mixes stand-up and interviews with family and friends is coming to Showtime in mid December. On top of that, Jermaine is developing a semi-autobiographical multi-cam sitcom following his very young parents trying to raise him and the rest of his family.
In case you haven’t noticed, another era of shows based on the lives of comedians is riding high right now.
Steve Rannazzisi’s first hour special Manchild premiered on Comedy Central last year and Steve is now following that up with a brand new hour special for this year, Breaking Dad.
You can see a preview/why there’s a been a transition in titles from Manchild to Breaking Dad here.
Catch the premiere this Sat. Sept. 19th at 11PM on Comedy Central.
10PM on HBO.
Will Ferrell’s HBO comedy sports special wherein he played 10 different positions on one day of the MLB’s Cactus League premieres tonight.
In case you were wondering, here’s what Will was thinking in the middle of his 10 team/position stretch.
Again, it’s on at 10PM on HBO tonight.
Sat. Oct. 10th is the date to be exact.
Mark down that date because you’ll want to catch Paul F. Tompkins latest one hour special Crying and Driving in its worldwide television premiere on Comedy Central.
We were lucky enough to be in attendance for the taping at the gorgeous Palace Theatre in downtown LA and can tell you that, after watching it, Tompkins should be one of the permanent definitions for the phrase “absolute delight”.
Now that the initial excitement of Amy Schumer and Jennifer Lawrence writing a movie together has probably settled, you can raise your anticipation again for Schumer for her upcoming HBO special, Live At The Apollo, directed by Chris Rock.
Here’s a trailer to help you do that.
Watch Amy Schumer: Live At The Apollo on Sat. Oct. 17th at 10PM on HBO.
It starts midnight tonight on Comedy Central.
Don’t miss out the latest editions of Comedy Central’s The Half Hour featuring half-hour stand-up specials from both Michelle Buteau, who just came out with an album, and Barry Rothbart.
Michelle’s airs at 12AM and Barry’s airs right after at 12:30AM. Set a reminder or your DVR accordingly.
As none of these conflict with their time slots, it looks like you should be watching a whole lot of great stand-up tonight.
8PM on Comedy Central–Natasha Leggero: Live at Bimbo’s
10PM on HBO–Tig Notaro: Boyish Girl Interrupted
Midnight on Comedy Central–The Half Hour: Liza Treyger and Hampton Yount
Don’t miss out on any of this.
Crash Test, the comedy special that’s unlike any comedy special you’ve ever seen before, is finally out today on Vimeo On Demand.
Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel really did shoot the entire thing on a moving bus driving all around LA not only have live comedy on the bus, but also “run into” folks like Aubrey Plaza, Earl Sweatshirt, Thomas Lennon, Aziz Ansari, and more.
You can and should download and stream the Crash Test at Vimeo On Demand for $3.99.
The special Tig Notaro: Boyish Girl Interrupted premieres on HBO on Aug. 22nd.
To get the word out, Tig not only has a giant billboard on the side of a tall building, she also made sure to stand near it, so she could point it to anyone walking, running, or driving by.
If you get a chance to point out your own billboard, it looks like you should absolutely do it.
We have a pretty good guess as to what you’ll be watching today.
For those not on the East Coast, you probably didn’t get a chance to catch Colin Quinn’s last show, Colin Quinn: Unconstitutional live.
You now have a chance to watch Colin comedically break down the U.S. Constitution and the history surrounding it as it’s now a special on Netflix.
As long as you have access to Netflix, watch it here.
Natasha Leggero got a new special coming on Aug. 22nd.
Lillian Schmemmerhorn-Fish will take a break from being part of The Bellacourts on Another Period to premiere a brand new hour of stand-up.
Natasha Leggero: Live at Bimbo’s will come out CC: Stand Up Direct on Aug. 17th, then airing on Aug. 22nd at 11PM on Comedy Central.
Even if you’re watching from the comfort of your own home, you should probably dress up.
This is your first glimpse at, as we’ve said before because of the accolades for Inside Amy Schumer and Trainwreck and various interviews, what might be one of the most highly anticipated stand-up specials of the year.
Here’s your first look at Amy Schumer Live At The Apollo directed by Chris Rock.
You can then watch its premiere on Oct. 17th at 10PM on HBO.
Craig Ferguson has a new stand-up special, Just Being Honest, coming soon to Epix.
As to how true the title will turn out to be has yet to be seen according to this promo, but it’ll be nice to see Craig on a stage once again.
Look for the premiere of Just Being Honest at 10PM on Thurs. Sept. 10th at Epix.
Yes, Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel did an entire comedy special on a bus driving around Los Angeles.
In fact, they had stops that featured the likes of Aziz Ansari, Rob Corddry, Andy Daly, Ben Garant, Ian Karmel, Natasha Leggero, Tom Lennon, Jack McBrayer, Seth Morris, Aubrey Plaza, Earl Sweatshirt.
All of this was shot in a special years ago and is finally going to become available for all to bear witness to the madness they and director Lance Bangs put together.
Watch the trailer here to see that we’re not lying, then you can pre-order it for $3.99 on Vimeo On Demand for an Aug. 18th release.