Thanks to Comedy Dynamics, the Bill Hicks catalog of his albums and specials are now available whenever and wherever you want starting today.
On Hulu, you can watch Hicks’ Revelations, One Night Stand, and Sane Man.
You can also pick up his extensive discography including Dangerous, Rant in E-Minor, Relentless, Salvation on iTunes.
FYI, you’ll want to carve out plenty of time for all of this.
If you’re in Chicago next week, go to this.
While in LA, we’ve got to thoroughly enjoy the stand-up of Al Jackson plenty on shows around town. If you’re in much of the rest of the country, you probably got to catch him on Hannibal Buress’ Comedy Camisado Tour.
But now, there’s a chance even more people can catch Al as he is taping his very first comedy special at The Vic Theatre in Chicago, IL on May 7th.
You can and should get your tickets here.
Though it might not be your home, Tig Notaro and Jon Dore went to homes across America and performed in possibly the most intimate way you could do a comedy show for this Showtime special.
Tonight at 9PM, “Knock Knock, It’s Tig Notaro” is premiering on Showtime. Like so many of her performances, we’re sure that all of these are unforgettable and will have the added silliness of going to where people live to do live comedy.
Again, don’t miss out the premiere at 9PM on Showtime.
This is one save the date that you should be unequivocally excited for.
Quite some time, almost three years in fact, has passed since Paul F. Tompkins’ last hour special “Laboring Under Delusions”. In that time, Paul has done so much other great projects going including No, You Shut Up!, Dead Authors, Speakeasy, and, most recently, Spontaneanation.
It’s amazing that Paul can pull all of that amazing stuff off and get a new hour together to tape a special on top of that.
That’s why you should block out Jun. 6th on your calendar and plan on heading to the gorgeous Palace Theatre in Downtown LA to see the taping of Paul F. Tompkins’ Crying and Driving. As soon as tickets are available, we will let you know.
Nate Bargatze has plenty of reasons of why he’s one of Vulture’s 50 Comedians You Should Know in 2015. He’s about to give us all another one with a brand new comedy special.
Full Time Magic will be Nate’s new one hour special at Comedy Central coming May 2nd and the pitch perfect cover art comes from Dave Kloc and Chris Klosterman.
On the title alone, it’s kind of a perfect follow-up to his album Yelled At By a Clown.
Rather than be on the dais at The Roast of Justin Bieber, Anthony Jeselnik has been focusing his efforts on his next comedy special.
We’re guessing it’s probably a much better use of his time.
Jeselnik will have 7PM and 10PM shows on Sat. Mar. 21st at The Fillmore in San Francisco where you can catch the taping of his follow-up to Caligula.
You can get tickets, of which there are a few still available, here.
If you’re in LA and can’t make it to SF next weekend, then you might be able to catch Jeselnik do a run through this Tues at The Lyric.
The 2nd Ari Shaffir special to hit TV in 2015 will air tonight on Comedy Central. Earlier this year, there was Paid Regular and, tonight at midnight, there will be Passive Aggressive.
Actually, Passive Aggressive was first available on a site called Chill.com that existed awhile ago. However, they went under and released all the comedy specials, including Maria Bamford’s Special Special Special and Greg Proops’ Live at Musso and Frank Grill, to the comedians and, one by one, each special has found its way to distribution through various channels.
So, this previously lost special Passive Aggressive from Ari Shaffir finally gets uncovered tonight. (Also, both specials are now available at CC:Stand-Up Direct)
(via Esquire)
To kick-off the big re-release of the entire Bill Hicks catalog, Comedy Dynamics is set for a theatrical run of Bill Hicks’ Relentless.
On Apr. 27th, Relentless will play in hundreds of theaters across the country, which will be nice to see as opposed to mere clips of the comedy special in various documentaries that have been made about Hicks over the last 20 years.
Seeing this special in theaters is probably now the closest you’d get to what it would be like watching him do stand-up at a club.
The sketch variety special from Trevor Moore “High In Church” Is premiering tonight on Comedy Central at midnight. Already, we’ve enjoyed his songs/bits “Kitty History”, “Gays Got Married” as well as these ones that were just released “The Ballad of Billy John”, a ballad about YouTube comments, and “Geniuses”, a pretty great commentary about certain exemptions from our history textbooks.
If you’ve enjoyed all of this and can’t wait until midnight, you can watch High in Church now on CC:Direct for $7. For $10, you can get unlimited album downloads of the special.
Either way you choose, just make sure you watch it.
Well, you have your binge watching for the weekend cut out for you.
The Tina Fey-Robert Carlock series starring Ellie Kemper that Netflix bought from NBC and then renewed for a second season, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt has all 13 episodes of season one on Netflix.
Netflix now also has Aziz Ansari’s latest stand-up special, Aziz Ansari: Live at Madison Square Garden, available to watch.
With all of this to watch, we hope that you don’t have to find someone’s Netflix password right now.
Aziz Ansari premieres his latest stand-up special Fri. Mar. 6th on Netflix, Aziz Ansari: Live at Madison Square Garden. This puts him in exclusive handful of comedians that have taped comedy specials at the massive venue.
Get a preview of what that will look like in this teaser and this bit about immigrant parents.
If you take a look at Aziz’s last comedy Netflix comedy special Buried Alive, Netflix’s comedy specials are only seeming to get bigger and bigger in scope. Maybe he’ll play the O2 Arena next?
(via Nerdist.com)
Comedy Central’s latest special, amidst a slew of great stand-up specials, will be coming from über clever magician who is on comedy shows all the time, Justin Willman.
The special “Sleight of Mouth” will not only feature his magic, but will also have the likes of Paul Scheer and Doug Benson in some drug-induced experiments.
If that all sounds good to you, then mark down 12:30AM on the night of Apr. 6th for the premiere.
While you’re probably speeding through the new House of Cards right now, you can rest assured that you’ll have plenty to look forward to when you’re done, maybe some time this week.
Today, Netflix announced the upcoming premieres of both the highly anticipated return of Wet Hot American Summer in a mini series called “Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp” coming out on July 17th as well as a new comedy special from Jen Kirkman, “Jen Kirkman: I’m Gonna Die Alone (And I Feel Fine)” coming out on May 22nd.
So, if you have a binge watch calendar, you can and should go update it now.
Trevor Moore’s new special High in Church premieres this Fri. Mar. 6th at midnight on Comedy Central, but we’ve been getting small previews here and there of the sharp, very clever satire that’s in store.
First there was a parallel universe where cats acted exactly like us and now there’s this new music video for “Gays Got Married” where Moore envisions what people against gay marriage are thinking will happen when gay marriage is passed as law.
Of course, the message seems most poignant when done as a country song.
Trevor Moore has a brand new comedy special coming to Comedy Central next week after his Drunk Texts to Myself, Trevor Moore: High in Church. There will be sketches, songs, dancing girls, as well as the exploration of what a parallel kitty universe would be like.
How exactly would a “kitty universe” be like ours? Luckily, Trevor has a music video to show you just how cats are exactly just like us in every way, no matter how dark it is, in some alternate universe.
After that, be sure to watch Trevor Moore: High in Church Fri. Mar. 6th at midnight on Comedy Central.
Post Parks and Rec, Nick Offerman has already lined-up quite the schedule with his lucky lady no less, Megan Mullally (otherwise known as Tammy 2).
From Apr. 15th-May 17th, Nick and Megan will embark on their delightfully titled “Summer of 69: No Apostrophe” tour that stops in over 20 cities including San Francisco, Dallas, Atlanta, Eugene, Detroit, Nashville, New Orleans, Chicago, and many more. Tickets are now on sale here.
In the middle of that tour, they will be taping a special, presumably of the same great name, in Milwaukee on May 8th (via The Laugh Button)
On top of all of that, Offerman is also gearing up for the release of his second book, Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America’s Gutsiest Troublemakers. The book will follow Offerman highlighting some of Offerman/Ron Swanson’s favorite American heroes. It’s set for release on May 26th.
So, get your tickets and pre-order, please and thank you.
Thanks to our good friends at CleftClips and Comedy Dynamics’ on Hulu, you can see all the fun that all the folks at The Virgil were having the night that Andy Peters recorded his debut comedy album off of AST Records, Exclamation Mark Question Point, one of our favorites from last year.
Please enjoy the rollicking fun of Peters in the comedy special version of “Exclamation Mark Question Point” here.
Matt Braunger’s latest stand-up special Big Dumb Animal is almost here. this Fri. at midnight, it’ll premiere on Comedy Central.
Before you see a refined hour of stand-up and live performance from Braunger, prime yourself properly by seeing what a Braunger is like off the stage and in the wild.
Fri. Feb. 6th 12AM on Comedy Central, Matt Braunger’s new hour stand-up special, “Big Dumb Animal” will have its premiere.
To whet your comedy appetite, here’s a preview summing up how ridiculous a correlation between homosexuality and hurricanes is. Also, take note how comedy specials like Bill Burr’s I’m Sorry You Feel That Way directed by Jay Karas and Braunger’s Big, Dumb, Animal directed by Steve Feinartz are getting to look more subtly, but nicely stylized.
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With only one month in the books, there’s plenty of comedy specials that we’ve already gotten or are about to getting into including ones from Louis C.K., Kyle Kinane, Bridget Everett, Al Madrigal, Aziz Ansari, and Matt Braunger.
Add to that list one from the very funny Dwayne Perkins that he shot at the Japanese American National Museum here in LA last month. There’s no set premiere/release date, but you’ll want to catch it as soon as it comes out, hopefully some time this year.
(via Variety)
Aziz Ansari is continuing his relationship between Netflix and his stand-up going as his next special will be released exclusively through the online streaming service.
Live at Madison Square Garden will be coming in for a release just over a month from now on Fri. Mar. 6th. Since Parks and Recreation is over, perhaps Ansari might dedicate even more of his time to stand-up and this special could just be the start of that.
Also, we’re not sure if it’s a trend or not, but it seems the title of many specials are returning to the classic “Live at [venue name]” model.
Comedy legend Mel Brooks has so many showbiz stories and is still damned funny at 88 we can only wonder why his comedy special “Live At The Geffen”, coming this weekend to HBO isn’t an entire mini-series.
Just a few more days until my first ever one man show #LiveAtTheGeffen. Jan. 31 on @HBO: http://t.co/nugo8VK3RT
Get a taste of the stories, jokes, songs, and more that’s all packed into Live At The Geffen in this teaser. Then, be sure to catch it at 9PM on this Sat. Jan. 31st on HBO.
If this somehow, interfering with your Super Bowl party, then you need to rearrange your priorities.
Louis C.K.’s latest comedy special is finally here. Unlike the last few that were recorded at big theaters, Live at The Comedy Store was shot at the gorgeous Main Room at The Comedy Store. That’s probably as intimate of a space that you’ll see a C.K. comedy special in.
Same deal as always with Louis’ specials: $5 for a download to do with what you will.
Here’s a preview, though many of you are probably already at LouisCK.net buying it.
Kyle Kinane’s new hour stand-up special I Liked His Old Stuff Better does premiere tonight on Comedy Central at midnight.
We know that you’re probably been waiting to watch it for awhile, but, before the premiere, you should watch Kyle Kinane work as the VO for Comedy Central.
That’s right. Kyle is the person who says things like “[insert show name] at 8” for Comedy Central.
Kyle Kinane’s brand new hour special “I Liked His Old Stuff Better” is premiering on Comedy Central this Friday Jan. 23rd at midnight. You can also buy it and watch it through CC:Stand-Up Direct right now for $5.
To help bring you this message, Kinane enlisted the help of a “tag team partner” in none other than Dolph Ziggler.