Tig Notaro’s New Special “Happy To Be Here” To Be Released on May 22nd on Netflix
“Just announced – Tig’s new comedy special “Happy To Be Here” will be available May 22nd, exclusively on @NetflixIsAJoke!”
Right about now (or anytime really) is a great time for a new hour special from the one and only Tig Notaro. Thankfully, that time is less than a month away.
Mark your calendars/set a reminder on your phone/etc.
Well, not much to elaborate on other than comedy legends Steve Martin and Martin Short will be playing the Pacific Amphitheatre in Costa Mesa on July 20th as part of their tour (that will culminate in a Netflix special).
Tickets are on sale now and are going for $55-$100. Get them here quick before they sell out.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
A Bunch of Seeso Series and Special Just Found a Home at Starz
Take My Wife, Night Train with Wyatt Cenac, The UCB Show, Andy Richter’s Home for the Holidays, Sklar Brothers: Hipster Ghosts, Lachlan Patterson Live From Venice Beach, The Pistol Shrimps, Brian Posehn: Criminally Posehn and New York’s Funniest all just landed over at Starz and will be available on Starz’s own app and on-demand on May 1st.
Just in case you didn’t get around to watching anything on Seeso, there was a lot of innovative and fun stuff that was made and licensed over there. Hopefully, more people will come to realize that as they see Seeso shows and specials at other, more established networks and streaming platforms over the next year or so.
Ali Wong’s Next Special “Hard Knock Wife” To Drop on Mother’s Day
Two years have passed since Ali Wong’s first hour special that catapulted her into comedy fame and the wait for the next one, Hard Knock Wife, will be over next month on May 13th.
As mentioned above, that will be the date of Mother’s Day this year and might just make for the best day to release this special.
Ron Funches Will Be Taping His First Hour Special for Comedy Central This Summer
“My first hour comedy special is taping June 19th at The Neptune in Seattle for @ComedyCentral. ????????❤️?❤️??❤️????. I need everyone to come out from Florence Oregon to Bellingham Washington. NW represent.”
It’s sincerely a mystery why it’s taken this long to give the wonderful, magical, hilarious Ron Funches an hour special (just go look up any of his clips on YouTube or listen to his album and you’ll want to see him do an hour just like we do).
We’re glad that it’s happening and we’ll all get a chance to see it on Comedy Central in the not so distant future. If you have a chance to catch it in Seattle, you should absolutely go get tickets here.
Tiffany Haddish, John Mulaney, Ike Barinholtz as Satan, Nick Kroll, Sarah Silverman, and more joined Seth Rogen in raising a bunch of money to fight Alzheimer’s Disease in an exclusive event.
Normally, none of us would get to watch, but this year it was taped as a special for Netflix, so we’ll get to see what happened for this annual big shindig, charity event on April 6th.
Get a taste of it with the trailer here.
Annually, Seth Rogen throws a big time event to support the fight against Alzheimer’s Disease that usually costs several hundreds of dollars to attend called for Hilarity for Charity. The actual event is happening this Saturday and props to you if can afford to go.
If you can’t go and catch Sarah Silverman, John Mulaney, Kumail Nanjiani, Nick Kroll, Michael Che, The Muppets, Tiffany Haddish, Sacha Baron Cohen, Craig Robinson and the Nasty Delicious, James Corden, Michelle Wolf, Jeff Goldblum, Post Malone do something that they’ll probably do for one time only, you’ll be in luck later next month.
The event will be presented as a special on Netflix as Seth Rogen announces here. In either case, you should, if you can, support HFC’s fight against Alzheimer’s here.
UK comedian James Acaster is joining the slight uptick in trying something different in comedy specials besides just doing one hour in front of a crowd.
Seemingly inspired by the famous “stages of grief”, Acaster is doing a Netflix special in four parts, each representing a “stage of James”. Acaster himself is more than polished enough to do a traditional special, so that ought to be interesting.
Aparna Nancherla, Kyle Kinane, Gina Yashere, Joe List, Rachel Feinstein, and Brent Morin are the latest batch for Netflix’s half hour stand-up special series The Standups and should make for a very solid showing of Netflix’s continued march forward in dominating the world of televised stand-up comedy.
Billy Eichner Will Be Doing His Very First Stand-Up Special at Netflix
Don’t get it twisted. While it’s a stand-up special, people will still be getting “quizzed in the face”.
If you’re keeping score, Netflix has a Martin Short/Steve Martin special, their 15 minute specials, and now, a Billy Eichner special in the works. Also, we’re pretty sure that’s only the tip of the iceberg of what they’ve got planned for stand-up alone.
Steve Martin and Martin Short Are Making a Netflix Special
Just when you thought that Netflix couldn’t nab any more of comedy’s brightest stars, they will be getting a special that has yet to be taped from living comedy legends Steve Martin and Martin Short.
Short and Martin go way back and have recently gone on tour together, which was a good omen that something like a special might happen.
For those praying for a new comedy special involving Steve Martin with top billing that wasn’t a tribute some kind (i.e. Steve Martin’s Mark Twain Prize ceremony in 2005), it looks like whatever you believe in has answered your prayers.
Ali Siddiq’s new special It’s Bigger Than These Bars premieres on Comedy Central at 11PM this Friday.
Siddiq performed and taped this special in front of an audience of inmates at a jail, which is made doubly interesting by the fact that Siddiq used to be incarcerated. Also, Siddiq has tapped his experiences and distilled them into damn funny stories.
While you’re waiting for the special to drop, you can see Ali chat with Desus & Mero about the whole process of making it and more here.
Jim Gaffigan Will Release His Next Stand-Up Special on His Own
It has been awhile since a big time comedian released their own comedy special independent from networks and streaming services.
Luckily, Jim Gaffigan will be releasing his sixth hour special by himself via various digital platforms/marketplaces and, given his appeal across several different demographics, we’re betting that’ll both do well.
Also, we’d be curious to see if Gaffigan gets a little more experimental since he’s releasing it on his own.
Finally, we have gotten a special from a comedy legend (that hasn’t done a comedy special in a very long time) that can live up to the hype.
Tamborine both satisfies the long-held, unsatisfied craving that you’ve probably had for a new hour of stand-up from Chris Rock and offers a more mature, vulnerable, introspective Rock. For instance, he not only hushes the crowd immediately to get to a joke about police brutality and racial inequality without any sort of greeting, but Rock opens up about his divorce and raising his kids in a way that you might have not imagined Chris Rock would ever do. In short, Rock doesn’t disappoint at a time when heroes of all kinds have been disappointing right and left.
Also, one should take note that Rock tapped Bo Burnham (who has directed two of his own specials and Jerrod Carmichael’s 8) to direct his latest special and the result looks subtly slick and very personal (i.e. this special has some of the most extreme close-ups ever used in a comedy special).
When the next awards season comes around, it’d be surprising to not see Rock’s new hour be heavily favorited wherever it can be nominated.
Chris Rock: Tamborine is now streaming on Netflix. So, go watch it (or watch it again) already.
We’re going to go ahead and say that no one came close to guessing that Chris Rock’s first stand-up special in several years was what behind Netflix’s mysterious tamborine announcement a few days ago.
In any case, Chris Rock: Tamborine will drop at midnight on Netflix and, we guess, be Rock’s Valentine’s gift to us all?
Scotland’s Daniel Sloss has quickly become one of Conan’s favorite comedians over the years and been making quite the impression, as far as we can see, here in the States with his stand-up.
So, Sloss will be now taping an hour long comedy special in DTLA at The Belasco Theater this Tuesday, February 13th and you can catch it for free (as long as you RSVP).
There is a 7PM and a 9PM show and you can (and should) get tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
In this trailer, you can see that Ali Siddiq does indeed return to a prison to perform for those incarcerated like he once was. Obviously, this will have a much different feel than Jeff Ross’ roast special that happened at a prison as Siddiq spent more than few years behind bars.
By the way, if you haven’t seen Ali’s This Is Not Happening story, please watch it right away here.
Todd Glass’ full hour special released this week is the summation of the joyful anarchy that Todd has been dealing in over the last few years. Armed with a full house band (that also is cued in on his bits and commentary on bits and accompanying course corrections on bits), Glass takes you down the rabbit hole of his comedy, which is rambunctiously fun as well as subtly illuminating about the times we live in and how comedy dissects said times.
The world getting to see Todd Glass perform an hour with a live band is long overdue.
Finally, that will be happening with Todd Glass: Act Happy coming to Netflix near the end of this month on January 23rd.
Get a taste of what it’s like here.
Arguably, Tom Segura was one of the first comedians to really get catapulted into success (and rightfully so we might add) because of Netflix.
Even though Netflix has been chasing down the biggest names in comedy over the last couple of years, it is nice to see that they’re sticking by Tom as you can see in the trailer for this latest special, Disgraceful.
Equanimity and The Bird Revelation, the two newest stand-up specials from Dave Chappelle, will begin streaming at midnight PT tonight on Netflix.
Not only is it another midnight countdown you ought to look forward to, but The Bird Revelation is particularly intriguing since it was recorded in November 2017.
You can start counting down now to midnight tonight FYI.
The Four “2 Dope Queens” Specials Start Airing on Feb. 2nd at 11:30PM
Jessica Williams and Phoebe Robinson, or better known to podcast fans as the 2 Dope Queens, have not one, not two, not three, but four comedy specials coming to HBO in February 2018 (specifically Friday, Feb. 2nd at 11:30PM). Both Williams and Robinson along with some of their favorite comedians will be featured throughout the four specials in what should make for a better February next year than last year.
Here’s a teaser complete with some dope thrones.
Upset with what you got for Christmas or with Christmas in general?
Whatever the case may be, Todd Barry’s brand new stand-up special Spicy Honey should make up for whatever your sour about. It’s another hour of his expertly crafted wry observations, dabbed with Barry’s finely tuned, whipsmart crowd work.
Watch a trailer for it here, then look for Spicy Honey on Netflix.
Almost nobody does a comedy special and has broadcasted or streamed to people live. It’s such a risky thing to do and takes so much skill and comedic prowess that to even think about doing such a thing has been a rare occurrence. Brian Regan did do a live special for Comedy Central, but he is, after all, Brian Regan.
That being said, Chris Fleming is so unbelievably funny and such a dynamic performer, we believe that he can pull off livestreaming his special on Facebook Live. On Decemeber 21st at 6PM PST, Chris will be doing just that while taping his hour special Showpig from Chicago’s Thalia Hall.
You’ll be able to watch it on his FB page here: https://www.facebook.com/chrisflemingfleming/
Here’s a delicious taste of what’s to come and why you should set a reminder for Dec. 21st.
What will be interesting here is to see a brand new special, Equanimity, from Dave Chappelle as opposed to two hours that were taped and then shelved until they were sold to Netflix much later. That was the case with the two specials released earlier this year.
Lord knows that there are plenty of things for Dave to weigh in on including with what went on around his SNL monologue with Trump, apologize for saying to give Trump a chance, and, maybe, his stance on trans people.
Also, it would be nice to end 2017/starts 2018 with a great hour from Chappelle. Look for Equanimity to start streaming on New Year’s Eve.