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Comedy Special Review

Aziz Ansari moves forward, but Right Now is a step backward for his comedy

Prepare for shock and guffaws when Ramy Youssef gets in his Feelings

6/28/19 10:00AM

David Cross can’t muster an original way to confront Trump in Oh, Come On

Ellen DeGeneres opens up, proving she’s still Relatable after all these years

12/18/18 10:15AM

Comedy Central's Goatface special is very brown and very funny

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

11/28/18 4:55PM

Demetri Martin’s amiable cleverness can’t energize The Overthinker

8/10/18 11:00AM

Jim Gaffigan turns near-tragedy into reassuring comedy in Noble Ape

Cameron Esposito’s Rape Jokes offers humor and empathy at a time when they’re most needed

Steve Martin and Martin Short bring broad comedy and minimal banjo to Netflix

Tig Notaro does a victory lap in the exultant Happy To Be Here

5/22/18 10:00AM

John Mulaney packs the house with laughs in Kid Gorgeous At Radio City

5/01/18 12:40PM

Married comics Natasha Leggero and Moshe Kasher double-team love in The Honeymoon Stand Up Special

4/17/18 11:00AM

Chris Rock turns in half of a great special with his Netflix comeback

2/14/18 10:05AM

In his new standup special, Patton Oswalt makes a triumphant return from Annihilation

10/17/17 10:00AM

For his First Time, Rory Scovel’s Netflix special is absurdly funny

6/20/17 12:00PM

T.J. Miller might have to accept that he’s a very funny comedian

Sarah Silverman gets personal in A Speck Of Dust

Jesse Hassenger

5/29/17 12:00AM

The Daily Show’s Hasan Minhaj crafts a hilarious, spellbinding immigrant story

5/23/17 12:00AM

Norm Macdonald owns his deadpan minimalism in new Netflix special

Jesse Hassenger

5/10/17 10:50AM

It takes strength to be as gentle, kind, and funny as Chris Gethard’s Career Suicide

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