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Comedy Special Review

Comedy Special Review

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

Maria Bamford’s Old Baby plays peekaboo with joy and trauma

Emily L. Stephens

5/02/17 12:00AM

Louis CK is as gloriously gloomy as ever in 2017

4/04/17 12:00AM

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