The show, curated by Glazer and produced by her company Starrpix, riffs on the concept of a “tight five,” or a five minute stand-up set that’s packed with only the hits. The series is a showcase of ...

A year ago, Lea’h Sampson felt like everything was crashing. Though she had been doing stand-up comedy for six years, she was hitting a wall. Her jokes weren’t getting her booked, even in local comedy ...

YouTube functions as both a broadcast platform and a searchable archive. A special doesn't air once and vanish; it lives on, ...

The best comedy of 2025 includes specials by Frankie Quiñones, Andrew Schulz, Jordan Jensen, Sebastian Maniscalco, Bill Burr, ...

For all of the comedians who complained they couldn’t joke about anything anymore, that sure didn’t stop them and everyone else from joking about everything this year. When the calendar year finally ...

Upward of 150 stand-up specials were released in 2023. That’s a lot — much more than a generation ago, when it was hardly guaranteed that a comedian would ever film one if they weren’t one of the top ...

Stand-up comedy is so much more than telling jokes with a microphone in hand. For seasoned masters of the art, it’s an exploration of everything right and wrong with humanity, all at once, from the ...

Over the past decade, and particularly since the pandemic years, the stand-up comedy special has undergone a quiet but ...

The new venue came about when Houston’s Brian Gendron — who built that city’s The Riot Comedy Club and the annual Riot Comedy ...

Comedy fans in 2024 have thousands of stand-up specials available at their fingertips. With dozens of new releases coming out each month across Netflix, HBO, Amazon, and YouTube, the competition has ...

The pandemic really put a damper on live stand-up comedy, and by extension, the stand-up comedy special. Much more than any preconceived notion of “cancel culture,” the idea of sitting ...