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Category: Comedy Special
Jordan Jensen’s Death Chunk
Jordan Jensen is, for my money, one of the best comics working today. She talks fast, seamlessly transitions between topics based on audience interactions, revisits abandoned bits prompted by distractions
Tim Dillon, A Real Hero
What Tim does best is lean in hard to ridiculous, hyperbolic points of view to either demonstrate their absurdity or make a point.
Nikki Glaser: Live in Milwaukee/Good Clean Filth
This is a blue special so stop reading if you don’t want to read about sex. Nikki Glaser is 100% who she is and incapable of anything else, on-stage or off. During this special, she actually makes that point out right but you can really feel the truth of it in this material. In her…
Andrew Schulz’s Infamous
There is no substitute for the magic of live comedy. You can never fully capture the energy of being in the room during a live comedy show, the interactions the comic has with audience members, seeing people who should be taken aback by jokes laughing along with you, watching an uptight girlfriend glare at her…
Tonight is a Vital Free Speech Middle Finger Moment for Comedy
Andrew Schulz’s new special, Infamous, was supposed to premiere on a major streaming channel. (He won’t say which one). But in the wake of the outcry over Dave Chappelle’s trans jokes, streamers got spooked and Schulz’s streamer asked him to cut some of the more controversial material, including an abortion joke. Schulz refused and spent…
Bill Burr: Live at Red Rocks
There are only maybe a dozen comics who could confidently go on stage at Red Rocks, as comfortable performing to a sold out crowd of 9,500 as they are watching football on their couch on Sunday. Bill Burr is one of those comics.
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