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Posted Tuesday 12/10/19 at 1:32AM EST
Here are the 10 best comedy specials of 2019
Bill Burr's Paper Tiger, Julio Torres' My Favorite Shapes and Gary Gulman's The Great Depresh made Vulture's Top 10 list.
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Star Wars: The Mandalorian: Who's Who in the Cast
This week sees the launch of the Disney+ streaming service, perhaps the largest streaming platform yet to line up against...
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Comedy Central orders a Patrice O'Neal documentary
Bill Burr, Al Madrigal and O’Neal’s fiancée Von Decarlo are among the producers of the documentary offering an in-depth portrait...
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Posted Thursday 10/17/19 at 3:14AM EDT
Standup special trailers should only contain one great joke
Netflix's approach to its standup trailers has been to gin up controversy, as it did with Bill Burr's Paper Tigers...
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Posted Saturday 10/05/19 at 9:42AM EDT
Comedians have been essentially complaining about cancel culture since the 1980s and 1990s
"People fretted over political correctness back then, too, you know," Drew Magary says of the recent trend of comedians complaining...
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Posted Saturday 9/28/19 at 7:16AM EDT
Bill Burr's own career is the perfect counterargument to his "cancel culture" tirade
Burr stuck up for Shane Gillis after his SNL firing, saying on Lights Out with David Spade last week: "None...
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Posted Tuesday 9/24/19 at 3:21AM EDT
Comedians complaining about "cancel culture" have become the "the tiresome cowards they accuse their critics of being"
"As far as comedy is concerned, 'cancel culture' seems to be the name mediocrities and legends on their way to...
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Posted Friday 9/20/19 at 4:56AM EDT
In defense of Dave Chappelle and Bill Burr's new comedy specials: "The risk of offensiveness has to be there"
Chappelle's much-criticized Netflix special Sticks & Stones "is using comedy to ask difficult questions about the intersections of race and...
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Posted Tuesday 9/17/19 at 10:22PM EDT
Seinfeld actor Danny Woodburn: Bill Burr "punches down" with his Netflix special jokes about disabled actors
Woodburn, who played Kramer's little person friend Mickey Abbott on Seinfeld, responded in detail in a Hollywood Reporter essay to...
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Posted Tuesday 9/17/19 at 9:55AM EDT
Sandra Oh applauds SNL's firing of Shane Gillis, calls his racial and homophobic slurs "LAZY ASS UNORIGINAL"
The Asian-American Killing Eve star, who hosted Saturday Night Live earlier this year, tweeted this morning in reaction to Gillis'...
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Posted Monday 9/16/19 at 9:48PM EDT
Bill Burr confirms he'll be in The Mandalorian
The comedian said on The Rich Eisen Show that you can see the back of his head in the official...
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Posted Saturday 9/14/19 at 3:10AM EDT
Bill Burr sure liked using the word "triggered" in his new Netflix comedy special
"There’s that word 'triggered' again, the absolute worst thing a person can be in a comedian’s eyes, even though very...
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Posted Wednesday 9/11/19 at 10:32PM EDT
Bill Burr's new Netflix special is thoughtful, surprising, and introspective -- but the first four minutes are frustrating
Bill Burr: Paper Tiger begins looking like yet another comedy special responding to straw men like "cancel culture" and "safe...
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Posted Thursday 8/29/19 at 7:18PM EDT
Bill Burr rants about outrage culture, male feminists and sex robots in his new Netflix standup special trailer
Netflix says "nothing is off-limits" in Bill Burr: Paper Tiger, filmed at Royal Albert Hall in London and premiering Sept.
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Your Guide to Amazon's Stand-Up Comedy Bonanza
Friday August 23rd is a big day for fans of stand-up comedy with Amazon Prime subscriptions.