After a strong start, this special by the famously deadpan comedian starts to sputter rather quickly, never really recovering as it goes along. Notaro’s quiet,
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John Mulaney: New in Town (2012)
It’s great that the quietly charming and decisively hilarious comic has managed to significantly increase his professional profile since this first special. Here, he’s more
Jim Gaffigan: Noble Ape (2018)
It’s another strong, consistent and laugh-out-loud funny special from the affable comic. On the one hand, Jim Gaffigan’s sixth comedy special treads much of the
John Mulaney: The Comeback Kid (2015)
Although his latest Netflix special “Kid Gorgeous at Radio City Hall” is incisive and amusing, this earlier routine by John Mulaney is stronger and much
Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife (2018)
A worthy successor to the hilarious performer’s smash success “Baby Cobra,” “Hard Knock Wife” finds Ali Wong adjusting to motherhood while pregnant with her second
John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City (2018)
Just as funny and endearing as his two former Netflix comedy specials, this latest from John Mulaney will delight his fans and surely win him
Chris Gethard: Career Suicide (2017)
Going into this comedy special, I wish I’d known it had more in common with a one-man show than a comedy routine. Chris Gethard is
Kathy Griffin: Balls of Steel (2009)
As with most of Kathy Griffin’s numerous specials, “Balls of Steel” is a solid, funny hour of gossipy dish with the controversial comic, who riffs
Ricky Gervais: Humanity (2018)
If Ricky Gervais set out to prove that he’s become an obnoxious, thin-skinned, dismissive jerk, then he succeeded well with this Netflix special. His first
Kathy Griffin: Tired Hooker (2011)
Kathy Griffin’s latter input has a tendency to drag, and nowhere is this more apparent than in this underwhelming albeit occasionally amusing special. Griffin herself
Kathy Griffin: She’ll Cut a Bitch (2009)
Another strong routine from the controversial performer, albeit weaker than her previous arsenal. Perhaps it’s that, at this point, Kathy Griffin had become much more
Kathy Griffin: Strong Black Woman (2006)
Another hilarious special from the fast-talking comedian, “Strong Black Woman” is not unlike her previous specials “Allegedly” and “Kathy Griffin is Not Nicole Kidman”: Going
