Looking for a laugh? We've got you covered with the best stand-up comedy specials on Netflix, from the classic sets to the best of this year.

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Hundreds of Beavers is an inventive comedy movie that generated a lot of buzz in 2024. Hundreds and hundreds of stand-up comedy specials?! That’s a lot to chew on, even for the most ardent comedy nerd ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Netflix has become a premier platform for streaming modern comedy specials, with some of the biggest names in the business launching their shows on the service. This includes a growing number of ...

If the previous two years saw live comedy and the production of comedy specials derailed and/or transformed by the pandemic, then this past year found stand-up comedians rejoicing and reveling in ...