Photo: Vulture and Photos by Netflix and HBO It’s important to say from the jump that I was initially told I would not have to rank the best comedy specials of the year.
So as Mike Birbiglia explains in his special The New One, I was very clear that although I was fine picking ten comedy specials from 2019, I was not going to rank them. And like Birbiglia, my clarity did me absolutely no good. There were several specials I wish I’d had room for here, especially Nate Bargatze’s The Tennessee Kid. The ordering of what I do have here should be considered for exactly what it is: a gut choice made sincerely but with the knowledge that it may well be wrong.
8. Ice Thickeners, Emily Heller Photo: Courtesy of Comedy Central A special that just hits me exactly where I live. Heller’s comedy is full of these wild, goofy assertions of the self, the kind of thing that’s often couched in self-deprecating or apologetic language especially when it’s about women. There’s none of that here. The twist in so many of these jokes is that she is exactly who she is, and she is happy to be that way.
5. Bangin’, Nikki Glaser Photo: Courtesy of Netflix There’s a sensation when you’re listening to musical theme and variations where you first hear the theme, and then the first few variations feel like eye-rolling exercises. Okay, sure, you’re still doing it. Yep, there it is again. By the time you’re on to variation six or maybe ten the feeling shifts. You become overwhelmed with the focus and ingenuity it takes to sustain that kind of single-minded focus on one thing.
You omitted the shit-show the whackadoodle Republicans are putting on up at the Hill. THAT's a comedy (of errors).
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