Netflix & the Rise of Comedy Specials
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🗓️ 15 September 2020
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| 0:00.0 | With the Montefel money extra, I'm Chris Hill. |
| 0:09.6 | So what have you been binge watching lately? |
| 0:11.9 | There's a lot to choose from out there with so many documentaries, award-winning dramas |
| 0:16.6 | and action movie franchises. |
| 0:19.4 | And then there's Stand Up Comedy. |
| 0:21.7 | Netflix in particular has so many Stand Up Comedy offerings. |
| 0:25.8 | Some have wondered if it will lead to a repeat of the industry imploding like it did in the |
| 0:30.5 | early 1990s. |
| 0:32.6 | Jason Zenneman is the comedy critic for the New York Times. |
| 0:36.3 | And when we spoke a couple of years ago, he shared why he is not concerned about the |
| 0:40.9 | business of Stand Up Comedy. |
| 0:43.0 | There was a time when getting an HBO special was, you know, the pinnacle. |
| 0:49.1 | And now it's the Netflix special. |
| 0:51.3 | And you could criticize Netflix by putting out so much once a week and Comedy Central |
| 0:59.8 | and C7HBO is still putting them out. |
| 1:02.2 | That they do seem like less of an event than what we had in HBO, where if you're just |
| 1:09.1 | getting an HBO, the HBO stamp of approval meant something. |
| 1:14.2 | Which raises this question that already in a situation like the first comedy boom in |
| 1:20.1 | the late 80s, early 90s, where this glut is about to, you know, we're heading towards |
| 1:26.0 | a comedy bust. |
| 1:27.0 | There's too much comedy. |
| 1:29.3 | And I actually don't think so. |
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