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Quietly building a prolific career of consistently funny, self-produced specials, his third one, shot in a bowling alley in Greenpoint, takes aim at his old home (“People born in Brooklyn who stay in... 1.000

👤 Jason Zinoman 📋 Review 🏷️ Entertainment , Comedy

Simplified: David Drake's third special shot in a Greenpoint bowling alley takes aim at his old home dating while married and trauma

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David Drake makes a comic meal out of this persona. 0.900

👤 Jason Zinoman 📋 Review 🏷️ Entertainment , Comedy

Simplified: David Drake makes a comic meal out of the settled down Brooklyn guy persona

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His forthcoming book, “The Outsider,” is one of the better comedy memoirs in years, in part because he’s so articulate about straddling worlds. 0.900

👤 Jason Zinoman 📋 Review 🏷️ Entertainment , Comedy , Books

Simplified: Vir Das's forthcoming book The Outsider is one of the better comedy memoirs in years

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This special cuts together three very different shows, in a vast arena in Mumbai, a chapel in London and the Comedy Cellar in New York. 1.000

👤 Jason Zinoman 📋 Review 🏷️ Entertainment , Comedy

Simplified: Vir Das's special cuts together three shows in Mumbai London and New York

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This is not a major work by the elite comic but a very satisfying transitional one. 0.900

👤 Jason Zinoman 📋 Review 🏷️ Entertainment , Comedy

Simplified: Beth Stelling's special is not a major work but a very satisfying transitional one

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If you don’t have the time or interest for an hour of jokes but want more than a quick video, try this charming 28-minute release from Beth Stelling. 0.800

👤 Jason Zinoman 📋 Review 🏷️ Entertainment , Comedy

Simplified: Try Beth Stelling's 28-minute release if you don't have time for an hour of jokes

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Packed full of tight, crass jokes, this special is the work of a pro, assured in his craft, gimmick-less, pandering to no one. 0.900

👤 Jason Zinoman 📋 Review 🏷️ Entertainment , Comedy

Simplified: Jim Norton's special is the work of a pro assured in his craft gimmick-less pandering to no one

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“Rugged,” a fleet hour meditating on manhood, is built around his daughter’s seeing him as less than tough. 1.000

👤 Jason Zinoman 📋 Review 🏷️ Entertainment , Comedy

Simplified: Rugged is built around Ali Siddiq's daughter seeing him as less than tough

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Jim Norton understands how to take a funny idea and wring every bit of humor from it. 0.900

👤 Jason Zinoman 📋 Review 🏷️ Entertainment , Comedy

Simplified: Jim Norton understands how to wring every bit of humor from a funny idea

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“My Two Sons,” which bluntly contrasts the challenges of raising a rough-around-the-edges child and one with upscale manners, is the funnier, more dynamic special. 0.900

👤 Jason Zinoman 📋 Review 🏷️ Entertainment , Comedy

Simplified: My Two Sons is the funnier more dynamic Ali Siddiq special

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Now in his 50s, Siddiq digs into parenting, multigenerational tension, his inability to fix things around the house. 1.000

👤 Jason Zinoman 📋 Review 🏷️ Entertainment , Comedy

Simplified: Ali Siddiq now in his 50s talks about parenting multigenerational tension his inability to fix things

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His two follow-up specials, released this summer, provide a test: After exhausting all his childhood stories of life on the street, could Siddiq still be as entertaining talking about the more mundane... 0.900

👤 Jason Zinoman 📋 Review 🏷️ Entertainment , Comedy

Simplified: Ali Siddiq's two follow-up specials released this summer test if he is still entertaining talking about mundane subjects

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Ali Siddiq has two new specials, including “Rugged,” above. 1.000

👤 Jason Zinoman 📋 Review 🏷️ Entertainment , Comedy

Simplified: Ali Siddiq has two new specials including Rugged

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