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Faced With Big-Spending Rivals, HBO Celebrates Stand-Up Comedy Nominations In Nascent Globes Category
Nikki Glaser, Seth Meyers and Ramy Youssef helped HBO with the comedy haul.
This is what made this morning’s news that HBO scored half of the nominations for a Golden Globe in the Best Performance In Stand-Up Comedy On Television category, going head-to-head with Netflix, which has the other three specials, significant. Nina Rosenstein, EVP, HBO Programming, Late Night and Specials, told Deadline, “We don’t really jump into those kind of bidding wars or whatever, we’ve built our brand on provocative, unique voices. Netflix has premiered around 40 stand-up specials this year with Jim Gaffigan joking, “Stand up comedy is a brutal business.
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