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The Best Comedy Specials of 2024
There have already been several instant stand-alone knockouts.
But when Love You, directed by Josh Safdie, stretches the conceit into the body of the special, it pushes its premise of a messy show teetering on collapse somewhere past gimmickry and uses it to articulate ideas about fame, joy, performative pressure, and the value of comedy. Glaser’s known for sex jokes in the vein of the incredible run she does in her special Bangin’, but Someday You’ll Die takes that same cheekily dirty mind-set and re-centers it in her awareness of getting older. Novak does follow a structure that curves toward gravity before rebounding into positive feelings, but her idea — which is blowjobs, but which is also the joy of language and creative expression — is so full of ebullience and energy that the show itself seems to burst out of its own seams.
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