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Amy Schumer:

Emergency Contact

In her first post-pandemic stand-up special, Schumer returns to fine, crass form, joking about the tedium of married sex and the faux pas of naming her baby Gene Attell Fischer without considering the homophonic parallels. Netflix

Sarah Silverman:

Someone You Love Speaking of crass, Sarah Silverman is back on stage, and there’s a lot of porn and poop talk in her current act. At 52, the Jewish comedian hasn’t stopped pushing the envelope, “selling out my culture for laughs,” as she puts it, demonstrated in a bit about considering naming her special My Struggle. Max

John Early:

Now More Than Ever

Early always colors outside the lines, and does so again in his first special, which mixes stand-up, cover songs backed by a rock band, and mockumentary clips that conjure SpinalTap. Max

85 South: Ghetto Legends Comedians DCYoung Fly, Karlous Miller, and Chico Bean take their hit podcast live, improvising before a raucous crowd in Atlanta. Netflix

Hannah Gadsby: Something Special

Gadsby, the genderqueer Australian comedian who brilliantly deconstructed stand-up in Nanette, takes a more traditional approach in this special, trading in the sharp-edged stuff for bits about happy recent personal experiences, notably marriage. Netflix

Zarna Garg: One in a Billion Garg immigrated from India as a teenager, attended law school, and raised three children before hitting it big telling jokes on TikTok. In her first stand-up special, she milks the story for maximum laughs, becoming the “American loudmouth woman” she dreamed she’d be. Prime