Jamie Foxx announced that he'll release his Netflix Special 'What Had Happened Was' on Dec. 20, a year after his medical scare.
“I said, ‘If I can stay funny, I can stay alive,'” says Foxx in a short teaser for the special. “I’m back.”
The premiere date arrives several weeks after he headlined three nights in Atlanta, where the stand-up special was filmed, and shared that he said he felt “” after telling his “side of the story” as he returned to the stand-up stage for the first time in 18 years. “I needed the stage and an audience that was made up of nothing but pure love and that’s what you were,” he said at the time. “When people ask me is this a stand-up comedy show I say no it’s an artistic explanation. Of something that went terribly wrong, but thanks to the great people in Atlanta, especially Piedmont Hospital, you enabled me to come back and be on stage and do what I love to do the most.” .
The special is directed by Hamish Hamilton and executive produced by Foxx, Datari Turner, Marcus King, James Longman, Raj Kapoor, Hamilton, and Katy Mullan.Anna Kendrick Says 'F--- You' to Director Who Dissed Her in Front of 100 Extras in Order to 'Embarrass Me and Gain Dominance': 'It Was Very Icky'
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