Bo Burnham followed up Inside — which landed him six Emmy nominations and three wins — with a shift back behind the camera, this year directing Jerrod Carmichael’s buzzy HBO special Rothaniel
The numbers are in, and state of comedy is strong. Among prevailing trends is the public’s eagerness to get back out of the house, leading to a new golden age of standup in which touring titans like Tom Segura, Bert Kreischer and Sebastian Maniscalco are selling out arenas — sometimes twice over, as Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias did when he became the first comic to play Dodger Stadium, on two consecutive nights for the Netflix Is a Joke festival last spring.
exactly flocked back to is the movie theater — take the underwhelming box office showing of the well-reviewed and groundbreaking, starring 2022 honoree Billy Eichner and produced by comedy-list fixture Judd Apatow. The late night landscape, too, is undergoing a period of transition and soul-searching, with several hosts dropping the mic, and the remaining ones finding novel ways to reach audiences.
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