Producer
Follows Ilyas, a 13-year-old boy who navigates the social hierarchy of his new school in California with a mustache his parents won't let him shave.
Executive Producer
In her first live solo standup special, filmed in 2019, Kate Berlant performs an absurdist set, in an intimate space, shared not only with the audience but the mirror reflection of herself. Kate's special distorts audience's expectations to her comedy, while also exploring her clairvoyant connection to the crowd and her inability to stop performing.
Executive Producer
Val has reached a place where he feels the only way out is to end things. But he considers himself a bit of a failure—his effectiveness lacking—so he figures he could use some help. As luck would have it, Val’s best friend, Kevin, is recovering from a failed suicide attempt, so he seems like the perfect partner for executing this double suicide plan. But before they go, they have some unfinished business to attend to.
Executive Producer
In this hilarious, confessional hour of stand-up, Drew Michael airs his issues with relationships, social media, and comedy as therapy.
Producer
Two couples on an oceanside getaway grow suspicious that the host of their seemingly perfect rental house may be spying on them. Before long, what should have been a celebratory weekend trip turns into something far more sinister.
Executive Producer
Thomas reflects on his Alabama childhood and his identity as an “aging emo kid” in LA through stories and songs on topics like dating, drinking, family and his mom’s legacy.
Director
Comedian and actor Dan Soder (Billions) brings his honest, insightful and infectious humor to his first HBO comedy special taped at The Bowery Ballroom in New York City. In Son of a Gary, Soder shares his down-to-earth approach to everything from drug dogs at the airport to fake fights in the shower and what it's like to have an alcoholic dad, but a fun one.
Executive Producer
Known for his well-crafted storytelling and hilarious impressions of the myriad characters he encounters in life, Lel Rel Howery draws on his personal experiences in his relatable, uproarious stand-up. Howery's HBO stand-up comedy debut was filmed before a live audience at Susan Miller Dorsey High School in Los Angeles.
Director
Comedian Jeff Garlin (unintentionally) celebrates his 37th year of stand-up and shares his learnings on love, loss, success and food addiction.
Executive Producer
Jerrod Carmichael explores aspects of the black experience through interviews with his family in this HBO Special.
Executive Producer
In his first HBO stand-up comedy special, Ramy Youssef shares candid anecdotes about his life as an Egyptian-American comedian, writer, actor and director.
Director
In his first HBO stand-up comedy special, Ramy Youssef shares candid anecdotes about his life as an Egyptian-American comedian, writer, actor and director.
Executive Producer
Jerrod Carmichael explores aspects of the black experience through interviews with his family. In this special, Carmichael focuses on the strong black women in his life, returning home to North Carolina for informal, intimate conversations with his family and friends, who speak candidly about subjects such as sex, confidence, beauty standards and feminism.
Executive Producer
Comedian Drew Michael is taking the stage and is holding nothing back in his first HBO stand-up special, in which he navigates his fears, anxieties and insecurities in an unconventional stand-up setting. Michael’s darkly comic, stream-of-consciousness monologue raises questions of identity, narrative, self-awareness and the limits of the medium itself.
Director
Michelle Buteau stresses the importance of comfort after turning 40 and dishes out thoughts on European health care and "open ethnicity" auditions.
Executive Producer
Chris Rock takes the stage for his first comedy special in 10 years, filled with searing observations on fatherhood, infidelity and American politics.
Producer
Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school.
Director
Comic Hasan Minhaj of "The Daily Show" shares personal stories about racism, immigrant parents, prom night horrors and more in this stand-up special.
Executive Producer
Performing in the round and engaging audience members during his act, Carmichael addresses a wide range of subjects, including Trump’s victory, climate change, supporting the troops, animal rights, being a good boyfriend and his top four fears, as well as exploring larger themes like race, politics, love and family.
Director
Combining his trademark wit and self-deprecating humor with original music, Bo Burnham offers up his unique twist on life in this stand-up special about life, death, sexuality, hypocrisy, mental illness and Pringles cans.
Director
Left brain and right brain duke it out and then belt out a tune in comedian Bo Burnham's quick and clever one-man show. As intelligent as he is lanky, Burnham cynically pokes at pop entertainment while offering unadulterated showmanship of his own.
Producer
Brian is a private school student who routinely lends his van out so fellow students can have sex in it. When he is invited to become friends with Tony, the school's big man on campus, he hopes to get some romantic pointers so that he might use his van himself with dream girl Suzie. Things become more complicated, however, when he discovers Tony is sleeping with Suzie himself.
Writer
Brian is a private school student who routinely lends his van out so fellow students can have sex in it. When he is invited to become friends with Tony, the school's big man on campus, he hopes to get some romantic pointers so that he might use his van himself with dream girl Suzie. Things become more complicated, however, when he discovers Tony is sleeping with Suzie himself.
Director
Follows a soon-to-be-married couple and the family dramatics that ensue just weeks before the wedding.
Director
A comedy centered on a functioning alcoholic facing an ultimatum: to go sober or lose everything -- including his life.
Producer
Two outsider teenagers create costumed alter egos to get revenge on the students who have bullied them in school.