Stand-up isn’t just getting prettier onscreen. It’s beginning to be approached by comedians and embraced by audiences as an artistic achievement in and of itself. JesseDavidFox writes
Photo: Jerrod Carmichael in 2017’s 8. End Times Fun, Marc Maron’s appropriately apocalyptic 2020 Netflix special, opens with the comedian considering his role. He starts by telling the audience “It’s my job to … think of funny things,” but he sounds uncertain. The camera shoots him from behind, between two of the backdrop’s wood slats, like a pair of binoculars peering through spread-open blinds.
But these were exceptions to the rule. HBO specials continued in Callner’s style, even after he moved on from them in the ’80s and networks like MTV and Comedy Central began banking their own brightly lit half hours. Even the most popular comedians made specials sparingly. Jerry Seinfeld released his first special in 1987, and his second in 1997. Despite the decade between shoots, the specials both attempt to faithfully re-create the live experience.
One such comedian was Maria Bamford, whose 2012 Special! took place not in a 1,000-seat theater but in her home for an intimate and intense audience of just her parents. A year later, with Comedy Central’s Live at the Fillmore, Kristen Schaal upended the idea of the special as a promotional tool for live tours by not only intentionally bombing during filming, but talking about how poorly her set went in interviews about the special.
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