Jeff Dye Cements His Title As “The Last Cowboy In LA” With Endless Laughs In Debut Special
Courtesy of Jeff Dye. Stand-up comedian, actor, podcaster & host Jeff Dye has been putting in the reps in the comedy world for the past three decades now. Since discovering his love for comedy at a young age, Jeff’s defined his passion for bringing love and positivity through laughter WHILE maintaining truth to everyone he […]
Gorilla Specials: Andrew Packer Is Funny And ‘On Guard’
Andrew Packer is a comic for modern times. Sharp and silly, Packer’s best jokes are accessibly honest takes that make use of funny voices. A parade of different lilts and pitches comes out of Packer like it’s the easiest thing in the world to do them. With his fresh takes and characters, Packer is reminiscent […]
Gorilla Specials: Mike Cannon Offers Up the Best Kind of ‘White Privilege Homeless’
Mike Cannon has a lot on his mind. Anxiety, caffeine failure, and how weird it was to be productive in the pandemic are just some of the things on his mind. Taking the stage in front of a “hot” audience, Cannon can’t help but kill in his act. Mike Cannon: White Privilege Homeless. Photo credit: […]
Gorilla Specials: Adam Cayton-Holland Is Putting Up More Than Just ‘Wallpaper’
Adam Cayton-Holland is a comedy lifer. After breaking out with his 2017 Comedy Central Half-Hour, Cayton-Holland has pursued a depth to his craft over easy gimmicks like others in his comedy class. This is something that makes him a stand-up of the highest repute, and something that shows so clearly in his latest effort, Wallpaper, […]
Gorilla Specials: Mike Baldwin Makes A Valiant Effort To Have The ‘#1 Top Selling Best Comedy Special Ever’
Mike Baldwin is a comic shaped by a very distinctive era of stand-up, which is one that prioritized jokes and had room for both Todd Barry and Shane Torres. His mild delivery is sometimes hard to hear over the audience responding to the joke-heavy bits he has on relatable topics like weight and dating. The […]
Gorilla Specials: Axel Blake Shows Why He Won Britain’s Got Talent ‘In Style’
Watching Axel Blake is like watching the coolest person you know perform stand-up. There’s a lot of movement, a lot of friendly punchlines, and an incredibly accessible point of view in his act, which helped win him top prize on Britain’s Got Talent recently. Capitalizing on all of this, he’s designed a special that plays […]
Gorilla Specials: Hilarious Heartbreaker Olga Koch Will Leave You Desperate To Be ‘Just Friends’
Olga Koch’s special Just Friends opens with a great hook: Koch was broken up with by a Disney adult and decided she wanted to have a threesome. Instead, what the audience has the pleasure of hearing, is the story of how she found love with Sam, a would-be threesome partner. There are jokes a plenty, […]
Gorilla Specials: Jen Brister Will Make You An ‘Optimist’ After Watching Her Special
In Jen Brister’s special, The Optimist, the comic walks through, and partially relives, the struggles of lockdown. As much as she can, Brister looks for levity, but more interestingly, she relitigates the tedium and hell of having to be trapped home with people you supposedly love, while the world gets stupider, but no better. There […]
Gorilla Specials: Gareth Reynolds Makes Learning Fun In ‘England, Weed & The Rest’
Gareth Reynolds is a comedian not unlike Adam Devine, Dane Cook, and Jeff Foxworthy rolled into one. Fun, accessible, and choc-a-bloc of accents and voices that engage the audience, Reynolds is great and wrangling attention. Just like his long-tenure on The Dollop would suggest, Reynolds is someone who can make learning delightful for all. Through […]
Gorilla Records: Hannah Roeschlein’s A Funny, Promising Emerging Voice Who Happens To Be An ‘Asian-American Psycho’
Recovery is a difficult thing to go through, to make your own, and to find a unique identity in as one of many who are on a similar road. It’s also something that is hard to make funny, since stand-up tends to favor comedy that isn’t about substance abuse, or anything else that lends itself […]