Photo-Illustration: Franziska Barczyk; Photos: Netflix, Patti Perret/Orion, Jonathan Browning/Netflix, Marcus Russell Price/Netflix
With the glut of stand-up, television, movies, podcasts, social media, and live performance, there’s never been more comedy produced on a week-to-week basis. 2023 saw a dramatic increase in stand-up specials, a resurgence of successful hard-comedy movies like No Hard Feelings and Bottoms at the box office, the continued run of acclaimed sitcoms like What We Do in the Shadows and Abbott Elementary, and institutions like Saturday Night Live and late-night TV continuing to dominate headlines — all while a pair of Hollywood strikes derailed formal comedy production for multiple months, pushing fans further…
