Last month, we decided we’d had enough of the prevalence of flashy, overly edited, out-of-context trailers for stand-up specials and proposed a simple solution using Anthony Jeselnik’s Fire in the Maternity Ward trailer as an example: Going forward, trailers for stand-up specials should just be one good joke. So far, it appears that our request has been heard: Instead of releasing a standard trailer for Seth Meyers’s Lobby Baby, Netflix uploaded a commercial parody for a new toy called “Standup Seth,†and today the streaming network released a trailer for Jeff Garlin’s new special that’s just one unedited, 25-second joke that perfectly encapsulates his perspective as a longtime comedian and actor most widely known for his work on Curb Your Enthusiasm: “I am immensely successful, but yet — you’d be think it’d be good enough being me — every single day, numerous people come up to me, and they say, ‘What’s Larry David really like?’â€
Garlin’s special, Our Man in Chicago, was filmed in his hometown on the 37th anniversary (to the day!) of his comedy debut. A mix of storytelling and improv, the special debuts next week on Tuesday, November 12.