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  1. best of 2024
    The Best Comedy Specials of 2024From highly choreographed art-house projects to an hour of sex-robot clowning.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  2. close read
    In Beef, Therapy Isn’t the AnswerNeither Amy nor Danny can bring themselves to confront the darkness within, until they are forced to do so together.
    By Erin Qualey
  3. tv review
    Beef Feels BadBut who needs feel-good TV when Steven Yeun and Ali Wong make existential turmoil so compelling?
    By Roxana Hadadi
  4. trailer mix
    Ali Wong and Steven Yeun Have BeefRevenge is a dish best served medium-rare.
    By Jason P. Frank
  5. trailer mix
    Ali Wong Directed a Very Sweet and Juicy Sheng Wang SpecialAnd the stand-up makes quite an imprint in the trailer.
    By Hershal Pandya
  6. comedy review
    Ali Wong Embraces UnrelatabilityIn Don Wong, the stand-up is still a master of sex and money jokes. The new challenge is fame.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  7. who’s laughing?
    Netflix Is a Joke Festival Lines Up John Mulaney, Pete Davidson, and MoreNetflix Is a Joke: The Festival is happening in Los Angeles from April 28 to May 8, 2022.
    By Natalie Lin
  8. bird watching
    Tuca & Bertie Are Just As Anxious As You AreThe best bird buds are back on Adult Swim and perfectly suited to our new neurotic normal.
    By Jen Chaney
  9. a glorious return
    Tuca & Bertie Begins Its New Life on Adult Swim in JuneSunday, June 13, to be exact.
    By Megh Wright
  10. matches made in heaven
    Ali Wong to Keep Working With Hot Men in Netflix Series Beef With Steven YeunThe titular beef refers to a fight, though.
    By Justin Curto
  11. renewals
    Tuca & Bertie Has Been Saved by Adult SwimSeason two will air in 2021.
    By Rebecca Alter
  12. what were the 2010s?
    The 6 Best Stand-up Comedy Specials of the DecadeWe discuss the specials that best represent the art of stand-up in the 2010s.
    By Katie Mears
  13. stand-up
    Ali Wong Lands Two New Netflix Stand-up SpecialsShe reportedly closed an eight-figure deal.
    By Megh Wright
  14. book excerpt
    A Guide to Asian Restaurants, by Ali WongAn excerpt from the comedian’s new book, Dear Girls.
    By Ali Wong
  15. last night on late night
    Keanu Reeves’s Ridiculous Laugh, Performed by Ali Wong“HA. HA. HAHA. HA.â€
    By Zoe Haylock
  16. always be my lenses
    Always Be My Maybe’s Costume Designer Answers All Your Glasses QuestionsLessa Evans breaks down the eyewear of Ali Wong.
    By Milan Polk
  17. movies
    Keanu Reeves Walks Into the Chateau Marmont: An Always Be My Maybe Casting Story“I think the entire Chateau just went silent for a moment.â€
    By E. Alex Jung
  18. trailer mix
    Always Be My Maybe Trailer: The Randall Park–Ali Wong Rom-com Is HereOn Netflix and in select theaters May 31.
    By Hunter Harris
  19. tv review
    Tuca & Bertie Feels Like a Classic Sitcom Set Inside a Surreal DreamscapeLisa Hanawalt’s new Netflix series may look like BoJack Horseman, but it’s a much lighter, wackier, and more aggressively disorienting experience.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  20. trailer mix
    Netflix Hatches Tuca & Bertie Trailer Starring Tiffany Haddish and Ali WongA story of two 30-year-old bird women.
    By Anne Victoria Clark
  21. books
    You Can Read Ali Wong’s New Book Dear Girls in OctoberWong wrote a bunch of letters to her daughters, and we all get to read them!
    By Megh Wright
  22. best of 2018
    The 10 Best Stand-up Specials of 2018Rounding up our favorite hour-long stand-up specials of the year.
    By Erik Abriss
  23. close reads
    The Beauty and Banality of Motherhood Stories OnscreenThe best of these stories use a distancing lens to capture the transformative, magical, grinding exhaustion of motherhood.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  24. rom com king
    Ali Wong–Randall Park Rom-Com Gets Even Dreamier, Adds Keanu ReevesIs Keanu on a mission to revive rom-coms?
    By Hunter Harris
  25. Ali Wong’s Hard Knock Wife Is a Hilarious, Cathartic Follow-up to Baby CobraThe explosive physicality of Wong’s delivery is what gives this special most of its power.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  26. What’s New on Netflix: May 2018Coco, Dear White People season 2, and new stand-up specials by John Mulaney, Tig Notaro, and Ali Wong.
    By Andrew Lapin
  27. ‘Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife’ Gets Mother’s Day Premiere Date On Netflix Comedian Ali Wong’s first Netflix special Baby Cobra, which was filmed when she was seventh months pregnant with her first child, was […]
    By Kenneth Arthur
  28. Nahnatchka Khan to Direct Netflix Romantic Comedy Starring Randall Park […]Last year, Randall Park and Ali Wong signed on to star together in a romantic comedy at Netflix, and now the project has a director. According […]
    By Megh Wright
  29. the secret
    Nahnatchka Khan Is Directing That Ali Wong–Randall Park Rom-ComThe film follows two childhood friends who end up in “vastly different socioeconomic situations.â€
    By Jackson McHenry
  30. Is Netflix Hurting Stand-up?This year, Netflix has asserted complete stand-up dominance. Is this a good thing?
    By Jesse David Fox
  31. Randall Park and Ali Wong to Star in an Upcoming Netflix Comedy Fresh Off the Boat star Randall Park is teaming up with Ali Wong for a movie in the works at Netflix. According to Deadline, the streaming […]
    By Megh Wright
  32. Ali Wong Is Writing a Book of Advice to Her One-Year-Old DaughterStandup Ali Wong is writing her first book. Entertainment Weekly reports that Wong, whose Netflix standup special Baby Cobra debuted last year, […]
    By Megh Wright
  33. Mel Brooks, Ali Wong, and More Are Headed to the 2017 Riot LA Comedy […]Los Angeles’s annual alt comedy festival Riot LA takes place in January, and today the initial lineup of headliners was announced. The festival […]
    By Megh Wright
  34. make it happen
    Dear Hollywood, Please Make Ali Wong and Randall Park’s Dream Rom-ComIt’d be “our version of When Harry Met Sally.â€
    By Jackson McHenry
  35. encounter
    Talking Pregnancy and Prostate Stimulation With Ali WongAt the nail salon with the stand-up comedian and Fresh off the Boat writer.
    By Mary H.K. Choi
  36. joke writing
    Appreciating Ali Wong’s Powerful Pregnancy Joke in Baby CobraFor decades, a disproportionate number of male comics have been getting rich on being-a-parent jokes.
    By Jesse David Fox
  37. Is Ali Wong the First Standup to Do a Special While Seven Months Pregnant? In a sea of new standup specials, Ali Wong’s Baby Cobra (debuting tomorrow on Netflix) rises above the crowded surface, due in part to her […]
    By Isaac Kozell
  38. trailer mix
    A Very Pregnant Ali Wong Will Twerk for Her Netflix Comedy SpecialAli Wong: Baby Cobra.
    By E. Alex Jung
  39. Netflix Announces Standup Specials from Bo Burnham, Iliza Shlesinger, and […]Netflix just announced a round of new standup specials premiering from May through September, including specials from Bo Burnham, Iliza […]
    By Megh Wright
  40. Come to Tonight’s Dog & Pony Show Featuring Ali Wong, Jacqueline Novak, […]If you’d like to spend April Fool’s Eve enjoying some quality comedy before all the bad jokes and cheap tricks kick in tomorrow, Splitsider’s […]
    By Megh Wright