Gary Gulman, Todd Barry, Shane Gills and the rest of the Top 11 Comedy Specials of 2023

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm
Johnny mag with your daily comedy news.

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Today it is the Top eleven Comedy
Specials of the Year. If you listen

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to the podcast every year, you
know I do an end of the year

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top stand up specials list. This
year I have twenty three of them,

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but today I will do the Top
eleven and part of that is to cross

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promote a new podcast called The Top
Eleven, which is a fun show that

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takes a topic and discusses the top
eleven things in that subject. In today's

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episode will be the top comedy Specials
of twenty twenty three. Follow the Top

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eleven wherever you get your shows.
I'm not going to go from eleven to

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one. I'm going to go from
one to eleven. The best comedy special

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of the year, and it came
out pretty late in the year, but

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wow, it was fantastic. Gary
Goleman born on third Base. Here is

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a comedian who you see in a
scendence. A great guy. I've worked

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with him, spent some time with
him, tried to hire him. The

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boss wouldn't give me the budget to
hire him. Oops, boss Man.

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But Gary special The Great Depression got
a lot of praise and that was Gary

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in ascendancy, and I think this
is next level Born on Third Base.

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When you watch it, Gary's very
natural delivery, his choice of words,

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the way he crafts a story,
the way you can tell he's having fun

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telling the stories, his pacing,
his changing of speeds. The special is

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almost clean. He uses a swear
word pretty late in the special just for

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effect and nails it. Good use
of a swear word there. He made

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some very funny material about Jerry Seinfeld
that I want spoil. That really cracked

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me up. So Gary Goleman,
Born on Third Base Best Special of the

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Year, number two and this guy
held the crown for most of the fourth

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quarter. And I really love the
special. Todd Barry's domestic short here it

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may even be funnier joke for joke
than Goldman's. Just Gary, just like

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he just nailed the art of an
hour. But Barry had me laughing out

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loud several times. And as I've
discussed in the past, I do this.

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I call it the Emperor of Room
thing that I've listened to so much

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stand up comedy over the last twenty
years that I'll do the thing the comedians

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do where you'll stay on the back
of the room and you'll be like,

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oh, great set, great set, great callback. Oh wow, that

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was really well written, but you
don't actually laugh. So when something makes

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me actually laugh out loud, I
treasure it. I recommend on Todd Berry's

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Domestic Short Hair on YouTube. Number
three Shane Gillis Beautiful Dogs. That one's

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on Netflix. Here's a guy,
very funny special. And here's a guy

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that you can tell as he's doing
the special, he's just having a good

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time. His body language is like, isn't this fun? And I just

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he's so charismatic. It's just a
good time. Shane Gillis Beautiful Dogs at

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number three. Number four Tom Sigoor's
Sledgehammer. That one also on Netflix,

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same kind of note there. You
can just tell Tom's having a good time

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with it. Plenty of solid laughs. And that special. Number five.

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I had this one at number one
for a while. Kyle Kanaan Shocks and

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Struts. That one's on YouTube.
Great storyteller, a great way of changing

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speeds, setting up jokes. Kyle
kanay and Shocks and Strats at five six.

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This guy had a huge year.
The special came out eleven months ago

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January thirty first on Amazon, Nate
Bergatzy's Hello World. I was enjoying that

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special so much that I paused it
and thought my wife would like it,

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went upstairs, grabbed her, and
I went back and I watched ten minutes

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of it for a second time.
Number seven Ricky Gervais over Again. That

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came out Christmas Day on Netflix.
I loved it. Ricky just went into

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total DGAF mode. Of all the
comedians who have fought back against wokeness,

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I think Ricky found a pretty good
take on it, slipping into character that

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he had now gone woke and then
totally being unable to actually do that.

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Ricky at times reminded me of George
Carlin. And I don't say that lightly,

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but the points he was making very
carlin esk And I think the beard

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kind helps the controversy about some of
the jokes about dying children totally overblown.

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When you see it in context,
it's nothing. It's clearly a joke.

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Riggy stops down a few times to
explain that he is a comedian telling jokes.

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Sometimes people forget that stuff. Number
eight Michelle Wolfe's It's Great to be

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Here on Netflix. Now, what's
interesting about that special is rather than making

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a single hour, it split across
three small parts. They're all about twenty

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to thirty five minutes. She didn't
want to artificially tie the chunks together,

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so she just made them separate chunks
and it worked really well. Another one

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of these specials that you watch and
you can tell that the artist is having

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a good time performing the special,
and she's just a good company to be

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around. High energy Michelle Wolf,
It's great to be here. On Netflix

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at number eight. J McBride Daddy's
Girl filmed in Brooklyn in a small setting,

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nice lean production. You know,
some of these specials in these big,

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beautiful theaters and multicams are great.
Sometimes I like just a smaller show.

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It makes me feel like I'm in
the club. Jay is transgender and

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she makes a lot of jokes about
that very very funny special. At one

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point she explains she transitioned fifteen years
ago, and then jokes, don't clap.

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I only did it to compete in
the Olympics. Great special there.

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You'll find that on YouTube. J
McBride Danny's Girl. Jim Jeffries High and

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Dry. Also on Netflix. Jim
jokes about how he is quit Drinking another

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special where he's in DGAF mode and
also clearly just having a good time telling

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the story. One of the weird
trends this year was everybody having to make

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trans jokes. Jim found a good
angle on it and saying I have no

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problem with trans people, but I
do like press Jim Jeffries Number ten and

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a rounding out the top eleven.
Pete Holmes, also on Netflix. Netflix,

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you guys had a great year for
comedy, didn't you. Pete specials

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called I Am Not for Everyone.
Pete's another one of those comedians I just

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like spending time with. He's got
that nice guy vibe. He's got that

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body language where he's having a good
time and he just wants you to have

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a good time, good storytelling,
good solid set that flows. Pete homes

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I Am Not for Everyone on Netflix
at number eleven. Tomorrow, I'll do

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twelve through twenty three. But when
we come back, I'll tell you what

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the actual funniest thing of the year
was. Hmm, A quick list of

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some things that were funny but not
stand up specials. The funniest thing of

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the year even funnier than Gary Goldman's
stand up special Kunk on Earth that came

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out on Netflix in February. Diane
Morgan stars as Philhemina kunk an illiformed David

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Attenborough or Richard Addenborough, one of
those guys. It's the history of the

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world told incorrectly. It is hysterical. There's a recurring gag that cracked me

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up every time. I don't want
to spoil I recommend on Kunk on Earth.

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I've watched it twice. You'll find
that on Netflix. The other truly

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great thing that came out this year
I have this one ranked lower than Todd

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Berry but higher than Shane Gillis was
South Park's Into the Panda Verse, which

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made fun of how every movie has
become the brave teenage girl showing the old

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white dude how stupid he's become.
That is every single movie now, and

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they just rip that to Shred's South
Park Into the Panderverse. Treat yourself if

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you haven't seen that one. Several
memes have come out of that that have

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just savaged. Kathleen Kennedy from Lucasfilm, Bob Iger from Disney, the Marvel

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Universe. They nailed it with that
one. Also really fantastic Cocaine Bear,

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a nice tight hour thirty five,
just a fun movie that gave me giggles

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at some point. If you have
not seen Cocaine Bear, treat yourself.

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I have that one. Not as
funny as Nate Berghatzy, but more funny

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than Ricky Gervais. While you're enjoying
comedy movies, Burt Krascher's The Machine.

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It delivered, nice fun film.
I was very happy with it. That

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could have been awful, but it
was pretty good. I have that one

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at number ten and a half between
Jim Jefferies and Pete Holmes. If you

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listen to me every day, you're
probably familiar with Burt Krescher's The Machine story.

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So this is a follow up sort
of of that. But watch The

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Machine. That is fantastic. And
the other thing I would encourage you to

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watch is Jury Duty. You'll find
that on free v go on Amazon Prime,

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you'll find it there. There's a
trial, there's a jury, and

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all of it's fake except for the
one guy that doesn't know it's all fake,

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and it is hilarious. And that
is your comedy news for today.

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