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This year drew an inescapable line across all of culture, demarcating things produced before and during the pandemic.
This list reflects that impossible division.
It was a long, dark year, but there were still great things to laugh at.
(But funny I promise!)
Its fun even when it indulges Gadsbys need to needle and scold.
The show is deliciously silly.
But no for Oswalt, that note conjures an imaginary serial killer, someone stalking him in the woods.
Inevitably, magically, its also an account of exactly how funny the entire experience was.
Very few comedians have the financial resources to do a show like this in 2020.
Its amazing what an intimate setting can do for someone like Hart.
Its a perpetual display of control masked as quirky excess and digression.
3.Momma, I Made It!
1.End Times Fun,Marc Maron
MaronsEnd Times Funfeels prophetic.
ThatMaronwas already living in a place of intense apocalyptic anxiety is the foundational idea of the special.
Because what choice do we have?
Many of those selections appear above in our top 10 picks.
Below are the rest of the specials that stood out this year.
Stay at Home Comedian,Ted Alexandro
Two things make Ted AlexandrosStay at Home Comedianstand out.
The first is its sheer circumstances.
But the other is the interesting formal experiment of it.
Itll always be one of the works I think about when I think about this year.
Sweet & Salty,Fortune Feimster
The general arc of Feimsters hour is personally revelatory rather than strictly novel.
Feimsters just particularly joyful about it, though.
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