Streaming has become a great home for stand-up comedy, and Netflix's lineup in particular includes 15 of the best stand-up specials out there.

If you’re like me, then you would have been proven wrong or severely let down by too many of 2025’s stand-up comedy specials. Which made those who did step up this year stand out that much more. I’ve reviewed more than 50 specials for Decider this year,

Kid Cudi made his surprise stand-up debut at Westside Comedy Theater in LA. See how the crowd reacted and what it means for his creative journey on Rap-Up.

Kid Cudi takes on stand-up comedy for the first time, sharing his debut at Mi’s Westside Comedy Theater in Santa Monica and promising clips for fans.

There, a listless, middle-aged salaryman named Alex (played by Will Arnett) rediscovers himself as a stand-up comic. Based ever so loosely on the true story of a British performer who stumbled into a new life as a club fixture,

Nurse John breaks down his five-year rise from frontline nurse to global comedy headliner on the 'Comedy Means Business' podcast.

Cooper isn’t interested in making a comedy, outright, with “Is This Thing On?” Instead, this is the third installment in what could be a trilogy about creativity, the way that art and performance can light a person up from the inside.

Is This Thing On? features brilliant performances by Will Arnett and Laura Dern in a drama partially set in the world of stand-up comedy. Directed by Bradley

This high-wire act, which Cooper stages with a sense of breathless, unpredictable tension, gives way to Alex and Tess restoking their relationship, but in secret, and the title "Is This Thing On?" shifts from showbiz jargon to a question about the state of their marriage.

Kid Cudi quietly stepped into stand up comedy, and the timing, the trauma, and the untold stories make this pivot impossible to ignore.

He served as host of the Golden Globe Awards in 2024, and made appearances in films such as “Easter Sunday” and “Haunted Mansion.”