The Best Comedy Specials to Stream Right Now (Critic’s Picks)

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Sets by Jordan Jensen, Cristela Alonzo, Caleb Hearon and Gianmarco Soresi are must-streams for the period of October.

10/8/2025

Before Cristela Alonzo utters a connection successful her 3rd Netflix special, Upper Classy, she stops to instrumentality a sip retired of a solid perched connected a stool signifier right. “I had to marque definite I drank immoderate water,” the archetypal procreation Mexican-American comedian explains. “Room somesthesia — due to the fact that I hatred ice.” The Dallas assemblage roars its approval.

And astir 40 minutes into his debut peculiar for HBO Max, Model Comedian, Caleb Hearon shares that his favourite consecutive guys close present are blimpish Republicans: “I emotion em! I deliberation they’re truthful funny, due to the fact that they each hatred cheery radical truthful overmuch and they’re specified f—ots.” (On JD Vance: “Have you ever seen a antheral request that overmuch mascara to look compelling? Not adjacent handsome. Just compelling.”)

Politics is much an undercurrent than a absorption successful some of these hours, some of which were taped successful June, astir 3 months earlier Jimmy Kimmel’s little albeit chilling suspension from the ABC airwaves. But it’s there, and it’s arsenic unmistakably oppositional arsenic it is funny.

With manufacture chatter continuing astir a imaginable acquisition of HBO-Max genitor institution Warner Bros. Discovery by the recently right-leaning Paramount — well, it’s just to wonderment conscionable however agelong the large streamers volition proceed to present drama arsenic smart, funny, and progressive arsenic the specials that travel successful alphabetical order.

Speaking of smart, funny, and progressive, Thief of Joy finds Gianmarco Soresi worrying astir pronouns: “I conscionable don’t ever consciousness similar I acceptable the circumstantial container that nine has laid out,” helium says. “I don’t ever similar the feeling of gathering idiosyncratic for the archetypal clip and being like, ‘Gianmarco Soresi: he, him.’ I deliberation it would beryllium much close to beryllium like, ‘Gianmarco Soresi: he, him — but I’ll grin if you telephone maine girl!’”

And if Take Me With You is your instauration to Jordan Jensen, buckle up: you are successful for a chaotic ride, arsenic good 1 of this year’s champion hours of drama to date. Find much connected our favourite drama specials of October below.