Comedians may not be able to perform these days, with clubs closed due to COVID-19, but they can talk about the standup life, which they do remotely for the Netflix Is a Joke social media platform in the 20-minute video “Hey, Remember Comedy?”
Adam Sandler, Jerry Seinfeld, Amy Schumer, Iliza Schlesinger, Sarah Silverman, Tiffany Haddish, Nick Kroll are among the standups who tell jokes and answer host and producer Neal Brennan’s questions about subjects including their first jobs, comics they opened for and followed, and jokes that killed and bombed.
Lots of fun facts are shared in the special, which is a fundraiser: Netflix partnered with Comedy Gives Back Standup Comedian Fund to support comics in the Black, Indigenous and people of color community who have suffered from economic and mental hardship during the pandemic.
Other stars taking part include Chris Rock, David Letterman, Ellen DeGeneres, George Lopez, Sebastian Maniscalco, Steve Martin, Tom Papa, Wanda Sykes and Whitney Cummings. Watch the video here:
Sandler will also be seen in Netflix’s comedy “Hubie Halloween,” a comic caper set on the holiday in Salem, Mass. that premieres Oct. 7. Kevin James, Maya Rudolph, Ray Liotta and Julie Bowen co-star.
Haddish just signed on to the Lionsgate action comedy “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” opposite Nicolas Cage, playing a fictionalized version of himself. Haddish plays a rogue government agent who forces Cage to go undercover to take down a crime syndicate.
