Netflix Back in Business With Comics Ali Wong, Fluffy and Jo Koy

With the Netflix Is A Joke Festival underway, the streaming service has announced its slate of seven upcoming comedy specials.

The lineup includes everyone from Ali Wong and Michelle Buteau to Bert “The Machine” Kreischer and Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias. Also forthcoming: Jo Koy’s fifth special, which he taped in Brooklyn last November, and a third Netflix hour from Fortune Feimster, which will drop later this year. Like the festival itself, the collection is an overt flex of Netflix’s dominance in the standup arena, even as HBO has been muscling its way back in with buzzy hours from Ramy Youssef and Alex Edelman.

Wong, who recently swept the awards circuit with her dramatic role in Netflix’s Beef, will tape her new hour at the festival on May 4. It will be shot at The Wiltern in Los Angeles, where she’s doing her residency. The still-untitled special marks her fourth with the streamer, where she’s also made Always Be My Maybe and has lent her voice to series like Ada Twist, Scientist and adult comedy Big Mouth. Dean Cole will also tape his forthcoming hour — his third for Netflix — at this year’s fest, with a date set for May 2 at the Los Angeles Theater.

Kreischer’s new hour is the first of his previously announced two-special deal, and is expected to tape in early July at the Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg, Florida. It follows his 2023 entry, Razzle Dazzle, which was the comic’s third at Netflix. Meanwhile, Iglesias has two new hours coming — his fourth and fifth for the streamer. The first of them will tape later this year at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida, in mid-July. It comes on the heels of Stadium Fluffy, his 2022 special where he made history as the first comedian to perform at and sell out the largest MLB stadium in the United States. Fittingly, it was part of the last Netflix Is A Joke Fest.

Finally, Buteau will tape her second Netflix hour at Radio City Music Hall this summer. In doing so, she becomes the first Black woman to record a comedy special at the famed venue. At the same time, her comedy series, Survival of the Thickest, which she writes, produces and stars in, has been renewed for a second season. She also hosts competition shows The Circle and Barbecue Showdown, both on Netflix.