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Colum Tyrrell Proves Bad Taste Still Wins the Club
A dark, unfiltered New York club hour leads the week alongside grieving gallows humor, new-mom bite, and a gravelly road tape.
Colum Tyrrell: Bells and Whistles
Irish-born New York club regular Colum Tyrrell treats good taste like a dare in Bells and Whistles, filmed at New York Comedy Club. Right out of the gate, he pitches a way mass shooters could get less hate, argues sick kids deserve cigarettes while questioning what Make-A-Wish refuses to grant, and contrasts phony trailhead friendliness with immediate parking-lot road rage.
Fresh off a stop at Rogan’s studio, Tyrrell is drawing rave reactions from fans relieved to find a comic who “just wants to be funny” without sneaking in a group-therapy session. It is bleak, cheerful mischief that would get you evicted from most group chats. Put it on tonight if you want pure, unsanitized club joke writing.
49m · Free on YouTube
Ed Byrne: Tragedy Plus Time
Grief hours usually beg for applause breaks, yet Ed Byrne refuses to go mawkish in Tragedy Plus Time. Mourning his younger brother Paul, the Irish comic mines a six-month feud over satnav apps and accidentally playing miserable indie rock off his phone as life support ended, earning Edinburgh’s best-reviewed show with dark, poignant laughs.
85m · Gorilla Comedy+
Michelle Wolf: For Linda
Motherhood hasn’t dulled Michelle Wolf in For Linda, a DC Improv hour bringing her trademark bite to the exhausting reality of raising a baby. Between skewering impossible parenting standards, she settles scores over writing Kim Kardashian’s SNL monologue and roasts Amy Schumer for taking credit. Her club voice hits harder here than on big streaming budgets.
58m · Free on YouTube
Kyle Kinane: Vermont Comedy Club
While most headliners nurse the same act for three years, Kyle Kinane turns over hours on an annual schedule. Uploaded with barely any fanfare from a 2024 Burlington tape, Vermont Comedy Club delivers gravelly, long-winding storytelling packed with intricate turns for anyone craving pure road craft.
67m · Free on YouTube
Also Out
- Ron Funches: Eat Cookies & Die — Gorilla Comedy+ · 63m
- Luke Heggie: Grogan — YouTube · 60m
- Dedrick Flynn: Super Comedian — YouTube
- Steve Hernandez: Fat! Mexican! Queer! — YouTube
- Whitney Rayner: Still Got It — YouTube
- Zach Alasha: American Arab — YouTube
- Chris Alan: Gotta Be Honest — Comedy Dynamics · 49m
- Pauly Shore: Road Comic — Live TV on PS5 · 30m
Plus 1 smaller indie release on the full calendar.
Newly Free from the Vault
- Jim Jefferies: Alcoholocaust — orig. 2010 · YouTube · 75m
- Tone Bell: Can’t Cancel This — orig. 2019 · YouTube · 71m
On Deck
- Juston McKinney: It’s the Little Things (Nov 23 · YouTube)
- Nate Bargatze: Good for Nathan (Nov 24 · Netflix · Trailer) — Everyday confusion over smart stoves, food delivery, marriage, and family group chats
- Bobby Lee: Finally (Nov 27 · Hulu · Trailer) — Stories about family life, awkward memories, and blunt immigrant parents
- James Acaster: Craig Simons Is James Acaster (Nov 28 · Trailer)
- Gary Gulman: Grandiloquent (Dec 1 · HBO Max)
- Gianmarco Soresi: God Forbid (Dec 3 · Netflix) — Material on marriage, fatherhood, group chats, and secular substitutes for religion