Good Dad, Bad Father

Willie Macc builds the set around a neat piece of generational math: his preacher father raised him on scripture, and Macc raised his son Malcolm on vibes after becoming a dad at 16. Instead of playing the wisecracking patriarch, he leans into the comedy of two guys growing up together without a blueprint, right down to admitting what happens when both father and kid are scared of monsters or when the kid starts outearning him.

The 47-minute special was recorded at the Kukooburra Lounge in Hollywood and premiered on 800 Pound Gorilla’s Gorilla Comedy+ service in June 2026 before hitting YouTube and Prime Video the following month.

By 2026, Macc had spent years working around the edges of Hollywood, breaking out on BET’s College Hill: Virgin Island, logging over 50 national commercials, popping up on shows like The Goldbergs and Casual, and competing on season 20 of America’s Got Talent in 2025. That stage time shows in his pacing. He gets early mileage out of his son’s origin story with a football-playing prom date, then moves into Hollywood culture shock, dodging Amber Alerts, dosing his kid with NyQuil “sleepy juice,” church trauma, ADHD, and a run-in involving his grandmother and a Craigslist plumber.

It arrived alongside a separate Dry Bar Comedy special filmed around the same window, though this set keeps the language and bad-parenting confessions intact. Critical coverage has been sparse, with a 6.0 IMDb rating and a summer press run on parenting podcasts leaving the special to play mostly to his existing online following.