From The Comic's Comic

Funny thing about spending the first two weeks of August at the Edinburgh Fringe is that you barely have any time to think about anything else, up to and including this update on the televised performances and premieres of new stand-up specials from the past month. But you were maybe preoccupied with the Summer Olympics in Paris, which provided plenty of comedy, too, right? Am I right, my Raygun maniacs? Alrighty then. My apologies, and let’s get to the recap for July 2024!

America’s Got Talent

NBC announced the 44 acts moving on to the live primetime rounds of season 19 of America’s Got Talent, and they include four comedic acts.

Erica Rhodes

Learnmore Jonasi

Schumacher

Tonikaku

Last Month in Late-Night

Before the Summer Olympics pre-empted NBC’s programming, Reggie Conquest got a chance to shine on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

So, too, did Orlando Leyba.

And Hannah Berner promoted her Netflix debut with a Tonight Show set.

Erica Rhodes also scored an appearance on CBS via Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Last Month’s Specials

New on Netflix: 2

• July 9 — Hannah Berner: We Ride At Dawn (my review)
• July 16 — Chad Daniels: Empty Nester (my review)

New on Amazon Originals: 1

• July 9 — Sam Morril: You’ve Changed (my review)

New on Veeps: 1

• July 20 — Reggie Watts: Never Mind 

New on Amazon for rent/buy: 6

• July 2 — Raanan Hershberg: It Could Have Been Better (via Comedy Dynamics) 
• July 9 — Emily James: Late to the Party (via Comedy Dynamics)
• July 16 — Corey Rodrigues: Not Complaining, Just Explaining (via Comedy Dynamics)
• July 23 — Myka Fox: My Joke, My Choice (via Comedy Dynamics)
• July 30 — Nick Alexander Presents Nick Alexander (via Comedy Dynamics)
• — Especial Éste Camilo Sanchez

New on YouTube: 24

• July 1: Steve Hofstetter: Me, Myself and ID
• July 8: Lace Larabee: Has Been Beauty Queen Bartender (via Open Bar Comedy)
• July 11: Sam Burns: LMNOP CANADA
• July 11: Jen Fulwiler: Maternal Instinct (via 800pgm)
• July 14: Josh Glanc: Vroom Vroom (via 800pgm) AUSTRALIA
• July 16: Lenny Schmidt: Fire Sign! (via 800pgm)
• July 16: Chazz Hawkins: The First One’s On The House
• Ju;y 17: JP McDade: In Brooklyn (via Stavros Halkias)
• July 18: Nick Swardson: Make Joke From Face (via 800pgm)
• July 18: Ian Stanley: C*ntroversial
• July 19: Stuart Jones: Homebody (via Comedy Here Often?) CANADA
• July 21: Burt Teplitzky: Scar Tissue (via Stash Movies)
• July 21: Raphael Ghanem (via UAI Comedia) BRAZIL
• July 23: Franqi French: Let Me Be Franq (via 800pgm)
• July 25: James McCann: Christmas Special (via 800pgm) AUSTRALIA
• July 26: Afonso Padhila (via UAI Comedia) BRAZIL
• July 27: Nick Beaton: Geriatric Millennial CANADA
• July 28: Tom Houghton: It’s Not Ideal UK
• July 29: Brendan Tran: Hole In The Wall L’hopital
• July 30: Ron Feingold: Ronnage (via Open Bar Comedy)
• July 30: Danny O’Brien: Live at Liberty Hall Dublin IRELAND
• July 31: Mike McCarthy: The Comedy Barbarian (via Open Bar)
• July 31: Dale Elliott Jr: Live From London JAMAICA
• July 31: Vance Michel: Just Blaze CANADA

Half-hours (18 total)

Fransisco Ramos (via 800pgm); Raunaq Rajani, Debasish Rath, Derek Gladson, Mohit Dudeja; via Open Bar (3): Mike Green, Les McCurdy, Valarie Storm (Open Bar); via UAI Comedia (3): Renato Albani, Nando Viana, Nil Agra; via DryBar (7): Jerry Garcia: Father Figure; Armando Anto: Politically Confused; David Rodriguez: The Great Indoors; Kellen Erskine: Negative Comments; Dedrick Flynn: Hootenanny; Lester Barrie: A Fan Of Marriage; Mayce Galoni: Participant

Also in July: Multiple crowd work specials from Martin Amini, Josh Wolf high on mushrooms, and Adam Ray as Dr. Phil with himself as the guest?!