Enlarge / Host Dave Chappelle during SNL’s monologue on November 12, 2016. (credit: Getty Images / Will Heath / NBC)
Video-streaming services continue to push and shove each other in a battle for the most original programming. While each has its fair share of original TV series and feature-length films, Netflix has run away with the crown for at least one sub-genre of content: stand-up comedy. As if the service doesn’t already have enough stand-up specials, now Netflix is going all-in by inking a deal with Dave Chappelle.
The deal, announced very simply via a Tweet on Monday, appears to include three stand-up comedy specials, as opposed to any sketch-based programming like Chappelle’s popular Comedy Central series. According to a Variety report, two of those specials have already been taped and are sitting in Chappelle’s vault: one from an April 2015 performance at Austin City Limits Live and the other from March 2016 at the Hollywood Palladium.
Variety reports that those two will be released simultaneously at some point next year, while the third special will be a newly recorded performance with no scheduled Netflix release date.
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Source: Ars Technica – Netflix’s comedy onslaught continues with three Chappelle specials