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Originally Posted by Axeman
I do wish they would start to require better quality in their movies and especially their comedy specials. Comedians almost exclusively phone in their sets for their Netflix specials. Even a few of my favorite comedians are very hard to watch on their Netflix specials.
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I'm not terribly shocked to hear some of them are not very good.
I was listening to the Joe Rogan podcast a few months back and they were talking about Netflix and comedy specials. It was very interesting. Apparently, not too long ago, the only real outlets for comedy specials were HBO, Showtime, and Comedy Central. Of course, you could put it on VOD and DVD etc, but as far as getting it distributed, those three were the only real options. Netflix came along and now there are also a few other comedy only websites and streaming services out there that are buying up a lot of stand up specials. All of a sudden, there is competition in the marketplace and Netflix is trying to become the new HBO when it comes to stand up specials. They were explaining how a lot of comics were rushing to throw things together and get stuff out there so they could sell a special because the market was prime.