Faced With Big-Spending Rivals, HBO Celebrates Stand-Up Comedy Nominations In Nascent Globes Category
deadline.comHBO has long been a home for some of the most-talked about comedy stand-up specials such as Eddie Murphy’s Delirious! and Chris Rock’s Bring The Pain as well as over a dozen from George Carlin.
However, over the last few years, the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned network has faced streaming competitors with bulging wallets.
This is what made this morning’s news that HBO scored half of the nominations for a Golden Globe in the Best Performance In Stand-Up Comedy On Television category, going head-to-head with Netflix, which has the other three specials, significant.
HBO has Nikki Glaser: Someday You’ll Die, Seth Meyers: Dad Man Walking and Ramy Youssef: More Feelings competing against Netflix’s Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was, Adam Sandler: Love You and Ali Wong: Single Lady.
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