This is a timeline documenting events and facts about English-speaking stand-up comedy in the year 2020.
January January 3: Ilana Glazer's special The Planet Is Burning for Amazon Prime Video. January 14: Leslie Jones's special Time Machine on Netflix January 21: Fortune Feimster's special Sweet and Salty for Netflix. January 26: Vir Das's special For India on Netflix. January 28: Alex Fernándezs special The Best Comedian in the World on Netflix. January 28: Maria Bamford's special Weakness Is the Brand on Comedy Dynamics.
February February 4: Tom Papa's special You're Doing Great on Netflix. February 11: Sam Morril's special I Got This on YouTube. February 22: Whitmer Thomas's special The Golden One on HBO. February 25: Pete Davidson's special Alive From New York on Netflix.
March March 3: Taylor Tomlinson's special Quarter Life Crisis on Netflix. March 10: Marc Maron's special End Times Fun on Netflix. March 17: Bert Kreischer's special Hey Big Boy on Netflix. March 24: Tom Segura's special Ball Hog on Netflix. March 27: Fancy Ray McCloney's album The Best Lookin' Man in Comedy on Stand Up! Records.
April April 4: Louis C.K.'s special Sincerely on his website. April 14: Chris D'Elia's special No Pain on Netflix. April 14: Christopher Titus's special Born With A Defect on christophertitustv. April 17: Amber Preston's album Sparkly Parts on Stand Up! Records. April 24: Derek Sheen's album Macho Caballero on Stand Up! Records.
May May 1: Tim Harmston's album The Whim of Tim on Stand Up! Records. May 1: Tom Walker's mime show special Very Very on Amazon. May 5: Jerry Seinfeld's special 23 Hours to Kill on Netflix. May 8: Jimmy O. Yang's special Good Deal on Amazon. May 12: Mark Normand's special Out to Lunch on YouTube. May 19: Patton Oswalt's special I Love Everything on Netflix. May 19: Doug Stanhope's special The Dying of a Last Breed on Vimeo. May 26 Hannah Gadsby's special Douglas on Netflix.
June June 12: Dave Chappelle's special 8:46 on YouTube. June 23: Eric Andre's special Legalize Everything on Netflix. June 30: George Lopez's special We'll Do It For Half on Netflix.
July July 3: Hannibal Buress's special Miami Nights on YouTube. July 7: Jim Jefferies's special Intolerant on Netflix. July 17: Esther Povitsky's special Hot for My Name on Comedy Central. July 21: Jack Whitehall's special I'm Only Joking on Netflix. July 24: Jim Gaffigan's special The Pale Tourist on Amazon. July 24: Frankie Boyle's special Excited For You To See And Hate This on BBC 2. June 26: Wendy Maybury's album She's Not From Around Here on Stand Up! Records. June 27: Luiki Wiki's album #StandupConMadre on Stand Up! Records. July 31: Kelly Pryce's album Life with a Pryce on Stand Up! Records.
August August 4: Sam Jay's special 3 in the Morning on Netflix. August 6: Joe List's special I Hate Myself on YouTube. August 20: Beth Stelling's special Girl Daddy on HBO Max. August 25: Dante Powell's album The Squirrels Get Fat on Stand Up! Records.
September September 1: Felipe Esparza's special Bad Decisions on Netflix. September 12: Michael McIntyre's special Showman on Netflix. September 18: Bil Dwyer's album Am I Yelling? on Stand Up! Records. September 25: Glenn Wool's album Viva Forever on Stand Up! Records.
October October 2: Chris Maddock's album Country Music Legend on Stand Up! Records. October 6: Lewis Black's special Thanks for Risking Your Life.Thanks for Risking Your Life October 23: Tim Heidecker's special An Evening With Tim Heidecker on YouTube. October 23: Chelsea Handler's special Evolution on HBO Max.
November November 17: Kevin Hart's special Zero F**ks Given on Netflix. November 20: Doug Mellard's album Fart Safari 3: Fart Hard with a Vengeance on Stand Up! Records. November 27: Firesign Theater's album Dope Humor of the Seventies on Stand Up! Records.
December December 17: James Acaster's special Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 is live-streamed on DICE. December 22: London Hughes's special London Hughes: To Catch a D*ck on Netflix.
See also List of stand-up comedians
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