All of us like to chuckle proper? Effectively right this moment (June third), Hartbeat, the worldwide leisure firm based by Kevin Hart, has introduced an all-new stand-up collection, LOL Reside. The collection will showcase a lineup of all-star comedians, with the primary two specials premiering on Friday, June sixth, solely on Hulu.
Filmed final summer time throughout Hartbeat Weekend at Resorts World Las Vegas, the gathering of 10 half-hour specials will function units from Brandi Denise, Chico Bean, Chinedu Unaka, Daphnique Springs, Devon Walker, Justin Silva, Ken Flores, Lea’h Sampson, Malik B, and Sydnee Washington.
Hulu will launch two LOL Reside specials each month, beginning this Friday with Daphnique Springs and the late Ken Flores, who tragically handed away earlier this 12 months on the age of 28. Hartbeat started working with Flores in June of 2024 when he carried out on the primary episode of their SiriusXM stand-up showcase, HOT MIC.
“Hartbeat has a confirmed monitor document of bringing hit stand-up specials to the lots” mentioned Jeff Clanagan, Hartbeat’s President & Chief Distribution Officer. “Our partnership with Hulu for LOL Reside marks a continuation of that mission as we deliver among the brightest voices in comedy straight into viewers’ houses.”
LOL Reside continues Hartbeat’s legacy of spotlighting rising and established stand-up expertise, constructing on the success of its international comedy showcase “Comedy in Coloration,” which has featured over 300 comedians from greater than 30 nations. The brand new collection additionally marks the second stand-up franchise to emerge from Hartbeat Weekend, following final 12 months’s reboot of BET’s Comedian View, which was hosted by Mike Epps and filmed in entrance of a dwell viewers at Hartbeat Weekend 2023. Hartbeat can be accountable for producing a number of hit get up specials together with Kevin Hart’s Appearing My Age Tour and Zero F**ks Given, London Hughes: To Catch a D*ck, David A. Arnold’s It Ain’t for the Weak!, and extra.
The specials are produced by Jeff Clanagan. Government producers embody Kevin Hart, Bryan Smiley, Luke Kelly-Clyne, and Eric Weil for Hartbeat; alongside Don’t Inform Comedy’s Kyle Kazanjian-Amory, Brett Kushner, and Marissa Gallant. All 10 specials are directed by Marcus Russell Worth (Keith Robinson: Totally different Strokes, Zainab Johnson: Hijabs Off) and filmed in entrance of a dwell viewers at Zouk Nightclub, positioned inside Resorts World Las Vegas.
Try the trailer for Hartbeat’s new collection above and share your ideas within the remark part!
