Ali Wong Returns to Netflix with a New Stand-up Special, and Here’s the Trailer
Image courtesy of NetflixAli Wong returns to Netflix with a new stand-up special next week, and you can see the trailer, which was released today, below. Single Lady continues a long-running and notably fruitful relationship between the comedian and the streamer, one I have to assume neither party could’ve seen coming.
When Baby Cobra hit Netflix in 2016, the streaming service was about to enter its peak stand-up era. Later that year Netflix started cranking out specials every week, sometimes more than one; that deluge of comedy quickly helped Netflix supplant HBO as the standard-bearer for stand-up specials, and was one of several factors that hastened Comedy Central’s general retreat from the stuff. Netflix has basically dominated stand-up for the last eight years, with the semi-regular Netflix Is a Joke Festival basically serving as a Roman triumph of its success. It’s possible that no other comic has benefitted from Netflix more than Wong, whose relationship with the streamer has flowered past stand-up and into animation, films, and Emmy-winning TV series; Wong’s win for Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie in 2023’s Beef actually made her the first Asian woman to win a lead acting Emmy.
So yeah: Ali Wong and Netflix are tight, and that relationship continues with the release of next week’s Single Lady, which was filmed in Los Angeles during this year’s Netflix Is a Joke. In the minute-long trailer Wong is as personal as ever, talking about what it’s like to date at 40, after divorcing the father of the daughter she was pregnant with in Baby Cobra. No doubt many fortysomethings might start to seriously consider going solo again after hearing Wong rave about the dating game.
You can check that trailer out below, and watch Single Lady when it premieres on Netflix on Tuesday, Oct. 8. And if you need to catch up on Wong’s comedy (and life) before then, her three previous specials are all still streaming on there.