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Mo’Nique Teases Her Latest Netflix Comedy Special

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Netflix has announced that Mo’Nique has a new stand-up comedy special coming out. The Grammy-nominated, Oscar and Golden Globe award-winning actress and comedian Mo’Nique’s new stand-up comedy smash will be titled My Name is Mo’Nique. Netflix Is A Joke released a video including backstage shenanigans with the star. For example, she dances with the cast crew of the special and walks to the stage. She explains the name of the special, saying “I give y’all my word. After 72 minutes, y’all gon’ know why this sh*t is called My Name is Mo’Nique.”

Apparently, Netflix and Mo’Nique filmed the special last October at Georgia State University’s Rialto Center for the Arts in Atlanta, Georgia. At the time, Mo’Nique wrote in a November 1 Instagram caption, “My sweet babies thanks to everyone that came out and celebrated this moment with us. MY NAME IS MO’NIQUE LIVE COMEDY TAPING COMING ON NETFLIX!” Mo’Nique also wrote, “WHAT A MOMENT!! I LOVE US 4REAL.” Watch Netflix’s date announcement below:

“My Name Is Mo’Nique”

In her special, My Name is Mo’Nique, fans will get to see her deliver a show-stopping performance on stage. Apparently, there will be hilarious stories that will explain why she is the way that she is. Additionally, she’ll discuss how the city of Baltimore, Maryland shaped her into the woman she is today. Impressively, Through her sense of humor, she will reveal more about herself than she ever has. Furthermore, she will give perspective on some harsh realities that come with life.

Furthermore, Mo’Nique’s Netflix stand-up comedy special follows the announcement that she will star in the film that Lee Daniels is directing. The film, titled The Deliverance, will also have a release on the same streaming platform in the future. When this was announced, many were surprised. Apparently, Mo’Nique and Daniels have a feuding history due to what happened on the promotional circuit for the critically acclaimed and celebrated film, Precious. However, it seems that the two must have buried the hatchet. Additionally, L. Frazier directed the new special and will serve as executive producer alongside her husband Sidney Hicks. Netflix will release My Name is Monique globally on April 4.

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Dave Chappelle’s Attacker Was Reportedly Roughed-Up By Busta Rhymes

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If you’re just waking up and checking Uproxx before your Twitter feed, number one, thank you. Number two: Batten down the hatches. You’re in for a wild day.

Last night, Dave Chappelle performed at the Hollywood Bowl as part of the ongoing Netflix Is A Joke Fest, which has seen seemingly the entirety of the comedy community descend on LA for a month-long slate of events. However, it seems unlikely that any will top the outrageous happenings toward the end of Chappelle’s headlining set. As Dave was closing out the show, an unidentified male assailant tried to rush the stage, apparently brandishing a replica handgun.

He was able to tackle the comedian before a group of people, which reportedly included rapper Busta Rhymes (with whom Chappelle is soon to launch the Dave And Busta Tour, no joke) and the multitalented Jamie Foxx, intervened, packing the attacker up and taking him backstage. Later, he emerged on a stretcher doing his best impression of a human pretzel, as seen in a video posted to social media. He was loaded into an ambulance for transport to a local hospital, where I’m sure doctors will try their best not to practice their own tight fives as they sort his arms back into some semblance of their original shape.

Fans on Twitter have naturally been buzzing, expressing awe at how badly beaten up the attacker looks (here’s your reminder that Busta is 6’1 and well over 200 lbs.) and comparing the incident to Will Smith and Chris Rock’s recent Oscars outburst — including Chris Rock.

For his part, Chappelle seemed unharmed and like Rock, played it off with his own improvised riff, which Foxx joined. “I been doing this 35 years, I just stomped a nigga backstage,” joked. “I seen Busta Rhymes, he was like, ‘That’s how you do it, god.’”

That is, indeed, how you do it. Let’s all hope no one else gets any ideas about trying this stunt again.

Pete Davidson Joked About His Issues With Kanye During A ‘Netflix Is A Joke’ Show

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The strange, uncomfortable drama between Pete Davidson and Kanye West, that erupted after Pete began a relationship with Kanye’s ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, had the internet glued to their screens. Throughout the unsettling videos and diss tracks Kanye was releasing, and incessant social media posts, Pete mostly kept his mouth shut, refraining from any response or joking about the rapper on SNL. Since then, Kanye has left social media, canceled his headlining Coachella performance, and reportedly gone off the grid somewhere to seek healing. That’s great!

But last night, during a performance at the Netflix Is A Joke festival in Los Angeles, Davis did discuss what he went through during that time. According to a report from Entertainment Tonight, Davidson kicked off his set with “jokes about the rapper telling Davidson that Davidson had AIDS and that he believed West because West is a genius.” Later on, he mentioned that “being humiliated is weird when you can’t do anything about it.” He also recalled a basketball game with Chris Rock in December 2021, which he referred to as “before life was over,” referencing the very public events that befell both men a few months after.

Finally, Pete noted that he doesn’t have any ill will against his friend, Jack Harlow, for collaborating with Kanye — but joked that if his King Of Staten Island co-star, Bill Burr, attended one of Kanye’s Sunday Services, that would be “a different story.” Some of those jokes sound like they’d be pretty funny delivered in Pete’s signature deadpan, but hopefully the prodding doesn’t bring Ye back with Twitter fingers blazing.