By: Ashley Scott

If you enjoy comedy, a must-see on Netflix is Funny AF, a comedy showcase and competition. Kevin Hart has not only developed a way to introduce unknown comics to a worldwide audience but also allowed them the opportunity to score their own Netflix special.

Hart travels to three cities: New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. In each of those cities, he’s accompanied by another well-known comedian: Keegan-Michael Key (from the TV comedy series Key & Peele), Tom Sugera (host of podcasts’ Your Mom’s House and 2 Bears, 1 Cave), and Kumail Nanjiani (from The Big Sick, Silicon Valley, and The Eternals), respectively. The pair watches groups of comics audition, doing five-minute sets, and the two choose from the hopefuls in each city who will progress to Los Angeles to continue in the competition. 

During callbacks in Los Angeles, we get to see the semi-finalists show their stuff and make us all laugh. Some of their sets are side-splittingly funny. Once the field is narrowed to ten, the comedians continue to crack us up by rising to additional challenges each episode, some involving the roast of a famous athlete—and each other. They’re challenged to do crowd work, involving improv, which many of the comedians find challenging, while others knock it out of the ballpark. 

In the live finals, with the final four comedians, viewers were allowed to vote for the comedian they felt best deserved a Netflix special of their own. No matter which comedian won, this adventure gave some incredible laughs along the way and introduced the world to a whole gaggle of new comedians who have left their mark, and we will most certainly see some of them again soon.