Comedian Joe Pera Heading To YouTube With New Special ‘Joe Pera: Slow & Steady’
15.09.2023 - 17:09
/ deadline.com
Like most rising star comics today, looking to further build their audience while reaping due rewards for their work, Joe Pera is self-releasing his latest special, Joe Pera: Slow & Steady, taking it directly to YouTube. Taped to a packed house at The Opera House of Williamsburg on June 15th, his new hour will premiere on Friday, October 6th at 8:00pm ET, exclusively on his YouTube channel @JoePeraComedy.
A trailer teasing the special can be found above.
Slow & Steady was independently financed and produced and comes to the internet following the conclusion of Pera’s cult favorite Adult Swim series, Joe Pera Talks With You. Little has been revealed about the subject matter he’ll address, but it will of course be marked by Pera’s singular slow, gentle style as, more or less, the Mister Rogers of comedy.
In Pera’s words, “The ‘Slow & Steady’ special is the culmination of a year and a half on the road, over a decade of doing stand-up, and of working closely on many projects with director Marty Schousboe, composer Ryan Dann, and production designer Caity Birmingham. Producers Michelle Caputo and Shannon Hartman were pretty cool too.”
With regard to releasing without a studio or streaming partner, he deadpanned, “It’s okay, it cost my savings, but we made a stand-up special just the why we wanted to. I think it’s pretty good and hopefully people will laugh and say ‘that was a well-spent 56 minutes.'”
In addition to writing and performing the special, Pera exec produced alongside Michelle Caputo and Shannon Hartman of Art & Industry, Olivia Gerke of 3 Arts Entertainment, and director Schousboe, with Grant Farsi as associate producer and Danny Sanchez as line producer.
A stand-up comedian, writer, and filmmaker from Buffalo,