Netflix is dropping an extended cut of Chris Rock’s 2018 Stand-up Special Tamborine next week. Titled Chris Rock: Total Blackout, The Tamborine Extended Cut, the Chris Rock special will include plenty of additional footage from his Brooklyn Academy of Music set, as well as interviews and other behind-the-scenes footage.
The announcement was made on multiple social media platforms in the form of a promotional video which featured Chris Rock himself. “For the first time in history, a remixed version of a special,” he says in the teaser of Chris Rock: Total Blackout, The Tamborine Extended Cut. “It’s a Netflix special. Not a normal, not a routine. It’s a special,” he goes on to add.
The Stand-up Extended Cut will be a rebranding of his Grammy nominated act, in which he gives his views and observations on race and politics in America as well as his experiences of fatherhood. The Netflix special will also show some behind-the-scenes footage which will feature multiple stand-up comedians and celebrities.
Netflix has been slowly working on diversifying their content – moving on from original series and films and focusing on other media content such as food shows, reality television, lifestyle and travel series, etc. And one such “media venue” which Netflix has been targeting for some time (and getting dividends from) are Stand-Up Specials. Comedians as varied as Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr, Russell Peters, Vir Das, Aziz Ansari, Sarah Silverman, Anthony Jeselnik, Tom Segura and Ali Wong among many, many others have all got specials currently streaming on Netflix. The OTT giant has multiple other stand-up specials coming up this year and we can’t wait for them to drop as well.
Chris Rock: Total Blackout, The Tamborine Extended Cut will premiere on Netflix on January 12th 2021. Check out the promo video featuring Chris Rock down below: