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On nan heels of Fat Rascal, which premiered connected Netflix successful 2023, and amid activity connected Shane Gillis’ Netflix drama bid Tires, comedian Stavros Halkias has inked a woody pinch nan streamer for different drama special, titled Uncle Stav.
No connection yet connected what specifically Halkias will beryllium discussing, though nan title evidently bears familial connotations and nan comic often has joked astir being a “weird uncle.”
Set to motorboat later this year, nan typical will portion astatine The Lyric successful Halkias’ hometown of Baltimore, Maryland connected April 24th and 25th, pinch Halkias and Ben O’Brien exec producing for Stavvy Baby Entertainment.
One of today’s astir celebrated young comics, Halkias came to Netflix aft taking to YouTube pinch his breakout debut Live astatine nan Lodge Room, which deed 1 cardinal views successful its first 4 days and has since surpassed 7 million. He first gained nickname arsenic a founding personnel and erstwhile co-host of nan deed podcast Cum Town and now hosts nan celebrated pod Stavvy’s World, which debuted astatine #3 connected nan iTunes Comedy Charts, amassing hundreds of thousands of subscribers successful its first year.
Based successful New York City, Halkias has been diversifying his imaginative output of precocious arsenic an actor, pinch an quality alongside Jesse Plemons successful Bugonia, nan Oscar-nominated movie by Yorgos Lanthimos. He besides precocious wrote, produced, and starred successful nan indie comedy Let’s Start a Cult and will adjacent beryllium seen successful The Comeback King, Universal’s Judd Apatow-directed drama starring Glen Powell, arsenic good arsenic A24’s movie Tony connected Anthony Bourdain. Currently connected The Dreamboat Tour, he is repped by UTA and Schreck Rose Dapello.
