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EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Kelsey Cook is group to unveil her debut Netflix special, Happy Hour, connected Tuesday, August 18.
In nan special, pursuing up past year’s Mark Your Territory and 2023’s The Hustler, Cook explores “hangxiety,” relives a level bath nightmare, and breaks down making love a literal Chad. She filmed it astatine nan Fitzgerald Theater successful St. Paul, Minnesota pinch Eric Abrams directing. Abrams besides exec produced alongside Cook and Lisa Mierke, pinch Matt Schuler serving arsenic producer.
Cook’s astir caller special, Mark Your Territory, released connected some Hulu and YouTube, made nan Top 15 astir streamed specials for 2025. During its tally connected Hulu, it besides topped nan charts arsenic nan platform’s #1 drama typical by a female comedian. The typical has been streamed complete 1.6 cardinal times connected YouTube while The Hustler has complete 4.4 cardinal views.
The girl of an International Yo-Yo Champion and a Professional Foosball player, Cook jokes that this gave her zero chance of having a normal profession 1 day. Currently connected her Reasonable Bedtime Tour, headlining complete 40 cities crossed nan country, she besides co-hosts the Pretend Problems Podcast with her fiancé and chap comedian, Chad Daniels, and is down nan foosball web series Wrists of Fury, wherever she hustles chap comedians who don’t cognize she’s a World Champion foosball player.
Cook has performed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon multiple times, and has besides appeared on Good Morning America, CBS’ After Midnight and The Talk, Comedy Central’s This is Not Happening, Epix’s Unprotected Sets, and more. She is repped by Mosaic, CAA, and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.
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