This Week in Comedy: Aziz Ansari has a new special out with “Nightclub Comedian”

This Week in Comedy: Aziz Ansari is back with a new Netflix special. The special, titled Nightclub Comedian, was taped at a surprise drop-in he did at the Comedy Cellar back in December. “I like doing nice theaters and everything,” Ansari says in the trailer. “But sometimes you have to come back and compete with chicken wings.” In the special, Ansari also tackles “Covid, the White House, and the virtues of flip phones.”

Also this week, Tiffany Haddish, Sam Richardson, Ilana Glazer, Ben Schwartz, Dave Franco, and Ike Barinholtz have a mystery to solve. The new Apple TV+ series The Afterparty “is a murder-mystery comedy set at a high school reunion afterparty. Each of the eight episodes will feature a retelling of the same night told through a different character’s perspective, each with its own unique visual format and film genre to match the teller’s personality.”

And finally, season two of the sci-fi comedy Resident Alien is back on the SyFy network. Resident Alien, which stars Alan Tudyk, follows “an alien crash lands on Earth and must pass himself off as small-town human doctor Harry Vanderspeigle (Alan Tudyk). Arriving with a secret mission to kill all humans, Harry starts off living a simple life…but things get a bit rocky when he’s roped into solving a local murder and realizes he needs to assimilate into his new world. Based on the Dark Horse comic.”

Monday
American Dad! is back on TBS
Ike Barinholtz on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Tiffany Haddish on The Tonight Show
Jonathan Van Ness on The Late Show
Nick Thune and Jackie Kashian on The Late Late Show w/James Corden

Tuesday
Aziz Ansari: Nightclub Comedian premieres on Netflix
Charlie Day on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Nicole Byer on The Tonight Show
Thomas Middleditch on The Late Show

Wednesday
Resident Alien returns to SyFy

Thursday
Johnny Knoxville on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Kevin James and Ilana Glazer on The Tonight Show
Kenan Thompson on Late Night w/Seth Meyers
David Cross on The Late Late Show w/James Corden

Friday
The Afterparty debuts on Apple TV+