Sasheer Zamata, Todd Barry and other stand-up specials to stream for a fun weekend

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These comic books explore intriguing characters, midlife situations, unconventional narratives, and humorous anecdotes about dating to ensure a continuous stream of laughter.

Todd Barry, 'Domestic Shorthair'
Todd Barry speaks fluent sarcasm. After decades of refinement, honing his low-key deadpan into something flexible and distinctive, he can turn a sentence inside-out with the mildest shift in intonation, instantly divorcing what he says from what he means. The pivots in his jokes are subtle but crisp.

Ever since David Letterman retired from late night, sarcasm has no better champion. Barry starts waving its flag as soon as the applause settles down on his very funny new special. «That is the type of forced fraudulent crowd response that will propel this whole show,» he says, enough of a hint of a smile to soften the blow.

Barry is a taut joke teller more than a yarn-spinner.

But his punchlines emerge from anecdotes filled with details about curious characters he's met, tales that have the quirkiness and surprise of what you find in a sensitively observed short story. There's the Uber driver who apologizes for not talking during the ride, the waiter who warns against the Italian dressing in a whisper and the cabinet salesman who says he loves his job because it allows him to eat with his customers. He filters the slightest interactions with them through his arch responses, mocking but not mean.

His real adversaries are not people but hyperbole, nonsense or any pointless excess of emotion. And some of his most unexpected laughs are in his own mixing up of mountains and molehills. «My printer broke recently,» he said, gently shifting gears to a parody of concern.