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Yearly Departed is a series of eulogies for the year 2020, where a lineup of all-women comedians will deliver everything from casual sex to beige Band-Aids and everything in between that we’ve “lost” in 2020. After a year of societal upheaval, plague, murder hornets and banana bread,
Yearly Departed will give 2020 the huge send-off it deserves, from some of the world’s funniest women.
Yearly Departed is an Amazon Original Comedy Special that is produced by an extraordinary group of women including Bess Kalb (Writer, EP), Rachel Brosnahan (EP), Paige Simpson (EP), Samantha Ressler (EP), Nathalie Love (EP), and as well as Done + Dusted’s Katy Mullan and David Jammy, both EPs. The special is directed by Linda Mendoza (
Yearly Departed
is described as a series of eulogies for the year that was 2020. According to the studio, the series “will deliver everything from casual sex to beige Band-Aids and everything in between that we’ve “lost” in 2020.”
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The trailer offers a one-minute glimpse into what is to come from the hour-long comedy special. Each woman steps to the podium, in traditional funeral fashion, and says an official goodbye to an element that added to the chaos of 2020 in comedic style.
“To hell with it, to hell with all of it,” exclaimed Brosnahan in the clip.
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2020 is the year that just keeps on giving shit we wish we could send back. To help us make it through the end of this hell-year, both Amazon and Netflix are offering comedy specials to roast 2020 into oblivion. For Netflix,
Black Mirror’s Charlie Brooker has assembled an ensemble of stars for mockumentary-style special
Death To 2020, while Amazon and Bess Kalb have gathered some of the funniest women in comedy to open the library and read this year for fucking filth in
Yearly Departed. Amazon has released the trailer for the upcoming special, which is hosted by Phoebe Robinson and premieres on December 30: