The dog days of summer have brought record highs from the swamps of Florida to the peaks of Denver. So why not combat the swelter of reality with some air-conditioned couch time and laughter?

Veteran podcaster and actor Marc Maron returns to HBO with Panicked, hewing closer to the rhythms of straight-up standup than he has in a while but still exploring the depths of his amygdala. Hulu continues its monthly Hularious roll-outs with a special from Atsuko Okatsuka directed by her husband, Ryan Harper Gray, who makes a cameo at the end (and also features in a bit about his vasectomy). On his second Netflix special, Wet Heat, Dusty Slay defends the Southern humidity he grew up in from desert dwellers who tend to crow about the superiority of dry air: “I like to sweat in places I didn’t even k

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