What to Watch After ‘Kevin Hart: Live Comedy from the Laff House’

With the help of tour-de-force entertainer Kevin Hart, fast-rising comics get a leg up on the competition by making a critical career leap. "The Next Level" spotlights the funny men and women as they prepare for their first televised half-hour stand-up special. Each episode features a single performer, opening on an interview with Hart before leading into a special from the featured comic.

An ex-con is shocked to see just how much the world has changed when he is released from prison for good behavior after a 15-year stint and returns to his newly gentrified Brooklyn neighborhood.

French comedy phenom Fary puts a playful spin on questions of identity, culture and more in the first half of an epic two-part stand-up special.

The Boys is a fun and irreverent take on what happens when superheroes - who are as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians, and as revered as gods - abuse their superpowers rather than use them for good. Intent on stopping the corrupt superheroes, The Boys, a group of vigilantes, continue their heroic quest to expose the truth about The Seven and Vought. This multibillion-dollar conglomerate manages the superheroes and covers up their dirty secrets. It's seemingly powerless against the super-powerful.

A successful comic tries to put his life back on track after his marriage falls apart.

Hosted by The Good Place‘s Jameela Jamil, The Misery Index features teams competing against each other by attempting to rate hilarious and miserable real-life events on the “misery index,” a therapist-created ranking system.

A documentary which follows the cast and crew of HBO's Insecure throughout the filming of the final season, tracing the show's cultural impact.

A young gay man with cerebral palsy branches out from his insular existence, hoping to go after the life he wants finally. Special is "a distinctive and uplifting new series about a gay man, Ryan, with mild cerebral palsy who decides to rewrite his identity and finally go after the life he wants."

Special is a distinctive and uplifting new series about a gay man, Ryan, with mild cerebral palsy, who decides to rewrite his identity and finally go after the life he wants. The offbeat comedy is based on series creator and star Ryan O’Connell’s memoir, “I’m Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves.” after years of dead-end internships, working in his pajamas as a blogger, and communicating primarily via text, Ryan eventually figured out how to take his life from bleak to chic and began limping toward adulthood. O'Connell also serves as executive producer alongside Jim Parsons.

Standing on the precipice of adulthood, a group of friends navigate new relationships, while reexamining others, during their final summer before college.

Jordan Klepper is not behind a desk in New York City. He’s sinking in a boat with environmental protesters in a Louisiana bayou. He’s packing moving boxes with one of the nation’s first Native American Congresswomen in New Mexico and he’s posting bail at the Fulton County Jail. He’s even getting body-slammed by a vet dealing with PTSD in Texas. In Comedy Central’s new docuseries, Klepper leaves the comfort of the studio and embeds on the front lines of America’s push for change.

Set in the fictional town of Lemoncurd, one of those posh Connecticut suburbs where it still looks like the '50s and every stately home sits atop acres of manicured, meticulously hydrated lawn. Following a trio of housewives who are all named Debra and wear stark white. It's the kind of show where a pool boy vacantly tends to a driveway with a pool net, where the neighborhood's mailman is an iguana, and where the police station looks like the waiting room for the kind of doctor who refuses to accept insurance.