The Honeymoon Stand Up Special

Who gets the hour when two comics marry?

Netflix answered by splitting it. Natasha Leggero, then Moshe Kasher, then a third half-hour they called the couples roast. The Honeymoon Stand Up Special landed April 17, 2018 as three episodes, each about 30 minutes, taped at The North Door in Austin , . They had married in their Los Angeles backyard on October 11, 2015. The 2016 Honeymoon Tour was the actual honeymoon, "attractive destinations only," plus a Comedy Central web series that already treated them as relationship experts with no credentials , . Paste listed Honolulu, Sasquatch, Palm Springs, and an Austin closer at The North Door, the same room Netflix later used . They had already shared that city, sort of. In 2016 she hosted SXSW Comedy with Natasha Leggero for Showtime and he closed the bill. Decider noted they came back a year later as husband and wife . By the time cameras rolled in November 2017, Leggero was seven months pregnant. She told Uproxx she was glad the baby got so much applause in the womb. latestnetflix.com's view is that their daughter arrived February 24, 2018, two months before the special dropped , .

The roast was the point, and they were not counselors.

Kasher told The Hollywood Reporter they had been married 18 months, "neither of us are qualified counselors in any way but are qualified to humiliate people." He called episode three the crown jewel . Decider framed the custody fight over the hour, then watched them pull couples onstage. The A.V. Club clocked the backstage bit about who goes first. She pretends to relent, then swans out when the more famous one is announced. Leggero wore a fur coat with the pregnant belly out and played the self-absorbed diva for irony. The same review judged the marriage advice thinner than the concept , . Rotten Tomatoes files the three titles as Natasha, Moshe, and The Couples Roast, all dated April 17 .

The origin story is dirtier than the tour press. Leggero said the honeymoon-destination idea came from an episode of her Comedy Central series Another Period. Kasher warned that his half-hour leans on a story about his deaf feminist mom taking him to a sex shop . Jewish Journal caught them after the baby. Leggero said she was not doing another special while pregnant, and wanted the kid to be 4 or 5 so she could open . Jaime Eliezer Karas directed. Netflix Media Center sold it as a three-part original with a pregnant headliner . The trailer line is the whole pitch. First comes love, then babies, then you roast strangers .