The 90’s are coming back. Sort of. It’s been announced that Arsenio Hall is bringing back his iconic late-night series for a limited time.
The Arsenio Hall Show – which first ran from 1989 until 1994 before being revived in 2013 – will tape a series of episodes from the Netflix is a Joke Festival in Los Angeles next week. Hall will host the show from the Roosevelt Theater. The show will also be broadcast onto the Netflix YouTube channel.
The show runs May 2nd through the 5th. Tickets can be purchased here.
The show was a breakout success when it launched, taking younger viewers away from The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and introducing the audience’s canine-themed cheering in place of applause.
Hall also returned to late-night last year as one of the guest hosts of Jimmy Kimmel Live! when Kimmel was away for his traditional summer break.
“The bark is coming back,” Hall said in a video you can watch below. All my dogs out there can watch it from the comfort of your own pound. So get ready for live comedy, surprise guests and of course [barking]. I still got it.”
Netflix is a Joke Fest is an 11-day stand-up comedy festival backed by streaming giant Netflix, and will feature 130 comics with some of the biggest names in the industry in its inaugural lineup including Dave Chappelle, Seth Rogen, Chelsea Handler, Aziz Ansari, Bill Burr and Conan O’Brien. The L.A.-based event will take place across 25 venues.
The comedy festival was originally scheduled for last spring but was postponed due to the pandemic.
