Mae Martin shooting debut Netflix special
Mae Martin is returning to Netflix with their first full-length stand-up special.
The sometime London-based Canadian comedian, creator and star of Feel Good and freshly announced Taskmaster contestant, will record an hour-long version of their show Sap at the Vogue Theatre in Vancouver on Thursday, for release next year.
With the promise of "sticky, romantic sappiness and literal tree sap plucked from a Buddhist parable about finding the good in impossibly bad circumstances", the special will be directed by Broad City's Abbi Jacobson, US entertainment website The Hollywood Reporter reports.
Martin previously performed a 30-minute set as part of Netflix's 2019 compilation special, Comedians Of The World, and participated in Netflix's Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration special, said to be the largest-ever gathering of LGBTQ+ comics, recorded at Netflix Is A Joke: The Festival in Los Angeles earlier this year.
The semi-autobiographical sitcom Feel Good, co-starring Charlotte Ritchie, was originally commissioned by Channel 4 and then shown on Netflix, who subsequently picked up the second and final series after the British public broadcaster dropped the show.
Martin and their co-writer Joe Hampson are also currently developing Programmed, a comedy drama for Netflix, with Feel Good's production company Objective.
Last night the comic was unveiled as one of the contestants in the forthcoming fifteenth series of Taskmaster, set to appear alongside Frankie Boyle, Jenny Eclair, Ivo Graham and Kiell Smith-Bynoe.