For most comics, a special represents an ending — the culmination of a creative chapter. Not so for Josh Johnson, at least with his first HBO special Symphony, which he says marks a new beginning — “a change and a new direction…and a new theme and era of work.”
A beautifully stitched together set of vignettes, offset by musical interludes, the special released in May is visually and comedically rich. It led into his Comedy Band Camp tour, billed as the summer camp experience Johnson never had, which kicked off in Canada in June and will take him through the end
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