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ACCLAIMED COMEDIAN STAVROS HALKIAS RETURNS TO NETFLIX FOR HIS NEXT STAND-UP SPECIAL, "UNCLE STAV"
THE SPECIAL WILL LAUNCH LATER THIS YEAR
· Comedian Stavros Halkias is returning to Netflix. His second Netflix stand-up special, Uncle Stav, will premiere later this year. The special is set to tape in Baltimore at The Lyric on April 24th and 25th. The comedian's first Netflix special, Fat Rascal, premiered in 2023.
· Executive Producers: Stavros Halkias and Ben O'Brien EP for Stavvy Baby Entertainment
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BIO
Stavros Halkias is a comedian, actor, and writer from Baltimore, Maryland, now based in New
York City. He most recently wrote, produced, and starred in the indie comedy Let's Start a Cult.
His latest stand-up special, Fat Rascal, is streaming on Netflix, following his debut special Live at the Lodge Room, which hit one million views in its first four days and has since surpassed seven million.
One of the most in-demand touring comedians today, Halkias is currently on The Dreamboat
Tour. His podcast Stavvy's World debuted at #3 on the iTunes Comedy Charts, amassing
hundreds of thousands of subscribers in its first year. He recently appeared in Bugonia, the Oscar-nominated film by Yorgos Lanthimos, and will soon be seen in The Comeback King, a Judd Apatow-directed comedy starring Glen Powell, as well as A24's Tony, a film about Anthony Bourdain.He also stars in the Netflix comedy series Tires, bringing his quick wit and
offbeat charm to television audiences.
A founding member and former co-host of the hit podcast Cum Town (2016-2022), Halkias has also been featured in Steven Soderbergh's sci-fi series Command Z. Outside of comedy, he made his runway debut at KidSuper's Paris Fashion Week show in 2023, earning Vogue's nod as "the plus-est of plus-size models." His ultimate dream? Get just famous enough to buy his mother a nice home - then retire from show business to open a surf-and-turf restaurant in East Baltimore.
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