Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias had the top-performing comedy special on Netflix in the first half of 2025, per new data released by the streamer.
The news comes in sifting through the latest edition of Netflix’s biannual “What We Watched” report, unveiled on Thursday, which looked at streaming engagement on the platform from January through June.
Iglesias’ Gabriel Iglesias: Legend of Fluffy ranked 210th on the overall list of highest-viewed TV program during that window, with 7,800,000 views since its January 6th debut.
Second on the list is 2024’s top-grossing touring comedian Nate Bargatze, who was ranked 275th with 6.7 million views for Your Friend, Nate Bargatze. His ranking was naturally affected by the fact that the special dropped on December 24, 2024, so the first days of viewership on the special were folded into the report for the back half of 2024.
Third on the list of comics, and 281st overall, is Andrew Schulz with his pregancy-themed LIFE, which garnered 6.6 million views. Bert Kreischer’s Lucky followed in fourth with 4.5 million views, with Shane Gillis: Beautiful Dogs, Gillis’ old special from 2023, tailing that one in fifth place at 3.6 million views. (Technically, the Kill Tony special Kill or Be Killed from April is in fifth with 4 million, though as a show involving performances by numerous comedians, it’s not an exact comparison to the average stand-up special. Similar outliers near the top of the list included Justin Willman: Magic Lover, which is as much magic as it is comedy at 2.6 million views, and Conan O’Brien: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor with 2.4.)
Other top performers this time around included Katt Williams, whose Woke Foke from 2024 recorded another 2.1 million views, and Chelsea Handler with The Feeling, which recorded the same.
The bad news for comics in looking at this list, in comparison to those most recently put out, is that the overall performance of specials on Netflix seems to be coming down. Though, to be fair, the top-ranking comics of the last two reports were Jamie Foxx and Dave Chappelle, and Foxx’s fans had an extra reason to tune in, given that they’d be hearing him speak about a health scare for the first time. Foxx won the back half of 2024 with What Had Happened Was…, which garnered 11.6 million views, whereas Chappelle’s The Dreamer dominated the first half at 17.4 million.
