Jamie Foxx Comedy special about medical scare sets December drop

Jamie Foxx is ready to laugh a medical fear. On Friday, Netflix announced that the actor will release an hour comedy special title What had happened was… on December 10.

“I said, ‘If I can stay funny, I can stay alive,’” Foxx says in a short teaser for the special. “I’m back.”

The premiere date arrives just weeks after he headlined three nights in Atlanta, where the stand-up special was filmed, and shared that he said he felt:filled with nothing but pure joy‘ after telling his ‘side of the story’ as he returned to the stand-up stage for the first time in 18 years.

“I needed the stage and an audience made up of nothing but pure love and that was you,” he said at the time. “When people ask me if this is a stand-up comedy show, I say no, it’s an artistic statement. From something that went terribly wrong, but thanks to the great people in Atlanta, especially Piedmont Hospital, you allowed me to come back and be on stage and do what I love most.

Foxx was hospitalized last April with an undisclosed medical condition while filming Netflix action comedy Back in action with Cameron Diaz (the film will premiere in January 2025). Although he didn’t share any details, the Oscar winner was captured on camera as he told a group of the people he remembered having a headache, asking a friend for an Advil, and then being “away for 20 days.” I don’t remember anything.”

The special is directed by Hamish Hamilton and executive produced by Foxx, Datari Turner, Marcus King, James Longman, Raj Kapoor, Hamilton and Katy Mullan.