If the news is too stressful, and you’re looking for some jokes to distract you as the weather gets colder, here are some very funny and varied stand-up specials that have come out this fall and are online right now.

NETFLIX

Jenny Slate, ‘Stage Fright’

It’s currently in vogue to fuse stand-up special and documentary, alternating the comics telling jokes onstage with footage from their lives, including interviews with family members. Only a few weeks after Gary Gulman invited audiences into his childhood home, Jenny Slate does the same in this special, which arrived on Tuesday: She tells jokes before showing interviews with her parents, grandmother and two sisters. (Craig Ferguson adds to the subgenre next month with “Hobo Fabulous.”) These personal scenes echo the humor in unpredictable, even oblique ways. After showing us old notes she wrote about a high school crush named Trevor, that name pops up in a later bit. Slate makes jokes about how her childhood home in Massachusetts was haunted, and there is a clever way that the scenes with her family provide clues to her subconscious. She calls herself an optimist early on, but her peppy charisma has hints of melancholy, an undercurrent that emerges more explicitly when she talks about divorce and dating. At its best, the documentary footage feels revelatory. At its worst, it seems like filler. The special is not dense with jokes, but her fans will be charmed.