Mojo Brookzz: I Know You Lying Review

Dyon Brooks once told a joke to four people. That was his first stand-up show, by his own account on Shannon Sharpe's Club Shay Shay. Years later, the comic who performs as Mojo Brookzz released his first Netflix special, Mojo Brookzz: I Know You Lying, on October 6, 2026. Roughly one day after it dropped, it was sitting at No. 1 on Netflix's U.S. Top 10 TV chart.

Those two numbers, four seats and first place, frame this whole review. The gap between them took about 12 years to close. So the real question is simple. Does the hour feel like the work of someone who earned that spot, or just someone with a lot of followers?

A name you might know from your feed

Brookzz is from Chicago, and he did not come up through the usual club path. He began with short comedy sketches posted on social media, and those clips slowly built a fan base that was later willing to pay for tour tickets, which in turn opened the doors that led him to TV work.

The start of that story is a sad one. TheGrio reports that his sister urged him to try comedy two days before she died of cancer in 2013. Around six months after her death, he posted his first sketches. It is hard to read that and not root for him a little.

Then the wins piled up. He spent a short stretch in the cast of Nick Cannon's Wild 'N Out. He joined Mike Epps on the "We Them Ones" comedy tour, which played arenas, and he later sold out his own set at the Netflix Is a Joke Fest in front of a crowd that clearly already knew who he was. Variety picked him as one of its Comics to Watch in 2025.

Then there is the tour that came right before this special. It carried an uncensored version of the same title, and his agency, WME, says it sold more than 100,000 tickets across 40 cities. No wonder Netflix called.

Wait, isn't he the guy from Miss Governor?

Yep. In Tyler Perry's Netflix series Miss Governor, Brookzz plays Basil Henderson. Basil drives for Mississippi's lieutenant governor and never keeps his opinions to himself. Critics were not kind to the series as a whole. Still, Men's Journal wrote that his part "stood out."

If that role is your only reference point, expect a shock. A Tyler Perry drama has a script and a story to serve. On a stage with a mic, Brookzz answers to nobody, and the material goes wherever he wants it to go.

The setup

The special was taped at the Center Stage Theater in Atlanta, with Mike Lavin directing. The title itself is a phrase you have probably heard at a family cookout, aimed at the relative whose story keeps changing every time he tells it. That sense of loud, playful disbelief runs through his comedy.

Netflix's own description gives fair notice. It mentions "freaky partners" and "wild BBL culture," and those words tell you who the hour is meant for. Grown folks only. Seriously.

What he talks about

Netflix's rundown, as passed along by The Humor Mill, lists the main stops. There is a party crowded with celebrities. There is a man who has never heard of a certain modern bedroom trend. There is the old argument over flat butts versus BBLs. And there is a sex shop visit with his niece, where they shop for a gift to mark her coming out.

One bit involves an offer he got from Bobby Brown. That is about all the description gives away, and honestly, it is enough to make most people curious.

Not all of it is chaos. He also covers looking after a loved one who has dementia. Another segment asks which half of a couple ought to be the one going in for a health check. These are the kinds of subjects families tend to keep quiet. Brookzz drags them into the open and finds the laugh without making the pain disappear. I think that mix is what gives the special a bit more depth than the jokes about bodies might suggest.

How he works a room

Brookzz does not do quick one-liners. Instead he tells long, winding stories that start slow and keep gaining speed until the whole room is hanging on the next line, and he tells every one of them loud. His delivery is blunt and big, so even a small moment can feel like a major event.

He also loves crowd work. Men's Journal noted his habit of singling out people in the seats and building jokes around them on the fly. That skill is tricky to bottle in a filmed special, because so much of it depends on being there. Even so, it keeps the show loose. You never fully know where the next five minutes are headed.

The Humor Mill called the special "raucous as hell." Based on everything in the description, that line fits.

Is a sketch comic ready for a full hour?

This is the part I wondered about most. A short online sketch is a tidy thing. You can film it over and over, keep your best take, and cut it down to one sharp punchline. A stand-up hour gives you none of that. There is one take, a live crowd, and sixty minutes to fill with only your timing.

Many online stars stall there. Not him. Brookzz seems to have climbed it slowly. Talking to Shannon Sharpe, he said that in those early shows he was "trying to tell these stories." Turning that effort into a theater-sized set took years on the road. The big tour, the festival set and the arena dates with Mike Epps were his training ground.

You can feel that history in how the special is built. It does not play like a collection of viral moments stitched together. It plays like a set of long tales from someone who learned, show after show, which beats land and which ones die.

The chart result adds weight to that read. A debut special from a comic without a big movie career almost never lands in first place on Netflix. Fans who found him through his phone clearly followed him over to the longer format in large numbers.

His reaction

Brookzz marked the moment on Instagram with a photo of his TV screen showing the ranking. "Thank you for showing up for me yall!" he wrote. "I'm proud of what I created & I'm happy that yall loving it!"

Sweet. Unpolished. It matches the man on stage. No press release tone, just a guy happy that people came.

Good fit, bad fit

Fans of Mike Epps, Katt Williams or Earthquake should feel at home here. Brookzz belongs to that school of high-energy Black storytellers, but his timing has clearly been shaped by years of making short videos.

People who already follow his sketches will know the voice in seconds. The difference is room to breathe. A story that would get cut off at one minute online gets to unfold fully here.

On the other hand, keep this far away from family movie night. The language is rough, and the jokes about sex, bodies and dating hold almost nothing back. If you want something clean to share with your parents or your kids, look elsewhere.

Viewers who prefer tightly packed punchlines may also get restless. Brookzz likes to take the long road to a laugh. If that pace bugs you, sixty minutes can drag.

My verdict

For anyone who enjoys rowdy, story-heavy stand-up made strictly for adults, I Know You Lying is an easy recommendation. It introduces a comic who is plainly on the rise, and the speed of its jump to No. 1 says a lot of viewers already feel the same way.

I'd say the backstory is the thing that sticks. A sister who pushed him toward comedy, a debut in front of four strangers, and more than a decade of grinding online before this moment. That history makes even the wildest BBL bit land with a little more meaning.

Save it for after bedtime. And if somebody swears they have already watched it three times, the title gives you the perfect reply.