![]() ![]() Beginning with a dog having to be on a stage, wearing a wedding dress in front of a bunch of rabid, screaming sycophants - the same way Oprah's studio audience scream like irrational maniacs was bad enough but the flames and the noise. It's going to be all flash and no content. But all that aside the show is very funny and mainly pokes fun at stupid wedding traditions - many that we don't have in the UK but are on Youtube often enough to be relevant. Sadly, in a climate where just wandering on stage and declaring that men suck because they earn more than women qualifies as a joke now - Iliza's decision to not be overly anti-man has defecto made her a pro-man comedian in my eyes - a badge that I am sure she doesn't particularly want. ![]() But Iliza is very even with her jokes and put-downs and is not afraid to point out some of the crazy things women do or expect. The material does have a political edge to it and does lean on gender politics. OK sometimes she does stagger around the stage making goat noises but even that eventually got endearing. Iliza has a very snappy, sharp wit that she backs up with an amazing capacity for vocal skills and a great physicality managing to contort her body in strange ways and pop poses to increase her satire. I found that with topics at hand, I was expecting some more layered, introspective, and self-aware jokes.īeing a Brit I often cannot get my head around a lot of the US comedians, sometimes because of references but mostly I can't seem to spot the jokes. It's just a bit one-note and not particularly compelling or nuanced. No lasting harm to womanhood is done, no protests will occur and no grudges will be held. Maybe a touch holier-than-thou? Don't get me wrong, it's a comedy special not a speech to the United Nations. It felt a little bit like an hour of her desperately trying to prove what a cool girl she is putting other girls down. Most of her jokes seem to observe other women as the ones behaving absurdly with the implied premise that Iliza herself is an exception to this behavior. Finally it hit me why I didn't love it: laughing at ourselves is often the best medicine but in this special the jokes are structured in a way where it seems like Iliza is mostly laughing at "others". While I definitely chuckled at some things, I found myself kind of apathetic through most of it. It's important that we all be able to laugh at ourselves and this special certainly spends a lot of time pointing out all of the absurd things women tend to do, especially all of the over-the-top wedding related situations we put ourselves and our loved ones through. Don't get me wrong it's decent but not her best. ![]()
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