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And Just Like That... (2021)
Horrific Dross
Blessed be Kim Cattrall for having spared herself the indignity of being associated with this asinine exercise in hyperventilating "woke-ness".
One cannot glean any redeemable human value in the cringeworthy dialogue, ridiculous storylines, caricature characters, all topped with a dollop of nauseating overacting that would embarrass a middle-school theatre production.
Avoid like the plaque.
Chris D'Elia: Man on Fire (2017)
From the Dane Cook school of "comedy"....
... comes an even less original, less entertaining, less funny "comedian." 65 minutes of Mr. D'Elia spinning his wheels in a hack'y, derivative-comedy ditch were a bit too much of a bad thing.
I was hoovering on a solid 4 star rating for much of the show, however that last bit about the 4 year old girl was just too painful to watch... even 2 stars are too generous for that kind of dross.
At 36 years old, Mr. D'Elia is well past the point where a talented comedian would have already developed a unique voice, a distinctive style... a personality! - an overuse of profanity and a fixation on sodomy do not a personality make.
Recommended to no one. Avoid.
Sasheer Zamata: Pizza Mind (2017)
Hectoring is not "comedy"
There is a certain promise of talent and quality, one rightly expect, when a comedian is associated with a long-standing comedy institution like "Saturday Night Live", sadly there was none here. You keep waiting for the comedy but it never arrives ... not a funny joke, not an endearing anecdote, not a smart turn-of-phrase, not an amusing tongue-in-cheek comment, not a humorous narrative, not a surprising call-back... nothing to induce even a chuckle, let alone a laugh; just a torturous mind-numbing hour-long hectoring session mis-categorized as "comedy".
It's not that comedy's deep seams of race and gender politics are all mined out, it's simply that Ms. Zamata misuses and overuses them as crutches for the absence of any comedic effort, indeed it would have been infinitely more worthwhile if Ms. Zamata spared her audience the agony of listening to her dry, tired and unfunny retreads and, instead, just read the comments section of any internet posting on race/gender. Yes, dear reader, it is that bad.
If this is Sasheer's best effort, one would hope she has a trusted-friend or a loved-one who will pull her aside and break it to her that standup comedy is not her calling. It is telling that the loudest cheer from the crowd was when she mentioned Jessica Williams (of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart/Trevor Noah)
people do know laudable talent when they see it.
Recommended only for perpetually-offended masochists.