Aziz Ansari releases a new stand up special

[bttrsondaughter]

"For this special shot as a close, intimate, immediate, raw half-hour of comedy, though, Ansari never skirts anywhere close to vulnerability or risk." @kvanaren writes on Aziz Ansari’s new special, "Nightclub Comedian" https://t.co/nrSfoT9IGF
- New York Magazine (@NYMag) January 25, 2022
• If you're anything like me, you forgot that it hasn't been

Comments

[skeetertuskin]

This is going to seem like such a passive aggressive throwaway comment but I cannot stand het male stand up comedians. They’re so painfully unfunny. That’s all.

[vanouria]

mte

[jinxeh13]

I used to really love comedy. My partner and I went to a local open mic night every week, which was a mix of amateurs and seasoned regional comedians. We used to watch standup specials all the time.

Idk when it changed for me, but I'm just so bored with it all now. Whenever he asks me "hey, want to watch a new comedy special?" and it turns out to be a male comedian, I already know it's just going to be an hour of some (likely white) guy going on about how he hates his wife, cancel culture is awful and people need to stop being so sensitive, and how special ~he is despite everything. It's boring, it's unoriginal, I'm over it.

[slinkydinks]

[I have realized after some time, I have increasingly gravitated heavily toward female and queer stand-up comics and comedy writers.] Margaret Cho, Wanda Sykes, Maria Bamford, Michelle Wolf, Jaboukie, Abbi and Ilana, Josh Thomas, Rhys Nicholson, Hannah Gadsby, Micaela Coel, Tig Notaro, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Joel Kim Booster, Julio Torres, Bowen Yang. I think something about their comedy just requires more thought, cleverness, less laziness and that resonates with me more than even a straight male comedian being self-deprecating.

[skeetertuskin]

Same here. Straight male comedians rarely evolve past the college dorm humor.

For me it's also Marcia Belsky, Zainab Johnson, Kristen Schaal, early Kathy Griffin...so many good ones.

[slinkydinks]

Big fan of Kristen Schaal's VA work, have to check out Marcia & Zainab (obviously already know Kathy Griffin lol)

[skeetertuskin]

this never fails to crack me up. her timing is impeccable.

[slinkydinks]

Hahaha definitely gonna check out more of her stuff! Thanks for the rec

[lolzerz]

the only one i can stand rn is hasan minhaj. i really hope hes actually the decent person he portrays himself as.