McFarlane never doubts the worth of her fellow female comedians. Instead she devotes herself to finding the source of the bias and examines the effect of institutional sexism in the entertainment industry.
What Braunger truly excels at is creating short, self-contained vignettes that are rich in visual detail and filled with “Wait, what?” moments.
Daniels has both a moral compass and mischievous spirit. He knows right from wrong, but he wants to see what he can get away with. Which is quite a bit, actually.
He gets away with talking about abortion, religion and all the other classic dinner-time discussion points by personalizing the experience and filtering his humor through a fleshed-out, truly unique point of view.
Their extra-musical success and Wikipedian love of rock clichés gives The D a perspective and luxury the Mötley Crües and Styxs of the world don’t have when making their actual please-just-love-us-again turns.
The best parts of Meant are dispatches from a 33-year-old born layabout, reporting back from the weirdest parts of the Midwest.
Becker confronts the conundrum every comedian repping for an underrepresented group eventually faces: how best to split the difference between honoring your community and finding a way to just be yourself.
There’s a sense that many of his viewpoints are hard-won victories earned from relentless introspection, and something he probably still has to justify to people in his life.
His underplaying of the morally offensive subjects he takes down keeps his material nimble while implying he’s too smart to waste much anger on a bunch of idiots he could simply skewer without raising his pulse.
As much as his awkward demeanor, nervous energy and overall feebleness make it hard for him to get by, one senses that Mulaney is happy he’s so hapless. It gives him more to work with.
Long before he carved out a name for himself, Hart had a distinctive style and cadence that combined live-wire energy with pensive apprehension. And he was humble. These two attributes have served him well.
(Paradisiac Publishing)
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