she does what she does, and a lot of people like it. Her special "nanette" got raves, though possibly because critics were frightened of giving it a bad one
my only beef is I think her schtick is mislabelled as comedy, it's more of personal monologue on heavy subjects with a little bit of fairly average comedy mixed in. She's a good presenter and it can be compelling, but you often get the same "heaviness lightened with jokes" in TED talks.
since then a lot of content of her shorter stand-up been about her responding to the predictable backlash from rightwing/homophobic/NotAllMen types, but they're pretty easy targets especially when you have time to think about good comebacks in hindsight, and I don't how much longer she'll be able to sustain all this self-revelatory stuff, even with the MeToo zeitgeist not dissipated yet
-Mark Commode, The Observer
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 27 Oct 2021, 23:57,
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This is fair.
Weird that Netflix would put this bit out in an out-of-context clip, though.
You need the first half for the second half to work.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Thu 28 Oct 2021, 0:33,
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I'm convinced the netflix "star rating" is based on a random number algorithm weighted to 4 out of five but irrespective of the content
Likewise their "trending now" category, also completely random. Is "black books", an oft-repeated 15 year old british sitcom really trending now, netflix? Is that what you're claiming?
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 28 Oct 2021, 0:48,
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It might be bots watching
To come up with the future of comedy youtu.be/nH_bEtbfB9U
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Thu 28 Oct 2021, 10:02,
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I already have my opener for a hypothetical stand-up:
Hi there, I'm Cumquat, great to be joining you in {insert city} tonight.
You know, when I was 11 my parents divorced and I went to stay at my uncle's. Instead of taking care of me, he molested me. Nobody ever intervened, or called the police, or ever held him to account. It went on for years.
{brief pause}
So... who remembers Asteroids? you know? the video arcade game. For those too young, it was basically the identical game as Grand Theft Auto Five, but if everything in GTA; the gangsters, the roads and buildings, the realistic sunsets and radio stations and arent-we-clever satire, if all that was taken and made into a fucking rock and fired at you. Same game
{and so on..}
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 28 Oct 2021, 12:16,
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Not a bad opening. However if you could heavily imply that half the audience were in some way complicit purely because they have different biology to you it might work better.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 28 Oct 2021, 12:32,
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nah, that's her rookie comedy mistake, referencing it at all in the rest of the act
you can overdo the call-backs
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 28 Oct 2021, 12:53,
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