I’ll begin by stating the obvious, so no one else has to.
While I’ve been standup for over 30 years and have done none of those things.
She can sell out a huge theater.
And I’m hoping to sell out a brewery in my ancestral homeland of Weymouth in 10 days.
(Tickets are available!)
So by all objective standards, she’s better at standup comedy than me.
That is duly noted.
And I defy anyone to explain to me how this looks like a good time.
For anyone besides Ellen Degeneres:
I mean, this trailer started out with some promise.
Acknowledging that you “got kicked out of show business” is a great open.
There would’ve been comedy gold in them hills.
And a ton of authenticity, which funnier than fakery every time it’s tried.
I guess it could be.
But is it funny?
Which is pretty much the whole point of doing a Netflix comedy special?
Regardless, who is this for exactly, if not Ellen?
They never got a standing ovation that lasted over a minute.
And it wasn’t even a punchline.
It was just her working out her issues.
And Degeneres got paid for hers.
I just don’t see where she’s going to get it.
