Aly Wong’s latest stand-up

[Anonymous]

Curious on your thoughts.

If it was an attempt to de-stigmatize divorce, it felt highly disconnected from reality. Her version of divorce with young children (a financial situation that allows for childcare and flying to different cities for bootie calls) is not the every day experience.

If it was an attempt to de-stigmatize the female sex drive at 40, then ok cool but I’m not sure I needed that many butt** jokes…

[Anonymous]

I have loved her prior specials and don't have a problem with her vulgarity level usually but this one didn't hit right for me. I have no issue with her divorce nor do I have a problem with her talking about having sex with a bunch of guys post divorce but the way she did it just wasn't that funny mostly? The vulgarity felt more for shock value in a way that seemed cheap. And the pivot at the end was especially not funny (actually sad) and didn't work for me.

There are some funny moments but it's nowhere near as good as previous specials IMO.

[Anonymous]

I liked it. She’s rich and funny and pretty and although my life is not at all like hers, I also found that I had a lot more men interested in me than I expected when I divorced in my 40s with kids. It was nice to see a celebrity mirror that (on steroids of course).

Women get divorced. It’s helpful to have a pop culture reference point to remind people we are not all sad and pathetic failures.

[Anonymous]

She always comes off as arrogant and not very funny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She always comes off as arrogant and not very funny.

She's also loud and stupid.

[Anonymous]

I thought it was funny, but not re-watchable. I can watch her first two anytime. Those are hysterical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought it was funny, but not re-watchable. I can watch her first two anytime. Those are hysterical.

Me again. I guess I’ll also add that I don’t care much about what statement a comedian is going for. I watch comedy to laugh. If I laughed, it was a good time.

[Anonymous]

I binged all her specials, and she’s always been pretty vulgar, her latest was no different.

As a now divorced woman, I found her latest one especially cathartic. She’s hilarious.

[Anonymous]

I found her first special hilarious but thought her second one was a lot less funny. I’m getting sick of all the explicit sex jokes from female comics. They just seem so lazy. Like, we get it—-you can say and describe sex acts in great detail. At some point the shock value wears off and those jokes just seem very repetitive. Is the show almost all sex jokes or is there more to it?

[Anonymous]

What a role model for her daughters.

[Anonymous]

She's either getting less funny or I'm getting old and more cynical. It's probably both.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I found her first special hilarious but thought her second one was a lot less funny. I’m getting sick of all the explicit sex jokes from female comics. They just seem so lazy. Like, we get it—-you can say and describe sex acts in great detail. At some point the shock value wears off and those jokes just seem very repetitive. Is the show almost all sex jokes or is there more to it?

Agree with this. In her first special the sex jokes were a part of her routine, and they moved the narrative forward. This time it just felt like constant "shocking" sex jokes with little other narrative.

I love stand up comedy and have always watched a lot of it. There are some comics who have really raised the bar in recent years. I'm thinking especially of Hannah Gadsby and Mike Birbiglia. Their shows are so well crafted from beginning to end.

[Anonymous]

That's Ali's sense of humor. Crass sex jokes and using putdowns on stage. I agree that if she wanted to move her act forward, she'd evolve the jokes. But she has other creative outlets so the stand up will probably stay the way she likes it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She's either getting less funny or I'm getting old and more cynical. It's probably both.

Yea I feel the same. I liked her two earlier specials, I just found the most recent to be less funny and seemingly more desperate to shock and more one note.

[Anonymous]

I just watched it. It did not bother me. When she described not caring about whether the men she was sexually attracted to were smart, and putting them up in apartments …I was rather sad that powerful/rich women behave just like powerful rich men.

But, to cut her some slack…maybe divorced people have to play up their freedom to try new sexual partners because it is one if the few things they have “gained” in their change of status. I am sure that they are well aware of all they have also lost.