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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Her last standup was not funny. I’m sad for them. [/quote]

Are you kidding? Its hilarious.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoSGBSV1sOU[/youtube][/quote]

Watching this as a childfree person, I wonder why Ali would have kids and then complain about them? Like it's expected your life is going to change. I get the impression that she wanted kids more than the husband because she said in her previous special she didn't want to be lonely in her old age. [/quote]

I'm a mom (very happily) and I have found a lot of her standup really cathartic because no matter how much you love your kids, sometimes you are exhausted and annoyed and it feels so good to hear a working mom who clearly loves her kids express it so bluntly and crassly. It's a relief. I'd rather she say it than me, but there is not a mom on the planet who hasn't had a least a moment of wishing her kids would just go away. You feel guilty but there it is.

But her last special felt different to me because it wasn't just talking about how hard it is at times. It really felt like her jokes were about a simmering dissatisfaction with her married life with kids. And more than that, she's talking about jealousy and longing for a different life where she has her success and fame but doesn't have kids and a husband. That's different than her previous jokes. It's more specific to her. The older I get, the more grateful I am for my husband and children. But I'm not a famous person making millions off stand up. She must work with lots of other comedians and actors who just have a ton more freedom than she does and it's got to be such a mismatch at times. Like "yeah, I'd love to stay out until 6am drinking and joking with you guys, but I have get up at 5:30 with my toddler." I can see how that's hard but also can't really relate at all because my life isn't like that.

It happens a lot with famous comedians, they outgrow their audience and then what? They all get less insightfully funny as they get more successful because while they still have things to joke about, the are often just a lot less relatable than the material that made them famous in the first place. Audiences really love that moment of recognition in comedy, like "yes, that is me oh my god you nailed it." It's hard for millionaires to do that for a particularly broad group of people.[/quote]

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