[For this year’s April Fool’s series, I wanted to highlight one great routine each from a handful of the many wonderful stand-up comedians doing their thing these days—in case, y’know, you’re (like me) looking to move on from a problematic fave. Add your faves, present and past, in comments!]
On a representative
routine from five more great stand-ups:
1)
“Horse in a Hospital”: I
know John Mulaney’s been in the news a lot recently for less humorous reasons, but
to my mind this segment from 2019’s Kid
Gorgeous is not just the funniest bit about Trump I heard, but also perhaps
the smartest.
2)
“Prepping His Son for a
Racist Bully”: I’m not sure how much folks paid attention to John Leguizamo’s
Latin History for Morons (2018), but
it’s a truly unique combination of stand-up, performance art, and actual history
lesson. Highly recommended!
3)
“Homeless or Hipster?”: Ali
Wong is pretty edgy, at times more so than I tend to go for; but she’s also
damn funny, as this bit from Baby Cobra
(2016) illustrates quite perfectly.
4)
“Civil Rights Update”: Michael
Che might be best known as the co-host of Saturday
Night Live’s Weekend Update for a good while now, but he’s a super-talented
and topical stand-up comic too, and this bit is one of the best I’ve seen about
our current moment.
5)
“High-Functioning Autism”:
Hannah Gadsby’s been the most-covered stand-up comic of the last few years, and
at times (to contrast with what I said about Roy Wood Jr. on Tuesday) I find
her a bit preachy. But this segment, from her 2020 special Douglas, is not only quite funny but very thoughtful about autism
without being the slightest bit pedantic, and one more great example of contemporary
comedy.
March Recap this
weekend,
Ben
PS. What do you
think? Takes on these comics and/or other faves you’d share?
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