Andrew Santino: Cheeseburger

Like I once wrote before it's impossible to please everybody with humour as we all have a different sense of humour but rating this stand-up comedy with the lowest score possible is just ridiculous. It was my first show from Andrew Santino and it turned out to be promising. I will gladly look out for more of his shows. He's not afraid of bashing Biden and Trump, or any other politician, as they are all puppets and incompetent. Cheeseburger has some good jokes, but they're not constant enough to make it exceptionally good. Andrew Santino is a born raconteur, it's obvious he likes to entertain people, but some parts of his show are sometimes a bit long before the jokes come. That's the only negative thing I found about this particular show. I definitely like his sense of humour, maybe a bit borderline to some but not to me as I like it raw and over the top. You have to be allowed of laughing at anything, that's what humour is about, no matter if you offend others or not. You just can't please everyone and that's fine.

The man looks like a cross between Bill Burr and Robin Williams. And it was not a waste of time to watch this special. I particularly enjoyed the "ocean big, straw float, turtle swim" bit.

That said: I don't think this is a fine example to stand up at all. Not because he doesn't have a sense of humor, but because he is extremely scared of speaking his mind.

Though at times (when targeting Biden) he acted like he wouldn't mind backlash from the woke, he most definitely does. That is exactly why he didn't and couldn't target Obama or Kamala.

Totally in line with the CRT narrative, he equated Trump with Biden on the basis of "whiteness" and literally presented these people's race as "the root problem" with them.

I wouldn't mind much had I gotten the impression that Andrew Santiago himself DID actually buy the ideas behind rampant woke extremism. But when you read between the lines, you just KNOW his mind is not in peace with that narrative. He even mentions Dave Chappelle, which is tactically a huge mistake. Because he can't dare say "Hell yeah, Dave is great and spot on!" All he does with dropping Chappelle's name is some lame attempt at mitigation. Had he not blatantly shown the contrast between Dave and himself, he could hide better the fact that he doesn't have the guts to speak his mind. But he just walked right into it.

In what world can the "only mistake" by Kamala Harris be "not getting rid of Biden"? What is it about Kamala that Andrew thinks is different than Biden?

"She's Black!"

Really?

Look, Andrew: If you are smart enough to question the narrative with straws, you gotta be smart enough not to be duped by "anti-racist racism". You shied away from saying aything bad about Obama not because you thought he was the ideal president (maybe he was, that's not the issue) but because you pandered to what in your mind was your audience.

In an age where people criticize even Bill Burr for not being sincere enough, holding yourself back and trying to walk a straight line will not help you develop.

Big fan of him and Bobby; however, This special continues the trend of comedians specials being far worse than their ability to be funny on podcasts. That being said. Of those in the rogan sphere, Santino is a lot closer to someone like Segura in terms of on stage ability and joke writing, whereas theo, Delia, and distefano are closer to schaub. Tbh the only truly good or great specials I've seen in recent years (past 5ish? Are louis C. K., Segura, gillis, Normand, Chapelle, and norm. Granted I will still check in to bad friends and whiskey ginger but I no longer entertain the idea of seeing Santino live.

Massive Santino fan here. Watching this just doesn't make me laugh the way his pods do. Of course stand up is a whole different ballgame than podcasting. Maybe there is a widening between funny podcasters vs funny stand up comics going on. Santino's a funny guy but I realized watching this he's just better off script than on script. That's not a bad thing. It's just a new trend in comedy. Still have huge respect for him. Lots of great jokes here (don't let the offended Trump fans on the thread fool you). It may be a bit watered down for Netflix, but I think I'll be sticking to the podcasts moving forward.

I have been watching Andrew santino on podcasts for 3 years now, bad friends and his podcast whiskey ginger. If you like him on the podcast you will love this special. He is thought provoking, realistic and the vulgar santino we have all come to love. I feel like stand up comedy is an extension into peoples lives behind the camera and how wr all can relate to particular situstions or thoughts we have thst the comedian vocalizes, he nails that dycotomy. He never lets a joke run dry and hits his delivery on every punch line. I highly recommend the special and his podcadts, hes a creative genius and seems like a dude you could defintely drink whiskey and play some pool with.