Ali Wong: Baby Cobra

The netflix trailer for her show is not funny.

You probably should watch any other preview of it. For some reason, they soft sell the amount of jokes there are on poo..anal sex..vaginal mucous etc. I wouldn't say her material is more shocking than funny but there's something about watching a nerdy Asian woman say all this stuff that is both dirty and hilarious.

Her comedy definitely goes against what you expect to come out of a pregnant woman's mouth. I thought her best stuff was the sexual and racial material so if you like that or her show "fresh off the boat" then you'll probably like it.

I'm a 35 year old women and I found the show hilarious. It left me wanting to just hang out with Ali, and maybe she would become my best friend. Her humor is extremely relatable, based on truths some of which I had chosen to forget, others keep quiet. Watching the show on my own, I found myself laughing out loud on my couch, and wondering how she would dare say some of the things coming out of the mouth, and if her husband and family were allowed to watch the show. I've also watched a few episodes of Fresh Off the Boat - a show for which she writes - and could recognize the frankness of her style despite covering completely different topics.

She is pretty, she is smart, she isn't shy, she doesn't play under safe humor and she made me laugh several times. I totally recommend this.

I've seen a lot of angry white male youtubers posting videos about how women aren't funny - it's such a stupid stigma to believe in (and I don't like that I'm drawing attention to it here), but I understand why it exists because historically there have been so many more acclaimed male comedians than there are female ones. Their arguments were so stupid, with no regard for how women have only been able to do a lot of jobs much more recently than men, and I hated to think that I couldn't clap back with a female comedian I really liked, until now. Ali Wong is exhibit A, I'm sure I'll fill up the rest of the alphabet with all the other comedians I've been sleeping on, but for now let me say that Baby Cobra is a great show. I really liked Wong's physical comedy, expressiveness and delivery, and it wasn't the same old topics, there was such a variety: feminism, Texas Instrument calculators, poop. Hard Knock Wife is next on my list (still pregnant!? It's all good, you should wait until you're ready). Go and watch this special so that Ali Wong can retire and become a house wife/genius... or actually don't...

You can say whatever you want from Ali Wong, that she is vulgar, that she's not afraid to laugh with other races, but the only fact that is relevant in a stand-up comedy is to be funny, and that is Ali Wong definitely. It's the second show I watch from her and they were both good, Baby Cobra is even better than Hard Knock Wife in my opinion. Ali Wong says it like it is, it's raw, a bit vulgar, but very funny. I can understand that for some people it's too much, that's what it is with humor, or you can take it or you're offended, in my case I'm her biggest fan. Can't wait for more shows of Ali Wong, maybe of a non-pregnant Ali Wong next time, that would be a change.