Michael Che: Shame the Devil

I think the reviews here are a bit harsh. The show was better than what I read here. I didn't like everything, and started to have serious doubts when he began to rant about only vaccinated people could attend his show, but in all fairness, and that even if I totally disagree with some of his viewpoints, I had some good laughs afterwards. Mostly because of his sarcastic jokes, which in my humble opinion are always the best, but even with the inevitable racism jokes that have to be told by black comedians. I'm always waiting for those jokes, and they are most of the time spot on and funny, but let just say they are very predictable when you are watching a black comedian. I totally get it that they want to joke about it, I'm just waiting to see one black comedian that won't do any jokes about that. That said, Shame The Devil isn't that bad at all, that is if you get sarcasm.

This definitely isn't your average comedy special, and I almost switched to something else. I'm happy I didn't. This was heartfelt, personal, intelligent and of course it was funny. It's easy to be funny screaming and throwing zingers but it's also something we've seen a zillion times before.

We chuckled a few times. We were slightly amused at times. The left coast audience seemed eager to laugh at anything, maybe to get their minds off their terrible conditions. This is not a comedian we would ever pay to see.

Am thrilled to find a standup special now ! We , of course , my C love his series ( damn that Micheal Che) , and he is such a sweet and funny guy. We look forward to his antics on snl news , we continue to be happily surprised to find anything he has a hand in . As he branches out and we get to see more of him ( and not just enjoy all the jokes he doesn't really get credit for) his humor is evolved and current. May not be for everyone, and anytime he manages to cause discomfort, that's a win ! It's necessary!!

I actually liked Che's laid back tone in this one compared to Matters. It's not gonna be a good match for those looking for more energy... But I liked it.

Che is a pretty easy person to listen to, as a result, I got a little fooled the first time around. Rewatching it, it's clear to me he had about 25-35 minutes of true material, (things he wanted to say and original bit ideas he had)

And in fairness, that stuff's pretty strong.

I would recommend watching 44:30 to the end, the first joke's not gonna be for everyone, but it transitions well into the topic he wants to talk about, and he meshes comedy with commentary (and his trademark hint of almost child like silliness) very well. There's a glimpse of the kind of top-tier comic Che could be one day.

But there's just too much times on apologizing/qualifying jokes, or doing played out bits on overdone topics he clearly wrote in less then an hour, and "sorry not sorry'ing" past events. I get being more introspective comes with the type of tone he has for the special, but it's still too much, even before accounting the how it clashes with the silliness he likes to maintain thru-out.

Che's a talented guy, I imagine it's hard to have 60 minutes of gold material when you're writing on a weekly comedy show year round. But hopefully this is his lesson to make sure the show is ready when it's time to film.