Catherine Cohen: The Twist...? She's Gorgeous

As a former standup comic myself I believe stand up comedy is extremely personal to me. I believe it is one of our last honest forms of honest entertainment. I have heard many times the stereotype that "women aren't funny" and I personally know that isn't true. So I always keep a look out for comics I haven't heard before.

This comedy special is abysmal. Laughs are few and far between. The comedy is fake woke. Schumer style forced sexual jokes, to the lowest common denominator. It is also peppered with songs that bring everything to a screeching halt. Disappointing that this is what Netflix gets behind. Skip this one .

This one-hour special, filmed at Joe's Pub in NYC, is a raunchy musical romp through the world of Millennial self-absorption, sex, and privilege. Cohen flies highest when she is singing, with songs that stand on their own musically. The songs especially delight through the wry lyrics delivered in Cohen's beautiful voice with a ridiculously varied range. The shock sexuality loses its impact as the show goes on, but all in all, the breadth of Cohen's skills make this show a highly worthy view.

People are just scared of women that are loud and funny and opinionated and upfront about their experiences in the world

as a woman in my early twenties I feel really lucky to have a person like her to look up to and can't wait to see what she does next.

Her voice is beautiful but I didn't laugh the whole time. She briefly talks about one thing and when you expect more then she changes to another topic. Somehow I feel sad for her experience.

I saw this show in 2018 in cabaret venue and it was spectacular then, and it was the same now on screen. The comedy is a hilarious reflection on the pains of the current culture of narcissism and everyone having 'main character syndrome' or wanting to have it. Her voice is gorgeous, flexible and clear. The opening song is almost a thesis statement for the entire show. She is a victim of herself, and presents her unhinged spiralling with espirit and does self-deprecation in a new way that I have not encountered before.

It is odd to read some of the other reviews here, saying the she has a bad voice, because that is blatantly false (and makes the reviews seem entirely disingenuous). Also I wonder if these reviewer have ever been to a cabaret, if they understand the tradition she is working within is not stand-up. It is cabaret! Cabaret is bawdy, that is one of the main features, a shock for the puritanical undercurrents that persist in American society. Cabaret is gleaming, liminal, glittery, grubby and funny; and Catherine Cohen imparts these tones gorgeously.