Adrienne Iapalucci: The Dark Queen

Not overly funny and often offensive on purpose. One of those comics that intentionally make racist, homophobic, or rape, etc. "jokes" that they think are edgy and provocative. The jokes she feels don't land where the thinks they should have are indicated be her saying... "No" after that joke. She says that a lot, in fact. Not bad comedy; but not great either. Comedy is subjective, so your mileage may vary. For me: this was mostly flat, and derivative (I can see it all coming a mile away). Ho hum attitude without any energy. Works for some, but maybe not for her. I just did not really care for her delivery, and material. Nothing she said was, in reality, offensive to me... it was just that she was trying to be offensive with -dead pan- delivery and not sticking any landings with me. In a nutshell, that is my take on this special and was sub-par for me.

So I saw Adrienne on the Secret Podcast and thought that she's pretty chill and I decided to check out the special too.

I gotta be honest, I'm usually quite skeptical regarding women comedy, I try to go in without expectations, but my experience is that I'm rarely being pleasantly surprised.

I think it has something to do with comedy being dark in this case, which made it better.

And the overall chill tone.

Somehow, I do like the borderline melancholic comedy, there's beauty to it.

It's better when its dark, cause it usually extrapolates on what people really think in the back of their minds (until they apply their social, political and other filters to their thought).

I did find this stand up to be consistently funny. A bit short, but it has plenty of good jokes.

Honestly, the weakest point was probably just the last one, that Bundy joke was pretty thin threaded.

Other than that, a good, well-rounded performance, really looking forward for more.

I will watch the next one too, so requesting more!

Thanks!

All right, so I guess I was expecting a lot due to her connection with Louis C. K. and perhaps set myself up for disappointment.

I love dark humor and I don't believe there's a limit on what you can joke about....as long as the jokes are good. And some of hers were. I definitely literally laughed out loud multiple times. And then there were times where it felt like the material was written by a teenage edge-lord on 4chan in 2009. It's not that it was offensive, it's that some of the material was a tired and predictable.

It felt like it wasn't coming naturally through her at some points, too. I don't know how else to explain it other than it felt like she was trying to be edgy for the sake of being edgy rather than being her authentic self.

I do think she shows a good deal of promise and hope she continues to develop her voice. She seems rather intelligent so I'm hoping she elevates her comedy a bit to match that and then I think there'll be something really good there.

Nothing groundbreaking or hilarious here. A few laughs for sure, but her low energy really makes it drag after a short time, and it's not SUCH low energy that is a schtick of hers or anything where you think "oh, part of the humor here is her monotone delivery".

She just kind of gives off that "I'm too cool to care" vibe that a lot of jaded bar/small club veteran comedians get when they haven't made a career leap and kind of realize they won't ever.

They think it's because they're "too edgy" and "refuse to sell out to the man" and they "don't have THE look" and that's why they haven't become famous, but ugly, raunchy and provocative comedians are doing quite well these days. You still have to put in the effort to be successful and put on a show- it is still supposed to be entertaining.

I am surprised Louie CK Directed this and put his promotional weight behind it.

I'm NOT surprised that he has her open for him, she's a funny person for sure, and definitely a decent comic- just not someone that should have a special.

She really needs to realize that the jaded, "I'm not going to dance for you" attitude comes across in her show and that style of comedy really only works in small doses and small comedy clubs.

Overall, it's worth a peek- some people might love it. She's obviously a seasoned comedian and is funny but I just can't get over the stuff that's holding her back, and if she can't either then she's never going to pop.

I've never heard about Adrienne Iapalucci before, but since I got a newsletter from Louis CK recommending her as one of his favorite comedians, I decided to check her special out ASAP.

The title is absolutely fitting, she does have an extremely crude, dark sense of humor as she discusses current events and controversial topics such as the war in Ukraine, Israel vs Palestine, 9/11, pedophilia, school shootings with brutal honesty, sparing no sides of the political spectrum and mocking all the hipocrisy plaguing our society.

Her unique, jaded, deadpan style delivery accentuates the already pretty dark material, and some of her observations are indeed quite smart and made me laugh, but many jokes felt unnecessarily dark for me. The small audience in front of which this was recorded kept groaning as well.

So while she's definitely talented, my problem is that I'm well aware of all these issues she's talking about and these days I feel like I don't really want to be reminded of them constantly in an exceedingly graphic way. If anything, I want to escape for a brief moment from the depressing state of affairs when I look for entertainment.

When I was younger and things were simpler, this kind of edgy, dark humor used to be really appealing to me, but lately it just feels uncomfortable and cringy. It's probably because with all the nonsense that happened in the world in the past few years I want to cling to the idea that there's hope, and this jaded world view is just not my thing.

Could be a me issue, your mileage may vary.