The Standups

Nate was hilarious! Fortune was really funny. The lady from England was funny but I guess not funny enough for me to remember her name.

I laughed thinking up the punchlines to their set ups but they were generally awful. The audience was almost as bored as I was. A really lifeless show.

At first, this show feels like an up-and-coming comics showcase. The first episode felt pretty strong with Nate Bargatze. But in later episodes, I found myself 20-30 minutes into the show, quitting the episode and skipping to the next one. I pretty much did that with the rest of them. Unfortunately, most of these lesser known comedians appear to be unknown for pretty good reason. It felt like they didn't really have much in the way of jokes to tell, but hoped somehow talking about themselves would be hilarious. It is almost cringey watching these mediocre personalities dying in front of a huge, live audience, with nary a chuckle.

Nate Bargatze has the funniest set so it's good this thing starts with him. Dan Soder is good too.

Dusty Slay was amazing, I've never heard of him but he really shined here. I just wish he didn't say "we're having a good time" after each sentence and was more confident.

Brent Morin's set is solid too. Too bad he has this typical beta male comic quality of not holding women accountable for leaving him alone in NYC but blaming only himself - that story was a bit sad and pathetic, even if pretty entertaining and uplifting at first.

Mark Normand is a good comic too, but he's also such a female-pandering beta now, that his skills are kind of wasted and laugher is replaced with cringe. Still one of the best "underground" comics tho. But wow. Tone it down a bit, mr. Try hard.

Nikki Glaser is good too, and ironically her set here is funnier than her actual full special on Netflix, because here she actually talks about other stuff besides her vaj... Here she tackles such profound subjects like farting.. But yeah... Like the rest - she has her moments and is not bad.

I don't know the rest of these people and clearly there's a reason for it - they're not funny or talented. I think I've seen Fortune Feimster on Rogan and she seemed cool and promising, but she ain't on stage...

Still, this has a few decent comics with decent sets - so it's worth a watch. They're probably better than most of the "comics" netflix is peddling on the frontpage.

Nate killed it and I'm happy he was first because it made me interested to watch a few of the others. 10/10 because of Nate. 6/10 for the rest as a whole.