Andrew Santino: Cheeseburger

I am not very familiar with Andrew Santino, or his work. He appears to be a charming, decent guy. The issue is that he is just not that funny. It is not that he is offensive, or too esoteric. He covers a variety of topics, from the pandemic to sexuality to growing up in the 80's. His delivery is natural. His jokes and storytelling might be ok if he was a friend of yours, but not enough to conquer a Live audience. One of the other issues with the special is that he is also the Director and it is not shot very well. The special keeps going back and forth between two camera angles and it it a little distracting. I like Netflix comedy and try them all. This was very average, at best.

Cheeto Santino has created not just one of the greatest closing bits ever but what I think of in the same way I do of Gary Gulman's bit about the documentary he watched about the people that shortened the State's names - and has a great similarity.

Ignore the review that does the tired, cliche copout of 'What happened to Andrew Santino?' routine. There's always someone that feels the need to dole out a 1-star review just for the sake of being that way. They are humorless and should stick to the reality show they review and like.

The entire special is very funny and is on the level that Santino always gives but once he begins talking about his dog, then the ride gets VERY fun and he makes a really great point, which he alluded to earlier.

Stumbling upon the 2023 stand-up comedy special "Andrew Santino: Cheeseburger" while perusing through the Netflix catalogue of stand-up comedy, I opted to sit down and watch this on account of never having heard about comedian Andrew Santino before. So of course I wanted to check out his style of comedy.

While this 2023 show wasn't exactly a laugh riot for me, I have to say that I was adequately entertained throughout the course of the 58 minutes that the show ran for. Andrew Santino does have some good contents in his material and there are some genuinely funny jokes here and there.

And I found that "Andrew Santino: Cheeseburger" was suitable for a single viewing if you enjoy comedy. This is, however, not a show that will make it to my screen a second time, as I just wasn't all that impressed or brought to an abundance of laughs.

Andrew Santino feels naturally at home on the stage and in the stage light, and the definitely counts for something. He has a good charisma on the stage and his is good at setting up his jokes and delivering the punchlines.

Adequately entertaining, my rating of "Andrew Santino: Cheeseburger" lands on a five out of ten stars.

Like I once wrote before it's impossible to please everybody with humour as we all have a different sense of humour but rating this stand-up comedy with the lowest score possible is just ridiculous. It was my first show from Andrew Santino and it turned out to be promising. I will gladly look out for more of his shows. He's not afraid of bashing Biden and Trump, or any other politician, as they are all puppets and incompetent. Cheeseburger has some good jokes, but they're not constant enough to make it exceptionally good. Andrew Santino is a born raconteur, it's obvious he likes to entertain people, but some parts of his show are sometimes a bit long before the jokes come. That's the only negative thing I found about this particular show. I definitely like his sense of humour, maybe a bit borderline to some but not to me as I like it raw and over the top. You have to be allowed of laughing at anything, that's what humour is about, no matter if you offend others or not. You just can't please everyone and that's fine.

I've seen Santino live several times. He's absolutely killed it when I've seen him. This, however... I have no idea what this is. This feels like the pumpkin spice latte of comedy specials. Generic, bland, about as "basic" as comedy can get. At not one point does this special ever pick up and grab you. Probably be more effective as background noise while you're doing housework than anything else. I feel like he has reached that level where he has attained some level of success, and now he thinks he doesn't have to try hard anymore. It's very clear in his writing and execution. Unfortunate when comics go this route.