Iliza Shlesinger: War Paint

I have tried, I have watched her stuff. not just this one here. it;s just awful.

I would feel so cheated if I had actually bought a ticket, I feel cheated now that I have only wasted time.

It's difficult to write ten lines of things without just being horribly mean but I guess I will try. Seems to me, if you were to pick say, three other comedians from anywhere on the circuit or whatever you might call it, from any time line between 1950 and 2015 and show them to someone who has never ever seen any stand up in their entire life, that person would be able to pick out this comedian as the worst in the bunch.

Timing,material,sound effects, I mean c'mon! how did this even get to the point of going on the road? It;s like the publics being tested to see if anyone can be a stand up comedian or something. Is that what it is? I am guessing I passed and the answer is NO, they can't.

Iliza Shlesinger's stand-up special is one of the better female stand-ups around. She is able to deliver laugh after laugh without resorting to the same sexist or sexual content that so many other women seem to resort to in order to be successful. The only weak part, in my opinion at least, was that she seemed to use way too much vocal sound effects. Sure, sometimes it actually added to the bit or the punchline but more times than not it just detracted from it. It actually got somewhat annoying at times as well. It seemed to me that she had never run that by people because I'd imagine someone would've told her something. Nonetheless, the material is great but the execution could've been better.

Iliza had some good jokes but she ruined them with that super annoying horrible dolphin/goat sound she made constantly. It might have been kinda sorta funny once or twice, but it was done TO. DEATH...and then some. I tried really hard to put up with it to hear the material that I actually liked, hoping that for the love of god she would please stop making that terrible terrible sound soon, but it increased in both frequency and irritation. It made me cringe every time I heard it, so I gave up with about 15 minutes left. I couldn't handle anymore. It was just the worst sound I have ever heard. I couldn't take anymore. At a certain point the awfulness of the sound outweighed whatever humour the material had.

Iliza is awful and her routine is just plain ANNOYING. she constantly does this annoying goat noise that is both misplaced and ubiquitous. It's literally like she randomly breaks into an impression of Jim Breuer's Goat Boy impression from SNL. Except it's for an hour straight. For the most part they don't tie into her "jokes", but they are obnoxiously EVERYWHERE. There are a few other annoying voices/accents that she does, which she is not good at, and only take away from her "jokes". They include a surfer-type guy, a death-metal-sounding guy, an airhead girl, and a tiny elfish-sounding thing. All rival Jim Carey's EEEHEEHHHHHHH noise in Dumb and Dumber.

But just in general, the worst is that SHE IS NOT FUNNY. There's no way a professional comedian wrote them, and again, she adds the voices/accents/goat noises to spice them up. Total fail, I don't know why she is the slightest bit famous. Obviously people out there like her, or she wouldn't be. But I just can't stand her. The only thing I will say positive about her is that she has good energy on stage. Oh, and lastly, her total lack of talent takes away from the fact that she is a very good looking woman, and that's very easily overlooked, when you're cringing because of those GODD**N GOAT NOISES!!! This is a total PASS!!!!

This was the first time I had seen anything from Iliza, and overall it shows that she DOES have talent, but her act clearly needed work. It's aged reasonably well, but there are some longer bits that just aren't funny (the pharmacy witch) and seem to drag on.

It's worth watching, but there are better specials out there.