Adrienne Iapalucci: The Dark Queen

Same old anti-transgender, racist garbage that every dime a dozen right wing comic is doing right now.

Anyone claiming she hits both sides isn't paying attention. She attacks liberals over and over without mentioning conservatives.

She makes fun of Porte Ricians not because she has a punchline to get to but because she literally hates them and think a they are lazy jobless immigrants.

Over and over, there is no build up to anything insightful. Crass and hatefill is not dark comedy.

This sort of ignorant comedians who only punch down appears to be Netflix target demographic. Offense for the sake of offensive is comedy gold for the hateful and ignorant.

I don't know how this show isn't rated higher, I was laughing out loud so many times along with my husband that we almost forgot we were watching a woman. I even got teary at the end just by being so happy a woman finally made me laugh for more than one joke. I say almost forgot because we could have done without the lady part jokes or at least the P word, which for some reason female comedians seem to think is good revenge for all the dick jokes male comedians supposedly make, but how about we just do without either???

I don't know. Either way the rest of it was pretty amazing and worthy of paying what I'd pay to see a male comedian. As a woman my standards are higher since obviously we just hate other women already so they have to work harder than the guys to get a laugh out of us. You can tell with Adrienne's pacing, delivery, timing and topics that she puts a lot of hard work into the craft and doesn't just rely on her looks or pandering to women. Her jokes were definitely dark and it's certainly not clean comedy, but that's clearly what the world needs right now. I can't wait to see what else she has to say.

Like others here, I watched this after a recommendation from Louis CK. I think Louis has skin in the game, because this is no better than average. Some mildly funny material, but the shock quotient wears off after a few minutes and you are left looking at your watch for the rest of it. It's like she looked at Louis, decided to try to be as outrageous as him, but neglected to come up with the material to match the outrage. Strange to hear the audience laughing so heartily throughout - I guess the drinks were cheap. Maybe she should see if Louis would write her some jokes. The girl seems nervous all the way through as well, which is quite distracting.

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.

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.