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Hasan Minhaj has a serious case of Kevin Hart syndrome: thinking loud is funny. He screams at the top of his lungs while beating a stool within an inch of its life. He says his therapist calls him manic, which perfectly describes his stage presence. Hasan is all over the place in this special: yelling about immigrants, killing off the elderly, ignoring poor people. He even throws in a Kobe Bryant helicopter crash joke which changed the whole energy in the audience. He says mean things for shock value, which makes him come across as unlikable. Instead of wit, we get manic rambling and awkward audience interactions. Hasan does a lot of talking without saying anything; and no amount of manic screaming can save him. This special is awful.

Ali Wong's arrogance is on full display in this special. She's no longer able to rely on her pregnancy for comedy, so she shows us who she really is: the female Beavis and Butthead. Ali sees life as a series of men to bone and throw away. She spends the entire hour ranting about boning men: old men, young men, asian men, white men. She never talks about anything else, except how she's a millionaire. You could hear the audience lose interest as she jumps from one hookup to the next, all ending with her leaving the men because they didn't bone her the way she wanted. Ali never shows us who she really is. It feels like watching a cartoon character performing standup comedy. She's the female Beavis and Butthead: her only goal in life is to score.

Ellen switches between observational comedy and show business comedy. Her observations are the same topics you've heard other comedians talk about before: driving annoyances, restaurant annoyances. Yawn. It plays like a poor man's Seinfeld. Her show business material is her defending herself against people calling her mean by saying she's only human. What a cop out. She constantly reminds the audience that she's gay to gain sympathy and hide her narcissism. She also drags bits out too long. We don't need 10 minutes of pigeon material. If this is her final special, she went out with a whimper. Her final message to the audience is that she doesn't care what they think. We know; she's been telling that to her staff for years. Ellen exits the stage like an old horse being put out to pasture. A sad end to a long career.