Adrienne Iapalucci: The Dark Queen

All right, so I guess I was expecting a lot due to her connection with Louis C. K. and perhaps set myself up for disappointment.

I love dark humor and I don't believe there's a limit on what you can joke about....as long as the jokes are good. And some of hers were. I definitely literally laughed out loud multiple times. And then there were times where it felt like the material was written by a teenage edge-lord on 4chan in 2009. It's not that it was offensive, it's that some of the material was a tired and predictable.

It felt like it wasn't coming naturally through her at some points, too. I don't know how else to explain it other than it felt like she was trying to be edgy for the sake of being edgy rather than being her authentic self.

I do think she shows a good deal of promise and hope she continues to develop her voice. She seems rather intelligent so I'm hoping she elevates her comedy a bit to match that and then I think there'll be something really good there.

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.

So I saw Adrienne on the Secret Podcast and thought that she's pretty chill and I decided to check out the special too.

I gotta be honest, I'm usually quite skeptical regarding women comedy, I try to go in without expectations, but my experience is that I'm rarely being pleasantly surprised.

I think it has something to do with comedy being dark in this case, which made it better.

And the overall chill tone.

Somehow, I do like the borderline melancholic comedy, there's beauty to it.

It's better when its dark, cause it usually extrapolates on what people really think in the back of their minds (until they apply their social, political and other filters to their thought).

I did find this stand up to be consistently funny. A bit short, but it has plenty of good jokes.

Honestly, the weakest point was probably just the last one, that Bundy joke was pretty thin threaded.

Other than that, a good, well-rounded performance, really looking forward for more.

I will watch the next one too, so requesting more!

Thanks!

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.