Mae Martin: SAP

"SAP" is one of those shows where you actually had to be there. Mae is super likeable and has great chemistry with the audience. They are way better to watch live with friends than alone on netflix. Yes, it's true with every stand-up but with some ppl it's more so(ex: if Michelle Wolf is 9.5/10 on netflix then she's 10/10 live. If Mae is 6/10 on netflix, they are 8/10 live).

Writing-wise it's good: Mae is self-aware, there are jokes and there are some good metaphors.

Overall, this special is like a reddit thread where Mae is the op, the first level-commenter, and the jokey sub-commenter. It leaves you feeling good about the community but you're ready to move on to another post.

Mae arrives on Netflix with a characteristically understated live special, with only a sort of semi-meta bit of bumpering with the great Phil Burgers (also in Feel Good) as adornment. I think the direction was similarly bare bones but the material was solid and Mae is so effortlessly charismatic, with their slightly-overwhelmed-to-even-be-speaking-in-public vibe. The comedy is a niche sort of vibe tonally and strikes a strange place between introspective tangents of tremendous earnestness and stabs of surreal bluntitude. Whether they nail "the big message" or not is neither here nor there, this is them fairly unvarnished and I can dig it.

I was excited to see that Mae Martin had a Netflix special; I enjoyed Feel Good and find Mae charming and likable. I thought the special would be an opportunity for Mae to showcase their talents as a comedian because the content of Feel Good was mostly autobiographical. This is a disappointing special. There are some rambling mildly amusing anecdotes, but there aren't any funny lines. I don't think I laughed once watching the entire thing. I still like Mae's style and personality and find them sincere and amusing, but this isn't comedy. This is like watching a monologue of a person who I would find interesting to talk with at a party. It's also sad that Mae calls out comedians like Louis CK and Dave Chapelle in a desperate attempt to score political points when they can't get a laugh from their audience. If you're going toe-to-toe with some of the GOATS then you need better material.

I keep submitting this review and it doesn't post.???

I can't say I laughed uproariously during this comedy special, but I did smile pretty often. Mae is very engaging and it was a pleasant watch. I'd watch future shows by them.

As I remember, the doggy style section and callbacks were the funniest parts.

Mae has a fun stage presence. Very likeable.

There seems to be a trend in comedy specials where to me, they seem more like one-person shows than all-out comedy. Rothaniel, which I also enjoyed, was another one, as I remember. I guess the difference is that these shows seem much more personal-story based, and that's okay.

I'll give this two stars because my wife laughed once throughout the special. I didn't laugh at all. Im sure some people hate this simply because it's an LGBTQIA+ comedian. I don't give a damn about that. I just didn't find it funny at all. It starts with a years old joke Mae has told many times before. From there it devolves in to, at times, incoherent rambling. Mae will often stop mid joke and go on a tangent about something completely different. The word "like" is used in almost every sentence. I'm, like, such and such, like, XYZ. I wish Mae all the best in the future, but this type of manic incoherent comedy isn't for me. Mae is all over the place and, in my opinion, makes for an almost unwatchable hour.