My Name Is Mo'Nique

I just knew it would be a lousy show, but I gave it a shot anyway. I was only able to stick it out for about twenty minutes and then I had to shut it off. Apparently Mo'Nique still thinks that excessive profanity makes her funny. Throw in a few more F-bombs and a few of everything else while you're at it, why don't you.

Where was the humor? And the people who are saying that they laughed the entire time, you make me want to do Stand-up comedy as well. Hey, if I can get a bunch of you to sit in a club while I do a set, I'd become a big hit in no time. I'm sorry but she was not funny. She and Chris Rock should get together 'cause his show sucked too! They should hire Wanda Sykes as a comedy coach.

Mo'Nique. A very interesting comedian. But the material just ain't really that funny, which disappoints. It seems too raw, unprocessed, shapeless. There's enough there to produce something hilarious, but that step hasn't been executed yet.

As a one-woman show, maybe. But it almost felt like trauma dumping. And trauma can be funny, definitely. There were some interesting and/or kind of beautiful moments. It just didn't work for me, because they were very little punchlines. You're constantly thinking 'this is the joke?'.

Still, looking forward to the next show, hopefully one that has more jokes.

"My Name is Monique" feels more like a one woman show than a comedy special. What do I say... Have you ever been on a bus and witnessed an unreal display of a homeless person or street character regailing an entire busload of strangers with their life story? After a while, the initial amusement wears off and you're seriously contemplating getting off the bus 9 stops before you even reach your destination, simply for the preservation of your understanding of mental health amongst black people and humanity in general.

Yeah... comedy shows are suppose to make you laugh. Feel and relate- even to a life experience not exactly your own. Not trigger a memory where you saw a person trying to convince a bunch of strangers her very disturbing, unresolved life trauma is a hilariously beautiful badge of honor she proudly wears for the world to see.

So all the bizarre behavior Mo'Nique displays is wrapped up in this "well now ya know" hood Ted Talk masquerading as a comedy special.

It didn't make me laugh. Honestly it made me wonder why we don't want more for or ask for more from Mo'Nique. Every third word was the N word or straight up profanity. It was distracting and weak storytelling... again reminiscent of that person on the bus having an episode and taking us all for a truly uncomfortable ride.

To be sure, it doesn't make sense to wish failure on a complete stranger or predict a miss. I watched "My Name is Mo'Nique" because I believe everyone deserves to rebound and defy the odds. And who doesn't want to laugh? It was strange. I look to comedy for that universal glimmer of "we fall down but we get up" energy. Clearly Mo'Nique has the ability to captivate an audience. But, at this point, I feel Mo'Nique has a very specific audience she's speaking to. It's a strange, emotionally crippled audience that romanticizes abuse and hardship in such an ghoulish way, a person who doesn't walk in Mo'Nique's exact shoes can't see the triumph of overcoming those very toxic circumstances.

Mo'Nique talks a lot but,at its core, she's not saying anything. Its a raw presentation of trauma, shrieked for 70 minutes. She surely builds herself up... a lot. What comedian doesn't. But to do this, good commedians know your material needs to be coherent and funny. I tried...watched the special and walked away sad.

After all this time, she should have been funny.

As many have said, the profanity was overbearing. Instead of saying uhh as a space saver, she used cuss worlds. I saw Monique a few years ago in New York and I was highly disappointed because her entire set was about the mess with Oprah, Lee, and Tyler. With all that has transpired with her since then, my expectations for this special were high and she missed the mark. It was her time to show the world why she deserved more. Yet, I didn't laugh a single time. It seemed like she was attempting to justify her behavior with the life stories as opposed to telling jokes. I think Monique got so lost in trying to be right that she forgot how to be funny. She looked great though.

If you like hearing curse words throughout the entire show OK, no comedy at all . I watched it and it was really bad. I would appreciate her atleast talking about world 🌎 news or issues or just comedy . What she's doing is straight hating on others or bad mouthing people and adding curse words everywhere and then what kills me is she then tries to act like she's so wholesome after just being vulgar for a entire hour. There's nothing funny about her Netflix Special ( and I was happy when she got it , because she complained about not having a special ) and boy was I disappointed 😢 the first five minutes grandma surely couldn't watch it . She opened up cursing . I love Luenelle , Somore , Wanda Sykes , Leslie love these ladies and they do real comedy . And I tried to give Monique the benefit of the doubt , but I have to say it She's NOT A COMEDIAN . Or let me say this she's not a comedian for me.