Andrew Santino: Cheeseburger

Stumbling upon the 2023 stand-up comedy special "Andrew Santino: Cheeseburger" while perusing through the Netflix catalogue of stand-up comedy, I opted to sit down and watch this on account of never having heard about comedian Andrew Santino before. So of course I wanted to check out his style of comedy.

While this 2023 show wasn't exactly a laugh riot for me, I have to say that I was adequately entertained throughout the course of the 58 minutes that the show ran for. Andrew Santino does have some good contents in his material and there are some genuinely funny jokes here and there.

And I found that "Andrew Santino: Cheeseburger" was suitable for a single viewing if you enjoy comedy. This is, however, not a show that will make it to my screen a second time, as I just wasn't all that impressed or brought to an abundance of laughs.

Andrew Santino feels naturally at home on the stage and in the stage light, and the definitely counts for something. He has a good charisma on the stage and his is good at setting up his jokes and delivering the punchlines.

Adequately entertaining, my rating of "Andrew Santino: Cheeseburger" lands on a five out of ten stars.

Massive Santino fan here. Watching this just doesn't make me laugh the way his pods do. Of course stand up is a whole different ballgame than podcasting. Maybe there is a widening between funny podcasters vs funny stand up comics going on. Santino's a funny guy but I realized watching this he's just better off script than on script. That's not a bad thing. It's just a new trend in comedy. Still have huge respect for him. Lots of great jokes here (don't let the offended Trump fans on the thread fool you). It may be a bit watered down for Netflix, but I think I'll be sticking to the podcasts moving forward.

Big fan of him and Bobby; however, This special continues the trend of comedians specials being far worse than their ability to be funny on podcasts. That being said. Of those in the rogan sphere, Santino is a lot closer to someone like Segura in terms of on stage ability and joke writing, whereas theo, Delia, and distefano are closer to schaub. Tbh the only truly good or great specials I've seen in recent years (past 5ish? Are louis C. K., Segura, gillis, Normand, Chapelle, and norm. Granted I will still check in to bad friends and whiskey ginger but I no longer entertain the idea of seeing Santino live.

Like I once wrote before it's impossible to please everybody with humour as we all have a different sense of humour but rating this stand-up comedy with the lowest score possible is just ridiculous. It was my first show from Andrew Santino and it turned out to be promising. I will gladly look out for more of his shows. He's not afraid of bashing Biden and Trump, or any other politician, as they are all puppets and incompetent. Cheeseburger has some good jokes, but they're not constant enough to make it exceptionally good. Andrew Santino is a born raconteur, it's obvious he likes to entertain people, but some parts of his show are sometimes a bit long before the jokes come. That's the only negative thing I found about this particular show. I definitely like his sense of humour, maybe a bit borderline to some but not to me as I like it raw and over the top. You have to be allowed of laughing at anything, that's what humour is about, no matter if you offend others or not. You just can't please everyone and that's fine.

I am not very familiar with Andrew Santino, or his work. He appears to be a charming, decent guy. The issue is that he is just not that funny. It is not that he is offensive, or too esoteric. He covers a variety of topics, from the pandemic to sexuality to growing up in the 80's. His delivery is natural. His jokes and storytelling might be ok if he was a friend of yours, but not enough to conquer a Live audience. One of the other issues with the special is that he is also the Director and it is not shot very well. The special keeps going back and forth between two camera angles and it it a little distracting. I like Netflix comedy and try them all. This was very average, at best.