Lewis Black: Thanks for Risking Your Life

To get even the most elusive point across. In this instance many difficult, subtle, complex points, not the least of which is/was how to skewer an element so bizarre, abstract, ludicrous, squirrely, smarmy, ugly . . . Like nailing jello to a wall . . . And yet he manages to, first define the point in innocuous terms, and then wring it by its not-so-innocuous neck and dangle it, first skewered, then nailed to the wall before us.

Covid, science, fake news, news commentary, aging, assisted living, economics, children, politics, politicians. And all of it of and in a period when nobody else could even find a way to bring them in front of an audience. Lewis always finds a way . . .

This had some moments that were really funny, but there were long pauses and stretches where his stuttering delivery and weird looney tunes style noises detracted from it all. It seemed more like a show where he was working on stuff rather than a show where he had it all worked out. Okay for fans, but this isn't a top shelf special by any means.

I never watched any other stand-up comedy from Lewis Black before this one so I couldn't compare Thanks For Risking Your Life with his previous shows, but from reading the reviews I see this wasn't his best show. From what I saw today it was okay but not immediately the thing that makes me laugh from beginning till the end. There are too many gaps and curses to make this stand-up comedy feel fluent and prepared, now it just felt a bit like ranting against the world. Maybe I'll give an older show a try to see if that's any better but this one didn't convince me to be honest.

Lewis Blacks latest work is right along the lines of all his work. I am glad he is still alive. I was happy to support his efforts to be out there and keep working. I hope you all rent this too. I cannot say this is his best work. It is not bad. If you are in a quarantine environment, and you have already spent over a thousand dollars in rental fees, and purchases from amazon prime this month. Why not spend another 4 bucks to see a great comedian plying his trade. Carry on Lewis. Great to see you.

This MoFu might wanna move to North Korea and live the rest of his life happily ever after. He is not made for challenging matters and accepting different opinions.