Jenny Slate: Stage Fright

I love Jenny Slate. Absolutely love her and I love just watching her perform but this sickness of performers that do stand up and speak so much like reality show stars where they say 'like' constantly makes it difficult to watch. It's just too much. And it may seem like a minor gripe but it honestly is challenging. But if you enjoy Chris D'Elia and can take hearing 'like' upwards of three times in a single sentence, you might like this a lot.

I felt this was it's own form of art. Silly and awkward, with highs and lows, it felt like a wonderful exploration of a chaotic mind. While it's not laugh-out-loud the whole time, it's authentic and I really left feeling like I would look forward to seeing what she does next.

Firstly, I have always found Jenny Slate 'adorkable', so take any of my comments with a grain of salt.

Her sense of humour to me has always felt awkward and probably objectively funny in a quirky way. I admire her candor and openness to make herself more approachable in this special. There are some genuine moments to be had but much of her humour would be lost on the vast majority.

I grinned through most of the set, but never really laughed audibly at the content. The rating denotes her efforts despite not quite landing a broad stand-up comedic audience.

Note: I find it best to give an objective constructive opinion rather than be butt-hurt over something I had zero input into.

I like Jenny Slate, and I think this special perfectly captures her as a person. She is unpredictable and Silly, and I think that's what people love about her.

I think you can tell that she isn't a regular in stand up comedy, and a lot of the jokes were hit or miss for me. But I think the handful of things that made me laugh really hard made it worth watching.

If you like her, then watch it, and if you don't like her, give it a go anyway.

When I saw "silly" I thought, yes, one of the few modern comedians who are putting the fun back in funny. But then she kept laughing at her own jokes and it all became a bit too much.

I think for the most part she should do her, keep that spark alive, but I would suggest she tone it down just a hair. I think then she could be a breath of fresh air in stand up.

Wishing her the best.