Cristela Alonzo: Middle Classy

Finally a female comedian that isn't talking about vulgar stuff the whole time... gets old.. most these days talk about the same things over and over again and they think the more vulgar they get the more popular they'll get.

She is good. Has original content & stands out.

I think I've seen one show from Cristela Alonzo before, because she seemed somewhat familiar. But if I have seen a show of hers before, I must have erased it from memory. Regardless, I sat down here in 2023 to watch her 2022 stand-up comedy special "Cristela Alonzo: Middle Classy", as I found it available on Netflix.

First of all, I will say that Cristela Alonzo definitely is a charismatic woman, and she does have a lot of energy and feels naturally at home on the stage and in the spotlight.

However, I must also go on to say that the material and jokes she delivered in "Cristela Alonzo: Middle Classy" just wasn't really catering to my particular sense of humor. I found the show sort of dull and monotonous, and she actually failed to bring me to laughter throughout the 60 minutes that the show ran for. Yet I did manage to endure the entire show, oddly enough.

My rating of "Cristela Alonzo: Middle Classy" lands on a four out of ten stars.

Odd show, it starts off messy and all over the place, most part in the middle is cohesive and fun, but by the end it starts deviating from the cohesion and gets chaotic again and it just ends?

She feels like a crazy fun aunt, some of the stuff she says are funny, others feel like "things that happen to you when you get 'old'". I had some good laughs, other things I related to what she said, but they weren't necessarily funny.

It is alright, all things considered.

Bad enough she's introduced by one of the Castro's but she immediately jumps into exposing her ignorance and stupidity with Covid "jokes". She's a moron and not remotely funny. I liked her ABC show back in the day so I gave her a chance. Don't waste your time.

Just to point out how racism IS seemingly "okay" at times.....

Many of the jokes rely on skin tones which differ from her own... so.. well... is that not the definition of racism? It would certainly be racism for any white comic to tell a string of jokes based upon the skin tone of others.

I'm NOT condemning the "white jokes" by any means. My point is, I'm white... I found the jokes slightly racist.. and also quite funny at times. I can laugh at myself and my race. I wish everyone could.

It's NOT an hour of "white jokes". That's merely a couple pieces. She does delve into other things - aging, health, some self-deprecating stuff, etc.. so It's not like the entire hour focused on race.

I laughed.. thought this was a funny set for the most part.