Hannah Einbinder: Everything Must Go

I honestly love her in Hacks, apart from a few overly PC moment, which is brought back down to earth by her amazing co star. This special has a few funny moments in this. I am a female, but I feel there was too much male bashing for me. I love her candor and the straight face she keeps while telling her stories, yet it fell a little too flat for me. I did watch it all way though just to give a fair review. But, I don't want to watch comedy about veganism, climate change and feminism. I want to watch comedy to give me escape from these political issues. Waiting for the next season of Hacks though :)

The negative reviews here are from people who have no concept of comedy and subjectivity.

They think that if they didn't find it funny, then it isn't funny and its the performers fault for writing something terrible.

If you don't understand that comedy is ABSOLUTELY subjective then you shouldn't be posting reviews for them. You're not qualified because you don't even understand the thing your reviewing.

You need to understand a topic before you start sharing your thoughts on that topic.

Otherwise you're basically posting the same reviews of those people who leave reviews for movies they haven't watched or books they haven't read.

This isn't comedy.. it's performance art..

The roars from the crowd seemed REALLY odd to me. As if they were some cult following just there to cheer her on completely regardless of what she did or said. As if the audience was filled intentionally with her "tribe" who came to see and support "Hannah" and did not merely buy tickets anticipating a comedy show. There's no real laughter here.

I did not find anything she did, much less said, funny. It's performative art.. which okay.. I can accept, but it wasn't even GOOD performative art.

She's great in Hacks.. where there's a writing staff and a director to tell her what to do... but CLEARLY stand-up isn't her thing. Based upon the crowd reactions in this, she may be in a bubble.. surrounded by those wishing her well and supporting her, but lacking the ability to tell her when things need more work. This "special" REALLY needed much more work if it was supposed to be funny.

This is really just HBO saying "Hey Hannah, Hacks has been a success. Do you want to do a 1 hour comedy special? We think you've gained some notoriety and many would tune in." And she said yes, that was a mistake. Clearly when left to her own devices, absent a writing staff, she has no clue what comedy actually is.

The poor experience is foreshadowed pretty well by the pretentious opening French music... I mean a French song for your US comedy debut? Really?

Blech.

I initially approached it like some belly laugh standup and when that wasn't happening in the first 15 minutes, I almost stopped. So glad that I kept going.

Hannah is a brilliant mind and has some hilarious observations but they are subtle and you need to pay attention. It doesn't feel like a highly crafted standup where every line is delivered to perfect timing.

It's more like hanging out all night with the funniest, most thoughtful person at the party. Her observations are so clever, and ring true. I highly recommend going into it with those expectations and by the end you will feel that it was a good use of your time.

I remember seeing Hannah on the Late Show With Stephen Colbert a few years ago and immediately realized that I was watching an amazing new comedic talent, and this one hour HBO special just proves it. She combines some serious acting chops along with well thought out stagecraft to tell her extraordinarily funny takes on her life and the crazy messed up world that we live in. A while back my daughter told me I should watch "Hacks" -actually, it was more like an edict - so i binged watched the first two seasons and and continued with the third. While the entire cast is wonderful Hannah really stands out. I am sure that she will continue to make us laugh along with having a great career as an actress. Watch this special, you won't regret it!