Aziz Ansari Live at Madison Square Garden

I genuinely don't understand what people find amusing about this person's attempt to be a comedian or an actor. On the logic that selling out Madison Square Garden might lend to a decent show, my wife and I really tried to watch this performance. After 10 minutes of listening to him just talk, it was apparent to us that there was nothing in this show that could considered clever or witty, so we found something else to watch. It felt like he was simply riding the fame that he garnished from his exceptionally unnecessary character in the "Parks and Recreation" television show.

I never heard about Aziz Ansari before finding this standup comedy special on Netflix. Despite being unfamiliar with the performer, I decided to give it a go. It could be that I had been missing out of a sheer comedy genius...

And must say that he was off to a great start. However, it was somewhat of a swing and a miss for me, because his particular comedy and jokes were not falling into my particular taste or interest.

Aziz Ansari was definitely good on the stage and had lots of energy and presence, but there just wasn't enough laughs in the entire show for keeping me amused and entertained, so I was starting to drift after the first 10-15 minutes or so.

I don't get the hype. This stand-up was terrible and felt terribly manufactured. Didn't find it funny at all.

Step 1: Open with "something something white people" Step 2: Say a few generic statements with the sole purpose of eliciting an applause from the audience ("white people are racist" / "immigrants are great") Step 3: Repeat step 2 for an hour

Did you follow these steps? Congrats, I hear Netflix is looking to give you a few million dollars for your cutting-edge, groundbreaking, totally fresh and original special!

I'm kinda new to the world of stand up comedy, and thanks to netflix i'm finally watching a lot of stuff. Louis ck hooked me into stand up comedy, and then i watched and loved a lot of stuff from ricky gervais and jim jefferies. Then i found out that tom from parks and recreation, the best comedy series ever made imho, was a very famous stand up comedian, didn't know that, i get excited and then...meh. I've wrote all of this personal background about stand up comedy because, i don't know...i feel that probably it was a decent show but i was just hyped too much and found it bad because of that. The social media/smartphones part was not bad at all but the show in general was just mediocre. Nothing really cunning or hilarious here, too much jumping around and do little voices to my personals taste...also 50 minutes isn't kinda short for a stand up show in the madison square garden? I'm sticking up with his character from parks and recreation, he was funny there...as a stand up comedian, instead...not so funny.