My Name Is Mo'Nique

Mo'Nique. A very interesting comedian. But the material just ain't really that funny, which disappoints. It seems too raw, unprocessed, shapeless. There's enough there to produce something hilarious, but that step hasn't been executed yet.

As a one-woman show, maybe. But it almost felt like trauma dumping. And trauma can be funny, definitely. There were some interesting and/or kind of beautiful moments. It just didn't work for me, because they were very little punchlines. You're constantly thinking 'this is the joke?'.

Still, looking forward to the next show, hopefully one that has more jokes.

As many have said, the profanity was overbearing. Instead of saying uhh as a space saver, she used cuss worlds. I saw Monique a few years ago in New York and I was highly disappointed because her entire set was about the mess with Oprah, Lee, and Tyler. With all that has transpired with her since then, my expectations for this special were high and she missed the mark. It was her time to show the world why she deserved more. Yet, I didn't laugh a single time. It seemed like she was attempting to justify her behavior with the life stories as opposed to telling jokes. I think Monique got so lost in trying to be right that she forgot how to be funny. She looked great though.

Monique, like the Sommore, used to have good jokes. Now she seems to have an act where it's all set up for a punch line that never really comes. Off the stage, she has had so much beef with so many peers that it makes you wonder where the issue is. I liked the beginning of the show where Monique tries to get the audience to understand how she came up and that her background is rooted in her not being school smart.

After that, there just was not enough good material to generate much laughter for our family. She really fought to get the money she deserves for this special so I expected more instead of just a well dressed victory lap.

After sitting through only half of her show. I couldn't take the cursing which lacked any comedy at all. It seems that Mo'Nique is out of touch with comedy today. So she decided to just talk about herself, put herself down, cuss in every sentence, and obviously make up some bad comedy stories which we all know didn't happen. How many years did it take for her to finally get on Netflix and this is all she brings? Lol. In her defense most comedians have lost their funny since COVID. We all had to deal with some type of loss during this time, but damn I would of been working hard on some good jokes knowing I was going to finally be able to show Netflix what they had been missing. This is a fail, and Mo'Nique baby, this is why they wanted an audition in the first place.

I mean, what can I say? There were a couple punch lines, but most of the funny stuff also left me wondering if I was supposed to laugh. This seemed more like she should've took this to therapy session but instead tried self medication in the form of just spilling it out on stage kind of approach. It was kind of disturbing to be a comedy special honestly. A comedy show that comes off as if she has a lot of trauma she still needs to deal with. This was a rant with sprinkles of jokes. I respect her for doing it that way as it probably allowed her to release a lot of years of sadness and anger, but for a comedy special it was awkwardly funny at best.