NR, 74 min.
Director: Lance Bangs
Writer/Performer: Chelsea
Peretti
I had never heard of Chelsea
Peretti before seeing “Brooklyn Nine Nine”, the Andy Samberg police comedy show
in which she plays the precinct secretary. Of a cast of oddballs, her character
is by far the strangest of the bunch. She’s a too cool for school playa who
probably sat by herself talking mostly to herself during lunch period.
Well, Netflix has made her
only the second woman with a stand up special produced by their television streaming
service. The first was Chelsea Handler, whose special preceded Peretti’s by
only about a month. I haven’t seen Handler’s special, but Peretti’s is proof
that female comics are indeed very funny.
Peretti herself doesn’t come
across quite as strange as her “Brooklyn Nine Nine” character, but her approach
to the clichés of the stand up special are very strange indeed. Her stand up
routine itself is pretty straight forward, with acute observations about life
and biting wit in her commentary on those observations.
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