Adrienne Iapalucci: The Dark Queen

2024

Action / Comedy / Documentary

IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 340 340

stand-up comedy

Director

Louis C.K. Photo
Louis C.K.

Top cast

Adrienne Iapalucci Photo
Adrienne Iapalucci as
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12 hr 52 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by PurpleProseOfCairo 5 / 10

The laughs are thin on the ground.

Like others here, I watched this after a recommendation from Louis CK. I think Louis has skin in the game, because this is no better than average. Some mildly funny material, but the shock quotient wears off after a few minutes and you are left looking at your watch for the rest of it. It's like she looked at Louis, decided to try to be as outrageous as him, but neglected to come up with the material to match the outrage. Strange to hear the audience laughing so heartily throughout - I guess the drinks were cheap. Maybe she should see if Louis would write her some jokes. The girl seems nervous all the way through as well, which is quite distracting.
Reviewed by What-a-Punk 7 / 10

Funny

So I saw Adrienne on the Secret Podcast and thought that she's pretty chill and I decided to check out the special too.I gotta be honest, I'm usually quite skeptical regarding women comedy, I try to go in without expectations, but my experience is that I'm rarely being pleasantly surprised.I think it has something to do with comedy being dark in this case, which made it better.And the overall chill tone.Somehow, I do like the borderline melancholic comedy, there's beauty to it.It's better when its dark, cause it usually extrapolates on what people really think in the back of their minds (until they apply their social, political and other filters to their thought).I did find this stand up to be consistently funny. A bit short, but it has plenty of good jokes.Honestly, the weakest point was probably just the last one, that Bundy joke was pretty thin threaded.Other than that, a good, well-rounded performance, really looking forward for more.I will watch the next one too, so requesting more!Thanks!
Reviewed by hp-33729 6 / 10

Funny but way too dark for me

I've never heard about Adrienne Iapalucci before, but since I got a newsletter from Louis CK recommending her as one of his favorite comedians, I decided to check her special out ASAP.The title is absolutely fitting, she does have an extremely crude, dark sense of humor as she discusses current events and controversial topics such as the war in Ukraine, Israel vs Palestine, 9/11, pedophilia, school shootings with brutal honesty, sparing no sides of the political spectrum and mocking all the hipocrisy plaguing our society.Her unique, jaded, deadpan style delivery accentuates the already pretty dark material, and some of her observations are indeed quite smart and made me laugh, but many jokes felt unnecessarily dark for me. The small audience in front of which this was recorded kept groaning as well.So while she's definitely talented, my problem is that I'm well aware of all these issues she's talking about and these days I feel like I don't really want to be reminded of them constantly in an exceedingly graphic way. If anything, I want to escape for a brief moment from the depressing state of affairs when I look for entertainment.When I was younger and things were simpler, this kind of edgy, dark humor used to be really appealing to me, but lately it just feels uncomfortable and cringy. It's probably because with all the nonsense that happened in the world in the past few years I want to cling to the idea that there's hope, and this jaded world view is just not my thing.Could be a me issue, your mileage may vary.
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