Beth Stelling's fantastic new HBO Max stand-up special is a must-watch.
HBO Max gorges itself on stand-up this week, releasing four specials at once today. The best of the bunch comes to us from Beth Stelling, which is no surprise. She’s been one of the funniest comedians around for years, and onStelling’s sets are lean and sharp, even when she’s expounding on a single topic or story for minutes on end.
She tackles the #MeToo movement by calling out male comics who still don’t get it, including an unnamed one who debated it with her on a podcast episode that was ultimately never released. You would hope that this would be another example of Stelling personalizing common stand-up topics, but in an indictment of this whole damn medium there still hasn’t been much of a widespread reckoning about sexual misconduct in comedy.
When you’ve been following an artist for years you like to look for signs of growth. Not necessarily “maturation,” which can be a double-edged sword in comedy , but proof that their experience has impacted their work in some way, whether that means making it more thoughtful, or nuanced, or complex, or even just slicker and more smoothly delivered.
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