Ari Shaffir: America’s Sweetheart

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Simone P WOW was this BAD!! The only thing that offensive here was Ari doing the bare minimum and expecting laughs. Lazy, unthoughtful, and apparently desperate to cause "controversy". If only. You could see the punchlines coming from miles away, and he said absolutely nothing new. I've enjoyed his material and delivery before, but he really missed the mark here. If he was a friend riffing like this, I'd allow that everyone has an off night. But this was written and filmed! What a wasted opportunity. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/21/25 Full Review Leando D The set starts off like many other Ari routines - which I've found very entertaining in the past. Then the jokes show how lazy they are...akin to reading "news articles" written about something somebody read on a Reddit thread. It's so lazy I have to question if some of it is actually just egregious story stealing (ironic as it's coming from Ari this time). In particular, his "autistic kid plays basketball" joke was clearly just a play by play of an episode of "The Boondocks" where Riley is the star player of the Ballahollics and gets schooled at the end of the game by the autistic kid who's never left the bench, and NOT the Internet video that inspired it (calculating the shots on his fingers, raining 3 after 3...just watch the scene and you'll know what I'm talking about). I really don't believe Ari wouldn't have known about this, he watches Adult Swim and even referenced watching Rick and Morty in this special. The Boondocks is on right after and they definitely show the Ballaholics clip as a preview occasionally because it's a classic episode. To somebody that has seen that, the joke is basically like if you were to tell somebody who watches The Office about the time you saw someone drop their famous chilli on the floor of your paper company and fell in it. By "not reading the news anymore" he's merely revealing hes freed himself of any and all forms of criticism, which usually tends to hurt someone's craft. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/21/25 Full Review Brad D Just feels like he's trying to be edgy for the sake of being edgy. Every joke just seems extremely surface level and adds no real perspective or punchline. Comedy is subjective however this just seems so mediocre in terms of subjects, stage presence and overall flow of the show. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/20/25 Full Review Elisabeta L Crosses too many lines. I kept watching and gave it a lot of chances but once I stopped laughing it never recovered for me. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/19/25 Full Review Marc H Amazing special because I laughed the whole time !! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/17/25 Full Review Kenny M Ari flexed some serious muscle here. Great message packaged in dark jokes that make seasoned comedy fans cringe and cackle in delight at how he pulls that off. I saw him in Berlin a couple of years ago and I saw a handful of these bits in their earliest stages of development. In a live environment they were great then. A couple of years of polish and Ari has produced what I am calling to be every comics favourite Special for 2025. But what makes this the special, is the production. Ari has spent the last couple of years producing other comedians specials and he's taken everything he's learnt and applied it all to his own. The sound, lighting, camera work all hit the mark and FML that stage!!! From my understanding Ari funded this production and Netflix bought it. Huge risk,but he knew that it would work! Congratulations Ari Shaffir you might be the least successful of your friends, but they'll envy this special. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/16/25 Full Review Read all reviews

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