Friday, November 21, 2014

Chelsea Peretti: One of the Greats


Chelsea Peretti released her brand-spankin' new comedy special "One of the Greats" last Friday and you should be watching it.

Filmed live at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, Peretti manages to turn her hour of stand-up into something much closer to a one-woman show.

One of the Greats does a few things that I've never seen in any other comedy special before. Every special will cut to the crowd between jokes for a few seconds, you know, get the audience reacting.

But in One of the Greats, 90% of the cuts to the crowd are these shots of people - still in the audience - but doing really strange things that are jokes in themselves.

A man pouring salt on a hard-boiled egg, a couple making out aggressively, a cute dog looking off-camera adorably, they are never referenced directly but it shows the amount of effort put into the production of the show.


Some comedians (like John Mulaney) take great pains to write material that is funny regardless of delivery and then tweak the delivery to get the most out of it.

There are a few comedians (Maria Bamford comes to mind) who write material that isn't necessarily funny on paper, but is so soaked in their persona and voice that it's still hilarious.

I don't want to talk to too much about the special, because I really suggest that you watch it. In place of further detail, take some .gifs of Peretti.









4 comments:

She is hilarious on Brooklyn Nine-Nine - I'm looking forward to this special!

If you like her on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, you're in for more of the same with this!

I finally watched her special on Netflix thanks to you, and it is sooooo funny!!!! She's hilarious as Gina, but her comedy special was ridiculous!! Thanks for sharing this!

Also, that second last gif... one of my favourite moments of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

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