1 /10

Here are a few reasons why you probably won't like this Netflix TV offering...



1 - You're a man. 2 - Her politics. 3 - You're weary of being instructed that these fashionable female comics are funny by people who are out of step with what most people find funny. 4 - She promised to move abroad and then changed her mind. 5 - She's deliberately unsightly to look at. (I'm assuming it's deliberate.)



I've never seen any of her other work so I have nothing to compare this with... and I only watched this because I read that it was so spectacularly bad, I wanted to see for myself.



She could have been forgiven for her politics if only she was creative and funny. Ben Elton is a good example of this. He's fanatically left- wing AND he makes me laugh. Also - he doesn't hector and insult everyone who disagrees with him.



This 'special' has been presented by someone who has been told that she's funny so many times that she's fallen for it. It's like the chubby girl who has been told by her parents that the peach dress she's wearing looks great - and then when she wears it outside, still stubbornly believes that it looks great because her mum and dad are right and the rest of the world must be blind or something!



Any wit, timing and humanity are absent from this performance and her pretentious and relentless charade of worldly defeatism doesn't work. Being gross can be funny but there has to be some context, some originality and some relative experience for the viewer to engage with.



I'd have to seriously question the professional judgment of the Netflix team that saw this past the ideas stage! I'm assuming that they are all her friends or they divvied up her paycheck!



My question is: How is this person a household name? Thankfully, nobody I know or am connected with openly admits to liking her unique talent for attention seeking!



This is an epic fail!