Should I be joking at a time like this?” Bo Burnham asks in the opening moments of his Netflix-produced comedy special that all the cool kids are into. In “The Special Special Special,” she performs in a living room for her parents, whom she frequently impersonates in her act. If I have a criticism, it’s that it takes too long to get past the antagonism they both initially wear like armour, but that’s funny, too. “A Black Lady Sketch Show” (HBO/Crave)This HBO sketch series written, performed and produced entirely by Black women, has filled the “Key & Peele”-shaped hole in my TV watching schedule. “A Black Lady Sketch Show,” produced by “Insecure’s” Issa Rae and starring Robin Thede, Quinta Brunson, Gabrielle Dennis and Ashley Nicole Black is here to prove that bulls--- wrong from the jump.

Source: thestar August 16, 2021 10:52 UTC