Christina P: Mother Inferior (2017) Reviews

• Everything is open for comedy, but not every joke is funny. Here's the proof

  Rob-O-Cop2018-07-15

  Christina's comedy special was not without its funny moments but it's clear Christina is an advocate of the 'Nothing is out of bounds' for comedy objectives, and to a degree I think that probably is the case, but that doesn't mean all topics are great for comedy, or that an average comedian can pull a laugh out of a taboo subject and not fall flat on their face, and there's a few pristine examples of that here. Mental illness is a tough one to find the right tone on to mock, and Christina's love of the school yard obvious hung her by the neck here, her Dick Clark piece came across like teenage bullies picking on the deformed kid behind the bike sheds. and there was plenty more where that came from. While pretending to be the thinking caring persons champion she regularly took the exact opposite position to demonise the underdog and hammer home a rhetoric point. I didn't hate her but I thought she let herself down on many occasions. Comedy can and should be risky, but it shouldn't be stupid about it.

• one show like countless others

  ersbel2017-12-09

  the standard woman standup fare: talk about the body, mostly bodily functions, preferably about vagina. and it does sell. so why bother be different? Contact me with Questions, Comments or Suggestions ryitfork @ bitmail.ch

• Wonderful timing

  vincent_comeau2017-10-19

  This was a delight, in a society full of oversensitive people, she gets it, i personally thought this was such a breath of fresh air, in a world full of false pretentious people obsessed with themselves. Her comedic timing is absolutely brilliant, and i just thought it was completely magical.

• So Goooood

  skaiiflowerninja2017-11-08

  Mummy Tina did an amazing job with this so! spitting so many truths! She's talking about the realities of being a mum, a wife, the expectations the people in our lives have and the expectations we have of ourselves. Mother inferior is one of my favorite comedy specials of all time. It means even more that it was for mummys!

• Not Funny

  j-lacerra2019-04-19

  I never heard of this comic, and after watching part of her special I can understand why: she is not funny. Just the same boring litany of female anatomy references with a surprisingly unfunny sprinkling of observational 'humor'.