![]() There are six episodes total episode four picks up a week before the showcase, and the finale includes the actual, six-minute performances at the Just For Laughs festival. ![]() Stand-up comedian Daphnique Springs on Inside Jokes. Their work looks effortless when it’s being done well, and while Inside Jokes makes sure we laugh, it also makes sure we know just how much effort that takes. What works for one audience leaves another in silence. The editing frequently lets us see a comedian telling the same joke multiple times, at different venues, and in doing that and does a wonderful job of illustrating just how challenging it is to not only craft and deliver a strong joke, but to land it. Ironically, those comedians’ sets at the callback performance fall surprisingly flat. The second episode, which moves to New York to follow three more contenders, is immediately hilarious. The stand-up shown in the opening moments is not all that funny, especially compared to what’s coming-at the call-backs that end the premiere, and in future episodes. In the third episode, they find out if they’ve been chosen or not. The first episode picks up the week before callbacks in Los Angeles, and episode two does the same for New York callbacks. So yeah, this is a big deal.Įach of them are very funny, charming people, and spending time with them between sets is equally entertaining, and sometimes they’re even funnier, whether it’s Alzo Slade getting a haircut, Rosebud Baker hanging out with her sister, or Simon Gibson and MK Paulsen giving a tour of the small apartment they share. They’ve all made it to the call-back stage to be one of the 20 up-and-coming stand-ups chosen for the New Faces of Comedy showcase at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal.Ĭomedians who’ve been chosen previously for that showcase include names you may have come across before: Amy Schumer, Kevin Hart, Hannibal Buress, Chelsea Peretti, Gabriel Iglesias, Jerrod Carmichael. ![]() (Photo by Beth Dubber/Amazon)Īmazon’s Inside Jokes focuses on seven stand-up comedians: Daphnique Springs, Kellen Erskine, MK Paulsen, Simon Gibson, in Los Angeles and Alzo Slade, Robert Dean, and Rosebud Baker in New York. Simon Gibson, one of the stand-up comedians followed by Inside Jokes. Amazon’s Inside Jokes: an exceptional reality series Paradoxically, it’s the show following stand-up comedians-who always seem to be on, cracking jokes, even at the camera crews who are following them-who come across as more authentic, while the one following singers feels more performative and distant.Īnd that comes down to what they’re willing to admit: not about their lives, but about their lives in front of cameras for reality shows. Westside is more dazzling and dramatic, interrupting moments of interpersonal drama and biographical backstory with full music videos written, produced, and directed by major music-industry talent.īoth series cut between performances and hanging out with the cast members, nearly all of whom have raw and vulnerable moments in front of the cameras, and share stories of their past trauma and suffering. Inside Jokes is the more conventional of the two, and is easy to recommend: though its central action takes place in dim comedy clubs, it’s a bright and a nimble show that slides from one person’s life to the next, and is full of life and laughs. But they take very different approaches: one embraces the artifice of having cameras follow them around, and the other tries to hide it behind a flashier facade. ![]() Two groups of talented artists, two showcases for their talent, two very different reality shows documenting those artists’ progress: these are Netflix’s Westside and Amazon’s Inside Jokes.īoth shows focus on performers and follow them when they’re performing and when they’re not, when they’re creating and preparing, and when they’re just interacting with each other.
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