Chris Distefano has gained a lot of support on social media, and has partnered with comedians such as Sal Vulcano, Yannis Papas, Matteo Lane and Anr Mike Cannon to release popular podcasts. But does Distefano have what he needs to stand up on his own as a stand-up? Hulu certainly believes that, and he has become one of their first picks with a big push to the stand-up comedy special.
Key Points: This marks Distefano's third solo special. His first premiere at Comedy Central (Size 38 Waist) When he held a cable network chat show in 2019. He raised his own funds and produced his second production in 2022. Speshy Weshybefore selling to Netflix.
In this special, he explains in more detail about his life, primarily as a white husband and father in a Puerto Rican family, how his Italian father has his own ideas about the masculinity that creates comedic culture conflicts, and how he tries to understand it all. While trying to protect his energetic audience tabs.
Which comedy special reminds you? : If he takes away all the physicality and exaggerated stage actions of Sebastian Maniscalco, his perspective might imagine him coming across something quite close to how Distefano offers his perspective. Their befuddlements are very similar, even when they seem to convey them completely differently.
Memorable jokes: If you follow Distefano's career, you know that he married Latina. He is also a father, so he jokes that he considers all his children to be Puerto Ricans, and between his wife and children, he feels that he is no longer in charge of much. He has no sympathy for his children-free friends. Because they can enjoy freedom he no longer has. Even if that's the case, he can't see what he wants to see on stream anymore. “I quietly stopped!”
Even try to see why his daughter is trying to “snitch” him to be kind to his fans.
However, he also feels far better than his father, who “always have the right intentions but the wrong moves”, making inappropriately funny jokes in tense situations in public. Perhaps it's not inappropriate or offensive when his father is convinced that almost everyone at Yankee Stadium has “special needs” just to upgrade his vision to get farther closer to the home plate from the cheapest seats.
Our Take: It was a few years, years for Chrissy Chaos. Not too long ago, he had been shopping for over 30 minutes before convincing Netflix based on his strong online follow. His 51-minute set was quickly snapped by Hulu, and in September it will be headlined at Madison Square Garden.
But while he may be as popular as he is now, Distefano doesn't always have a finger on his pulse.
Earlier this time, his declaration, photographed just north of New York City in Westchester County, “ends for the Whites,” feels cognitively dissonant with where America stands in February 2025. “Definitely – we're done,” he declares. I can hear the buddy. nevertheless.
His bit about getting away with the barista feels that even if it is based on the truth, it is too unnatural to be incredibly or incredibly entertaining.
And his joke about getting sucked into social media algorithms is an interesting premise, but was mined much richer by Ronny Chieng on his Netflix Special I love to hate that Just a few months ago.
But somehow, Distefano benefits him enough to self-aware, even his relative weaknesses, to re-encourse and to enjoy himself repeatedly at this point. He reveals to us how the producers instructed him to stay in an area with carpet on stage as much as they wanted to move around the Tarrytown Music Hall. He interrupts himself more than a few times, checks in a member of a particular audience who has turned his eyes to his leisure wear, calls him a “coach” and asks him to unleash his polo shirt at some point. The man adheres faithfully.
Distefano admits that what he was saying when he was a teenager would have been banished at the time to document it.
And at the moment of peak vulnerability, Distefano laments: “There's sweat in my eyes!” Does he have a towel on a stool to wipe his forehead, or will he ask for it? Sadly, no. That's not Chrissy's style. Rather, he moves boldly: “I don't care, I'm going to do it.”
Our Call: The role of Distefano in ROM-COM in 2019 An ordinance to joy It was “Staten Island Meathead.” It's his stand-up persona and very personality. So, whatever else you say, it may be split into the middle where you want to stream it or skip it.
Sean L. McCarthy is working on comedy beats. He also podcasts a 30-minute episode in which the comedian reveals the story of origin: Comics Comics present the last one first.
