Aziz Ansari: Right Now
Series Details & Credits
| Netflix | Release Date: July 9, 2019 |
Summary:
The comedy special directed by Spike Jonze was filmed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music over three days in May 2019.
Genre(s):
Comedy
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Aug 6, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The first 20-ish minutes are the most honest work Ansari has done, a litany of observations about the status quo that reveals a hunger and frustration that was buried under his happy-go-lucky persona. ... There’s a bit of flab, especially in the back half. ... But whatever soul-searching or image management that Ansari has gone through since the babe.net story has made him a better performer—one who is more able to dwell in gray areas of comedy.
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Jul 9, 2019
Season 1 Review:
“Right Now” is otherwise a packed set of punchlines and anecdotes about performative allyship, living in the moment, and how the goalposts of decency keep shifting. Complaining about “wokeness” could easily come off as out of touch and cranky, but Ansari largely avoids that trap by cracking smart, slyly scathing jokes about the “newly woke white people” whose well-meaning indignation can tip the scale into “condescending.”
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Jul 10, 2019
Season 1 Review:
It’s the most organic and tactically nimble post-#MeToo comeback thus far ... His crackerjack flash is starkly subdued. Ansari probably makes about three too many earnest appeals to our better nature and the need to live in the present. But this is still the work of a comedy veteran who channels righteous fed-up-ness and critiques obliviousness with relatable flair.
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Jul 9, 2019
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Jul 9, 2019
Jul 10, 2019
Season 1 Review:
At points like this [he recalls a “Parks and Rec” episode in which his character, Tom Haverford, installs a nanny cam in a teddy bear, which he then gives Ann Perkins (Rashida Jones)] “Right Now” feels like an intentional comeback-slash-apology — an earnest, if at times clunky, one. It's notable that his reflections on the jokes he would no longer perform today are infinitely more interesting than the jokes Ansari actually delivers.
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Jul 11, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The question becomes how you treat the discomfort—as something to be celebrated, or as something to be denigrated. Ansari’s answer, over a show that has some great jokes and some distinctly less-great ones, is another kind of ellipsis: Can we just talk about something else? ... Another way that Right Now is of its moment: It is a work of winkily manufactured authenticity.
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Jul 10, 2019
This is a beautiful redemption. As woke as ever he booms back onto the scene, hopefully this is good news for fans of Master Of Non
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Jul 21, 2019
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Jul 16, 2019
This comedy special seems like an ernest heartfelt apology that transcends into a meditation on subjectivity.
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