From the pre-credits screen that implores audiences, “This film should be played loud bitch,” “: Now More Than Ever” announces itself as a very gay show. The comedian’s most comfortable and funniest speciality is using gay vernacular mockingly. At just over an hour in length, his first HBO special is a fleeting and sharp dissection of how Early’s “generation” behaves or misbehaves, particularly online.
Some of his targets are predictable, as when he takes on Donald Trump. But once he gets into his thesis about current social mores, the comedy becomes more cutting edge. The jokes are long and demand patience, and sometimes the payoff is more cerebral than outright funny. It’s as if a really smart anthropologist were making salient points about his observations of a new social class — Jane Austen back from the dead for a short visit to 2020s queer, progressive urban America.
He saves his sharpest mockery for people his age, claiming they are under-educated: “The only thing we’ve been taught as a generation is to vamp.” His observations hint at what could be a new “Me Decade,” one where every individual demands success for what they believe to be their talent, no matter how meager it may be. Listening to Early, one comes away thinking only a few are talented yet everybody claims it.
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