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Kountry Wayne: A Woman's Prayer
I've reviewed my fair amount of standup over the years, but this is one genre where I have a tendency to stick to proven commodities. I found out why after viewing a 2023 Netflix concert featuring a comic I've never heard of named Kountry Wayne called Kountry Wayne: A Woman's Prayer.
Before I watched the special, I decided to check out the guy's IMDB page to see if there was something else I might have seen him in. When I googled Wayne on the IMDB, the only thing that came up was this special, a red flag right there. Netflix took a real gamble here that really didn't pay off. Somehow, this unknown managed to get Netflix to film him live in a front of a sold out audience in Washing DC. I knew I was in trouble when he asked the audience to give themselves a hand three times and babbled incessantly about how great it was to be in DC and to be able to do his first concert from there.
Wayne enters down the aisle shaking audience members' hands dressed in a glittery blue suit that looked like something left over from Liberace's estate. For some reason, he decided the way to immediately get the audience on his side was by informing them that he is the father of ten kids with various women and that all of the parents coddle their children too much, lying to them about how they can be anything they want to be. His varied stories about child rearing did nothing to endear him to this reviewer or to the audience.
He attempts to personalize his material by talking about his Uncle Richard who had AIDS and an incident at Thanksgiving dinner when he was nine years old that was even more humorless than his child rearing advice. I got very nervous when he polled the audience via applause regarding their belief in God, which led into an equally unfunny diatribe about his local pastor, Pastor Williams.
He did get a few chuckles out of me when he started a routine about how black people age better than white people because they don't worry about bills the way white people do and just when I thought he might be able to end the evening on a somewhat positive note, he somehow managed to segue back to Pastor Williams and another dumb story about him and Kountry's wheel-chair bound cousin Pierre. You won't see this reviewer waiting on pins and needles for the next Kountry Wayne special.
I've reviewed my fair amount of standup over the years, but this is one genre where I have a tendency to stick to proven commodities. I found out why after viewing a 2023 Netflix concert featuring a comic I've never heard of named Kountry Wayne called Kountry Wayne: A Woman's Prayer.
Before I watched the special, I decided to check out the guy's IMDB page to see if there was something else I might have seen him in. When I googled Wayne on the IMDB, the only thing that came up was this special, a red flag right there. Netflix took a real gamble here that really didn't pay off. Somehow, this unknown managed to get Netflix to film him live in a front of a sold out audience in Washing DC. I knew I was in trouble when he asked the audience to give themselves a hand three times and babbled incessantly about how great it was to be in DC and to be able to do his first concert from there.
Wayne enters down the aisle shaking audience members' hands dressed in a glittery blue suit that looked like something left over from Liberace's estate. For some reason, he decided the way to immediately get the audience on his side was by informing them that he is the father of ten kids with various women and that all of the parents coddle their children too much, lying to them about how they can be anything they want to be. His varied stories about child rearing did nothing to endear him to this reviewer or to the audience.
He attempts to personalize his material by talking about his Uncle Richard who had AIDS and an incident at Thanksgiving dinner when he was nine years old that was even more humorless than his child rearing advice. I got very nervous when he polled the audience via applause regarding their belief in God, which led into an equally unfunny diatribe about his local pastor, Pastor Williams.
He did get a few chuckles out of me when he started a routine about how black people age better than white people because they don't worry about bills the way white people do and just when I thought he might be able to end the evening on a somewhat positive note, he somehow managed to segue back to Pastor Williams and another dumb story about him and Kountry's wheel-chair bound cousin Pierre. You won't see this reviewer waiting on pins and needles for the next Kountry Wayne special.