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Hannah Einbinder: Everything Must Go
Hannah Einbinder has been nominated for two Emmys for her work as Ava Daniels on the Max series Hacks with Jean Smart and I have really enjoyed her work on that show. Unfortunately, I found her 2024 comedy concert debut Everything Must Go a pretentious disappointment.
The concert provides a rather strange beginning watching the actress driving, with her nose placed well in the air, to the El Ray Theater in Los Angeles, where we see her enter the theater and the camera is at her back, where she takes a bow before anything happens and we then see the curtain in front of her open as she turns back around and takes a bow to her audience.
I found myself actually shocked by the differences between Hannah and Ava, the character she portrays on Hacks. Ava is a bundle of insecurities, but there is nothing that even resembles an insecurity here. Einbinder's onstage presence conveys the presence and experience of someone who has been doing stand up for 50 years, but her actual writing and delivery don't match the attitude that she presents onstage.
The actress displays talent as a writer and as a comedienne, but the two talents don't really seem to gel. Her writing seems to be above her audience's head most of the time and actually lets the audience know when a joke doesn't get the reaction she wanted or expected. There is a point early on in the show where she finishes a story and informs the audience that they did not react the way she wanted and that she would re-phrase the joke in order to get the reaction that she wanted.
It's about twenty minutes after this where she garners the first real laughs from this reviewer when she begins to talk about her bisexuality, which she claimed gives her the authority to talk about the differences between men and women. There is definite talent here butt it's still underneath the surface a bit. Her writing possesses imagination, her delivery has variety and she can do amazing things with her voice, but they don't all work together yet. The biggest laugh Einbinder got from me was when she confessed that even though her father is heterosexual, he does cry when Julie Andrews hits the high "C" at the end of "Do Re Mi" in The Sound of Music. Love Einbinder on Hacks, but this was the longest fifty-four minutes of my life.
Hannah Einbinder has been nominated for two Emmys for her work as Ava Daniels on the Max series Hacks with Jean Smart and I have really enjoyed her work on that show. Unfortunately, I found her 2024 comedy concert debut Everything Must Go a pretentious disappointment.
The concert provides a rather strange beginning watching the actress driving, with her nose placed well in the air, to the El Ray Theater in Los Angeles, where we see her enter the theater and the camera is at her back, where she takes a bow before anything happens and we then see the curtain in front of her open as she turns back around and takes a bow to her audience.
I found myself actually shocked by the differences between Hannah and Ava, the character she portrays on Hacks. Ava is a bundle of insecurities, but there is nothing that even resembles an insecurity here. Einbinder's onstage presence conveys the presence and experience of someone who has been doing stand up for 50 years, but her actual writing and delivery don't match the attitude that she presents onstage.
The actress displays talent as a writer and as a comedienne, but the two talents don't really seem to gel. Her writing seems to be above her audience's head most of the time and actually lets the audience know when a joke doesn't get the reaction she wanted or expected. There is a point early on in the show where she finishes a story and informs the audience that they did not react the way she wanted and that she would re-phrase the joke in order to get the reaction that she wanted.
It's about twenty minutes after this where she garners the first real laughs from this reviewer when she begins to talk about her bisexuality, which she claimed gives her the authority to talk about the differences between men and women. There is definite talent here butt it's still underneath the surface a bit. Her writing possesses imagination, her delivery has variety and she can do amazing things with her voice, but they don't all work together yet. The biggest laugh Einbinder got from me was when she confessed that even though her father is heterosexual, he does cry when Julie Andrews hits the high "C" at the end of "Do Re Mi" in The Sound of Music. Love Einbinder on Hacks, but this was the longest fifty-four minutes of my life.