In his Netflix special, Aziz Ansari’s doing everything he possibly can to distance himself from the comedian he used to be, kvanaren writes
That’s not the question Aziz Ansari’s new special Right Now poses — not exactly. There are other questions Ansari’s more interested in asking.
More impressively, though, Ansari doesn’t use that sincere opening as a way to get the story out of the way so he can move on to other things. Although he doesn’t make the connections explicit, the whole set continually circles back to the related web of questions his position raises — the problems and conflicts and difficult conundrums that follow from a culture that has, somewhat abruptly, shifted into a different frame of expectations about sexual misconduct and “wokeness.
As he has in past specials, Ansari turns to the crowd several times, singling out a few people and making them into figureheads for returning bits. Those sequences are funny but feel relatively simple, especially when they rely on the happy coincidence of Ansari’s extended sequence on Michael Jackson, punctured by Ansari’s realization that there’s a 10-year-old kid sitting in the front row.
The implications of that bit are not subtle or hard to parse. Some members of the audience are willing to stand in judgment without even the scantest idea of what they’re judging, and the connective tissue between that idea and Ansari’s misconduct allegation is pretty obvious. “We’re all shitty people!” he says. The only reason the audience isn’t as implicated in that unthinking judgment is that unlike Ansari, there’s no widely available footage of them, say, dancing to R. Kelly.
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