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Stevie Martin: clout

 
Esther Review by Esther 3 Published: 25 Aug 2024 Monkey Barrel Comedy Show Dates: 29 Jul 2024-25 Aug 2024

In Stevie Martin: clout, at the Monkey Barrel, Martin plays a successful “online comedian” - which she calls herself before retching.

The gags are almost relentless

She goes on to lament how the social media content she creates is now dictated by “the algorithms” and so she has returned to the ‘realness’ of live stand-up...which she explores

through sharing her own TikTok videos, Tweets and memes.

Much like a reel or TikTok, there is little momentum leading up to a joke but the gags are almost

relentless. A lot of the jokes rely on the visual aids on the onstage screens, which if you

blink, you miss, as Martin moves onto the next projection. The “in memorial” slide of “jokes

cut from the show” is funny on irony alone. “It’s so hard to make anything new now when

everything’s on the internet, which kind of takes the pressure off,” Martin posits. “So why

try?”

There’s no denying that Martin has most of the audience in stitches, undoubtedly helped by

the fact that the room is mostly full of her fellow, equally-as-online millennials. It is quite meta

to complain about what social media has done to comedy while heavily relying on it for a

comedy show, though it’s unclear if this is intentional. It would be interesting to see if Martin

could hold a room and our attention spans sans tech.

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Stevie Martin (8 out of 10 Cats, Guessable, a Thornton's advert) has been doing online comedy for a while (45 million views worldwide) so is returning to Fringe with a new live show. It's like her online content but she'll be on a stage and you can't pause her to get snacks (meats?). Also you have to sit in a specific room to watch it (please don’t bring your meats to this room). As seen/heard on The Mash Report, Late Night Mash, Starstruck, Breeders and hit podcast Nobody Panic. 'Funny AF' (Time Out). 'Exceptional' **** (Fest).