FULL DISCLOSURE, I watched this show 'cos a girl I like recommended it and I thought it would be a good way of finding out what she deems to be 'dark' comedy.
It is a testament to how much I like this girl that I sat through 15 mins before shouting "nope, can't do it" and decided to waste no more of my Sunday. There aren't words in any of the romance languages to explain how void of "dark" or any kind of comedy his material is and how utterly punchable Daniel Sloss is.
I would prefer any dark comedy over this. I would prefer any comedy over this. I would prefer sitting in the dark to this. Ironically most of the act is Sloss inflating his own ego with claims of how dark he is. His skin tone clearly darker than his own comedy.
After a few minutes I wondered if his act was part of some too clever meta comedy where he would deliberately flop to then come out with an actual joke that lands in a way to mock the audience. No. We were mocked for simply having endorsed this man to the point that this was made. Afterwards, I sat in self pitying shameful silence not felt since seeing my own reflection in my laptop after enjoying an evening with myself the night before. That at least had a happy ending.
I went online within seconds of pausing the show to create an account here just to have a space to rant and warn others how truly awful this show is. Sloss makes Amy Schumer look like Billy Connolly. The worst part of the experience wasn't the dis interesting delivery or his banal choice of words or his underserved self confidence. It was the cringe inducing pause before telegraphed set ups that now mean even silence causes me to have rage inducing flashbacks of a show that will make me sit on the floor of my shower for an hour after writing this to try to wash it off... No wait, the worst thing is that I cannot delete it from netflix so I will have to live with the perverse knowledge that I indirectly endorse and own his material. This is the first and last review I will ever write. It will most likely never be seen. I pray by some miracle of serendipity the same is true of Daniel Sloss and his career.
Review of Daniel Sloss: Live Shows
