Showtime s Ziwe lacks the Instagram live show s radical humor
Black digital creatives humor can t be as revolutionary when Hollywood gets involved.
Ziwe Fumudoh s new show is a big jump for a Black creator but at what cost?Myles Loftin / SHOWTIME
May 11, 2021, 9:48 AM UTC
Ziwe Fumudoh was forced to pivot during the pandemic. For the 29-year-old comedian, that meant transitioning her comedy show Baited with Ziwe from a high-production-value series on YouTube to a more stripped-down presentation on Instagram. A year later, Fumudoh who goes by just her first name professionally is back in an even bigger studio with a brand new audience on Showtime.
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In 2014, when Kim Jong-un was absent from public life and rumored to be gravely ill, Bobby Moynihan portrayed the North Korean Supreme Leader in a “Saturday Night Live” cold open. The impression was typical Moynihan: loud, excitable, a bit slapstick. He jumped around the stage and whipped himself into a frenzy.
Five years later, Bowen Yang played Kim during his on-camera “SNL” debut. Yang’s approach was wildly different. Instead of treating Kim like a noisy bloviator, Yang made him petty. He scowled, rolled his eyes and came across as a bitchy gossip.
When I contracted AIDS, I contracted a diseased society as well, is the opening quote from the new searing documentary
Wojnarowicz: F k You F ggot F ker, playing at the Roxie Theater and to be released May 18 on DVD by Kino Lorber. This remark epitomizes Wojnarowicz as the quintessential outsider, a vantage point that allowed him to be a scathing iconoclast as artist, cultural critic, writer, musician, photographer, and filmmaker.
Often grouped together with his queer contemporaries Robert Mapplethorpe and Keith Haring, all AIDS casualties, Wojnarowicz was a unique interdisciplinary multi-media boundary-breaking activist for whom art and politics was inseparable. Wojnarowicz, the fiery, uncompromising, provocative individual was as much his artistic creation as any painting, essay, collage, image, or video he generated.
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WHAT IT S ABOUT:
A documentary series that finds acclaimed filmmaker, Martin Scorsese, in conversation with Fran Liebowitz, the outspoken, idiosyncratic writer, public speaker, occasional actress and consummate New Yorker. Liebowitz gives a guided tour of New York and how it has changed since she came there from New Jersey fifty-odd years ago. Along the way, she freely offers her many, many opinions on everything from gentrification to sports to her life-long love of books.
WHAT WE THOUGHT:
Look, there s no getting past it, Pretend It s a City is a weird, weird series. Not in the way that, say,
Twin Peaks is weird, but in the sense that it s the least likely idea for a fairly prestige Netflix series that I could possibly imagine. It has Martin Scorsese behind it, sure, but seven half-hour episodes of Scorsese interviewing a single person? And not even a particularly well-known person outside of New York, let alone America? How on earth did this even get past the pitch stage?