Kathleen Madigan: Bothering Jesus (2016) Online

Kathleen is one of those rare comedians who has the knack to turn everyday life into hilarious tales... her delivery, timing, vocabulary, articulation and vocal expressions are all seamlessly and naturally woven together to bring belly laughs at every day situations - my favorite stand-up comic...

I don't really get the negative reviews.

She was hilarious, and my whole family enjoyed the show.

The opening song is terrible (just get past it).

But the rest of the show is very funny.

She has clever humor, reminiscent of Lewis Black. She is very close with Lewis.

I've lost track of the number of times I've watched this performance. It makes me laugh out loud every time! Kathleen Madigan has the kind of warped point of view that I identify with. Her material covers meth in Independence, MO, the Ferguson situation, missing Malaysia flight 350, her large Irish family and more.

Lewis Black is on-hand to do the introduction. As she says, he's way overqualified as an opening act.

Kathleen points out the oddities of life, like when the police take your phone away and THEN let you make your phone call. Or her parents heading to Florida for the winter and unknown to them she books them with Uber riders, who they pickup because the phone tells them to. She points out the illogic in our lives, and I find myself thinking, that's right! Why do we do that. If you want to know, it's is the show for you.

If you don't watch anything else of the show, locate the bit about noodling for catfish. If you don't double over laughing, just quit watching stand-up.

I've watched Madigan Again and Bothering Jesus at least 5 times EACH and still laugh. Her humor is witty rather than vulgar and immature.

I've never seen any of her other work so I have nothing to compare this with... and I only watched this because I read that it was so spectacularly bad, I wanted to see for myself.

She could have been forgiven for her politics if only she was creative and funny. Ben Elton is a good example of this. He's fanatically left- wing AND he makes me laugh. Also - he doesn't hector and insult everyone who disagrees with him.

This review is going to be short and sweet because, to be completely honest, I don't have much experience in judging comedy specials. Usually, standup comedy isn't really "my thing", but if something catches my eye I'll watch from time to time.

A few years back, I watched what I think was first comedy routine to be put to film, and I remember thinking it was hilarious. She isn't for everyone, but I'm not too prudish when it comes to humor, so I enjoyed it.