Jenny Gorelick: Sorry comedy review – Self-aware sass
Jenny Gorelick’s set tackles the millennial dating experience with a conversational flow and punchy one-liners
Jenny Gorelick’s debut hour bursts out of the gate, setting a cracking pace and building generous laughs from the first few moments. It’s unclear if she’s a genius at crowd work or has just been gifted the perfect crowd to work when an older American gentleman with a touch of verbal diarrhoea admits his single status. Luckily though, he doesn’t have a boat, Gorelick’s preferred mode of transport. Her routine sticks to some standard millennial themes: dating, running out of time to have a baby, old men dating 20-year-olds (who do not run out of time to have babies), more boat chat, romantasy novels and the ever-present apps.
Her timing is excellent and she moves well between longer set-ups to very silly one-liners, impressively building connection even though that leads to a stop-start style of delivery. Really, it’s all a delight, particularly when she veers into the importance of grammar (comma comedy, anyone?) on butt tattoos, which sets up the arc and final callback beautifully. You don’t have to love seagoing vessels to be tempted to take a punt on Jenny Gorelick; for an uncomplicated hour of warm fun, this will definitely float your boat.
Jenny Gorelick: Sorry, Monkey Barrel Studio, until 30 August, 6.25pm; picture: Emilio Madrid.