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It is fascinating to watch what happens when comedians become very famous.
The weakest sections are the ones where she pivots back toward the comfortable, familiar, or unsurprising.
InBaby Cobra, Wong talks about longing to be a trophy wife.
Its a little uncomfortable, that joke, but many of Wongs jokes bend that way.
Maybe itwouldbe annoying to have to tip more.
Her annoyance is ungenerous, but its appealingly transparent.
Sex is something she enjoys, but its also about bolstering her marriage.
And marriage is an inescapably financial relationship, even if its also about love and family.
But no, she chose to get on her knees and stick your $40,000-a-year dick in her mouth.
Clearly the tables have turned.
Where Wong once described carefully cultivating her husbands dependence on her, she is now fully in command.
Wong is the busy one.
She punctures that idea quickly, but then lands somewhere just as improbable.
Instead, she fantasized about cheating with the films food consultant.
Shes met the entire cast ofThe Avengers.
But some of the moves inDon Wongsoften all those hard edges in disappointing ways.
Does an audience actually need the parts where she gestures at imagined, universal life experiences?
Does she need to be relatable to be popular?
This special betrays an anxiety that perhaps she does, and that tension is never resolved.
After the hour thats preceded it, its a likability relief valve.
(Shes also a movie star now!
That vision isnt impossible!)
Her success is what got her here, but its also what makes this less true.
