A sometimes elusive but steady contributor to the New York comedy scene as well as to Hollywood, comedian/actress/writer
Janeane Garofalo shows the mettle of over two decades in standup in the rapid-fire
If I May, her first special since 2010's If You Will. It premiered on the NBCUniversal streaming service Seeso in October 2016, with a Comedy Dynamics release following two months later.
Garofalo uses her aptitude for off-the-cuff rants and tangents to an unknowable degree on the 65-minute set, seamlessly balancing silly, biting, and self-depreciating observations at screwball-comedy pace. The openly liberal comedian works in a few digs at Republicans here, but politics aren't the topic at hand as she focuses instead on The Hunger Games and The Walking Dead, a utopian bead store, and her fantasy of going to the beauty chain Sephora with the Brontë sisters. ~ Marcy Donelson