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(2023) We’re All Dads Here

We’re All Dads Here (2023)
Rating: Good

Natasha Vaynblat is a 35-year-old woman who was born in Russia and moved to America when she was seven years old. But this isn’t all that she’s about! She tells you about her pooping idiosyncrasies, buttholes with teeth, and her dog’s desire to get in on her sexual escapades. Now, I was worried at first that Vaynblat was going to be a Sarah Silverman-type — a cute, little woman with a sailor’s vocabulary and a predisposition for the scatological. One of her first jokes was about her vagina leaking chlorine during water yoga. We’ve all been there, right fellas?

Luckily, things picked up when Vaynblat started talking about life in New York City, its rat problem, its subway problem, and how to fend off catcallers. Comedians have beaten NYC to death for decades, but Vaynblat offers a fresh perspective on one of the world’s most notorious cities. For instance, she refers to the NYC subway system as a year-round haunted hayride. “The lights suddenly shut off occasionally, the performers will jump out at you from all angles…” Quirks abound with Vaynblat’s point of view and, like all good comedians, she’s good at pulling you into the way she sees the world.

The strongest material comes from her Russian upbringing. Her parents sound endlessly sweet, if not bewildered by American customs to this day. I’m sure her parents are dead-on typical caricatures of Russian immigrants, but her descriptions of how her father will argue relentlessly as a means to make genial conversation (“Boris, you’ve made a new friend today!“) or how her mother will get catfished by an online individual pretending to be Bryan Ferry (“Nice job, Bryan.“) are very funny and oddly relatable in the “Boomers being fools” sense. My favorite joke is how Vaynblat describes trying to get into a Russian museum for free as an adult by pretending to be a citizen and successfully attempting to get past the security guard (“You appear to be American. You smile at strangers, which is pathetic. And your eyeshadow is too subtle. BUT, you seem to have little respect for authority and you try to cheat the system, so come on in!“)

Other highlights include Vaynblat’s ordeal with fraudulent credit card charges where it turns out that she was mistakenly charging herself without her knowledge and then reimbursing herself for months, and her idea that women should have a Mr. Skin-type website that pinpoints the exact timestamp in movies where “the man apologizes”. So, see? As it turns out, it’s not all scatological humor! Vaynblat has range, and I look forward to seeing what else she can cook up in the future.