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A Comedy Special About Wanting to Cheat on Your Husband

Ali Wong’s latest show is hilarious, filthy, and accessible despite its potentially alienating subject matter.
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Ali Wong isn’t the type of comedian to simply walk onto a stage. She’s the kind who strides toward the mic, carrying herself like a WWE wrestler whose anger fuels her strength—hips forward, shoulders back, chin down, one eyebrow cocked. And in , her third Netflix special, which is now streaming, she wastes no time in flexing her resentment. “You know, I’m very and ,” she says in her set’s opening line, enunciating the words with enough ire that even those seated in the nosebleeds can see the steam rising from

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