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HBO Comedy Special: LEO REICH: LITERALLY WHO CARES?! | Review

by Jef Dinsmore
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Well, first off Leo Reich, you better hope somebody cares about this HBO gig or you’ve got a bomb on your hands! It turns out enough people do. Even I cared too care enough to give his special a look. LEO REICH: LITERALLY WHO CARES? debuted on HBO on December 16, 2023. It was filmed at EartH (Evolutionary Arts Hackney) an arts center in East London where Reich is from. In this, his first HBO comedy special, the self-diagnosed important young mind faces the swirling uncertainty of our collective future, asking the big questions, such as: “Is this helping?”, “Am I hot?”, and “No offense guys but literally what is going on?” Treading the line between hilarious stand-up and humorless performance art, his comedy special blends songs, anecdotes, and anxious non-sequiturs in a valiant attempt to raise awareness about important social and political causes… or something.

This young buck, at 25 at the time of taping, has got to be the youngest comedian out there. He quickly generates an HBO gig perhaps because of his age and the fact The Times of Britain labeled him as “best new British talent.” Okay, so then how wasn’t I all bonkers over his routine? Okay, okay, before we jump into that perhaps the special’s trailer will help define just what his gig is a little better.

Oh, except it really doesn’t. It scratches the surface, it teases, it tells us he does a little singing, a little dancing, and a whole lot of postulating his place in the scheme of things. It certainly wants you to take in the whole 66 minutes worth, and I did. But I’m still not all bonkers for it. Oh, don’t get me wrong. He is clever, energetic, profound, and just on point in his craft, but so are a dozen other comedians out there. It is just that he is pulling it off at this young age that caught me. He schooled this old baby boomer on what is on the mind of his crowd, which is queer Gen-Z. He is telling us, literally who cares we are all in this muck-LeoReich-LiterallyWhoCares_Pic2-300x172up so just do you and get through. He is. A case in point is his slapping non-humorous performance art into the mix because he can and you’ll watch it and if you truly pay attention in those moments they just might say something.

I appreciate how deft he is in the craft at his age, that it got him an HBO gig, and that he has the perception of society and his place in it that he does, but I didn’t go bonkers for it, you know? I mean I could kinda throw it right back at ya. Gen Z – literally who cares? WHO CARE?! Is worth a watch, you just might not totally connect with it. Find it on Max. Also, feel free to tell me I got it all wrong in the Comments below.

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