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Aziz Ansari: Right Now
Directed by
Spike Jonze
TV-MA
2019
65m
Comedy
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7.5
84%
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Aziz Ansari shares deep personal insights and hilarious takes on wokeness, family and the social climate.
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Cast of Aziz Ansari: Right Now
Aziz Ansari
Self / Writer
Spike Jonze
Director
Jason Baum
Producer
Aziz Ansari: Right Now Ratings & Reviews
Ryezoo
February 14, 2025
Well there was nothin traditional about this standup. I think Azi does right by this special. I loved the way they had the camera on stage to give this shot that made it feel as if Azi was talking just to you. It was odd at first how serious he got at times but it works. He needed to clear the air, so he could move on.
Salon.com
Ashlie D. Stevens
[I]n watching "Right Now," Ansari appears to be recognizing the need for growth - not just his own, but the culture at large's as well.
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
Robert Ham
[W]hat [Ansari] does instead is let himself off the hook without extending the same courtesy to the rest of his audience.
The New Yorker
Doreen St. Felix
In Right Now, Ansari is a fitting ambassador for a certain bourgeois ambivalence.
Jezebel
Frida Garza
Ansari's special is funny, although the tone and delivery of it are less animated than his earlier material; he sounds tired at times, even when he starts laughing.
Esquire Magazine
Gabrielle Bruney
Over the course of the special, Ansari hits many more predictable-feeling beats.
The Atlantic
Megan Garber
The jokes here are by turns extremely earnest and extremely cynical, and there is insight buzzing in the messy mergers of the two.
Denton Record-Chronicle
Preston Barta
Just as [Aziz Ansari's] actions caused me to look inward, 'Right Now' has the same effect. Ansari wants people to do what the title of his special suggests: Look at who you are right now and how you live right now. It's an impressive analysis of humanity.
Pajiba
Dustin Rowles
A cynical part of me that thinks it's almost too perfect... I'll give him this much: He nails it. I'm not sure he could have delivered a better special for this moment.
New York Times
Jason Zinoman
By framing the new special around his personal story, and also trimming and refining some weak spots, his act now coheres, taking on a new force and clarity, one that represents his finest, boldest and probably most polarizing work.
Slate
Inkoo Kang
[T]his is still the work of a comedy veteran who channels righteous fed-up-ness and critiques obliviousness with relatable flair.
Uproxx
Kimberly Ricci
Aziz Ansari: Right Now feels like necessary viewing in 2019. He makes the case that we're living in times when the knee-jerk drive to pick a side on any loaded issue can seem overwhelming.
Paste Magazine
Garrett Martin
Despite some good jokes, it's hard to see Right Now as anything but a misfire -- a critique of performative wokeness that is itself a performance of atonement, one that never fully grapples with or acknowledges what it's supposedly atoning for.
Variety
Caroline Framke
Complaining about "wokeness" could easily come off as out of touch and cranky, but Ansari largely avoids that trap by cracking slyly scathing jokes.
Vanity Fair
Sonia Saraiya
Right Now is not all good... But whatever soul-searching or image management that Ansari has gone through since the babe.net story has made him a better performer - one who is more able to dwell in gray areas of comedy.
Newsday
Verne Gay
Risky show, risky strategy and both pay off.
IndieWire
Ben Travers
Framed by a sincere pseudo-apology and an earnest thank you, Ansari's not interested in going for the joke at all costs, so much as he wants to engage again with the audience he almost lost.
TIME Magazine
Judy Berman
His extensive complaints about performative wokeness among liberal white people don't exactly break new ground for stand-up... But he does have a knack for pushing these serious dilemmas into the realm of the absurd.
AV Club
Danette Chavez
Ansari's doing his job of holding up a mirror to society, and he's doing it well.. [and] although he's clearly grateful for the opportunity to continue with his career, for now, Ansari seems content to hold up a mirror to everyone but himself.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Kathryn VanArendonk
Right Now feels like a reckoning because it feels like an hour of Ansari, actively and sometimes futilely and often hilariously, attempting to wrestle with what it means to be an artist in the world right now.
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