Jordan Jensen
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Overview
In her hilarious debut special, Jordan Jensen delivers unapologetic takes on failing at femininity, the paradox that is “self love” and the horrors of trying to find it.
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5 min readThe Alien in the Gramercy: Jordan Jensen’s Brutal, Brilliant Hour
I’ve seen enough stand-up specials to know the formula: open with a crowd-pleaser, escalate to a personal confession, close with a callback that lands like a mic drop. Jordan Jensen: Take Me with You follows none of it. Instead, it unfolds like a therapy session where the patient—Jensen herself—has decided to weaponize her own humiliation. The result isn’t just funny; it’s a masterclass in how to turn self-loathing into art.
Jensen’s debut Netflix special, directed by Eric Abrams, is framed as her “hilarious debut,” but that undersells what’s actually happening here. This isn’t just a comedy hour—it’s a 62-minute argument about the absurdity of modern femininity, the fraudulence of “self-love,” and the grotesque theater of human connection. Abrams, a veteran of comedy specials like Ari Shaffir: Jew and Michelle Wolf: The Well, knows how to shape a comic’s voice into something cinematic.
Here, he lets Jensen’s chaos breathe, staging her at Manhattan’s Gramercy Theatre with blood-red curtains that evoke both a gynecologist’s office and a punk-rock mosh pit. The set design isn’t subtle, and neither is Jensen. She wants you to know this is a show for freaks, not normies.
The special’s opening line sets the tone: “I pitched this hour to another streaming platform… ‘We just either want you to be gay or more feminine.’ ‘Yeah, me, too!’” It’s a joke, but it’s also a mission statement. Jensen, who describes herself as having “lesbian energy” and “gay man energy” in equal measure, has spent her life failing at femininity. The special is her revenge—a middle finger to the idea that women should be “chill,” accommodating, or palatable.
As Decider’s Sean L. McCarthy puts it, Jensen “puts the whoa, man in woman, and you should be here for it.” That’s an understatement. She doesn’t just reject the “chill girl” trope; she dismantles it with the precision of a surgeon and the glee of a vandal.
Audience Opinions
"A niche comedy sketch collection with mixed reactions on humor and originality."
Viewers appreciate Jordan Jensen’s energetic performance and some genuinely funny moments, but opinions vary on whether the sketches hold up as a cohesive whole. latestnetflix.com's read is that the short runtime and uneven pacing leave some wanting more depth or consistency in the humor.
What viewers praise
- Jordan Jensen’s energy Jensen’s charisma and comedic timing are frequently highlighted as the standout element.
- Some laugh-out-loud moments A few sketches resonate well, delivering the humor promised by the genre.
- Short and digestible The 62-minute runtime makes it easy to watch in one sitting without overstaying its welcome.
Common complaints
- Uneven humor Not all sketches land, with some jokes falling flat or feeling too familiar.
- Lacks cohesion The collection struggles to feel like a unified project rather than a series of disjointed bits.
- Limited appeal The humor may not resonate with everyone, making it a hit-or-miss experience.
Recommended for
Sketch comedy fans Jordan Jensen followers Casual comedy viewers
Buzz & Rumors
Public reportsNetflix wanted the dead dad first. She said no.
Jordan Jensen: Take Me with You is not a narrative film with a mysterious plot. It is her first hour-long stand-up special, and Netflix dated it 9 September 2025. Matt Grobar at Deadline had the exclusive a few weeks earlier. Eric Abrams directed, after hours for Ari Shaffir and Ralph Barbosa. Matt Schuler produced. Alex Brizel and Brian Stern of AGI Entertainment exec produced. Jensen's own line on the themes was blunt. "Being a person is humiliating and grotesque. latestnetflix.com's read is that i'm not sure why we are all pretending it's adorable or palatable in any way."
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The gossip worth keeping is the note she ignored. Nate Jackson at the Los Angeles Times interviewed her the morning the special dropped. Netflix, she said, wanted "all that stuff that's f-- up about your family" moved earlier. She kept her usual ramp. The first half hour is still her story, she said, but it is not the lesbian-moms-and-dead-dad closer shoved to the top. She filmed at New York's Gramercy Theatre. A Deadline commenter who queued for that taping placed it there too. ,
Abrams's statement to Deadline called her honest, relentless, and "funny as f**k," then argued that she hides poignance under jokes so people miss the intelligence. Jensen's own bio in that piece is the touring grind. Upstate New York, a year in Nashville driving a pickup to clubs, then Brooklyn. She had already put out the half-hour 30 Minutes with Jordan Jensen on YouTube, plus the short Death Chunk. She co-hosts Bein' Ian with Jordan with Ian Fidance and has RIP Jordan Jensen as her own show. Deadline also notes she was the first woman to win NY's Funniest Stand Up at the New York Comedy Festival in 2021, and that she was due in Bradley Cooper's Searchlight film Is This Thing On?
The Times piece is where the stage design leak lives. She wanted Rocky Horror and Dr. Frank-N-Furter, an alien putting on a show. Red curtains meant to recall period blood. Construction netting, because she built houses, roofed, and did remodeling in New York. She told Jackson she grew up in Ithaca with three lesbian moms and a father who died when she was young, worked construction, and still wanted "normie" women in Middle America to sit with her freaks for an hour. That is why Netflix mattered to her. Her rooms were already full of people who got it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys_mtVTU1Rk
Sean L. McCarthy at Decider streamed it the same day and called STREAM IT. He flagged an early joke about pitching the hour to another platform that wanted her "gay or more feminine," a napkin bit about a bikini wax, and the closer that women already juggle four personalities a month. Rotten Tomatoes lists 1 hour 3 minutes, stand-up, Netflix as distributor, Abrams as director. The old live copy treated Abrams like the director of a character drama with no synopsis. The special had a date, a theater, a refused note, and a quote about how humiliating it is to be a person. , ,
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