Lynne Koplitz
Herself
Overview
Unabashed comedian Lynne Koplitz offers a woman's take on being crazy, the benefits of childlessness and the three things all men really want.
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4 min readHormonal Beast and the Stand-Up That Won’t Sit Down
I’ve seen enough comedy specials to know the rhythm by now: the mic check, the crowd warm-up, the first joke that either lands or doesn’t, the slow build to a thematic crescendo. Lynne Koplitz’s Hormonal Beast doesn’t break that rhythm so much as it refuses to let it lull you into complacency. This isn’t a special that wants to charm you into submission.
It wants to make you squirm, laugh, and then squirm again—not because the jokes are edgy in the way we’ve come to expect from stand-up, but because they’re personal in a way that feels like eavesdropping on a conversation you weren’t meant to hear.
Koplitz takes the stage in a simple black dress, her hair pulled back, her expression somewhere between exhaustion and defiance. There’s no preamble, no attempt to ingratiate herself with the audience. She starts with a joke about menopause, and it’s not the kind of joke that softens the blow.
It’s the kind that leans into the discomfort, the kind that makes you wonder if you’re supposed to laugh or if you’re the butt of it. That’s the tension that runs through the entire 51 minutes: Is this funny because it’s true, or is it true because it’s funny? And does it even matter?
The special’s title, Hormonal Beast, is both a punchline and a mission statement. Koplitz isn’t just riffing on the clichés of female hysteria; she’s reclaiming them, turning them inside out, and then setting them loose in a room full of people who might not be ready for what comes next. She talks about hormones like they’re a force of nature, something that can’t be controlled or tamed, only endured.
Buzz & Rumors
Public reportsA Netflix exec's wife asked why she wasn't already on the service.
Lynne Koplitz was coming back from a horrible gig when the call arrived. Open for Louis C.K. at Madison Square Garden. She had a theatre arts degree from Troy University and more than two decades on the circuit, including Comedy Central Presents. She still talked to God about it. Backstage she said, "I told you if you opened the doors, I'd walk through them, but please don't let me fall on my face." She did pretty well. latestnetflix.com's read is that Three weeks later they wanted her in Chicago in two hours.She was kind of broke. 
Then she opened for Louis C.K.'s Netflix taping. One of the executives in the house said his wife turned to him mid-set and asked, "Why isn't Lynne on Netflix?" Koplitz told her alma mater the quiet part. "There aren't middle-aged women doing specials on Netflix. They were looking for some spice or variety." He called. They wanted to do it with her. She said to God, "You so funny."
The hour is 51 minutes of a woman who is not crazy.
Marcus Raboy directed. Koplitz wrote it and took an executive producer credit. Netflix dropped Lynne Koplitz: Hormonal Beast on August 22, 2017. TMDB still sells the logline as a woman's take on being crazy, the benefits of childlessness, and the three things all men really want. Decider clocked her near 50. The boyfriend who claimed she had not told him the correct date for the taping is in the set. So is her mother, via voicemail, getting Netflix explained to her. , , 
FADER's Leah Mandel had never heard of her until the banner. Twenty-eight years in, first hour special. The opener is dry. "Mothers are like tornadoes. You can't prepare." Men call women crazy. Koplitz says the tornado has been brewing. "Don't you think we see the cows flying by?" The three things men need, in her telling, are food, silence, and sex. She gives a PSA, now that she has a national platform, that a gagging sound is not a good sound. Greenwich Village millennials yelling at 7 a.m. get sent uptown to Kellyanne Conway's house.
Joan gets the last card.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6bjjr51tGc
Decider heard Joan Rivers in the voice from the first minutes. They were friends from IFC's Z Rock and Joan and Melissa: Joan Knows Best. Rivers is credited in tribute at the end. Koplitz told Troy Today the theme is reporting the truth as she sees it about men and women and life. "Because I'm a comic, I spend a lot of time with men, and it's weird how much men will say to me, 'You don't need to know how true that was.'" Netflix's trailer sold the line. She's not crazy. She's a Hormonal Beast. , ,
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