
Malena Pichot
Comedian

This funnywoman champions feminism while explaining while walking down the street eating a banana is an extreme sport.
I’ve seen a lot of stand-up specials in my time, but I don’t think I’ve ever watched one where the comedian eats a banana while walking down the street and turns it into a metaphor for the entire female experience. That’s Malena Pichot: Estupidez compleja in a nutshell—or, more accurately, in a banana peel. The Argentine comedian’s 2018 Netflix special is a whirlwind of sharp observations, feminist rage, and absurdist humor, all delivered with the kind of physical comedy that makes you wonder if she’s secretly a trained mime.
(She’s not. Or if she is, she’s hiding it well.)

Pichot’s style is a mix of observational comedy and performance art, and it’s clear from the first minute that she’s not here to play nice. The special opens with her casually strolling through what looks like a park in Buenos Aires, peeling a banana with the kind of nonchalance that immediately sets the tone: this is going to be equal parts hilarious and infuriating, depending on how much you’ve ever had to justify your existence to a man who thinks he knows better.
The banana, of course, becomes the star of the show. She uses it to mock the way women are policed for the most mundane actions—eating in public, walking alone, existing without apology. At one point, she even pretends to masturbate with it, just to see how long it takes for someone to look away.
El Pais columnist Mari Luz Peinado opened with a sofa in Spain. Three exhausted thirty-somethings, saving their energy for International Women's Day, refusing How I Met Your Mother, then spotting a platinum streak on dark hair. Estupidez compleja. One of them already followed Malena Pichot on Twitter. They hit play. Pichot's own definition of the title, Peinado wrote, is the moment someone hands you an argument so stupid it hurts your brain. The hour talks sex, language, religion, rape, and Argentina's fight to decriminalize abortion. latestnetflix.com's view is that Sometimes the laugh turns into an uncomfortable giggle and you do not know where to look.
Netflix put the special up on March 2, 2018, six days before that march. Fifty minutes, TV-MA, Spanish original, English subtitles. Directors Raul Campos and Jan Suter, the Mexican pair who had already turned Latin American clubs into a Netflix comedy line. The Los Angeles Times later wrote that Campos Delgado and BluePrint Content delivered 23 specials across Mexico, Colombia, Chile, and Argentina in three years, five of them Argentine. Pichot's hour is one of those five. TMDB still files her as writer and on-camera comedian, Argentina, runtime 50 minutes. The English overview on that page claims she also explains why walking down the street eating a banana is an extreme sport. That line is the catalog talking. The special itself is bar talk with a punch.,,
She did not arrive from a dark room with a stool. In 2008 she posted a breakup video titled La loca de mierda, roughly The Fucking Crazy Woman, and MTV Latin America put the series on its site. Then the stand-up Concheta pero con gracia, Campa-Pichot with Ezequiel Campa, Juan Jose Campanella's El hombre de tu vida on Telefe, and the sketch slot Cualca on Canal 9's Duro de domar. Wikipedia calls her a feminist stand-up, actress, and screenwriter, born 6 July 1982 in Buenos Aires. El Observador, on drop day, called her one of the loudest Argentine feminist voices on the circuit that had already moved from YouTube sketches to television. The paper quoted her telling Primicias Ya that Netflix was a chance to reach more people and to lock the jokes into a nice piece of filmed work. She also wrote the song over the credits.,
The official Netflix Latinoamerica trailer sold feminism as a banner, plus why it is fine to let a man pay for dinner. IMDb users split, 5.8 from a few hundred votes, one calling the hour militant, another praising the choice of politics over polish. What actually shipped is a woman who already had YouTube, Canal 9, and a Twitter army, parking fifty minutes of that voice on a platform that could hand it to three friends on a sofa in time for March 8.,
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