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‘Pause With Sam Jay’ Is A Revelation and Breath of Fresh Air: WATCH

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Pause with Sam Jay on HBO Max is must see TV in every possible way. We love Jay and if you haven’t already, stop what you’re doing and catch her first stand-up show: Sam Jay: 3 In the Morning on Netflix stat, but Pause is a revelation.

Her bit on trans women was fresh and apparently, predictably controversial, but definitely worth watching.

For a talk show it’s a breath of fresh air in format, revolutionary in content.

Co-created by Jay, who is a stand-up comedian and Saturday Night Live writer, and Prentice Penny, the showrunner and executive producer of Insecure, it feels fresh for some obvious reasons. Jay is a Black queer woman in a field filled with straight white men. But aside from the host, the format also feels unique. Where late night is dominated by monologues, desks, interviews, and panels, Pause is quite literally a party. Jay invites over her real-life friends and fellow comedians, and they shoot the shit, filmed by two camera operators, while Jay guides the conversation toward the episode’s topic.

The first episode even had a shocking and remarkable moving part where Black conservative Olivia Rondeau comes out to Jay in a moving and genuinely sincere moment, the likes rarely seen in the age of reality TV.

And watch the hilarious drafting of “The New Constitution” sketch below.

Jay manifests the aura of a salon in the classic sense. The French salon, a product of The Enlightenment in the early 18th century, was a key institution in which women played a central role. Salons provided a place for women and men to congregate for intellectual discourse.

Jay manages to created that kind of discourse here.

Watch the trailer below. Pause With Sam Jay airs on HBO Max Fridays at 9PM EST.

 

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