Amberia Allen Sums Up Marriage With A 'Contradictory White Girl Statement' 

tough crowd.... but i like her style!! confident and no fucks given, haha. not everyone can pul off those jokes and still retain their charm.

here from zooming with the homies

Just saw her on KEEP YOUR DISTANCE 2022. She absolutely KILLLLLED. "I just Love him so Much"🤣🤣

I lost it at "contradictory white girl statements." I do that all the time! She was so funny!

Amberia!! I can’t believe I’m so behind! We interned together on Capitol Hill many years ago. So happy for you girl!!! 💛💛💛

She killed it, this crowd sucked! Hilarious set, loved her!

She killed it. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Saw her at David A. Arnold memorial….love the grace and style she brings to the comedy world!

I love Amberia. She hosts TYT sometimes and has brilliant commentary. She's talented in many fields evidently

I think her delivery needs a little more work, and I'd like to see her flesh out her routine with a little more content, but it's a decent start, and it's nice to see a woman getting a shot on the stage for once. As an editor, I appreciated the bits about "enrolling" and "Who booty is it?", and her marriage breakdown was pretty humorous. I just wish there'd been less pausin for effect, and more observations and commentary.

She'd be better in a sitcom, actually she should have her own sitcom, she would be perfect!

Why is everybody outraged? She is telling the truth!

Great set. Horrible crowd

"Arrrrrr!!! Who booty is it?! 💰🏴‍☠️"

“For Sure Not” 😭😭😭

I like her

She is quite good. I don't understand all the hate 💪

I enjoy her . I hope to hear more of her

*_The less you talk the more people think about your words_*

Ugh, I HATE when people use those statements "yeah no." Especially when I've been at work, doing surveys or dispatching, where accuracy is important. I'm like, "which one is it, yeah or no?" Some Spanish speakers do it too: "no sí." ARGH.

I laughed a couple times, one particular person in the crowd stayed laughing.

She is funny, intelligent, and beautiful. I'm a new fan.

I got a “Our Cartoon President” ad on this video! 😁

Amazing lady

She is funny! She’s also really smart!!!

Geez, tough crowd. She's not bad tbh

Ah shit, Amberia!! I've seen her so many times on TYT. I didn't know she was a comedian. I just always admired her for her intellect and insightful perspective!

She was awesome! The crowd needs to wake up. I hope she continues with comedy!

maybe what her husband minds is not that she does stand up comedy, but that she is so bad at it

Who's booty is this? NOT Who's booty is it....wow what a professor lol

Super funny, I love her comedy style.

Sooo talented OMG ! Great stuff ! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Can't sign up for courses. Only marriage.

No, Amberia. You are the wife he enrolled in. IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN! YEAH! TONIGHT!

Very funny !

She's good.

Funny!!😂😂😂

No, ya, so relatable...

gotta love it, they tear each other apart

Yo she killed😂🔥 this crowd is spoiled

Is the class she teaches called 'How to get away with killin' it"?

chill stand up

Lady, your students have to put up with your routines because they need the grades. That’s not real laughter you’re hearing in class. In the real world, whatever you call this, is CRINGEWORTHY

The best bit was at 5:05

I WANT MORE !!!!

Oh I like her. She's good

Aren't comediants supposed to make you laugh?

Here from keep ur distance comedy she is hilarious!!!!

I'm glad she has a good day job.

I know her from TYT. Good to see she's getting out there.

oof, that was rough

If this set had been in a comedy club there would have been complete silence, interrupted by an occasional groan.

I like her! I wish they would put up the unedited clip, though. That ending was abrupt.

brilliant

she has got so much improvement to do!

The hard truth is that it is very difficult to win an audience over when you start off by letting them know that you are smarter than them. If I had to give her any advice at all, it would be to avoid telling the audience, or explaining to them, how smart you are, and just be smart about your comedy. Comedians have to be people with whom one can relate. In this bit, she does very little. Yes, women can relate to men hitting on them. What else is there? How many of those people in the audience have PhD degrees? I would like to see her cut the condescending faces. This is something that seems to be popular to do in today's comedy attempts, and it's akin to a fart joke. That is, it's okay once in a great while, and I don't mind it. But if your act is one big fart, then you've got work to do. I'd ask her to study other successful comedians who are like her. For example, Aisha Tyler is female, black, and very smart. She's also personable and yet tough. I've seen lots of her work, and it is as water-tight as a duck's asshole. Impeccable. This is what a seasoned professional looks and sounds like. Ms. Allen needs to spend about 3 more years at Sal's Comedy Hole open mic night before she should be on a stage. This is not an insult. Rather, it is a suggestion. I think that she has potential. Someone else mentioned a Ted Talk comedy act, which I think would be rather specialized, and that idea actually has potential. It's cool that Colbert is offering breaks to comedians who are getting started. Who knows, maybe she did better in the audition. It would be easy to dismiss me as a "hater" or a "misogynist," but I don't go liking or disliking comedians because of what's between their legs. It's all about comedy, and I think that I've been more than fair and constructive enough in this comment to have clearly made my point.

Not quite polished, but just the debut. I like the style.

She needs to go to The Comedy Store University. This shit would get her heckled off the stage there.

"Who booty is it?" Had me rolling! She is hilarious!

I like that she was willing to take a risk by being abrasive and no-fucks-given about hiding her confidence. That statistically doesn't usually go over well for female comedians. Only a handful have pulled it off successfully long-term.

Thanks for spotlighting WOC Stephen

Sorry, can’t finish. Bye.

Wow is cool to see Amberia Allen doing stand up on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert I know her from being a guest host sometimes on TYT (The Young Turks) I love when she's makes an appearance on TYT and I enjoyed seeing her act on the show this was pretty good. 👍🏿👍🏿

I know no one's reading this anymore, but... I agree with several other commenters here that this set didn't work, but I don't think it was the audience (they were fine for the rest of the show) nor her ability to be funny (other clips of her I just watched, including some of the very same jokes, were funnier than this). The main problems seem to be the basic structure of the set and the persona/attitude she's projecting. She starts out presenting herself as an intellectual and tells a grammar-nazi type joke with a condescending attitude ("Here's the thing…" / "The word you're looking for…"). So, right off the bat she is digging herself into a hole. (Forgive the mixed metaphor.) The joke might have worked better if she had set up a _particular_ guy who was hitting on her (rather than the general "men") who was unlikable for some reason (a logical choice would be the _way_ he was hitting on her -- but she would have to act it out more than she did here to "sell" his unlikability), so the audience could more easily take her side in seeing the condescension as justified. Then the "who booty" joke (continuing the grammar-nazi premise) didn't really work for me because, again there was minimal setup/context. I was immediately asking myself, what was the nephew referring to? Why was he tweeting that? That just distracted me a bit and detracted from the joke. Then she finally gets to a somewhat self-deprecating premise (her husband not liking her doing comedy), but it's complicated by the fact that she's talking about his unexpressed attitude towards her, which makes the self-deprecating aspect of the joke not quite work -- or, at the very least, that makes it just kind of a bummer, because it's about a husband being disappointed in his wife. And then that immediately leads into a luke-warm assessment of marriage itself. Fortunately, this is followed by the most successful (IMO) bit in the routine, the "contradictory white girl statements" of the video title. Unfortunately, the "wifeymaterial" / "husband's underwear" followup to that is rather weak and underdeveloped -- and, again, both jokes basically present her in a "superior" position relative to the other person (she's "punching down" far too much in this routine). And then the bit about watching the husband's football tape is just plain mean sounding. She did this same joke much better in a clip elsewhere on YT: she left out the "dropped passes" and "not good" part of the joke and just trailed off after asking, "that's what it was? the knee injury?", thereby letting the audience fill in the blank about what the real reason was for "not making it". It was much more effective. Finally, the step-sisters joke was (just) okay, but again was based on a rather negative premise (divorce and step-sibling rivalry) and had a potentially offensive punchline (especially if you're a step-sibling to someone). Apart from that, it was also a bit of a "thinker" (the meaning of the punchline may not be immediately obvious), so it might have worked better in the middle of the set instead of at the very end. In summary, she made her job much more difficult than it needed to be by adopting a "superior" persona and "punching down" throughout, having other people be the butt of almost every joke (not to mention, these other people were always family members), and using premises based on largely negative situations. Unfortunately, the jokes were (in my opinion) not strong enough to overcome these difficulties. (After all, much comedy is based on discomfort, but it has to really pay off to not be dragged down by the discomfort.) Admittedly, she might have done better with a little more time, so she could flesh out the setups a bit more and perhaps use more than one punchline per setup. Based on the few clips I've seen, however, I don't think that's really her style. I think she simply made some wrong choices in putting together her "tight five".

It's gonna be a no from me, dog.

I saw her on the young Turks. She is 👌

reminds me of both sarah silverman (voice) and amy schumer (timing)

Oh! She is good.

Most ads are more entertaining. I don’t expect to hear her name ever again.

nothing gets a crowd started like introducing yourself as "beeing superior" and "talking down to ppl about not being good enough" for the first minute in a comedy routine, then harping on a guy using "slang", to then start getting at jokes after 3 min....in a 5min slot lets try this again, shall we? now, i don't know her full routine, but if she wanted to play the "superior bitch" it worked, question is if ppl wanna listen to that for "commedy" without funny breaks, at least shuffle the content of the routine around and put the marriage jokes first so the crowd gets into the mood.

OMG stop saying 'wifey material"!!!

She's not bad. She's average. I hope she continues and improves.

Here is a lesson for ya’ll. Don’t pull back your daughters hair when she is young otherwise... 🤭

Was that comedi ?!

is this a ted talk?

Bragging about PhD, talking about men hitting on her, talking about her friends instagram account... So bad, obvious, and bland.

Be a good wife. You're not a good comedian.

I liked it. But maybe it's because I'm black and educated....cute set I love that she isn't playing the stereotypical black comedian role at least.

but who booty was it

No bootie dough.

Her husband hates when she does stand up comedy --- yeah, so does the audience 😅😅😎

Amberia is great!

"I think my husband hates that I do standup" Everyone hates that you do standup...

Timming problems. She thanked before the audience reacted (or the one guy who goes hohoo). Next, I presume same guy laughs before she finishes the joke and they finally sync before sink.

(Divide to conquer) Marriage has been an broken invention searching for a qualified mechanic .

Yaa-awn!

She's great. :)

How did she get that part in this show?? Her delivery was almost like bragging and her material was all over that place. Guys that hit on me and my husband. I don't know man, are people being biased cause she gatta prudy face...

SHES A TYT CONTRIBUTOR!!!

What the hell is wrong with your husband's underwear that horrified you?

she is awesome

Got MUCH better half way through, but started out a little rough. But by the end, I REALLY liked it! :D

By far the best standup I've seen on this show so far. Funny without the cringy or pity-party.

The rare occasion when you see real new talent.

Sweetheart don't worry, your husband isn't the only disappointed person with your stand-up. :)

People taking the husband gags serious as if she's talking about any real husband of hers... Do you think Hemsworth is actually the real Thor too? How stupid do you want to be?

She's funny!

That was painfully unfunny.

Kinda yeah, but mostly nah

I applaud Stephen giving new comedians a break. Some are better than others. None so far are a threat to him. As for this lady, I like her approach. Using her intellect as the observation point. She was looking down at everyone with a dose of reality for each. I liked it. Definitely needs polish. The underwear bit needs work but has great potential. Maybe, "I know a lot of men are choosy about their underwear. My husband insists he isn't. He only buys white drawers. But, I think he just might be a closet fashionista cause he colors all his white drawers yellow and brown. I know cause every morning I have to pick up the underwear he discarded the night before. Every time I do I remind myself this man is a highly educated well respected, well paid professional an attorney, a member of the court and we are a good match. Then I pick up his underwear and I think, Aw hell nah! This man is an animal he is one step above making monkey sounds and throwing poop at the jury. Sometimes, I think about just giving up and calling in a hazmat team . I'm pretty sure those stains, they're toxic. I'm not sure his cast off drawers aren't alive.I have definitely seen life in a petri dish, looked just like that... yellow and brown. I try to stay positive. I try not to dwell on those less than pleasant aspects of married life. But, seriously, sometimes I feel I should just ask him, "Honey, when you were you a boy did anybody, anywhere, at any time mention anything along the lines of shaking and wiping as a basic function of male hygiene?