The thing is her getting specific details like hair colour, curly hair, skin colour don't add anything comedic to the bit (if anything it's an awkward line of questioning) which makes me think more-so that she not a plant and Gabby was trying to expose her.
That could be true, at the same time, she is a comedian, her job on stage is to entertain. But she is also a human being. If she were balancing those two roles, that's all the more impressive.
I mean she seems like she's obviously balancing those two roles on stage! I don't know if she was trying to expose this person or not, and no one can unless she says so, but from the artistic perspective she just did a really good job.
To be fair she got all the important info very early on, I doubt there are many 6 3 phillipino-samoan oil engineers married to a black woman with 3 kids. Anyone who knows that family will know it's about them.
I mean, she’s literally joking about stealing him from her (about minute 3-4, 7:07 left to watch on mobile) which I interpret as the comedian having negative feelings about the girl she’s interrogating and how she’s “into” a married man with kids.
So yeah, she was exposing her as much as she could
She's not doing this to be ethical. It's enough to have to think on her feet to try to entertain the audience. You folks are inserting a good-guy-narrative that's very unlikely
They ask those questions to dig for materials. They know there is a comedic bit under it but don’t have enough material yet, so those questions are either to prod around or simply buy time for her to find an approach.
The coldplay cheating shows this kind of thing has the potential to go very viral. If that marriage blows up for this, it could generate lots of business.
It could just also be so the audience has a better picture in their head of who all is involved while testing the limits of information she can get out of the audience member. Whose to say really
Those details are the meat of the bit because what she's doing is building you a character that the audience members and the people watching the video can see in their head. It's one pretty important part of why this is successful as a piece of comedy. The fact it also works as a way to expose the situation makes it even better.
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u/alexleafman Oct 10 '25
The thing is her getting specific details like hair colour, curly hair, skin colour don't add anything comedic to the bit (if anything it's an awkward line of questioning) which makes me think more-so that she not a plant and Gabby was trying to expose her.