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Take Me With You

Jordan Jensen

Netflix · 2025 · 62 min

A sweaty, high-friction hour about the absurd performance of modern femininity.

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Jordan Jensen takes the stage with a specific strain of gritty, frantic energy that rejects the modern pressure for women to look effortlessly calm. Her material operates on a simple premise: trying to be a chill gal is a trap, and femininity is an absurd performance. She delivers her set in front of a backdrop designed to look like a shedding uterine lining, immediately setting a tone that is aggressively gross, deeply physical, and entirely unconcerned with making the audience comfortable. Filmed at the Gramercy Theatre in New York City and directed by Jason Katz, the hour arrived in September 2025, capitalising on Jensen’s massive rise as a podcaster and club road warrior. She spends a significant portion of the hour mining her bizarre upstate New York upbringing—raised by three lesbian moms and a construction-worker father who passed away when she was young. Notable segments include her frantic breakdown of ADHD spiraling, a memorable bit about napkin pants, and an honest, unsettling look at the everyday precautions women take to avoid assault. The hour established Jensen as a distinct headliner, earning a spot on Vulture’s list of the best comedy specials of 2025. While some traditionalists bristled at the vulgarity of her delivery, the set works because of how she uses her aggressive energy to mock heterosexual relationship dynamics and the exhaustion of forced self-love.

The set list

4 bits

  1. Pitching the special to another streaming service

    Recounts receiving feedback that the platform wanted her to either be gay or more feminine, noting that she wishes for the same.

  2. Underwear and getting a bikini wax

    Argues that underwear manufacturers gaslight women and uses a napkin prop on stage to illustrate the horror of an unexpected waxing experience.

  3. Asking a doctor to 'make me look how I feel'

    Satirizes cosmetic surgery, joking that if a plastic surgeon made her outward appearance match her inner hostile and disgusting feelings, she would emerge looking and sounding like a terrifying monster.

  4. The closer (spoiler). Show it

    Menstrual cycles and the burden of femininity closer

    Argues women should not have to be the feminine members of society because their hormonal cycles force them to juggle multiple distinct personalities each month.

How it plays

Tone
Raunchy, irreverent, dark, confessional, and self-loathing.
On stage
Blunt, relentlessly honest, self-excoriating, and grotesque; physically acts out bits by lowering her chin and bugging out her eyes like a creature or henchman.
Pace
Fast, sharp, and agile, using rapid layered stories and taking comedic tangents before skillfully tying them back to the central premise.
About
failing at femininity, the paradox of self-love, hooking up and sexual encounters, unconventional upbringing and family dynamics, ADHD, female biology and menstrual cycles

What the critics said

Critically praised as a winning, tightly constructed debut that masterfully balances laugh-out-loud humor with grim, transparent self-examination and unconventional viewpoints on womanhood.

Summed up from reviews, articles and listings. Sources: deadline.com, rottentomatoes.com, imdb.com, decider.com, vulture.com, latimes.com.

Backstory

Raised in upstate New York by two mothers, worked in construction before comedy, and frequently explores her unconventional upbringing, self-loathing, and feeling detached from conventional standards of femininity.

Details

Released
Taped
Gramercy
Runtime
62 min
Where
Netflix
Director
Eric Abrams
Honors
Vulture's The Best Comedy Specials and Funniest Stand-Up of 2025 (Ranked #10)
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