Wainraich

The case against weddings usually focuses on the expense or the obligatory small talk, but the argument presented here is simpler: funerals are plainly superior because nobody expects anyone to dance, nobody complains about the catering, and leaving early is considered respectful.

That self-effacing gloom carries the rest of the set. When the comic considers his homeland, he decides that if the world were a family, Argentina would be the son who showed great potential but never delivered. Everyday domestic friction receives the same treatment, from the financial dread of touching items inside a hotel minibar to the quiet panic of entering an apartment without a stable Wi-Fi connection.

Filmed on August 26, 2017, at the Auditorio Mayor of Ciudad de las Artes in Córdoba, Argentina, the 49-minute production was directed by Raúl Campos and Jan Suter. Wainraich chose Córdoba specifically because audiences in the province carry a national reputation for being notoriously tough to amuse. By early 2018, when Netflix released the set, he had already built a loyal following through his afternoon radio show Metro y Medio and his television appearances on Televisión Registrada.

Much of the material draws from the comic’s home life with his wife, fellow comedian Dalia Gutmann, running through an austere Buenos Aires childhood, the fantasies of bachelorhood, and the unglamorous logistics of traveling to the Atlantic coast with two young kids.