Single Lady

Ali Wong has spent her stand-up career sharing the intimate details of her life, from performing while pregnant to complaining about monogamy. In her fourth Netflix special, she returns to the stage with a different aesthetic. The signature animal print has been replaced by an airy, vintage-inspired dress, and her husband of ten years is gone. Having finalized her divorce, Wong spends this hour outlining the logistics of being a newly single, wealthy mother of two in her forties.\n\nFilmed at The Wiltern in Los Angeles during the 2024 Netflix Is a Joke Fest, the show caught Wong at a high point in her career, fresh off an Emmy sweep for her dramatic turn in Beef. Back on the stand-up stage, she is navigating a dating pool that spans from 25-year-old Midwesterners who subsist on peanut butter to older men whose cardiovascular stamina she openly questions.\n\nReviewers noted that Single Lady trades the desperate energy of her earlier specials for the lighter, more detached perspective of a self-described romantic. The hour runs on the contradictions of post-divorce dating as a wealthy celebrity. While some fans felt the millionaire-dating material made her less relatable than the frantic housewife of her early work, her sharp timing and physical commitment to dirty punchlines remain unchanged. She closes the set with a pivot that celebrity tabloids had already spoiled: a confession that her single era has already ended.