American Girl

Dating advice rarely gets more practical than being told the best place to find a wife is The Container Store because you already know she has a home. Vannessa Jackson treats single life with the exhausted realism of someone who knows the odds. When she is not contrasting the physical safety precautions women take on first dates with men whose primary fear is getting catfished, she is running into the mild indignity of being aged out of youth culture by Gen Z.

Jackson filmed the 47-minute set at The Limelight in Atlanta after years spent writing for Saturday Night Live and A Little Late with Lilly Singh.

Her background in sketch writers’ rooms is evident in how clipped the material is. Rather than stretching premises into self-serious monologues, she cycles quickly through turning thirty, unhinged text messages from her mother, and the childhood status symbols of American Girl dolls, getting in and out before any premise overstays its welcome.