Hannah Einbinder’s debut stand-up special Everything Must Go, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on Tuesday and on Max today, sees the 29-year-old Hacks breakout doing exactly as its title suggests: making a case for what belongs in the trash. The staging—the lighting direction, especially—at the El Rey theater in her native Los Angeles is stunning by standup special standards.
Einbinder then moves on to bees, who she theorizes are working overtime for a “polyamorous, monarchical tyrant” only to produce crops for us ungrateful assholes. Humanity, Einbinder thinks, is a “toxic, abusive husband,” and climate change is quite simply “planet Earth recognizing her worth and filing for a divorce.” While this isn’t an entirely unique, un-memed metaphor, one hell of a Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny impersonation makes it Einbinder’s own. “4.