Ali Wong Is Our Funniest, Most Vital Paid Maternity Leave Advocate
The comic returns for her second Netflix special and her ideas about paid maternity leave are as funny as they are important. [Warning: NSFW language.]
“It’s very rare and unusual to see a standup comic perform while pregnant,” Ali Wong notes at one point during her 2016 Netflix special, Baby Cobra. She was six weeks away from the birth of her first child when she shot the special, and during her set, she proudly gestures to the ballooning belly beneath her zebra-striped dress–a meta-punchline to her jokes. One thing decidedly more rare and unusual than a comic performing while pregnant is that same comic performing two years later, just as visibly pregnant again.