Rob Delaney: Mother

Stand-up comedian Delaney tells humorous stories from his life in his self-titled, self-narrated, self-deprecating, and lengthily subtitled work. His stand-up work makes him a natural narrator, and the nature of the stories is such that they would be much more difficult to listen to if they were told by someone else. Delaney begins with a drunken (and failed) attempt to cross between telephone poles by shimmying across the telephone lines and ends with a car accident that left him with four incapacitated limbs and rapid moves between jail, the hospital, and a halfway house. His life goes downhill and then is rebuilt during his recovery. Delaney maintains a sense of humor the whole time, inviting the listener to laugh with him at his folly. Delaney is vulgar and hilarious; the disasters in his life are carefully selected to maximize his own spectacularly idiotic choices while minimizing the damage to others who feature in his tales.