Marlon Wayans delivers his latest stand-up show on Amazon Prime in the wake of his mother’s passing and delivers one of the most heartfelt, vulnerable and funniest stand-ups of his career. Here’s our Marlon Wayans Good Grief review.

I’ll always have a soft spot for Marlon Wayans for reasons I’ve said many a time on this page, when Back to the Movies was in its infancy many years ago Marlon said yes to this dumb early 20s kid who asked for an interview. Days later I was Skype calling a comedic hero of mine, a figure of my childhood and a man who got me through some tough times with his comedy.
It’s the little things that mean the most and speaking to him for all of those 30 minutes about his Haunted House movie release, it meant the world.
That’s not to say that if he ever released anything bad I wouldn’t be honest and say so, oh no, I’ll always tell it like it is but what I’m saying is I have a big respect for someone who took a chance on me and was genuine about it too, that’s something rare in life let alone in Hollywood nowadays.
Good Grief starts with voice messages of Marlon’s mum calling him, a woman who passed away two years ago and for the last two years has sent Marlon off course as he says in his show ‘Nothing hurts more than losing your momma’.
Marlon makes it clear that to get through the pain of grief you must make light of it even in your darkest moments, laughter is the food of the soul and Marlon delivers some beautiful life lessons weaved in and around some incredible jokes.
Every joke hit with that beautiful Wayans timing and delivery and whilst he did spend a little too long outlining the details of his mums…. I can’t even finish that sentence you’ll have to watch it….. the show is a hit and Amazon is very lucky to have it.
You laugh when Marlon laughs and you cry when he cries, it’s rare that someone goes out there and is as vulnerable as that on stage with many artists usually keeping that stuff deep inside. I can think of many a comedic talent who all suffered in silence until it was too late. 
Marlon is the youngest of ten children, he had outgrown disciplinarian parents and got to know them as they were much older and less strict. They were more friends to him than parents and that made losing them all the harder to bear.
I don’t think there are many comedians out there who could have kept it together when talking about subjects so close to home but this glimpse behind the curtain of what it was like to be the youngest child, what it was like living in the Wayans household and how his parents created successful and incredible children all in their own right was quite a lovely thing to feel a part of, even just hearing it.
The topic of grief is always taboo but Marlon dives into it with no filter and still manages to make it funny and whist we can probably fast forward the aforementioned segment which includes changing his parent’s diapers it all ends in the big finale and it is a tear jerker to say the least.
Whilst he’ll never read this article or even remember the Skype chat we had after he finished the gym that one day on a rooftop bar somewhere in LA just know that you’re loved, appreciated and with those around you, you’ll never be alone.
Thank you for everything that you do and for being so vulnerable in this beautifully delivered Amazon comedy special.