Combining the frankness of an after-school special with the self-effacement of standup, the show depicts puberty in sickeningly cute detail. Often the resident young person in the Big Mouth writers room, Young-White has an important job. “It was not that long ago that I was that age, and it’s nice to have a chance to write about these things so soon after I experienced them,” he says. While the 24-year-old writer isn’t too far out from adolescence-that dreaded age in which senses of humor are said to be forged-he is already a writer on two comedies that delve deeply into the subject: Netflix’s Big Mouth and American Vandal. If the conventional wisdom is true-that trauma plus time equals 'lmaos'-then comedian Jaboukie Young-White may have skipped the “time” part.
