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Never has a stand-up special’s stage been as packed with tree branches and ferns as the woodsy one in Mae Martin’s new Netflix comedy special SAP. The tree-related title is a nod to the nonbinary performer’s romantic streaks, a theme that also runs through the comic’s Netflix dramedy series Feel Good. On stage in the faux woods, using a cut log as a cup rest, Martin crafts endearing, meandering stories about their parents, exes, rehab — with more tangents than punchlines. Yet rather than feel tedious, Sap, directed by Abbi Jacobson

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