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borefest aint the word for it,
yep i bought it and it was very hard to watch. the writing isnt very good. he goes on about fat people for 10 minutes. what struck me was the fact that ricky has slimmed down to the point that he looked gaunt, the chubby funster has gone.other people have put that it includes stuff from the podcasts which it does but if you look at the other stand ups he has done they are also littered with other musings from the xfm radio shows and podcasts but they are put into different contexts and are quite funny.
jokes about raping grannies isnt funny rick.
also dont steal karls ramblings about goats as this is so obvious as they are on the podcasts and also in animated form.
now the extras…they are rubbish. meet karl pilkington 2 has none of the charm that we know and love from karl as he just looks bored and the meeting with warwick davis is hard to watch.
pure let down.
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|A perfect example of a once-funny comedian flogging a dead horse,
Like most of the unfavourable reviews I’ve read here, I’m also speaking as a genuine Gervais/Merchant/Pilkington fan. However I’m not such a fanatic that I’ll just laugh at anything because it’s Ricky saying it.
This was woeful stuff. While large parts of ‘Animals’ and ‘Politics’ had me in stitches and left me with watery eyes and snot running out of my nose, the best I could say for this is that I smiled a few times.
It was already going badly downhill with ‘Fame’, but now I’m actually embarrassed on Ricky’s behalf. He’s turned into David Brent welcoming the Swindon lot by trying to be funny, and just making a complete prat of himself in the process. He now comes across as a multi, multi, multi, multi millionaire who simply doesn’t care enough any more since he doesn’t need the money and he knows people will come to his gigs anyway because he’s been on the telly and in movies a lot.
Where before his routines were always un-PC and a bit shocking – but also very clever and funny, now he seems to be simply going for pure shock value. I’m sure you’ll think of the line about drink driving and the granny (a gag lifted almost verbatim from one of the Derek and Clive albums BTW) He’s now trying to be a cross between a shock comedian and a clever one who analyses his own show, but rather than taking the best from both genres he’s taking the worse of both, and you end with with poorly constructed sick jokes done for their own sake, and then a little knowing nod and wink as if that’s somehow supposed to make it hilarious. All the cleverness is gone, and with it the humour.
So, he’s stealing jokes, crowbarring in material from the podcasts which everyone has already heard, except it was actually funny when Karl said it, rehashing old material about fat people liking cakes again, and saying the sickest things he can think of simply to get a gasp from the audience. It’s lazy self-indulgent rubbish, some weak unconnected anecdotes interspersed by him talking about raping a granny or laughing at ‘mongs’.
If you want pure sick shocking humour, then go see the master Jerry Sadowitz, if you want extremely intelligent and intricate self-analysing routines, then go see the master Stewart Lee, and if you want the worst from these two genres melded together (think of Ricky doing that interlocking fingers thing) into a pointless mess which neither makes you laugh or think about any of the issues, then buy this DVD.
P.S. Please Ricky, don’t do any more stand up. Quit while you still have some respect left for you first two stand up shows.
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|Lazy,
I’m a huge fan of Ricky’s work. He’s clever, knowledgable, opinionated and genuinely witty. He goes down a storm in the labs, and we all think his podcast and Tv are really great. His Animals and Politics too are great, doing everthing Rcky himself says comedy should do, make you think things you would never have thought of yourself. If you want comedy for stupid people, Amos/McIntyre/Howard et al are all waiting for you.
This time around there was something very different going on. We no longer saw those sparks of absurdity, the originality and cheeky attitude of the first two. The ignorant/naive character Gervais used for those first two stand-ups was long gone, and we were left with a rather slimey cover-act. There were a few laughs, but the whole thing felt listless, awkward and lazy. Like he was resting on the fact he could get laughs from part of the audience no matter what he said. The biggest flaw was his reuse of podcast material. Almost everyone in that arena and watching this DVD had probably listened intently to all his podcasts with glee. They are genuinely brilliant, he’s a skilled story-teller, he’s witty and he and Steve know exactly how to get the best out of Karl. To repeat almost verbatim some of that material was very hard to watch. The audience reaction was noticably stunted.
Overall this is a very hit and miss affair, smacking of a laziness and crude structure you don’t want to associate with the great man. When I discover a new species, I’ll still be naming it after him, but to all his fans I beg, don’t watch this.
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