Dignam

I highly recommend you DVR this I'm almost ashamed that I started this thread. Read the posts below for the honest but not-so-kind reviews.


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thedrizzle

I don't have HBO so I'll be picking it up on DVD on Tuesday.

Dignam

I didn't think to look for a DVD release, thanks. Have you picked up any good stand-up DVDs lately? I've got a few good ones, but I'm always looking for more.

thedrizzle

Yeah I've actually picked up a lot of good stand-up DVDs lately. Louis CK: Shameless is by far my favorite. I've also picked up Daniel Tosh: Completely Serious and Lewis Black: Red, White and Screwed, which are both good.
Upcoming releases I'm looking forward to are Bob Saget's and also Jim Norton's 1 hour HBO special comes out on DVD 10/16.

Dignam

I caught the edit, I'm subscribed.

Patton Oswalt's Werewolves and Lollipops is a CD/DVD set. I haven't checked out the CD, but I watched the DVD the day UPS delivered it. Comedy CD/DVDs are the main reason I'm a member of Amazon prime.

Zach Galifianakis: Live at the Purple Onion is 5/5 for me, as is Joe Rogan: Live. I'm still waiting for the Comedy Central episodes of The Comedians of Comedy to hit DVD, I wish they'd packaged them with the COC special (which is excellent).

Decker

Watched about 15 minutes. Total train wreck. Saying dirty words should not be one's entire routine; a headliner should mix in the occasional joke, you know, for the hell of it. I liked him in The Aristocrats and maybe he got better here, but I couldn't watch anymore to find out. If I can keep one person from making this upcoming DVD as a blind purchase, my life would feel complete.

Goat3001

Agreed. I stuck out the entire hour and most of it was just swearing as much as possible. Not a whole lot of actual jokes here, just dirty words over and over. The only times I laughed were when he mentioned Full House or America's Funniest Home Videos. He closed by playing some songs. The first one was dumb, the second was humorous and the third one was great but it can easily be found on youtube.

I like Bob Saget though. He had me cracking up the last time I saw his stand up and he's hilarious in his cameos but this stand up special just didn't do it for me.

Dignam

I agree, and I now feel bad for creating this thread. (If we could still delete OPs, this would be gone!) I only got about 5 minutes in before stopping it. I usually don't give a comedian more than 2-3 minutes if they're not funny, but I kept watching for a bit because I've heard good things about Saget. I really wanted to like this, but it was painfully unfunny. Any stand-up comic who can't grab your attention immediately is making his job harder, especially when you know it's an hour-long set.

TheMovieman

Yep, I watched for a couple minutes and it was awful. Haven't seen The Aristocrats but his Farce of the Penguins was horrible (IMO).

Tarantino

Farce of the Penguins was horrible. I didn't watch even 20 minutes of it, and I love the guy. I was going to blind buy this dvd, but now I'm thinking twice...

= J

Eddie W

Think three or even four times. This was the worst HBO comedy special I've ever seen. I've liked Bob Saget in the past, but I don't know what was wrong here. It's like he just got onstage with no material. Yeah, we get it. You used to be on family friendly shows & now you curse. This for an entire hour. Without jokes.

Pistol Pete

That was bad. Really, really bad. So bad that I felt both embarrassed and sorry for Bob. The meaningless cursing appeared to be a desperate cry for attention. The unfortunate thing is that he can be really funny when he is not trying so hard to shock people.

The jokes about screwing his on and off-screen daughters were not even close to funny. They were actually rather disturbing. I wonder if an emergency child custody hearing is in his future.

The most entertaining part was his description of videos that were sent to Americas Funniest Home Videos but did not make it onto the show. The rest was forgettable dreck.

ChrisHicks

total garbage.

Charlie Goose

QFT

I didn't expect much, and got even less. I knew he was a dirty comic, but it was 15 minutes of random swearing until I gave up.

boogieman03

I laughed.

SPiRAL

Watching it now....yeah it sucks.

vaporware

My wife and I lasted 10 minutes and turned it off. He seems to be trying to over compensate for all the family shows by cursing constantly. None of it made for anything funny.

Dignam

You probably didn't realize you sat on the remote and it switched to TBS's The Hogan Family marathon.

DRG

I agree with everything said here. This just sounded like he had Tourette's or something. I could even stomach the overused profanity if there was at least something funny behind it... but this was just meandering nonsense. "Don't laugh at that!" Don't worry Bob, I didn't.

NotThatGuy

It was such a train wreck it was funny. I missed the first half, but he started talking about that one guy....just on and on....he was just....out there. Come on, he worked in animal porn, his 17 year old daughter's thong, Dave Coulier's sexuality, and Full House in a few minutes!

-p

RevKarl

Here are a few threads you might be interested in:

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread.php?t=355849
http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread.php?t=396498

DamingR

Complete and unmitigated disaster. Nothing funny there at all. Can't believe it's getting a DVD release.

raven56706

poor guy... he will always have the image of the dad in full house.... he is typecast...

derekjet

yes. poor, poor, destitute bob. rich beyond our wildest dreams.

Pointyskull

I thought it was moderately amusing, at least up until the guitar came out.
Most of it was just trading on the concept of seeing/hearing Saget "talk dirty", which I guess was supposed to make the stuff funnier.

I've seen far worse standup acts, but I've also seen better.