Customer Reviews

Comedy Central's Stand Up Picks, Part 4

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First off these comediennes are all very funny and I recommend everyone see them at some point, you might not like them all, but that's comedy. My dislike is with the production and my problems are as follows:
1. Swear words are bleeped, and considering the very adult subjects that are covered, bleeping a few words makes NO SENSE and just ruins a bunch of punchlines.
2. The camera work is terrible, the camera views are constantly changing for no reason and the closeup angle for Maria Bamford leaves her mouth completely obscured by the microphone (unsettling when she's doing her voices).
3. There are camera fade-outs or cuts to the Comedy Central title frequently and for no reason. It just interrupts the flow.
4. The audience sounds like trained seals and often unenthusiastic, this ruins the mood. I was often wondering if their response was muted (when funny jokes get no laughs) or if canned laughter was added (some of the applause sounds fake).
5. I've heard a lot of the same material from these artists before, and I haven't seen any of them more than a couple of times before.
These 5 women are all very funny, this disc is just not the place to see them.

I bought this as a Christmas gift for my boss who laughed so hard she had to pause it and call me!

ANY time you bleep out the punch line, its bleepen stupid. wait for the bleepen crittics to take their head out of a very dark place