FUNNY OR DIE PRESENTS: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON
2/2/11
Felix Vasquez Jr.

 

I'm sure someone somewhere will find this funny. Or at least someone will pretend to find it funny. I don't know. In either case, "Funny or Die Presents" doesn't have that function where you can vote if something is Die, so I'm left behind my computer wondering why they took away the option of turning these videos in to obscure bullshit. But they have celebrities and quasi-celebrities, so they're a given for this show. "Funny or Die Presents" is basically a new version of Kentucky Fried Movie. Instead of a movie that pretends to be channel surfing, it's really a mock television show that shifts between segments. And it's all a mixed bag of stupidity. Basically the golden rule of comedy these days is if all else fails, go for the dick joke. And that's pretty much what this is. It's over three hours of bad comedy segments that fail and then resort to dick jokes.

Take for example the mock tool experiment that ends with the host sawing his own penis off. If the joke isn't clubbed over our heads enough, we actually see his severed penis fall on the table and be eaten by a mouse. How funny. And the skits just keep on dragging on with flat jokes, celebrity cameos that are listless, and jokes that go nowhere. Look! A hybrid race track for kids! It needs to be charged so it barely runs! That's funny, right? Oh look Busy Phillips! Oh some woman is telling a drunken story about Lincoln freeing the slaves! That's kind of funny, right? Rob Riggle and Paul Scheer go out on an adventure and end up stopping a robbery. Funny? I love HBO, but their latest series in the comedy arena smack of laziness and all out apathy. With Ricky Gervais' animated podcast, and this compilation of flat comedy skits from a mildly funny website, it's a shame we're not getting more original comedy from a genre in desperate need of new blood. The DVD unfortunately has zero extras.

 

 

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