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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. |