As put off by this as I was, the dialogue is just very funny, mainly because actor Benjamin plays his character with a complete deadpan mundane attitude where he delivers lines like “This is a small community of about 250,000”, and you’re sitting giggling thinking “What the fuck?” And you begin to wonder if he’s simply nuts, or just trying to sound intelligent, and you realize it’s actually both, and when he begins explaining that he’s waiting for his dirty dishes to clean themselves, you know the director is in deep.

Sadly, this film is much too similar to “The Troubled Interviewee” and plays out much like the former where our director encounters an oddball in an attempt to interview them unprepared and caught off-guard. The director introduces himself, the interview begins and not much else goes on except that the film depends on the actor to carry the comedic weight, and beyond that “The Stupid Intellectual” is mostly hit or miss with gags that never hit as hard as it should. From the pizza pan that won’t fit in the oven, or the situations with his attempts at shopping at supermarket that may or may not have what he’s looking for for his in-home barbecue.

Surely, not as comedically inclined as the other shorts from Fleet Street, particularly not as comedic as "The Troubled Interviewee". The film is a mixture of funny gags and flat gags, and never as good as it can be.

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