Gregor Shamsa
Wednesday 15th December 2010 12:42am [Edited]
Liverpool
184 posts
The sketches strike me as written by someone who's never written sketches before, never paid much attention to the form(s) but thought "Yeah, I'm funny. I make people laugh. I can do that."
Oh hai Horne & Corden!!
The back-to-back Confessions... and South American TV Fast Show Rip-Off skits were the poorest of the whole series, I think, and certainly called to mind those two cretinous slayers of sketch comedy. Everyone loves tossing hyperbole around, but this is a very poor show, not helped by the fact that all of the decent stand-up is lifted wholesale from his latest DVD (OUT NOW!) - the only deviation from this being audience banter/lazy abuse. Couldn't even be arsed to write new material. On the basis of the sketches, dude couldn't be arsed writing ANY material.
I secretly hope this is all a farewell "F**k You" and parting gift to the perceived plebs who buy his live DVDs and pay thirty English pounds to see him as a speck in an arena, for jokes they've already heard. Sadly, I doubt it.