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Disappointing, at the most.
Since I was expecting an actual routine, not a documentary, it was boring. A few parts were funny but all in all it was a waste of time. Don't get me wrong, I love Seinfeld the show and I'm sure that his stand up is awesome too. Unless you are a hardcore Seinfeld fan or considering becoming a professional comedian, I just don't see how this could be entertaining.

Glick Fix!!!
I love that, hah haaah!!! The special features on Comedian have Jiminy Glick - twice-ah!!! Glick interviews Gerry Steinfeld, and also chats it up-ah with Horny Adams (*not* a prop comic - ha haaah!). Jiminy gets into great depth, in a way the documentary *tries* to do. I love it!!

Okay, the main feature: It's a cold world, and comedians must bare their soul up on stage, naked if you will. (Unless you have a melon smasher!). So Steinfeld humbles himself, going back into the real world that he knows. Athletes call it muscle memory... you just have to recondition, and it'll all come back. Steinfeld steps back in smooth to the world. But besides getting adulation, he absorbs/stomachs some negativity ("What are you doing here!"), rather than throw it back. He's truly polite, later taking some TUMS for the human team. Then there's Horny... an edgy guy! He's bold, he's brash-uh! He's like a young Corey Hart, who wore sunglasses at night, *before* it was safe! On stage in front of strangers (drunk, bored, ticked) with nothing but his craft, a comedian needs some armor. And Horny's armor is prickly! Ha haah! (He even jokes about diseases! Based on a bus sign that no one has ever seen... in homage to the classic "1 out of 3 people are/have X. If the person on either side of you ain't it, it's you! Ha Haah!) All the best to Horny and Steinfeld as they try to make it in the laugh business. This documentary is disconcerting, and cold, and has a lonely feel -- it's all as dark as going solo in the world with nothing but yourself and your ideas to count on. And you must protect yourself, while opening up night after night, after night. So much freedom, so little security. These guys are incredibly brave-uh! These days, so much of show-biz folk are getting smooth makeovers. But Steinfeld shows the true rough side. And we benefit.... Okay, back to Jiminy Glick. Does anybody have the tape? I heard there's a tape out there... looks like it's filmed through night goggles.... And it shows Jiminy and Dixie doin' some luuuvin'!!! Ha Hahhh!

Getting to the Joke
Jerry Seinfeld can do most anything and I would laugh, but this documentary came close to the limit. A behind the scenes look at stand up comedy and the struggles of both superstars and wannabes. To see Jerry swear was new, to see Jerry with other comedians was cool, but on the road, on stage, in the wings, on his jet, were all interesting, but not very entertaining.

Though documentaries intend to provoke thought, not necessarily entertain and the fact Comedian does both makes this film satisfying.

Comedians are all insecure and tortured with the exception of Bill Cosby. The wannabe in the film is Orny Adams, who shows the ugly and unpleasant side of the business and his personality. He is a bad man.

More than anything else Comedian shows Jerry is not much different than his SitCom character. He is a funny guy that made it big, but not much different from anybody else.

The DVD special features were a bonus especially the Jiminy Glick interviews.

md

Michael Duranko
www.bootism.com

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