The first ten minutes were great, and then it was as if the quality fell off a cliff - stale, juvenile, and embarrassingly unfunny jokes.
These days, with the web, there's no excuse for a comedian not to at least come up with decent jokes. Hell, in no time I could pirate two hours of jokes from rec.humor (or could a few years ago - haven't checked it recently, and the quality may have declined since then).
But the DVD was worse worse than that - Jethro seemed to be just going through the motions, and came over as a poor spiritless imitation of himself in past years. And he gave far too much time to those yokels (his neighbours or drinking pals?), whose quality of jokes and delivery is about equal to my skills in brain surgery.
All in all rather disappointing.
edit: For those (including Xoggoth of all people) who haven't heard of Jethro, he's a Cornish stand-up comic whose stock in trade is a slightly drunken sounding delivery and coarse jokes.
He hasn't appeared on TV AFAIK. (I think he must realize his repertoire is too threadbare to carry a whole series - TV gobbles up material like a whale eating krill, and in any case he is up with or past Roy Chubby Brown on the crudity scale.) But he does a tour of live shows in two or three dozen towns each year. I saw him in Reading a couple of years back, and that show was brilliant.
These days, with the web, there's no excuse for a comedian not to at least come up with decent jokes. Hell, in no time I could pirate two hours of jokes from rec.humor (or could a few years ago - haven't checked it recently, and the quality may have declined since then).
But the DVD was worse worse than that - Jethro seemed to be just going through the motions, and came over as a poor spiritless imitation of himself in past years. And he gave far too much time to those yokels (his neighbours or drinking pals?), whose quality of jokes and delivery is about equal to my skills in brain surgery.
All in all rather disappointing.
edit: For those (including Xoggoth of all people) who haven't heard of Jethro, he's a Cornish stand-up comic whose stock in trade is a slightly drunken sounding delivery and coarse jokes.
He hasn't appeared on TV AFAIK. (I think he must realize his repertoire is too threadbare to carry a whole series - TV gobbles up material like a whale eating krill, and in any case he is up with or past Roy Chubby Brown on the crudity scale.) But he does a tour of live shows in two or three dozen towns each year. I saw him in Reading a couple of years back, and that show was brilliant.
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