I saw this pilot through a festival screener, and it was a rather unbearable experience. The show surrounds five comedians who inherit a comedy club from a cooky man with a neck scarf, if it sounds like an original idea, you have not seen a lot of television. Mitchel from Survivor Australia is here as an unfunny comedian, that in the first scene confirms he is unfunny. He performs his act in a bathroom, and is so unfunny a patron lets him know. I guess this is supposed to be funny.
Others include a very pregnant woman, an older lush, a Canadian, and Shecky. Shecky has the power to crawl into your head and haunt your dreams. She plays with her bulging belly, shows the audience her thong clad buttocks, and has an intensely irritating voice that may send a stiff breeze of panic into the spine of anyone who watches. There isn't anything offensive about anyone else, except for the chief sin of a comedy show, it isn't funny.
It seemingly is so self satisfied with its comedian actors that the writers forgot to write jokes. Well, not jokes, the show has lots of jokes, none of them tickle even a minor giggle. The set pieces are too long and tend to drag, seemingly to fill out the 24 minute time requirement. The sets themselves also look quite poor. The bar scene especially looks to be taking place in someone's living room, and not in a New York City tavern like the show suggests.
Along with not being funny and dragging, there seems to be no hook to the show. There isn't an attractive or appealing member of the cast. There are two uses of the "f" word. Plus, there are no risks taken in the material or subject matter. I wonder who they are making this show for? The plot is also rather senseless. At first, the comedians don't want to inherit the club, but are constantly shifted back and forth between yes and no, until.... well try to guess what happens. The pilot is a failure on almost all levels. I have seen quite a few poor festival submissions and this ranks not as one of the worst, but one of the most aggredious wastes of time. I have even threatened a few friends of mine with a casual viewing which evokes a swift and negative response. I implore the creator's to give it another try, but to focus on their writing. I have a hard time believing so many writers would contribute to such a low grade product. More schooling perhaps for the show's director/editor, who with her first work comes off as a slipshod amateur.
If you see this at a festival, I suggest you stay clear.
Others include a very pregnant woman, an older lush, a Canadian, and Shecky. Shecky has the power to crawl into your head and haunt your dreams. She plays with her bulging belly, shows the audience her thong clad buttocks, and has an intensely irritating voice that may send a stiff breeze of panic into the spine of anyone who watches. There isn't anything offensive about anyone else, except for the chief sin of a comedy show, it isn't funny.
It seemingly is so self satisfied with its comedian actors that the writers forgot to write jokes. Well, not jokes, the show has lots of jokes, none of them tickle even a minor giggle. The set pieces are too long and tend to drag, seemingly to fill out the 24 minute time requirement. The sets themselves also look quite poor. The bar scene especially looks to be taking place in someone's living room, and not in a New York City tavern like the show suggests.
Along with not being funny and dragging, there seems to be no hook to the show. There isn't an attractive or appealing member of the cast. There are two uses of the "f" word. Plus, there are no risks taken in the material or subject matter. I wonder who they are making this show for? The plot is also rather senseless. At first, the comedians don't want to inherit the club, but are constantly shifted back and forth between yes and no, until.... well try to guess what happens. The pilot is a failure on almost all levels. I have seen quite a few poor festival submissions and this ranks not as one of the worst, but one of the most aggredious wastes of time. I have even threatened a few friends of mine with a casual viewing which evokes a swift and negative response. I implore the creator's to give it another try, but to focus on their writing. I have a hard time believing so many writers would contribute to such a low grade product. More schooling perhaps for the show's director/editor, who with her first work comes off as a slipshod amateur.
If you see this at a festival, I suggest you stay clear.
