A few videos and a ton of prewritten unfunny comments followed by fake laughter. Don't waste your time with this bomb.
143 Reviews
Worst YouTube Video show
cetisoft3 December 2020
Horrible, forced laughter!
jpsimmons-337332 December 2020
FAKE LAUGHTER
cyndi_fan24727 December 2020
I can't stand this Ali Kolbert chick and her forced fake laughter after every joke. It makes it unwatchable.
Like others have said, there is too much commentary.
The videos are fine, but some of them aren't even recent at all, and I've seen them elsewhere.
It would be mildly entertaining enough without the constant forced fake laughter.
Like others have said, there is too much commentary.
The videos are fine, but some of them aren't even recent at all, and I've seen them elsewhere.
It would be mildly entertaining enough without the constant forced fake laughter.
Videos aren't bad, rest blows
joechristopher-217961 November 2020
TRU tv advertised the hell out of this show during their 20 hours of IJ reruns/day. I thought the commercials looked awful so I watched the first episode and it was even worse. How are these people considered comedians? Didn't crack half a smile once. The most unoriginal, unfunny video clip show on tv. The videos themselves aren't bad, the comments are awful. BEWARE!
This is the worst show on TV
charlescourtney1 November 2020
Lazy and just terrible
jfako4 November 2020
Terrible
fischeralex-1342130 October 2020
Terrible TV
a_sibole2 November 2020
Saw advertisements during Impractical Jokers, which is the best. So I decided to watch it. Terrible! The "comedians" are awful. The jokes are idiotic. Most of the videos I've already seen before. And all the fake laughing they do is like nails on a chalk board. Why is this on tv?
There is nothing funny about this show. It's terrible! Save yourself, don't watch it!
icu_rns13 November 2020
The hosts are not funny in any way, and the woman is annoying, too. Their commentary consists of them laughing at their own "jokes" which aren't witty or amusing at all, plus, the videos aren't entertaining. The premise that they work for the government in some secret (?) capacity, is just stupid, makes no sense, and lends nothing to the show.
I seldom write reviews, but this show is so bad that I had to warn people!
I seldom write reviews, but this show is so bad that I had to warn people!
10 out of 10 stars - Now that is funny!
njmafl11 December 2020
Of course 10 out of 10 stars is a joke! I know that it is not a good joke... but unlike the creators of this show and the z-list "comedians" on the Top Secret Videos, I recognize this and totally admit it! I agree with all of the 1 star reviews that this show is horrible! The worst part is all of the fake, forced laughs!
Literally the worst
zackaryp-7230731 October 2020
Talented comedians save ho-hum video show.
jense-5972330 April 2021
Not another video show commenting on fails! This show has three talented comedians, Ron Funches, Ali Kolbert and Brian Posehn who launches comments that are creative and hilarious. I usually don't like shows like this but I laugh every time I see an episode. From Ron's imitation of Morgan Freeman explaining the migration pattern of blowing air mattresses mixed with Brian's (who has been in the comedy business for a long time and really does have good comedic chops) surreal and strange one liners and infused these with the angst of a young female, especially dating, perspective by Ali Kolbert makes up some great individual ingredients. From this a recipe can be conceptualized that can create a fantastic dish. However, the meal isn't quite there. The morsels are good. The tidbits are nice but the full course is lacking continuity. This is why I can only give it a limp 8 but if they can work through the clunkyness of the secondary story line, which is totally needed, and smooth out the acting or at least if the comedians can show that they are comfortable being around each other or work off of each other a little more I think this show will be the best version of a comedic commentary video show ever.
Also, let the comedians loose!! I think people see the constraints on these talents and that hurts the show as well. They really should be left alone, work blue, be irreverent and let them be them. I think it will turn a weak 8 into a strong 10 once the 1st season quirks get worked out and then we will be left with a feast. I can not wait for season 2!!
Also, let the comedians loose!! I think people see the constraints on these talents and that hurts the show as well. They really should be left alone, work blue, be irreverent and let them be them. I think it will turn a weak 8 into a strong 10 once the 1st season quirks get worked out and then we will be left with a feast. I can not wait for season 2!!
Funnier than most give it credit for.
cobracjason23 May 2021
Unwatchably bad
midnightvoyager7 November 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Unwatchably bad. It's like aliens saw that one joke the Youths had for a while where they would refer to the NSA agent assigned to reading their post and then tried to make it the premise for a clip show for some unfathomable reason. It's so bad I decided to review it, and I don't usually review things. I just needed to decompress after this nonsense.
I have watched many dumb clip shows for background noise, lack of other channels when I was a kid, or time-wasting purposes. I've seen them all, from America's Funniest Home Videos to World's Dumbest to Most Shocking. This is the worst. Easily. There is not a single level this show works on. Let's break it down.
1. The mild nihilist humor in the original joke, talking to the NSA agent assigned to reading one's internet material, cannot support a comedic premise. It goes from mild nihilist humor to tasteless. I'd almost say it's mean, but it's just too bland to be mean. It is just not funny to see a guy be like "Yeah I'm running the NSA, I ruin lives and it's fun!"
2. The clips are poorly shown. Often, they're run several times, or parts are run again. This is fine when you do it right. This is not fine when it just adds dead air. Also, nothing seems to be cut from any of the clips, so I find myself often wondering what the clip is even supposed to be before whatever finally happens. I understand you need more time for the jokes, but sometimes there's no jokes, the cast seems to be wondering what's going on too.
3. The joking about the clips? AWFULLY paced, weird tone. The tone of the jokes is that of three people hanging out and joking about dumb videos. This is fine when it's you and your friends. This is fine when it's MST3K. It does not at all work in this situation. In a way, it feels like I'm just looking in a stoner's bedroom as they and their friends watch Youtube. There is, as mentioned, random dead space. There is a LOT of people just laughing at each other's jokes while you just... wait for them to finish laughing and move on.
4. The jokes aren't really funny. Some are amusing, many fall flat, and there's nothing to take the edge off when they fall flat. The other comedians laugh either way. And they really need to pay attention to each other's jokes, because I'm not convinced they always hear them before they laugh. There was a clip where each of the three comedians said a minor variation of the exact same joke in sequence. It wasn't that funny the first time. It was agonizing the third. The comedy varies really wildly too. There's like one or two moments where they hit a natural groove and seem to legitimately react to clips in the way a human would and those kinda work, I guess? But boy are they rare.
5. This is the single worst part, and nobody else has mentioned it: The host segments. Thinking back to MST3K again, they have host segments! MST3K's often contained some humor. These do NOT, holy god. They bring the show from bland and dull to physically painful.
The host segments are worth breaking down further, because they're what convinced me one of the writers might be an alien.
The first episode's host segments involved them giving one of the protagonists(?) ransomware from... a review form for NSA branded soda that tasted awful? And then the protagonists did a parody of a "hacking sequence" that would have been amusing if the rest of the show wasn't so horrible. It turns out the NSA did this on purpose to see how good the ransomware was, and since the interns cracked it, they were going to fire someone in Encryption. The joke is that the NSA head loves firing people and ruining their lives! Then he drinks the soda and comments that it tastes bad. The credits are over outtakes of him saying the soda tastes bad. None of them are funny.
The second episode is where it goes off the rails and I think the alien was given writing credits. The newest intern has to take her first "randomized employee test". It could be literally anything and there are ominous consequences if she fails! So the other two train her by having her do exercise while answering random questions and getting shot by like an airsoft gun. Sitcommy, not at all funny. She gets to the test and it's being delivered by a robotic voice on a computer. The overlong "joke" while she authenticates her identification is that the NSA is super intrusive and even knows her overly detailed worst fear. The actual test is "what color is this square?" It's red. She's passed. It randomly cuts to a past evaluation of one of the other employees. The identification is a call and response of a Spice Girls song that also goes on way too long and was not funny to begin with. Then it just... goes back to the present I guess? The other two ask how her evaluation was. She says she aced it. They're shocked! Nobody aces it on the first try! Not since that one guy who works in Misinformation now, confusing people about whether or not coffee is healthy. She says "I always wondered if coffee is healthy!" They say "Exactly." That is the end of the show. Over the credits, the new employee watches a video of geckos licking water off a leaf while drinking a glass of wine.
I watched because I was stunned and confused. It is one of the most bizarre things I've ever seen, and not in an entertaining way. Studies should be done on this show. You could really learn a lot about what not to do from it.
I have watched many dumb clip shows for background noise, lack of other channels when I was a kid, or time-wasting purposes. I've seen them all, from America's Funniest Home Videos to World's Dumbest to Most Shocking. This is the worst. Easily. There is not a single level this show works on. Let's break it down.
1. The mild nihilist humor in the original joke, talking to the NSA agent assigned to reading one's internet material, cannot support a comedic premise. It goes from mild nihilist humor to tasteless. I'd almost say it's mean, but it's just too bland to be mean. It is just not funny to see a guy be like "Yeah I'm running the NSA, I ruin lives and it's fun!"
2. The clips are poorly shown. Often, they're run several times, or parts are run again. This is fine when you do it right. This is not fine when it just adds dead air. Also, nothing seems to be cut from any of the clips, so I find myself often wondering what the clip is even supposed to be before whatever finally happens. I understand you need more time for the jokes, but sometimes there's no jokes, the cast seems to be wondering what's going on too.
3. The joking about the clips? AWFULLY paced, weird tone. The tone of the jokes is that of three people hanging out and joking about dumb videos. This is fine when it's you and your friends. This is fine when it's MST3K. It does not at all work in this situation. In a way, it feels like I'm just looking in a stoner's bedroom as they and their friends watch Youtube. There is, as mentioned, random dead space. There is a LOT of people just laughing at each other's jokes while you just... wait for them to finish laughing and move on.
4. The jokes aren't really funny. Some are amusing, many fall flat, and there's nothing to take the edge off when they fall flat. The other comedians laugh either way. And they really need to pay attention to each other's jokes, because I'm not convinced they always hear them before they laugh. There was a clip where each of the three comedians said a minor variation of the exact same joke in sequence. It wasn't that funny the first time. It was agonizing the third. The comedy varies really wildly too. There's like one or two moments where they hit a natural groove and seem to legitimately react to clips in the way a human would and those kinda work, I guess? But boy are they rare.
5. This is the single worst part, and nobody else has mentioned it: The host segments. Thinking back to MST3K again, they have host segments! MST3K's often contained some humor. These do NOT, holy god. They bring the show from bland and dull to physically painful.
The host segments are worth breaking down further, because they're what convinced me one of the writers might be an alien.
The first episode's host segments involved them giving one of the protagonists(?) ransomware from... a review form for NSA branded soda that tasted awful? And then the protagonists did a parody of a "hacking sequence" that would have been amusing if the rest of the show wasn't so horrible. It turns out the NSA did this on purpose to see how good the ransomware was, and since the interns cracked it, they were going to fire someone in Encryption. The joke is that the NSA head loves firing people and ruining their lives! Then he drinks the soda and comments that it tastes bad. The credits are over outtakes of him saying the soda tastes bad. None of them are funny.
The second episode is where it goes off the rails and I think the alien was given writing credits. The newest intern has to take her first "randomized employee test". It could be literally anything and there are ominous consequences if she fails! So the other two train her by having her do exercise while answering random questions and getting shot by like an airsoft gun. Sitcommy, not at all funny. She gets to the test and it's being delivered by a robotic voice on a computer. The overlong "joke" while she authenticates her identification is that the NSA is super intrusive and even knows her overly detailed worst fear. The actual test is "what color is this square?" It's red. She's passed. It randomly cuts to a past evaluation of one of the other employees. The identification is a call and response of a Spice Girls song that also goes on way too long and was not funny to begin with. Then it just... goes back to the present I guess? The other two ask how her evaluation was. She says she aced it. They're shocked! Nobody aces it on the first try! Not since that one guy who works in Misinformation now, confusing people about whether or not coffee is healthy. She says "I always wondered if coffee is healthy!" They say "Exactly." That is the end of the show. Over the credits, the new employee watches a video of geckos licking water off a leaf while drinking a glass of wine.
I watched because I was stunned and confused. It is one of the most bizarre things I've ever seen, and not in an entertaining way. Studies should be done on this show. You could really learn a lot about what not to do from it.
Why is this show on air?
caylahlanning30 October 2020
This show is actually the dumbest thing to happen to society. Don't waste your time. I watched it bc impractical jokers was on next and I want to die sitting through this. These people wouldn't know humor if it slapped them in the face.
Please Cancel this show.
absciencevictoria1 November 2020
Doesn't even deserve one star
ttvsteezeeys7 November 2020
I made an account just to say how incredibly terrible this show is. If I could give it less than one star, I would. It's actually impressive how bad it is. At first I thought it was a joke or a parody or something cause of the girls laugh and the awful, cringe jokes. When I found out this was a legit show? I burst out into laughter, having second hand embarrassment for the people that made this terrible show. I've never made a review about anything in my life, but this show awoken something something inside of me. If someone offered me 100 bucks an hour to watch this show, I would most likely try to take the offer. But then fail after I die of some sort of disease that this show gave me, probably cancer or something. If you enjoy this show the slightest bit, please, seek medical help.
So Not Funny
njross15 November 2020
The commercials for this show are just flat-out annoying. If they wanted to bring back a funny video commentary show, then please bring back World's Dumbest. That was funny! This is pathetic. And I'm sick of seeing the commercials every 5 mins.
Horrible
tedhunt-3937929 November 2020
It's goofy and fun
leftpower112 December 2020
Mindless, Repetitive Humor
jayson_nl14 November 2020
TruTv would literally be nothing without Impractical Jokers. They use the same jokes and concepts over and over again. This show is a great example of that. Whether it's "World's Dumbest" or "Top Secret Videos", it's the same thing: unfunny comedians making crude humor jokes. Don't waste your time on the flat jokes and fake laughter.
moderately funny
matt-233-49789913 November 2020
The video commentary is pretty funny but the NSA storyline and the associated acting is lame. Luckily that's a minor part of the show. I don't know what's up with all the 1 star reviews. No 2's, 3's, 4's? Seems suspicious. I find it exceptionally hard to believe these reviewers think this is one of the worst things they've ever seen.
HORRIBLE
anita-680255 November 2020
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