Live From The Laugh Factory – Volume One
Picture: B-
Sound: C+ Extras: D Concert: C-
Comedy compilations can be hit or miss, but Live From
The Laugh Factory – Volume One (2006) is a big disappointment with no big
laughs and few giggles. Most of the
jokes are dated, with some of these segments a few years older than the DVD
release. Among the other bad jokes are
the single-entendre equivalents of race jokes, all of which are unfunny, dumb
and even idiotic.
Freddie Soto and Bob Marley (no relation to the reggae
singer) bomb out for the most part, while Paul Ruben and Butch Bradley at least
offer amusing moments in their routines.
However, they are no enough to save this disc and though it is not a total
bomb out, Entertainment Studios will need to do better than this if they hope
to have a successful DVD series.
The anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image was shot on
digital High Definition video and it looks good, transferred better than many
such DVD releases. It is the highlight
of this release and makes all the bad jokes more bearable. The Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo has no real
surrounds, but the bad jokes are painfully clear. Even more painful, there are no extras, but that is good if the
death run of humorless routines had continued.
- Nicholas Sheffo
