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I am an avid Howard Stern fan & think that Artie Lange has been a positive influence on the show. I was almost going to buy this DVD but was warned by several folks I know (fellow Stern fans) that it's a waste. One of them gave me his copy which he was about to throw out. After seeing half of this I chucked it into MY trash. IT'S THE WHISKEY TALKIN looks & sounds like a bad cable access show from the late 1980s. The production values wouldn't cut it on a snuff film as Artie is often out of focus & filmed from what seems like a mile away, giving it the appearance of a security cam tape. Was this shot on someone's cell phone? Artie's material is even worse than the sub amateur production values. There isn't one second of his act that you haven't heard 1,000 times before from better comedians. Artie comes across like a 4th rate Belushi clone who stumbled onto stage at a suburban strip mall comedy club sometime around 1989. His lame & dated material wouldn't make it 5 minutes on amateur/open mike night at any comedy club in New York, LA or Boston which is probably why he had to go all the way to Tempe Arizona to find people to laugh at his tired diatribes. I’m not being a snob here—what I means is that there isn’t a big comedy scene in Tempe so someone mildly famous like Artie Lange gets away with a few minutes of good will laughs. The sad thing is that the biggest audience responses come not from his material but his references to things from the Howard Stern show. Whenever Artie senses that he's losing his audience--which is pretty much every 5 minutes--he'll do his Jeff The Drunk or Angus Young impression. These are seeded into his act more & more as even the entertainment starved audience in Tempe begins to tire of his stale "observations".
The audience seems to be made up of rabid Howard Stern fans who at first are psyched to see someone from the show in the flesh but who soon look as though they are sitting through the most embarrassing & long drunken wedding toast in history. I'll say this for the lousy production: at least it honestly depicts the enthusiasm draining from the room like air escaping from a balloon. A more professional team would've intercut positive reaction shots of the crowd from the early part of the set when the audience was happy & hopeful that a fun night was about to begin. Instead the mounting disappointment, despair & depression of the audience is faithfully captured.
Tempe may be a long way from New York but one thing we all have in common: suffering the presence of a big fat boorish drunk who thinks he’s funny. Think of the bloated loser ex jock from high school whose glory days are long gone at any reunion or wedding & you get the picture.
And that's all in the first 30 minutes! Holy Jeezus I can't even imagine how awful the rest of the set was. A double bill of THE BAD LIEUTENANT & SCHNINDLER'S LIST would be lighter & funnier than the funeral that is IT'S THE WHISKEY TALKIN'. Even though I saw this on a friends discarded DVD I still feel like I was ripped off. I'll never get that half hour of my life back!
On the Howard Stern show where he interacts with Howard & Robin Artie can be pretty quick witted & funny but on his own he’s an embarrassment. I’m shocked he has allowed this for distribution as it is a complete turn off.
The audience seems to be made up of rabid Howard Stern fans who at first are psyched to see someone from the show in the flesh but who soon look as though they are sitting through the most embarrassing & long drunken wedding toast in history. I'll say this for the lousy production: at least it honestly depicts the enthusiasm draining from the room like air escaping from a balloon. A more professional team would've intercut positive reaction shots of the crowd from the early part of the set when the audience was happy & hopeful that a fun night was about to begin. Instead the mounting disappointment, despair & depression of the audience is faithfully captured.
Tempe may be a long way from New York but one thing we all have in common: suffering the presence of a big fat boorish drunk who thinks he’s funny. Think of the bloated loser ex jock from high school whose glory days are long gone at any reunion or wedding & you get the picture.
And that's all in the first 30 minutes! Holy Jeezus I can't even imagine how awful the rest of the set was. A double bill of THE BAD LIEUTENANT & SCHNINDLER'S LIST would be lighter & funnier than the funeral that is IT'S THE WHISKEY TALKIN'. Even though I saw this on a friends discarded DVD I still feel like I was ripped off. I'll never get that half hour of my life back!
On the Howard Stern show where he interacts with Howard & Robin Artie can be pretty quick witted & funny but on his own he’s an embarrassment. I’m shocked he has allowed this for distribution as it is a complete turn off.
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