Vaughn's Wild West Show to hit theaters
Erik Davis, writing for Cinematical.com, goes hyper-prissy on us:
I know, by this point you’re just dying for more information on Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show (ugh, I feel dirty just writing that).
Yes, Erik, and we feel dirty just reading your garbage.
He goes on to explain (while never missing a chance to say something negative) that nearly every minute of Vaughn’s 2005 30-city comedy tour was filmed and that the movie made from the footage will be distributed to theaters early next year. Davis then goes on to compare the project to Tourgasm, about which he says:
Parts of it were cute, but whenever you get a group of stand-up comedians together on a tour bus (and they’re all being filmed), you can’t help but cringe as they speak to one another with this shtick-like dialogue– as if every other sentence is a punch line to a joke you never asked for in the first place.
Uh… Erik… they were speaking to one another… so, like, technically, we didn’t ask for the punchline to the jokes in the first place.
Davis never mentions the comedians featured in the movie by name, so we will– Bret Ernst, John Caparulo, Ahmed Ahmed and Sebastian Maniscalco.
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Yeah. That’s all we do. Just run schtick all the time. Granted, there are some people who are always “on” and that can get irritating, but what these journo-hacks fail to understand is that the reason why it looks like comics run schtick off stage is that their “act” is not really an act at all. It’s a more focused and refined version of themseleves. You don’t want to see comics riffing on each other? Change the fucking channel. It’s the same with other performers. Hang out with a group of theatre people and eventually someone will bust out some Shakespeare. Snobby film geeks really need to keep their traps shut about comics because they’re just as bad when they’re together.