I agree that it was not funny. I was so looking forward to it, and I must also admit that I did not finish watching it. This is the first time I haven't finished watching a film in years, but since I knew the "punchline" and knew how tedious the first 45 minutes were, I simply could not endure any more of it. Perhaps part of the problem is that as long as you know anything goes, nothing can be very shocking - taboo humour comes from people violating the rules of what is socially appropriate, and if you've got a video on which a bunch of comedians are doing nothing but sitting around with other comedians being juvenile and obscene the context doesn't violate any rules, so it is utterly boring, not shocking. I disagree with one of the comments that the whole point is that the punchline is supposed to be tedious - they might as well have gone the whole hog then and produced an entirely blank DVD - that would at least be pure tedium, and would have the virtue of at least permitting people to think their owen obcene "jokes".
I also agree that the comedians are not very obscene - real grossness lies in very explicit detail, and this was generally lacking.
One thing this film did is make me realise that possibly in real life, professional comedians aren't that funny - I really do know fourteen year olds who could do so much better.
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