Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Blue Collar Comedy Tour (DVD) Review

By Harris Potter


Among all the comedies available today, the Blue Collar Comedy Tour ranks number one within the "must see" category. Few comedians can find an audience among a broad range of demographic groups, with varying tastes among individuals, the correct answer is difficult to get universally entertaining people. But Blue Collar Comedy Tour showcases four stand-up comics of such ability. The stand-up routines are filmed in Phoenix with intermittent features about the exploits of each of the men as they travel the nation on the popular comedy tour. Opening up with all four men fishing in a lake, amazingly the conversations between these males are hilarious and entertaining. What then could we expect when they go ahead and take stage? Only the better of modern redneck, working man comedy...

One of the rising stars of stand-up, Ron White brandishes his liquor and tobacco drenched persona along with sarcasm to produce one of the better comic routines of the decade. White chronicles his 9-minute plane ride to Phoenix which almost ended in tragedy when the plane was instructed to turn around in mid-flight because of equipment trouble.

White's act is well then Larry The Cable Guy, a redneck's redneck who lives by the catchphrase "Get 'r done!" Speaking inside a redneck dialect that borders on another language, Larry The Cable Guy is really a barrel of laughs for any American who loves apple pie. Providing unique insight into the planet at large, his audience is presented with the great conundrum of the dog dish water purifier (amongst other things). Why should he buy a water purifier for an animal that eats its own crap?

Beginning the second half of the film is Bill a comic book who requires a more well-spoken, family man approach to his routine. When i first saw Bill on The Tonight Show when I was ten years old. He delivered the best stand-up routine I've ever seen, and that i still remember a lot of it word-for-word to this day... Central to the routine was his trademark "Here's your sign" (referring to a "stupid sign" passed out to people who make dumb remarks). Just like his colleague Jeff Foxworthy, has managed to keep that not only going, but while inventing a hilarious treasure trove of recent material. This guy is just plain funny...

Rounding out the final one-man routine is Jeff Foxworthy, probably the most well-known of the crowd due to his widely promoted "you may well be a redneck if..." jokes. Foxworthy begins having a standard routine that's really funny (this part of his career has been widely overlooked), however he naturally moves into the area of the routine that individuals like to hear - the redneck jokes. My favorite from the whole Blue Collar Comedy Tour DVD is his line "If a beaver bites off your nipple, you may be a redneck".




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