Black on Broadway

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Summary: Very funny but not new.
Review: I just bought the Black on Broadway (DVD) of Lewis Black from a local retailer on the day of its release. The comedy was very funny but I must say I was a bit disappointed. I bought the DVD anticipating new comedy skits but I heard some of the same jokes from Lewis Black's comedy (CD) Rules of Enragement. If you have already heard the jokes from Black's Rules of Enragement (CD) and are wanting new jokes then I'd suggest saving your money. The DVD is worth the money but from my perspective it is only good so far as one hasn't previously heard and laughed at the jokes.

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Summary: THIS DUDE RULES
Review: I JUST GOT DONE WATCHING THIS DVD
I DRANK SOME CODEINE AND WATCHED IT.
MAN THIS DUDE IS HELLA FUNNY ....HE GETS ALL PISSED
AND FRUSTRATED HIS STYLE OF COMEDY IS VERY RARE..ITS FUNNY WATCHIN HIM GET ALL WORKED UP AND STRESSED OUT OVER THINGS LIKE WATER...JUST BUY THE DVD AND GIVE IT A CHANCE....HIS OTHER DVD "UNLEASHED" IS GOOD TOO...ITS KINDA HARD TO COMPARE HIM TO ANYONE IF I HAD TO PICK I WOULD SAY KINDA BILL HICKS STYLE OR DENIS LEARY...I GOT SOMETHING LIKE 53 STAND UP COMEDY DVD'S AND THIS ONE IS IN MY TOP TEN

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Summary: The Angry Man in Black
Review: It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that our world has gone to hell. We have an inferior health care system, high unemployment, a war in the Middle East that no one wants and natural disasters that kill hundreds of thousands of people. Basically, we're screwed. So what can we do about it? Lewis Black has a solution: get ticked off.

Black's shtick is to start most jokes in a conversational tone of voice and punctuate the punch-line by yelling it angrily. After all, he's the angry guy who's angry at the world. Think of Sam Kinison in terms of style of delivery and Bill Hicks in terms of social and political commentary. Black works the crowd with all the skill and experience of a veteran stand-up comic. He does a good job of going off on tangents and then laying on a zinger that references an earlier joke. He has a good sense of timing. He knows just the right amount of beats between the set-up and punch-line of a joke.

If you can tap into Black's misanthropy (and in this day and age who can't?) he is quite funny with some genuinely laugh-out bits. On soy milk: "They couldn't sell soy juice so they called it soy milk because any time you say soy juice you actually start to gag." It's not just his jokes that are funny but how he delivers them-in an angry, exasperated way of someone in danger of having an aneurysm. What makes Black's comedy work is that its core there is a ring of honesty that he exaggerates for comic effect. He understands and acknowledges that the world is supremely messed up and that there may be nothing we can do but at least we can have some fun complaining about it.

Rating:
Summary: Really Funny
Review: Lewis Black is just flat out funny. This is a great performance and will keep you laughing from beginning to end.