If you don’t know who Lewis Black is or have seen his stand-up before, then I must give you a few words of warning: DON’T let your young children or mother watch his routine. Now this is NOT because he’s not funny–he’s hilarious. But, he’s also incredibly abrasive and scatters obscenities throughout his act. Now I don’t usually care for all the cursing but he manages to use this when talking about things that really do drive us up a wall!
In this installment, he talks about politicians and how they don’t know how to deal with terrorists, how stupid and useless cellphones are, meeting Ringo Starr and MANY other things that make his mad…and boy, is he mad! Fortunately, he does warn you when the show begins–he WILL offend you and his language will appall you. But he’s also funny. Not as funny as his next comedy special, “Lewis Black: Old Yeller–Live at the Borgata”.
Not the same old Lewis Black,. Even though he is imitating himself
*** Some Spoilers ** I have seen this special a couple times. And Lewis Black used to be so much better. But he has gone the way of a lot of comics who yell at the camera and wave their arms frantically and substitute silly on stage breakdowns and arm flailing for actual humor. In this show he even imitates his own old joke about why we don’t have solar power,. and how it makes politicians want to pee themselves. He could have found a better joke to reformulate that that one of his jokes. Is Lewis Black past it all? Possibly if this is the best show he can do in what was almost an hour. I really don’t think this show can appeal to very many people now. I recommend replaying the shows of the late John Pinette.
