Pablo is a US comic who appears to have created his own cult following having featured in several popular animations including ‘Family Guy’ and ‘The Simpsons’. Last month he also crossed over the Atlantic to do a stand-up gig in East London.
Pablo Francisco’s present comedy show ‘Bits and Pieces’ is a recording made at a small comedy club. Pablo dances his way on to the stage in a robotic sequence which both bears a resemblance to a certain David Brent (Ricky Gervais) and also leads nicely in to his first routine.
Francisco is a star and this is made clear from a very appreciative audience. From a distance, Pablo could be mistaken for Ben Stiller, but that is definitely where the comparisons end. (more…)
Perrier comedy award-winner Milton Jones performs his distinctly quirky brand of stand-up in his first live DVD release, ‘Live Universe Tour – Part 1: Earth’, available now. The star of BBC Radio 4’s Another Case Of Milton Jones and ITV’s For One Night Only has taken to the stage at the Arts Theatre in London to record his very own DVD chock-full of specially-written and staged material.
I really enjoy The Simpsons, even the bad episodes are a good way to pass the time, but do I need to have the episodes at hand whenever I want? Probably not.
Maybe this is the dilemma of the DVD distributor these days – with so much choice on digital TV, and on-demand television gaining ground, what is the selling point of the Box-set?
In the case of the Series 12 of the Simpsons DVD Boxset the selling point is the imaginative and detailed extras, as well as appealing to the Simpsons completists out there. You’ve got episode commentaries, deleted scenes, animation showcase and a whole lot more.
And then there are the 21 episodes – some great, some middling but worth a watch.
So it’s a good boxset, if you like that sort of thing.
As we approach ten years since the first Futurama episode hit our TV screens it’s fitting that the fourth, and apparently final, feature-length episode comes out on DVD. A lot has happened in animated comedy features in a decade, some of which could be traced to Futurama, but does this franchise still hold up?
Into the Wild Green Yonder is not a good start for a Futurama newbie as we are not given the background to how pizza delivery boy Philip J. Fry made it from being cryogenically frozen as 2000 began, and then brought back to life on New Year’s Eve 2999. That sort of info would be useful to any stranger to the Futurama world.
In this film mankind stands on the brink of a wondrous new Green Age, but ancient dark forces, “three times older than time itself”, are determined to wreak destruction. Which sounds more dramatic until you mention the universe’s largest mini-golf course, Bender’s trysts with a fembot married to the mob, and Leela turning eco-terrorist hunted by Zapp Brannigan.
All in all it’s a good episode of Futurama that just about stands up to being spread into a feature.
The fourth and final Feature-length Futurama hits the DVD and Blue-ray shelves packed with bonus features such as an audio commentary by creator Matt Groening, a making-of mockumentary, and “Zapp brannigan’s Guide to Making Love at a Woman”.
“Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.” by Matt Groening
NoiseNextDoor#gigreport Undeserving of a stronger superlative than nice. Ropey start but finished strongly with an entirely inappropriate boyband satire.
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NoiseNextDoor#gigreport Nice gig in Tolworth or Surbiton. The audience were indecisive when telling us exactly where we were.
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Beaglevision Kim's Comedy, Oxted. 55 member sell-out crowd. All good stuff apart from the drunk old slappers in the front row. #gigreportLink
As we approach ten years since the first Futurama episode hit our TV screens it’s fitting that the fourth, and apparently final, feature-length episode comes out on DVD. A lot has happened in animated comedy features in a decade, some of which could be traced to Futurama, but does this franchise still hold up?
