Googlewhack Adventure

This is the greatest most in depth and emotional comical act ever. This stand up act is so funny and intense. A laugh riot at the way through, there's even points where emotions reach a height of danger but it all makes sense at the end, u may like the end and u may not but it sure is intense. Oh my god please please please please please watch this is u like comedy and please please please please please watch it even if u don't. It's not only a comical act but also real life, these are real events that happened in David Gorman's life that he retells by using a variety of slides. This act is a journey brought to u by David Gorman and a journey that u will not forget.

I had no idea what to expect going into this and I was blown away. Gordon is a born performer and did an excellent job, I have been given instructions not to say anything about the nature of the film so i will just prattle on about nonsensical things for 10 lines. It was really good though and you should definitely watch it. Here is a little story, once upon a time there was a pig and a walrus, the pig and the walrus were the best of friends, but one day the pig went to the walrus's house and he wasn't there, so the pig stole his TV and ate his food. Then the walrus came back and ate the pig. Well thats just about 10 lines, again go and rent this, go into it blind thats the best way to do it.

Those who know Dave Gorman will know that he is the man who decided to set out to meet other people called Dave Gorman. A little weird but to top that he decided to set himself a series of metrics and goals (miles travelled per Gorman for example) to make it more of a challenge. The outcome of that was a particularly funny stand up show where he gave a PowerPoint presentation about his journey, showing graphs and the like to illustrate it in an engaging and entertaining way.

On this occasion he sets out to write a novel when he gets distracted by an email alerting him to the fact that he is a Googlewhack – specifically his website is the only result when two words are searched for on Google. Those words were Francophile Namesake and they start Gorman on a path to try and find people who have websites which are Googlewhacks, who in turn find him two more websites, who he will then contact and so on until he has a chain of 10, all of whom he has personally met. All against the ticking clock of a deadline of his 32nd birthday. Needless to say the novel doesn't get his full attention.

I didn't bother with this all those years ago because it did feel like a bit of a stunt (an issue he puts me in my place about during this show) rather than something that had grown organically. This feeling is very quickly left behind in this show because Gorman tells a story that really starts in the spark of wonderful coincidence and obsession – a coincidence that is so out of the blue that it would be hard to believe if I simply stated it, so I won't. Anyway the journey that it sparks is really engagingly told because Gorman puts a lot of himself into it – the joy of moving forward, the despair of dead ends and the overall of obsession of making this mostly pointless thing happen. The show spends a lot of time on the people he meets early on (where the novelty of the telling exists) and then wisely speeds up to avoid it being too samey. The conclusion is really strong as well.

It isn't always hilarious and at times it doesn't quite work; personally I didn't find Gorman as effective when he was yelling in rage at his audience because it seemed a little too forced and overly dramatic for the sake of the show, but these bits still do work thanks to the rest of it. This isn't so much a stand-up show as it is a story told with humor and energy and although sometimes it doesn't quite work, it is mostly engaging, funny and entertaining.

Dave Gorman is possibly the most talented raconteur around, his manic delivery style and the clever manner in which he gets the audience to become part of his quest is simply brilliant, he doesn't tell jokes, he doesn't churn out one liners, he merely describes his fantastic, but entirely true journey, and the result is two hours of the most hilarious entertainment. I have never laughed so loud or so long at any other performance, an absolute delight from start to finish. My wife sat in front of the TV determined not to enjoy what she was sure was going to be adolescent, masculine humour and within minutes was in paroxysms of delight and she is a tough audience. If you rent or buy only one DVD this year, make it this one.

Never seen a person better in acting.The face expressions and the presentation was awesome. Some of the incidents really seem to be improbable but David mesmerizes us with his skills. Many would doubt if its genuine, But he sure convinced me and i think many more. A Brilliant way of presenting a crazy theme. The ending is just perfect. More than Worth Watching.Best stage comedy ever. The dailogs do not carry any comedy but the expressions do. Covered all the details of his adventure and starts of explaining clearly. A crazy adventure with a ???? ending. Find out yourself and substitute the question marks :). If you know how to search on google u too will start searching as he did .. but his adventure is altogether different and i doubt if anyone will even think of doing that :))