jennaspivac

When this show first came on the air I remember looking forward to seeing it. There was a great late night show interview with Billy Crystal and I saw clips of the show that actually made it look pretty good.

Boy was I wrong!

When I tuned in to actually watch it, the show was really just terrible. And then the next episode was worse, and the one after that, and so on.

Billy Crystal and the guest stars (and they had some pretty impressive star names and funny comedians as guest stars including Mel Brooks, Steven Weber, etc) were just wasted and coasting. Judging by this show and the last several Oscars etc I've seen him host I think maybe it is time for Billy Crystal to hang them up and get out of comedy, because if he thinks this is actually a funny comedy series to sign on to he obviously has lost his funny bone.

And Josh Gad is just plain awful. Not remotely funny or talented in every way. Everything I've seen him in I found him awful and unfunny and this is about the worst.

This show is a winning formula.... I loved the American version/original version when it came on.... but this version has a lot of problems where they don't seem to get what made the first version such a big hit. From what I can tell the audience and me included are very disappointed with this show and for similar reasons so here is my attempt to list those reasons and I hope the people who make and perform in this show will see it and take it to heart and change the show.

• the cast needs work, either getting better at performing and seeming real or just actually being real, or possibly they even need to be replaced.

• the writing is bad, not sure if it is writing or should be called that but they obviously have ideas of what they are doing, where they are going, who they are seeing and especially the ideas of what items are found/planted in the storage lockers they buy.... this part of the show should be a lot more interesting and fun and seem fresher/realer.

• location wise the show is very boring, they need more interesting and better locations to do the show at and need to change things up more, the American show does this a lot and it works very well.

The show isn't terrible it just doesn't hold a candle to the great original series it is based on, not sure if you can see my ratings but I give it a 4 out of 10.

I don't know who these people are who actually go to see this guy perform his stupid ventriloquist (spelling? sorry!) act but this comedy is so bad it makes me want to vomit a little bit into my own mouth. Who actually finds this funny, seriously? Predictable old jokes we all know the punch lines to and half the stuff has the puppets out in the real world or whatever and they remove Jeff Dunham from the scenes with CGI or whatever so what is the point? Isn't the reason people watch ventriloquists to that they can see the talent of talking and moving the puppet without moving their lips? I don't know because I don't watch this kind of thing I find it incredibly unfunny. As the other reviewer said this kind of talent died out like 50 years ago so it's infuriating to see this on my TV! Please cancel this garbage!