The Comedy (2012)
4/10
Despicable Meh
6 August 2017
Well I think I boosted it up a point since I did not recognize Neil Hamburger without his KISS make-up.

Time will tell if this is a pivotal film, an antidote for comedy or at least a gag-suppressant for Charles Douglass Disease. If George Costanza was a form of "cringe humor" and Louis CK multiplied that while adding an element of verite, then Heidecker's unprincipled principles take 'em both to a quantum apotheosis.

Or maybe, it was just too much time and videotape on the hands of some guys? At one point, the idea that this was a film version of why domesticated animals cannot be released into the wild. Or some fun-house mirror of class politics. But then somebody threw up. I don't think it was me.

Also, I tried listening to the director/star commentary but bailed. So maybe a missed an epiphany there.
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