The quality of the podcasts on YMH has been dying off for a while now, but I held out hope that maybe they would at least put effort into paid content. Unfortunately, it feels completely phoned in. Tom's washcloth bit has become as overused and uninteresting as the machine story at this point, and it takes up a bulk of the opening of this, 'special.' Lauren Compton's prison dating site bit is just painfully obvious and also material that's been treaded through over the history of the podcast, and I can't see this, 'special,' appealing to much of an audience outside of fans of Your Mom's House podcast. With that being said, it also feels incredibly tame, as if it's meant to appeal to a wider audience than the people who used to tune in for a weekly barrage of anal prolapse and self-surgery videos paired with funny commentary and observations.
It's nice to see some familiar faces peppered in, like Jessica Kirson and Ryan Sickler, but a lot of this thing feels like filler to meet the haha sex number runtime. I spent most of my viewing generally confused as to why whatever bit was being stretched so long. Of course comedy is suggestive, but I may have chuckled three times, I think once for Jessica and a couple times during Stavros' bit, which was admittedly well done.
Hands down the funniest part is seeing Tom make his mother listen to uber sexual hip hop and read through the lyrics, and whoever put this together knows it too, as it's the closer. Tom's push and pull relationship with his mother has always been hilarious, and it's nice to see them spending time together here. Beyond being genuinely funny, it's a reminder of what made the original podcast so great, and on reflection it made me wonder why I just couldn't connect with almost any of the material that came before it. It just feels like material we've already seen, without much more effort to put it to screen. I generally like all the comedians involved in this, it just feels like something is missing. I just can't in good conscience see myself encouraging even a hardcore mommy to see this thing, let alone pay money for it. Maybe things will change one day, though I'm doubtful, and if this is the best of the current state of YMH studios, it's a sad one to see.
It's nice to see some familiar faces peppered in, like Jessica Kirson and Ryan Sickler, but a lot of this thing feels like filler to meet the haha sex number runtime. I spent most of my viewing generally confused as to why whatever bit was being stretched so long. Of course comedy is suggestive, but I may have chuckled three times, I think once for Jessica and a couple times during Stavros' bit, which was admittedly well done.
Hands down the funniest part is seeing Tom make his mother listen to uber sexual hip hop and read through the lyrics, and whoever put this together knows it too, as it's the closer. Tom's push and pull relationship with his mother has always been hilarious, and it's nice to see them spending time together here. Beyond being genuinely funny, it's a reminder of what made the original podcast so great, and on reflection it made me wonder why I just couldn't connect with almost any of the material that came before it. It just feels like material we've already seen, without much more effort to put it to screen. I generally like all the comedians involved in this, it just feels like something is missing. I just can't in good conscience see myself encouraging even a hardcore mommy to see this thing, let alone pay money for it. Maybe things will change one day, though I'm doubtful, and if this is the best of the current state of YMH studios, it's a sad one to see.