Pablo Francisco: Bits and Pieces - Live from Orange County (2004 TV Special) User Reviews

A real comedian

[13Funbags · 8/10 · 9 March 2019]

Pablo is a truly funny guy so he will never be famous. His funny noises and voices are all he needs but he has great jokes too. This is a must see.

Crazy Latino fun

[patrik-ekstrom · 10/10 · 12 October 2006]

Well, what can I say, for those who know who Pablo Francisco is, my rating at 10/10 shouldn't come as a surprise. He's just that funny... OK, so he does a lot of old material on this DVD, but just seeing it in this quality instead of the poor quality material thats floating around the web, is just a joy to watch. Kick up a few beers and a couple of your "homies" and you'll have yourself a very laughable and possibly "pukable" evening depending on how many beers and snacks you snarf down. For you who don't know who he is: Great voice-impersonator, for example, Arnold Schwarzenegger as a taco-vendor, Kermit the frog, the guy that narrates movie-commercials, several animal-sounds and so much more.If your offended by foul language this isn't for you. The F-word is in there quite a lot.

Thats it, buy it now damn it. Support the only living 100% Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonator.

One of the best stand-up specials ever

[rorisshe · 10/10 · 21 June 2023]

I'm fascinated by the fabric of this special. Structurally, "Bits and Pieces" is a web of callbacks - some are jokes, some are sounds. It's maddening/genius. None of the callbacks seem cheap/forced which I think is rare. It's almost a symphony. I've never seen anything like this.

"Bits and pieces" is uniquely audial but Pablo Francisco also has some crazy/hilarious facial expression. His acting - OMG! I can't believe Pablo is not in the movies! What happened?!

In terms of writing, it's great. Pieces are well-crafted and I was surprised to find some first-class one-liners, too. The one about chicken pot pie absolutely kills me.

Brilliant work! A must watch!

Plain awful

[ingemar-4 · 2/10 · 17 April 2014]

Take a totally fabulous voice actor, with a famous Schwarzenegger imitation... and fill out with 45 minutes of absolute rubbish. That is what we get here. The act is extremely repetitive, dominated with cheap run-of-the-mill sex jokes. With a talent like this, how about spending more than 5 minutes in the lavatory writing the script? I am not offended by bad language or dirty jokes... "I hate a dirty joke, I do, unless it's told by someone who... knows how to tell it!" And Pablo doesn't. His movie/celebrity impersonations are great, but 1) you can't rerun the same joke over and over this way and 2) making sex moves isn't funny for that long!

His Schwarzenegger imitation is in there, but it is the ONLY worthwhile material, the only really good jokes on the DVD! The rest are all fillers.

I am sorry for being negative, but I had hoped for something better, and this was just a waste of time.