Best viral video ever? Only if The Jesters is the best comedy ever
Being somewhat late to the party, Dr Mumbo (who was probably distracted by watching the superior 30 Seconds on another channel) finally caught a repeat of Movie Extra’s The Jesters over the weekend.
If like most of the country you were previously unaware of this Mick Molloy helmed effort in which a cast less talented than The Chaser do a thinly diguised spoof behind-the-scenes at The Chaser, then that’s no bad thing.
But one aspect is worth commenting upon. They also created a YouTube channel and included a somewhat hubristically named effort called “The best viral video of all time”. Since it was uploaded six month ago, it’s been viewed 462 times. Which about sums up the show.
Abit harsh tim, it wasn’t that bad and was quite funny in places. Maybe Molley etc should pop in for an interview on The Mumbo Report and then you’d soften your stance.
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In fairness, I only caught the final two episodes at the weekend.
A big issue for me was lots of lazy short cuts around timelines. One of the characters was dating a magazine journalist. Her relationship column would come out complaining about incidents occurring the night before. Similarly the process of releasing a best-of DVD unfolded over a bout two days.
While you sometimes have to take short cuts to make the story work, considering that this felt like something that was probably only ever going to be funny to media insiders, you shoudl probably ground it in research.
But I’d be happy to have Mick Molloy on the Mumbo report, Stephen. We could chat about ice skating too.
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
No, Tim wasn’t being harsh. I like think Molloy is great, but I refuse to hold the hand of Australian comedy.
Having watched the entire season I can attest to it being utter tripe – tired jokes, terrible execution, and a cast who, aside from Molloy who seemed bored, would have been better off as a second rate University review.
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it was weird seeing Molloy as washed up Dave Davis in the jesters, then seeing him do almost the same routine with eddie on Nine’s Olympics coverage.
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