Robert Kelly: Live at the Village Underground (2014)
Robert Kelly: Live at the Village Underground is a stand-up comedy film that captures the indomitable nightlife and comedy club scene of New York City through Robert Kelly's raucous, savvy and hilarious one-man show.
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SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?
Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
Robert Kelly's routine is that he is fat and getting older and he doesn't care. He is indeed, fat -- as he puts it, he is on his fifth fat.He is also a high energy performer.He talks non-stop, rarely pausing to take a breath as he goes on and on about how fat people are better than skinny people because they feel bad about themselves while thin people are smug and self-satisfied.While the audience in this show enjoy him and while a lot of his jokes work, I was left with the thought that they were drunk and while I watched this on Comedy Central, I was sober. While his live audience was hit with a constant series of jokes, with no time to come down from the laughter, my enjoyment had to rebuild after each commercial break.The result is a good one-hour show on television, but I believe he is a lot better when it's late on Saturday and I have had a few drinks.