Pablo Francisco
I came to the conclusion after Pablo Francisco’s show that his style either really appeals or it doesn’t. For me, it doesn’t. That’s not to say the room wasn’t filled with uproarious laughter and there was a long queue for his DVD signing after the show. The Chilean American seems to have a cult following but he can hardly be mistaken for funny. In fact, I felt dismayed throughout. His seventy minutes were far too frenetic and exhausting for someone like me who prefers more intelligent, less rumbustious comedy.
There’s no denying Francisco is a talented mimic (he’s an internet viral sensation for his near perfect impressions of Don LaFontaine, the movie trailer voice) and much of his show is sound effects and voice work, but some of his impressions just don’t hit the mark and his jokes all feel haphazard and somewhat incomplete.
He’s relentless with the strip club/porn star/humping topics, makes outrageous actions on stage and apparent habits include ruining people’s karaoke by squawking. The only part of the show I found moderately amusing was his ‘hand jokes’ at the very end – new material he’d scribbled on his palm during the show. The rest of his set, I found juvenile, disjointed, repetitive and tiresome. If I hadn’t needed to review it, I would have walked out.
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Did you see the show last night? I kinda felt the same way. Parts were really funny, but he rambled for a bit too long at times. I was also a bit unimpressed with the way he would repeat something that got a laugh a few times.
I did hear him say last night that he was ‘just going to goof off’ so I’m not sure whether we got a mostly impro show last night. I’ve seen his standup dvds which are alot more structured and very funny.
No, I saw him on Thursday. Same deal.
Dissapointing
I saw him last night at the Sydney Comedy Festival Cracker gala night and thought he was vile – really homophobic and racist.
We were all shocked at how full of hatred he was for gay men.
A sad, sad, individual full of prejudice.
“Someone like me who prefers more intelligent, less rumbustious comedy”
So that sets you apart from the masses, the fact you sh_t is stuck up your a_se for days on end. Let go, relax a little. Oh that right because your working you cant let go but you then have to tell the world that, you really just need to take a dump.
So someone like you who with a name like Sheena Rivera, who probably claims never to have broken wind in her life or on the other hand belong in a clapped out old Valiant “hey Sheeeeeenaahh, let spark up a few darbs behing the shittas!” Oh , but then you probably might have found Pablo funny so I guess that relegates you to a tight ars_d prissie phsyco Ho!
Love Joanna
Saw him in London. Laughed so hard I couldn’t breath. Great new material. Like a torrent of hilarious bullpoop.
Why would you go if you weren’t expecting Pablo? Why would anyone even review it if they weren’t expecting Pablo? Surely there must be someone better qualified to give a less biased review.
It’s like going to see Police Academy and expecting Royal Tenenbaums – put things in context or the output is just going to be amateurish.
Yes, he is juvenile – he must be going on 40 but he wears baggy football jerseys and a backwards baseballs cap for god’s sake – but so is the vast majority of his fan base.
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