Greg Giraldo: Midlife Vices
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Actor: Greg GiraldoBrand: Paramount
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 67 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-10-20
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Comedy Central
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DVD Review: Another funnyman/philosopher gone too soon
Summary: 5 Stars
As of this writing, all that is known about Greg Giraldo's death is that he accidentally overdosed on what are said to have been prescription drugs. With that in mind, watching his dvds and listening to his cds now, of course, have lost a bit of their humor - why does this end seem to be so common for funnymen? Whether it's Belushi, Bruce, (a little bit more slowly but no less deadly) Pryor, the list goes on and on. Maybe these new age philosophers have to be medicated to be able to talk about the kind of things they have to talk about, night after night. I don't know, but it's a sick, sad world out there, and Greg's humor addressed it, more often than not. It may not have been as legend making as Lenny Bruce's or Richard Pryor's yet - whereas Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor both roared onto the stage and howled their way through routines that left you wondering whether you'd just had a religious experience, Greg tended to saunter onstage, a little wired (but surely on nothing worse than coffee and cigarettes, right?), and basically announce, "Okay, @#!$%!s,let's see who gets on whose nerves, first, okay?", and then he'd stand there and make you feel like an idiot for believing so much of what we do is important to the grand scheme of Things, and you'd sit there going, "Yeah, we are all a-holes!" -, but he was on his way with a fanbase of individuals who wanted to hear just how screwed up a country (America) had to be to be able to trivialize Death by throwing it into the title of a dessert, and noting that our country will never be able to make do with compact cars because we won't get off our fat asses and exercise, and therefore, the average American family will not fit into a compact car at one time. He was known for his celebrity roasts - I watched them assuming one would eventually end with the roastee getting up and kicking Greg's unshaven, Dude-do-you-ever-get-any-sleep? form all over the stage. But, like Don Rickles fifty years before him, Greg said things with just enough of a wink, and the silent acknowledgement that hey, he was one of those a-holes he was describing, that you'd sit there and listen to him insult your firstborn and your dying mother, and nod, "That's pretty damned accurate." This is only one of his performance tapes, and he can found all over Youtube, on CDs, etc.; what he has left behind won't easily fall by the wayside in this age of things going immediately viral, so I'm not worried about that. What I am worried about is that people will just watch the clips here and there,and repeat the best known zingers from The Skidrow King of Caustic, and that's doing Greg a disservice. Check out his work in its entirety; he has great timing, thoughtful insight about where we are and where we're all going, God help us, and he could even make Last Comic Standing bearable. Eventually, just like with all the great talents, we'll watch and listen to Greg again without the first thought being, "Man, what a loss;" - we'll go Damn, he was funny, and as time goes by, we'll see more and more just how right the dude was about quite a few things. By the way, not really for preteens, but they'll get hip sooner or later.... AND, Greg, when you see Bill Hicks, tell him that you kicked Denis Leary's aaasss all over Colin Quinn's show!!! O,and Kids: Drugs are bad, m'ok???
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