DVD • Greg
Behrendt, former “Sex in the
City” consultant, provides
his own versions of coolness in “Greg
Behrendt is Uncool.” Warner
Reprise Video
Behrendt’s ‘Uncool’ packed
with comedy
By Lesley Nickus
Online Forty-Niner
Diversions Editor
Greg Behrendt, the co-author of the bestselling books “He’s Just
Not That Into You: The No Excuse Guide to Understanding Guys,” and “It’s
Called A Breakup Because It’s Broken: The Smart Girl’s Breakup Buddy” has
released a new DVD of his stand up comedy.
He has been featured on multiple late-night shows, HBO, Comedy Central Presents
... and was named one of
Variety’s “10 Comics to Watch” in 2001. His comedy is funny,
interesting and true to life.
According to Behrendt, as you age, you become increasingly uncool. His stand-up
routine focuses on this lack of coolness from aging in skits such as “Chain
Wallet” and “Adult Rock Show” and describes married life in
a humorous way in “A Free Sunday?” and “Pictonary.”
During no other part of the DVD is the aging issue more comically described than
in “Chain Wallet,” where he recounts a concert where he was required
to remove his chain from his wallet, not because it was a security issue, but
because he was too old to be wearing a wallet, as the security guard explained.
After going off on a tangent about aging, he presents his ideal concert situation
in “Adult Rock Show:” the concert is from 7 to 8 p.m., no opening
band.
Merchandise “old” people can actually use, like a Weezer day planner,
is sold.
Although he loves being married, he talks about some of the annoying things marriage
can bring in “A Free Sunday.”
Married couples spend Sundays together,
which sometimes lead to game night — and a transition into the “Pictionary” skit —where
couples get together and play games that eventually lead to fighting. He says “Pictionary” should
be named “This is what I would have drawn” and uses hilarious body
movements and facial expressions to explain what it looks like when couples compete
while drawing pictures.
The most amusing skit is “Crybaby Spiderman” where he expresses his
love for candy and Halloween and his requirements for Trick-or-Treating and candy “assessment.”
Whether you are young or old, conservative or liberal, Behrendt’s brand
of comedy —although he uses a few four letter words —i s easy to
relate to and quite humorous. If you’re young, you get a comical view of
what it might be like in 20 years. If you are not-so-young, you can laugh at
the comical views of your life in this must-buy DVD.
|
