| RATING: | 40% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
A comedy fest that is not really all that funny. It is not actually about much at all and so never really touches upon the wellspring of all great humor: Fear.
There are jokes about jokes that lack content so much so that the form must suffice as the source of laughs. This is like a tv advert trying to tell us something important about our lived reality rather than simply trying to sell us goods and services!
BAILEY looks like he has taken too many non prescription medications in his lifetime to have really experienced anything else that he can more effectively satirize or parody. He is thus left with little else other than drug induced fantasies and hallucinations masking an inability to grow up. He is stuck in this rut because he is unable to get over his adolescence; making his performances undisciplined and self indulgent rather than genuinely surreal.
BAILEY's musical skills do not compensate for his comedic shortcomings since they also reveal a man with limited life experience outside the druggie subculture. He is no Victor BORGE and his occasional flashes of brilliance serve to emphasize his essential mediocrity while desperately feeding on (& off) it. Once he overcomes this self induced personal trance – he often seems drunk in performance - he may one day produce far superior material.
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