Bought Jethro's latest DVD - It grieves me to say it's crap

[Bagpuss]

Jethro, Chubby Brown and Jim Davidson, they don't make comdians like that anymore

Thank God

[BoredBloke]

I thought he was talking about the seed drill - I thought that was pretty rubbish also

[MarillionFan]

Yeh I thought you were talking about Ian Anderson as well.

[Board Game Geek]

I thought you mean Jethro Tull.

Oh well, I killed the thread after about 9 seconds.

[Gonzo]

My relatives think he is brilliant. They are all from the west country and are in their seventies or eighties. Enough said.

[DaveB]

Jethro was funny once. June 30th 1972, IIRC.

Since then he's been, and remains crap. Yes he's Cornish and some people find the Cornish accent funny, for about 3 minutes, not counting anyone who's ever been Cornwall or has ever lived there. That seems to be the basis for his whole act. "I'm Cornish, I have a funny accent and I swear a lot."

Don't bother.

[xoggoth]

Who's Jethro?

[Nipple Clamp]

The first ten minutes were great, and then it was as if the quality fell off a cliff - stale, juvenile, and embarrassingly unfunny jokes.

These days, with the web, there's no excuse for a comedian not to at least come up with decent jokes. Hell, in no time I could pirate two hours of jokes from rec.humor (or could a few years ago - haven't checked it recently, and the quality may have declined since then).

But the DVD was worse worse than that - Jethro seemed to be just going through the motions, and came over as a poor spiritless imitation of himself in past years. And he gave far too much time to those yokels (his neighbours or drinking pals?), whose quality of jokes and delivery is about equal to my skills in brain surgery.

All in all rather disappointing.

edit: For those (including Xoggoth of all people) who haven't heard of Jethro, he's a Cornish stand-up comic whose stock in trade is a slightly drunken sounding delivery and coarse jokes.

He hasn't appeared on TV AFAIK. (I think he must realize his repertoire is too threadbare to carry a whole series - TV gobbles up material like a whale eating krill, and in any case he is up with or past Roy Chubby Brown on the crudity scale.) But he does a tour of live shows in two or three dozen towns each year. I saw him in Reading a couple of years back, and that show was brilliant.