Dylan Moran - Monster - Live DVD

Advantages: Just so funny.
Disadvantages: You will have to take up smoking and acquire a taste for wine

...-- Mini Biography -- Dylan Moran was born in 1971 in County Meath, Navan, Ireland. He left school at 16 with no qualifications and aparently spent 4 jobless years "drinking and writing bad poetry". In 1993 won the "So You Think You're Funny?" award at Edinburgh festival, became the youngest person ever to win the Perrier award in 1996 and went on to star in BBC2's "How Do You Want Me?" in 1998. In 1999 he was 'Rufus the Theif' in Notting Hill ...
...Bull Story". ----------------------------- Dylan Moran's 'onstage persona', shall we call it, is very similar to that of Bernard in Black Books, which means that if you loved Bernard, you will love Dylan and vice versa. But if you didn't, (what?! how?) then this is not for you. You can also see similarities with his and Bill Bailey's (Manny from Black Books) stand up routines. Evidently they've influenced eachother and if you've seen both you might ... Read review

Advantages: its funny
Disadvantages: its Bernard from Black Books!

...see a bit more of Dylan Moran, and thus rented this DVD, a performance filmed in Dublin in 2004. I am not quite sure whether I was surprised or not to learn that Dylan's stand up show is basically a transference of Bernard Black from television set to stage! From the wild hair, the wine sipping, the fag smoking, the bellowing, the twitches... its all here. Is he like this in real life or has he just settled into that character so well that he finds ...
...I have no idea! The comedy in this performance is derived from Dylan's experiences (as much comedy is), and he has mastered story-telling, going off at tangents, and improvising to good effect. Several times he'll wander off on some loose thread vaguely connected to what he originally started talking about, and it generally works. And once everyone has stopped laughing and clapping he'll suddenly bounce back into whatever he was talking about before. ... Read review

Advantages: Funny in parts
Disadvantages: Disappointing 2nd live dvd

...After a late introduction to Black Books and since falling in love with Dylan Moran i managed to watch his first Stand up DVD: Monster - Live. This lived up to the expectation i had after witnessing his comedic talent in Black Books and so was even more excited by the release of a second live DVD. Unfortunately i have to say i was slightly disappointed with Like, Totally Live. I thought the subjects he touched upon just weren't funny in the same way he had managed to make things hilarious in his first show, as if he was just trying a bit too hard and pushing his deliverance of the material. It might be what somebody would find funny, as comedy can be a very personal thing, it wasn't unwatchably bad, but just didn't live up to the level of humour in the first DVD. I think strangely enough, in this DVD, Dylan Moran just wasn't acting... Read review

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