Tourgasm

To anyone who is a fan of Dane Cook, beware of this show. If you expect to be laughing your a$$ off, well then go to comedy central and maybe you can catch his stand-up. This isn't a comedy at all but more like a drama. This show mostly consists of the bus ride to every venue instead of the act themselves. This is an early critique of the show, so they may show more stand-up once you get further into the season. Also, there is this one comedian name Jay Davis. He is probably the biggest wuss of a comedian that has ever lived. He gets heckled on the show then he goes to hide and cry in his bed. I mean come on, how did this guy get to be a comedian in the first place. There is more drama between him and this other comedian named Robert Kelly than there is comedy. So stay away from this show. This isn't a comedy at all, but just more of the same reality crap that has flooded TV.

how did they screw this up? in theory the idea was great. a really good comedian invites some up and coming comedians to go across country with a video crew.

it should have been like a real "entourage". instead I found myself watching 4 surprisingly unlikeable people.

you know how in every survival movie where a bunch of people are thrown together and try to survive a tragedy there always is like 1 obnoxious Person in the bunch that ends up getting people on edge and killed? well imagine a whole bus of that person on the road. they just aren't likable or funny to watch. and I wanted to like this. I just couldn't figure out how it could go so wrong seeing as Dane's act is so funny.

One would expect that HBO would want to put their best foot forward in the premiere episode in order to hook people. Well, if Episode 1 was as good as they could get, they've got a real problem.

First of all, the four comedians are really only two comedians: Dane Cook and Gary Gulman. Bobby Kelly and Jay Davis are evidently there just to make the other two look good by comparison. Not that you'll get a lot of looking at their stand-up abilities since the show isn't about that. Actual stand-up makes up mere moments in the half hour. Unfortunately. What you get is a reality show of four jerks on a bus together.

There are evidently 9 episodes, so HBO probably won't cancel it. But if Jay Davis isn't tied to the back of the bus and dragged through, say, Colorado in the first few minutes of Episode 2, I can't see much reason to continue watching.

I like Dane, I liked Gary G on Last Comic Standing, and I thought the premise of this had a great title, along with possibilities to spare. I've watched all the available episodes thus far (won't be watching any more, though), and I have to say that the great title is where it ends, folks.

The thing that's the most annoying is how the four of them keep fighting over the most petty things - that scene in the restaurant, for instance, when Gary was a little late and it was turned into some huge ridiculous power-play ego trip by the other 3. We could've done without that, and there have been other equally pathetic scenes that also should have been left out; the show is shamelessly self indulgent, and not in an endearing or creative way either.

The pacing is off, too - it just doesn't have the edge it should have. Instead it feels tired and tedious, with a gigantic 'so what?' factor, and we're not even rooting for them to kill onstage - at least I wasn't. Back to the drawing board on this one, guys.

Tourgasm takes a voyeuristic approach into the world of stand-up, focusing on four comedians on tour in the Unitied States. The show is like the "love-child" of the reality series Big Brother and Road Rules. As the four comedians live together in a crowded bus, they try to escape their boredom between performances by doing competitive activities or arguing. The show is then punctuated by the occasional stand-up highlights from their shows. I enjoy watching Robert Kelly on the show. His comedy is funny and his personality is funnier. It is a documentary, not a Dane Cook stand-up special, which is why Tourgasm accomplishes its mission: To document the 9-part video diary of Robert Kelly, Dane Cook, Jay Davis, and Gary Gulman.