Joke Man

Jackie's ability is that he remembers jokes. And he tells them. But he's not very funny in general, he just thinks he is. And the cavalcade of has-beens in this documentary is just downright sad, especially stuttering john, the least funny person on planet Earth.

Jackie also made the worst decision in show Business history in leaving the Stern show, his career has been in a downward spiral ever since leaving Stern, because he never understood the fact that he was a side man, he was not a frontman, and his talents are minimal at best. All that being said this is a entertaining documentary even though Jackie is a bitter has-been.

Just saw Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling at The Boulton Center in Bayshore. The theater was wonderful but the show was terrible! He seems like a nice guy but his comedic success has passed him by. He put on a movie!!! It had him and others speaking about how he always wanted to do comedy. Then, it was stick figures telling stupid jokes. We stayed an hour but it didn't get any better. Sometimes it's just time hang it up. We were very disappointed. If we wanted to see a movie we could have stayed home and watched any of the thousands that are available. It was definitely a waste of time and money but we were very happy to have gone to such a nice local theater.

This is exactly the self-serving piece of crap the angry, bitter, then never funny Jackie The joke Man would produce. He was always Howard's pity case from day one, I never understood what Howard saw in him as far as him being anything even remotely funny. Jackie would not even been funny in the vaudeville days, which is where 99% of his jokes come from. He never understood his role on the show, he was always in the minor leagues and Howard was in the major leagues, although Jackie thought he was in The Beatles of comedy, but he wasn't even Pete Best. Kudos to the sweet Willie Nelson for lowering himself to be in this piece of crap. Mildly entertaining if you're a Stern fan, but expect self-serving crap until the end.

If you want to inflate your own relevance, hire your best friend to make a movie about you, and if you run out of people to comment on you, allow that same friend to be a commentator in the film. This is just a vanity docu-project about the classic joke comedian who was once a writer for Howard Stern.

There is no new ground covered, basically the same stories Jackie has recycled for years on podcasts and in his biography. But that's Jackie, right? A fine purveyor of recycled jokes and material in yet another attempt at self-promotion. Isn't that what we love about him?

This film allows you to laugh AT him more than with him, you just wish Howard, Fred and the Jackie Puppet were doing a commentary track about it. The most exciting part is the appearance of Scott DePace, the ignorant director who fell off the face of the Earth and is probably again the team leader at ShowBiz Pizza. Watch it if you have a love for Jackie and the Stern show.

PS - Artie does make three 10 second appearances.

Wow, what an awesome movie!

Very nicely put together and well paced. A must watch for fans of the early Howard Stern show. Some very cool blast-from-the-past-moments. Actually made me miss how freaking funny the Stern show used to be with Jackie.

Really hammers home the fact that Jackie was responsible for so much of the humor when he was a part of it and how the quality of the show greatly declined once he left.

I personally think Jackie made the right choice to leave, especially considering what a absolute "joke" Howard Stern has become.

Hearing the once champion of free speech and FCC crusader come out against Joe Rogan for "daring" to have certain guests on his podcast was absolutely absurd and destroyed any credibility Stern may have still had. F_ _ K Howard.