Retrospective: The Keith Barrett Show

Hi all,

Sorry it’s been so long in blogging again; we’ve been very busy over the past week! To make up for it we’re going to be blogging your heads off over the next couple of weeks, with lots of DVD’s, videos, live reviews and TV shows.

To kick off, while we were on our travels, we managed to sneak in a cheeky watch of Rob Brydon’s character DVD Keith Barrett Live, which was rather a good watch.

Released in 2006 on the back of the successful Marion and Geoff and The Keith Barrett show, the DVD is fantastic in whimsical clever comedy. For some, the character of Keith Barrett may be tiring but hidden in amongst the similar jokes throughout the show are some genuinely clever pieces of comedy. For example, the section where he claims to not be great at thinking of things off the top of his head, and then creates ten minutes worth of comedy while chatting to audience is great.

Brydon plays the harmless aging divorcee character down to a T, which is probably what helped him land the role as Uncle Bryn in Gavin and Stacey. There are similarities in their characters and these are noticeable all the way through; most obviously his inability to be ‘cool.’

On the whole, the DVD is a enjoyable watch but we wouldn’t exactly recommend it to anyone. Lovers of character comedy and people who don’t mind there being no ‘proper’ jokes will find it a joy but many people will find it quite slow (as did my mother).

We managed to pick it up for £1 from CEX so whichever way you look at it, we got value for our money!

Until next time…

SB

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