Its supposed to be ironic - a joke at the expense of self-help books, that they aren't any help at all. The great joke in this is that each segment has a title straight from the self-help book it is based on, and a skit which is about that in a satirical, abstract way, but doesn't answer the question.
But that's on a global level - the actual skits themselves are pretty bad. Not a single funny joke here - just a whole lot of toilet and undergraduate humour.
1) I always think its a bad idea for a writer to write about not being able to write, but i think its probably even worse for a comedian to make jokes through someone who can't tell jokes, because all you really have are bad jokes. That's what i felt about the first segment, where Woody plays a court jester who seduces a queen.
2) Gene Wilder is great - but his segment, of a man in love with a sheep, was just too twisted for me.
3) The segment sending up tacky italian movies is pretty good - maybe the best thing here.
4) The segment with the giant boob is many people's favourite. Woody meets a girl on the road, we go to a mad scientist's mansion, hunchback assistant included, where all kinds of one-liners and visual gags abound, around his various creations... one of which is a giant breast, which goes AWOL!
The cross dressing segment is one joke, and didn't justify an entire sketch. The last segment, where the action takes place inside a man's body, is inspired. It reaps quite a bit of material, and is really the only thing of quality here.
3/10. Below-average sketch comedy. How much did this cost to make? Was it really worth it? It cost me thirty five dollars - i bought the DVD having not seen it - and i deeply regret losing THAT amount!
But that's on a global level - the actual skits themselves are pretty bad. Not a single funny joke here - just a whole lot of toilet and undergraduate humour.
1) I always think its a bad idea for a writer to write about not being able to write, but i think its probably even worse for a comedian to make jokes through someone who can't tell jokes, because all you really have are bad jokes. That's what i felt about the first segment, where Woody plays a court jester who seduces a queen.
2) Gene Wilder is great - but his segment, of a man in love with a sheep, was just too twisted for me.
3) The segment sending up tacky italian movies is pretty good - maybe the best thing here.
4) The segment with the giant boob is many people's favourite. Woody meets a girl on the road, we go to a mad scientist's mansion, hunchback assistant included, where all kinds of one-liners and visual gags abound, around his various creations... one of which is a giant breast, which goes AWOL!
The cross dressing segment is one joke, and didn't justify an entire sketch. The last segment, where the action takes place inside a man's body, is inspired. It reaps quite a bit of material, and is really the only thing of quality here.
3/10. Below-average sketch comedy. How much did this cost to make? Was it really worth it? It cost me thirty five dollars - i bought the DVD having not seen it - and i deeply regret losing THAT amount!