Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5877 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-11-10
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
When you’ve been away from the stand-up comedy game for a decade, it’s understandable that some may fear that your finest days are behind you. However, Frank Skinner Stand-up shows that it really doesn’t always have to be like that. In short, this is a blistering return to the stage for one of Britain’s very best stand-up comedians.

Frank Skinner Stand-Up was filmed in 2007 at Birmingham’s National Indoor Arena, to a crowd of around 5,500 people. Not that you’d ever really know it, as Skinner’s gig makes it all feel so much more intimate. Whether he’s talking about his ‘romantic’ liaisons, singing songs about terrorists or musing on the state of his mind, it’s a razor-tight set, and a very, very funny one.

What Frank Skinner Stand-Up also manages to get across through is the man’s quite brilliant delivery. Camera close ups really get this across, but the timing and tone in which he tells his stories and fires out his punchlines is masterclass material.

Too often written off as a rude and crude performance, Frank Skinner in this gig proves once and for all that he’s one of the cleverest, funniest and most accomplished comedians in the country. And that’s why Frank Skinner Stand-Up, replete with some interesting extra features, is one of the very best comedy DVDs on the market. --Simon Brew

Synopsis
Frank Skinner returned to live stand-up in 2007 with his fifth sell-out tour of the UK, a decade since he played his last major live gig. This is the first ever Frank Skinner live performance to be released on DVD, and was filmed in front of his home crowd as part of a three night run at Birmingham’s National Indoor Arena. Frank Skinner has created and starred in a succession of hit comedy shows including The Frank Skinner Show, Fantasy Football, and Baddiel & Skinner Unplanned. As well as live stand-up and television, Frank has starred in London’s West End, written a best-selling autobiography, had three number one hits with the iconic football anthem Three Lions, and created yet another number one hit with Baddiel & Skinners World Cup podcasts.

“Some TV stars play at stand-up. Not Skinner – he’s the real deal” The Guardian

“Britain’s sharpest comic mind” The Sun

Customer Reviews

3 & a half stars
I hadn't realized it was Frank's first stand up for 10 years. He is one of my favorite comics, especially his work on Fantasy Football, Unplanned and his talk show.

So, is the DVD funny? Indeed it is. So why only 3.5 stars? Well, the material is not very broad. Frank spends too much time on sex, or more so, his sexual experiences, in graphic detail. About 70% of the act in fact! It's all very funny but he could have moved on to something different just to break it up. A lack of material is apparent. The best comics on their day cover a lot more day to day misgivings. His visuals and timing are spot on however, and he writes a good song too while playing the banjo. His encounter with a horse was a highlight.

He closes with an account on how people behave while txting, especially during the start of a new fling. It is so true, and this is what makes comedy work when comics touch on day to day activities which make us feel relieved in a way that it's quite normal behavior, but at the same time the mind creating it's own troubles.

The material in the Billionaires extras segment is good enough to have been in the main show. His quick impression of Oko Ono was funny while talking about Heather Mills.

This is still a lot better than Jimmy Carrs DVD also from 2008...

HILARIOUS!
This is absolutely hilarious and will have you laughing from start to finish! Frank is a comedy genius - have seen him a few times and he always has me laughing till tears are streaming down my face. Brilliant!

Proper Funny!
I saw this show on the night which was ace, and now I've got the DVD too! Brilliant to be able to relive it, and the behind the scenes stuff is really interesting to watch. Nice one Frankie!