Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #184 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-11-23
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 76 minutes

DVD Description
Dylan Moran's West End Tour:

Tour runs from October 26th to December 5th, 2009 at the Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue.

Synopsis
Actor, writer, and comedian Dylan Moran has been making a mark in comedy since the age of 20, when he tested his skills at stand-up in the early '90s. This release encapsulates all the sharp and witty sarcasm that has made Dylan Moran’s style so distinctive. Recorded live during the incredibly successful WHAT IT IS tour.

Customer Reviews

Top class, true stand-up
The thing with seeing a Dylan Moran show or dvd, is that you know it will be good. I sat down to watch this, after seeing the show live in Bristol last year, and knew I was in for a treat. He doesn't disappoint.

Dylan Moran begins this show in a superbly bumbling fashion, pretty much walking out onto stage and shrugging. But, ironically when you consider the themes he talks about, this evolves into passionate rants about just about anything he can think of to complain about.

Of course, amongst 80 minutes of talking, there is a great deal of cynicism, but that's always been part of Moran's charm. The passion he shows is addictive, and you can feel the audience growing with it. This is true stand-up comedy: One man + one stage + one microphone = jokes. simple. The way Moran manages to diversify from this very simple comedy formula is by being a very unique observational comedian and by giving very bizarre analogies. It's pure, and it's superb.

"What It Is" is a perfect title for this show, and Moran talks about pretty much everything, and this can be summed up by the way he begins the show; with material on God and science and the creation of the world. Common Moran themes like self-improvement and foreign countries (and their accents) crop up, however more fresh and broad themes are talked about, such as Death, Consumerism, Child-rearing, pleasure and, er... confectionery.

"What It Is" could be viewed as a dark and cynical talk about the difficult issues in life, maybe even a passionate lecture, but the difference is, Moran manages to cover these topics whilst being outrageously funny. This DVD is superb from start to finish, and leaves you wanting to go have a cake. Moran would be pleased.

Hilarious and subtle
When Dylan Moran points out the failure of the human world (you can't turn to consumerism, money, God or politics) he is being very clever. What forms the backdrop to all the 1990s self-help books becomes instead a reality that feeds his comedy. Much of it is not especially original or inventive. What it is, instead, is observant, and there is never any question that Moran finds himself the funniest thing in the world. Acting drunk, though unlikely actually to be drunk, he gives the performance of a whingeing bar bore who suddenly comes to life one night and regales everyone with fabulous comedy.

I'm not the kind of person who laughs out loud much at books or TV, but in Moran's case I did laugh at this. A lot of comedy is stupid but this combines subtle truth with very funny examples.