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Best movie of this year hands down!

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

I've never heard of Fred Armisen before, and I hope to never hear of him again. This special was the worst thing I've ever seen in my life. You seriously have to watch it to see how unfunny it is. Seriously, stop reading this review right now! Go pull up Netflix on your TV, in your web browser or w/e you use and put it on. If you can make it to the end of the special, you deserve a years worth of Netflix for free. Hell, I'll front the bill.It was so terrible, in fact, that I actually had an epiphany after making it through about 30 minutes of this dumpster fire of a special, I shut off Netflix, went into my garage, packed up my drum kit and threw it right in the trash. "Why?" you may ask... because this standup killed drumming for me. It made me realize that I've wasted 20 years of my life. I could've been doing so much more, I thought. So I immediately poured myself a nice, cold glass of Guinness and decide on a new hobby. Today, I crochet! That's right I took up crocheting. I took all my drumsticks and made Shepard hooks out of them (why waste good wood). Yeah, yeah, I know, it's very different from drumming.It's quiet, relaxing and keeps me off the internet, Netflix and anywhere near that godawful special.

Standup for Drummers is a huge disappointment, whether you're a drummer or beat deaf, humorous or puritan. It disappoints because it isn't the least bit funny and even the drumming is tiresome. The Netflix tease for this Fred Armisen show captured my attention. I like drums. I like comedy. I like Fred Armisen. But, man oh man, I thought this was pretty bad, save for a few bits. Mostly, I was bored and disappointed and upon reflection, I can't say I laughed a single time. Where's the comedy? Armisen can drum, but it wasn't like he put on an amazing percussion performance either. I liked his review of drum kits across several decades, and his letter correspondence with John Waters was a touching piece. But both of those account for a tiny part of the act. All of his bits started with amateur openings like, "this is an impression of...," "did you ever notice...," and I'm not sure if that was for fun, all part of the act, or if he really is that bad at stand up. The drumming was better than the comedy. But even if he flipped it and went with, Drumming for Comedians, he still wouldn't have enough for a show. Even when Armisen and three professional drummers are on the stage together, he chooses to bore us to death. They all tap along to the same boring beat. Maybe he intended this to be funny in some way-if that was the intention it didn't work because no one was laughing, instead people were clapping along, probably waiting for something thrilling, but all they got was a flat, dry, ho-hum, and mind-mumblingly dumb synchronized rat-a-tats. It was the best opportunity to wow his audience and instead he had everyone tap away to the same beat, killed his show, the audience, and me.

Shockingly bad. An unwatchable train wreck. Dogsh!t

I'm a drummer and standup fan and this special let me down on both accounts. Topical drumming observations that often don't ring true, jazz bashing, pretty weak standup bits, and some drumming shoehorned in. Guy is a good enough drummer but this special just didn't really work.Edit: Also, he has his 3 guest drummers all on drumsets at the end and you think they're going to do some cool soloing or trading fours or something but then they literally just play the same simple rock beat for like 3 minutes... It'd be like if you had 3 professional guitar players come out and play the "Smoke on the Water" riff over and over. What a waste!