Someone else best characterized 'Tourgasm', saying it 'suffers from comedy's oldest problem: it isn't funny.' (To be fair, its only possible defense would be that it isn't comedy at all.)
Unlike a train wreck, you really can turn away. Compounding the real-time agony are numerous offenses. First, were it far funnier, it would simply be a ripoff of 'The Comedians of Comedy.' Second, the title is prosecutable false advertising. 'Tourgasm' is utterly unpleasant, anti-climactic, unsatisfying, and prolonged. Third, as shown, the whole cast is largely unlikable, and they spend their time punctuating extended periods of unlikability with moments of trying too hard.
Perhaps Cook and Gulman are actually funny in real life. But if so, the show does its level best to hide this through clever editing. If there is any value here at all, it is in the inadvertent and uncomfortable but altogether real portrayal of failure and the resultant depression. The warmest feeling one can summon up for the principals is a form of pity for their whole effort.
Other than all that, it's a plum. One hopes that perseverance will lead them all to something better.
Unlike a train wreck, you really can turn away. Compounding the real-time agony are numerous offenses. First, were it far funnier, it would simply be a ripoff of 'The Comedians of Comedy.' Second, the title is prosecutable false advertising. 'Tourgasm' is utterly unpleasant, anti-climactic, unsatisfying, and prolonged. Third, as shown, the whole cast is largely unlikable, and they spend their time punctuating extended periods of unlikability with moments of trying too hard.
Perhaps Cook and Gulman are actually funny in real life. But if so, the show does its level best to hide this through clever editing. If there is any value here at all, it is in the inadvertent and uncomfortable but altogether real portrayal of failure and the resultant depression. The warmest feeling one can summon up for the principals is a form of pity for their whole effort.
Other than all that, it's a plum. One hopes that perseverance will lead them all to something better.