Laurie Kendrick

Perfectly cast, but disappointing in that if this biopic is legit, these comedy legends were as flawed as they were. Not sure why I should be surprised considering how broken every standup I’ve ever met is. Having spent more than 30 years in Broadcasting I’ve met my fair share. But I’ve come to believe that the correlation between being a very funny person and a having a damaged psyche (and soul) is real. Inexplicable, but real. The on-screen chemistry between Coogan and Reilly is obvious. They must have spent untold hours in character study. It showed. Had it been filmed in black and white, the skits would’ve transported me back to my childhood, a lazy Saturday afternoon when one of the local TV stations, in what to be very cheap programming, would beguile my six year old eyes with colorless movies with scratchy audio starring people my parents knew well: Abbott and Costello, Charlie Chan (with both Warner Olan and Sydney Tolar), Mr. Moto and of course, Laurel and Hardy.