Let Loose Live (2005) User Reviews

Let Loose Die!

[mushi2004 · 1/10 · 5 June 2005]

Let Loose Live is the Seven networks latest attempt at producing comedy. The show is loosely based on the American show Saturday Night Live. The show contains a series of live and pre-recorded sketch comedy routines. The live sketches are broadcast live and performed in front of a studio audience. Being live-to-air, the format gives allowance for spontaneous ad-libbing during sketch performances. The cast is a mix of new talent and experienced comics. Despite retaining sketch comedy cast members from the former highly successful comedy program Fast Forward and prominent comic personalities Dave O'Neil, Colin Lane, Jane Hall & Andrew Curry, the show fails to evoke the same level of humour from past Seven network productions such as Fast Forward & Full Frontal due to poor writing and timing despite having good characters which the cast provide. Sketches seem to lack in humorous content, punch lines and continuity. Many sketches fail to hit the mark in terms of the joke being expressed and receive very little laughter or over-exaggerated put-on laughter from the audience. Unfortunately the show is likely to be axed in the not-to-distant future just like the recent failed Seven Network comedy offerings of 'The Big Bite' and 'Hamish & Andy' unless the standard of humour and script writing is improved.

No up to par

[bob_then · 2 June 2005]

Not as good as Peter Moon and Michael Veitch other comedy show "Fast Forward" (1989.) Was a BIG let down.

The jokes were not funny and predictable the characters were old, boring and annoying I recommend giving this show a big miss.

the show bombing was not just Peter Moon and Michael Veitch fault it was an evenly crap performance by all involved.

Paul Calleja, Andrew Curry, Marg Downey, Jane Hall, Colin Lane, Peter Moon, Dave O'Neil, Queenie van De Zandt and Michael Veitch.

Guest host William McInnes was by far the worst his opening monologue was one of the worst performances I had ever seen and his insulting of Lisa McCune was total uncalled for.

Until this show I was a huge fan of Michael Veitch and Peter Moon's comedy genius but no longer.

Appallingly wasted opportunity - avoid like the plague

[ellenmac05 · 29 May 2005]

This is one of the saddest things I have seen in a long time on Australian TV. A would-be 'Saturday night live', this is shoddily made, terribly written and mostly badly performed. Its 'stars' of Fast Forward or latter days are either underused (the great Marg Downey and Michael Veitch) or overused, revealing them for the crap hacks they are (Peter Moon, Dave O'Neil). Most of the newer performers are poor, with the exception of Kate McLennan (her gross-out girl character in the doctor's surgery shows promise) and Paul Calleja (fantastic Melbourne stand-up, who again is totally underused). Some of the more experienced actors like Jane Hall and Colin Lane are just hopeless - fluffing lines and milking the crowd for laughs that don't come. The worst thing is the way good ideas are totally thrown away (a great impersonation of the 'Super Nanny' in a 10 second sketch with barely any jokes!; Michael Veitch doing Molly Meldrum, also in a sketch with absolutely no actual jokes). It's even badly made, which most Channel Seven comedy shows are not. In one sketch with a ventriloquist dummy, you could actually see the actor's arm all the way through it: what the f...? And to top it all off, the 'special guests' turn out to be people who you can already see on Channel Seven for free, and on shows where you actually like them! - William McInnes, Tom Williams. It even manages to racially offensive (three white guys playing Lebanese guys and calling each other 'poofter' on a family show at 8.30pm?! Huh?) Unfortunately, I'm guessing this show will last only a few weeks before people turn off in droves and it gets the axe. But if it has any chance of surviving, Channel Seven needs to fire most of the lesser known performers (what the hell is a guy from 'Flipside' - one of the worst sketch shows ever made in Australia- doing on this show; who hired him again?). I never thought I'd say this. But Channel Nine's new late night version of 'Comedy Inc.' is about 30,000 times funnier than this. Maybe next time Seven is thinking about doing a comedy show, they should get whoever does that show. And I do mean next time, coz there's no way this garbage will last.

I loved the show a shame it got axed!

[apatto89_hotmail_com · 10 June 2005]

I loved the show a shame it got axed!

This was great LIVE skit show. with such great sections as "O'neil's o'nightly o'news" and "The Last minute sketch" and also the customs skit left me in laughter. I hate to see this show by pass by and now their just putting a movie on - great.

While your at it Seven, BRING BACK "ACCORDING TO JIM" TO Australia - ALL YEAR ROUND!!! Brilliant SHOW, USA is up to season 4 or 5 and we have not even finished ONE !!! get your act together. If not just bring them out on DVD ill buy them.!!!!

Patto, Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia