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Drew Hastings: Irked And Miffed (2008) DVD Review
Drew Hastings: Irked And Miffed (2008) DVD Credits:
Drew Hastings: Irked And Miffed (2008) Directed by:
Michael Drumm
Drew Hastings: Irked And Miffed (2008) Written by:
Drew Hastings
Drew Hastings: Irked And Miffed (2008) Cast:
Drew Hastings
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Drew Hastings: Irked And Miffed (2008) DVD Release Date:
5th May 2008
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Drew Hastings: Irked And Miffed (2008) Synopsis:

Drew Hastings does his pessimistic and self deprecating comedy routine.

Drew Hastings: Irked And Miffed (2008) DVD Review:

Drew Hastings: Irked and Miffed, is the long awaited comedy special featuring the angry and embittered Drew Hastings. Drew Hastings examined life, relationships and the human condition in this one hour special.

Drew Hastings’ pessimistic and cynical outlook on life gives his stories a hilarious patina. Drew takes on subjects like his relationship with his girlfriend 20 years younger than him, and her desire to have children and their sex life. He also discusses aging, and his struggles with turning 50 and knowing that, according to him, his life is now a third over.

Drew also regales the audience with his most famous bit, the fact that he bought a farm and is trying to “make it work.” Drew discusses rural living, complaining all the way about how dark it is at night when you are in the middle of nowhere. He lives in such a remote locale that Domino’s pizza will not deliver to his house. He also complains that his farm is completely unable to grow anything and that his naivety has caused him to get ripped off, like when he bought a herd of Black Angus hogs. Drew also managed to kill off 5 of 6 of his barn cats, some of the most adaptable and thriving of creatures that according to him, you can hit with a truck and they just look annoyed. It is not easy being a farmer according to Drew, like when he spent weeks cutting back the corn because it was chest high when the saying is “knee high by the Fourth of July.”

Drew also talks about his clinical depression living in a rural environment and as a result, decided to take up coyote hunting, so he purchased a high powered rifle and began spending time alone in the woods with a gun.

Drew Hastings’ girlfriend also appears in his stories a great deal, like when she made him buy satellite television, which spawns another tangent on advertising and prescription drugs. Drew then proceeds to tell about his first drug experience, where he mistook his sister’s birth control for drugs.

While Drew Hastings is a relative unknown in the realm of stand up comedy, lost in the enormous shadow of acts like Larry the Cable Guy and Dane Cook, he can certainly hold his own on stage. Drew’s pessimistic outlook and self-deprecating story telling makes for an hour of sheer enjoyment that will have you laughing long after the DVD is over. Drew Hastings is hilarious as he tells situational stories about his life and experiences that flow together from one tangent to another, much like the great Eddie Izzard does. Drew Hastings’ routine does not feel as if he doing a series of comedic bits, but instead it feels as if he is simply on stage and is telling stories about his life and is simply allowing himself to diverge off into one direction or another. It is a hilarious piece of comedic genius.

Drew Hastings: Irked and Miffed is presented in full frame, and features a stereo or 5.1 stereo surround soundtrack. The DVD does not have any special features, but it is still completely worth the price.

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Drew Hastings: Irked And Miffed (2008) DVD review written by: Andrew Mattson

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