Stella: Live In Boston (2008)

I've been underwhelmed by Stella in the past but watching this whole hour of their stuff only confirms they are seriously not-so-funny. Their material is just flat -- I found a few chuckles but that's it. Their timing often drags. Their posing, mugging, and hamming it up is deliberately fake and obnoxiously so. Their lines are lighter on f-bombs than many comedians but they will f-dis each other, an audience member, or a state of origin. Their meandering schtick in this performance (lasting one hour three minutes) jumped from holding a lame "birthday party" for one Stella member to trying to sing Christmas songs to demonstrating how they have sex (including juicy fart noises and snogging one member's love interest on stage behind his back). These guys favor nonsense and non sequiturs. The funniest line was when they praised Shakespeare as "the greatest American writer ev-er!" and reminisced about his writing Desperate Housewives. (Oops, no, "that was actually Marlowe." Ha ha.) Folks, Stella's three guys are likable enough, they just lack material that's funny and goes beyond frat-boy humor. Your mileage may vary. 2 stars.