Review of "Best of Gallagher Volume 1," DVD

 Review of

Best of Gallagher Volume 1, DVD

Five out of five stars

Zany gags based on unusual props

 Gallagher was a wild comedian where the signature last segment of his act involved smashing watermelons. Messy, sloppy and quite funny, for he found many ways to do it. In this video, it is a high diving act. Like the best comedians, he parodies common situations that nearly all people face. For, if you cannot relate to it, a spoof of the action is incomprehensible.

 The best segment involves a human female with Gallagher where they are supposedly in bed. They are reading, she is reading a book about love and he is supposedly reading about sex. However, he is actually reading and talking about golf, yet they manage to double entendre their way through the entire sketch, where the conversation is about both golf and sex. It is quite good without slipping into the deep dirty.

 Gallagher was truly zany and high octane on the stage. He moves from one prop with gag to another at a speed that few can match. This is true comedy before the language descended into the brutal and repetitive.