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As an enthusiastically devoted fan of Ron James' coast-to-coast specials, I was looking forward to a continuing series with the same earthily crisp, yet lavishly elegant writing.

This series reveals just how much work Ron must have devoted to his hour-long specials, and how difficult it truly must be to produce high-quality material for a weekly series.

Other fans of Ron's work will remember 'Blackfly' and join me in headshakingly similar disappointment.

His specials have provided me with dozens of gifts, this series, just another federally funded (unfunny) joke.

This show is awful. Just when the CBC finally makes it look like they are doing something right and like they are trying to appeal to more of an audience than just our grandparents by finally cancelling that lumbering unfunny dinosaur "Royal Canadian Air Farce"... they go ahead and replace it with another dinosaur. Ron James is not a bad comedian I guess but this show is awful. Most of it is Ron James doing stand up comedy but it just gets old even though he gets a smile out of me here or there. Every show has a theme and sketches etc. The animation is not bad quality wise but the writing in this show is a major flaw, I don't know if Ron James writes everything himself, or just his stand up comedy, or if it is all written for him, but I suspect maybe he writes everything and that is why it seems so thin. The sketches are really bad. I give it a 3 because some of his stand up comedy is okay but the sketches especially are terrible and like I said even the stand up wears real thin real fast. When will the CBC learn they need to start trimming some of the old show fat ("This Hour Has 22 Minutes", "Rick Mercer Report") instead of adding more shows with outdated comedy aimed at our grandparents? They will have no audience left pretty soon.

That audience is not me but I'm not saying that this is a bad show or whatever. My dad watches Ron James do his stand up comedy routine on Just for Laughs or whatever stand up comedy shows it is that he does and enjoys him very much (I do not, to me it just seems like a little guy talking really fast and combining big words and concepts with a 'Newfie' accent to seem funny when he's not really saying much at all). My dad doesn't like this show The Ron James Show either I should point out but my point is that there definitely would be people who this show is made for.

Some of the clips on this show are really bad. Little Ronny is painful to watch and so are most of the live skits they do. The stand up is the most bearable part and probably almost half the show is stand up but as I said that has a certain audience and it is not really me. I give it a 3.

Watching this show is exactly like watching my gram-pa try to be funny and failing miserably. We all grin around the table and maybe even force a laugh here and there when he talks louder and louder and waves his arms around to emphasize whatever the hell he is talking about and then when the joke/story is done (and the only way to tell when the endless stream of nonsense is done is that he stops talking and flailing his arms and looks around the table at the rest of us waiting for us to burst into laughter while he sits there with a huge grin on his face trying not to be the first one to laugh) we die a little inside because he is trying so hard but just isn't funny at all. Should we laugh to make him feel good or in the long run is it better for all of us if we don't humour him and let him know that his jokes need a lot of work? Anyway the Ron James show is like being trapped in a room with my gram-pa for half an hour while he tells one painfully unfunny joke after another. I don't know when CBC dove head first down the toilet but when they finally got rid of Air Farce then replaced it with an abortion of a show like this I lost all hope for original TV in this country. Seriously Ron James might be even less funny than This Hour Has 22 Minutes has become and that show is pathetic beyond belief. If you read this gram-pa sorry you are not really less funny than Ron James or This Hour Has 22 Minutes I was just joking to make a point.

Unfortunately this show is just not very good. I wanted to like it and I tried to like it but there was just nothing in any of the episodes I saw that made me like this show even a little bit. Some of the stand up comedy that Ron James does on the show is OK but it is very short, has nothing to do with the rest of the show which is all made up of sketches, and just makes it more obvious how completely awful and void of jokes the rest of the show is. Ron James is not a very good performer outside of doing his stand up comedy sadly and the other acting is very bad too. The writing of the sketches is terrible. The jokes are like they come straight out of a child's how-to-write-a-joke book with jokes you can see coming like a freight train.

This show is just very bad. The sketches are really lame including scenes where Ron James (who is in real life about sixty years old or so) plays a little kid and another where he voices characters who are supposed to be his family in animated short sketches. I guess we are supposed to just laugh because an old man is pretending to be a kid? I don't know what they are thinking but it fails miserably this is some of the worst comedy I have seen in a while on Canadian TV. There is also a lot of stand-up comedy on the show where Ron James tells jokes, this is much better than the rest of the show (the sketches etc) but it's still only for real fans of Ron James, personally I find his comedy might work for older people like my parents but he's pretty whiny and his comedy is a bit too basic for me.

The Ron James show is terrible, I'm not sure if it is still on the air but if it is they should cancel it right away. The jokes are terrible, his stand up comedy is the best thing on the show and even that is annoying with the way he waves his hands around and talks in a shrill voice using way too many words. All he does is use word play he doesn't have any real jokes. I don't know who actually likes this stupid show. The rest of the show is also all Ron James and all of it is terrible. I have to write more lines before they will let me submit this review so I will just say again I guess how much I think this show totally stinks up my TV.

This show is painful to watch. It is not at all funny. I really have nothing else to say because I don't want to think about the show at all to write about it! It is an old guy telling really bad jokes and doing really bad skits. There is animation that you watch for a few minutes then it ends and you say why did it end? How can you tell it is even over, there was no middle even, just him talking for a while and then the skit ends, no jokes or anything. What is the point of this show? Can anyone have a show on Canadian TV? Where's my show, I would like a show where I don't even try to tell jokes and just put in the sound of people laughing when obviously no one in real life would actually laugh at this useless stuff.

This show is horrible. Ron James is okay as a stand up comedian I guess, my dad likes him and sometimes on his stand up comedy specials he had jokes that were funny but his TV show is just horrible. The jokes are all really bad. Even the parts where he does stand up it is just awkward and not very funny, like he is just talking to fill up time because they don't have any good sketches to do. The sketches are all really bad, not funny at all. He does one thing where he plays a little kid, I guess it is supposed to just be funny visually because he is an old man playing a kid who grabs his crotch a lot etc but it just is really unfunny. This show is terrible and the CBC needs to put better shows on that younger people might find funny instead of putting the same old people on TV all the time.

I give this show 1 out of 10. It is yet another pathetic attempt by CBC to make comedy for geezers. I recognize Ron James from countless other TV shows and programs and specials over the years and I actually remember seeing him do stand up comedy specials on TV years ago that I actually enjoyed watching. The problem is his comedy never changed and now he's super old and annoying, telling jokes you know the punchlines to, and desperately waving his arms around while loudly talking at 6000 words per minute in an effort to trick us into laughing. That is just the bad stand up comedy bits and those are actually the least objectionable parts of the show. The skits are so terrible I can't even watch. The Little Ronny cartoons are terrible and unfunny and don't even have a point, it's like somebody smoked a pound of crack and then tried to make a cartoon. I'm sure it's funny to whoever made it, but why do I want to watch a cartoon kid with a creepy old man head sit at a kitchen table and occasionally swear for two minutes with no discernible jokes? This show just plain stinks. Another loser for CBC who can't seem to shake themselves of the habit of putting really old people on TV long after they were funny at all. I'm guessing whenever they finally get rid of this show they'll just bring back Air Farce. I pretty much give up on CBC.

I have seen Ron James do live comedy on TV before and he's really unfunny. All he does is talk fast and use a lot of metaphors, I couldn't even watch him for more than one minute. But I can understand that some people like him (I guess older people like him as in my parents, my Dad likes watching his comedy shows). This show is just terrible though. The jokes are all so bad they make you cringe, the stand up is the same talking-fast-unfunny mess I was talking about, the animation was really bad and also not funny. The acting was terrible... especially Ron James who for some reason is in every single stupid sketch. This is one of the worst shows I've ever seen and it pains me even more because I know my tax money is paying for it. Booo!

I liked Ron James's stand up special but this show is so awful it hurts. One of the worst shows I have ever had the displeasure to sit through. I have seen three episodes so I feel I gave it enough of a chance, this show is just awful. I will not be giving this show another chance, it has already taken enough of my precious time away. Apparently I have to write more lines for my review to have enough lines.........so.........okay, the sketches are awful. None of them have been funny, not a single one. Also Ron James has done a good stand up special before (like I said already) but his stand up in this show is not very good either. I don't remember laughing one single time while I was watching this show, maybe not even a smile, I don't remember being entertained at all for one single minute. It is an awful show, easily as bad as Royal Canadian Air Farce.

"I had a raccoon problem the other week, so I called pest control. The guy showed up at my door with no lips!" This is the type of joke you can expect from the Ron James Show. I'm 100% serious when I tell you Ron James said this joke. STAY AWAY FROM THIS SHOW. my wife broke up with me, took my house, son and half of my money because I accidentally recorded this show over the Breaking Bad finale. This show is the SARS of television. I became physically ill for a month and a half after watching mere seconds of this monstrosity. When I returned from my illness and warned my peers at work, one of them began to cry, he told me that he lost his legs to the Ron James Show. It was so boring that his legs fell asleep and cut off blood flow to everything below his waist. His manhood did not make it.

This is dad joke comedy for old people. CBC actually got rid of Royal Canadian Air Farce after like 30 years or something but then replaced it with this guy who is just as old as them. Bad jokes and sketches. Nothing else to say other than that. What a stupid show.

I'm pretty underwhelmed by this show. I think that his stand up comedy routines are fine but the sketches are really, really bad, and it's all him all the time, he just gets a bit old, more characters and guests (and less sketches maybe) would have been a better idea.