Shearman felt that the episode was "self-indulgent and irrelevant at worst, and at best only sporadically funny".
In this 85-minute work, that cleverness is not harnessed to a major play but to an often stimulating, sporadically funny and, at one uncharacteristic juncture, genuinely moving investigation of the nature of perception, memory and art.
The site's consensus is, "It's sporadically funny and it benefits from a talented cast, but 30 Minutes or Less suffers from a disjointed narrative, and too often mistakes crude gags for true lowbrow humor".
William Hamilton's play about a rich white couple who wake up to discover they've turned black is a shrill, sporadically funny situation comedy that is at heart nothing more than its central situation.
It's a shrill, sporadically funny situation comedy that is at heart nothing more than its central situation.
The serious revelations here, though plentiful, aren't Baggott's true concern; "Girl Talk" is best appreciated as a sporadically funny string of satirical vignettes.
"Veronica's Closet" is sporadically funny, but it has a problem just as crucial: Veronica.
The script instead digresses into Hollywood anecdotes and wisecracks that, however knowing and sporadically funny, cannot inject drama into a play in which the exposition is often recited into a handy cellular phone or tape recorder and the character development is mandated by authorial whim.
It has attained a 32% (4.4/10) aggregate approval rating based on 63 reviews on the review-aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, providing a consensus that "its titillating title promises ribald laughs, but the lazily written, indifferently acted, and only sporadically funny A Good Old Fashioned Orgy fails to consummate."