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An Overly Sentimental Comedic Journey

A review of Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride by Frank Scheck | August 18, 2025

It doesn’t take long before the evening begins to feel like an interminable evening with an elderly relative who insists on making you look through their photo albums. Ross can be a very funny comic, and he throws in plenty of amusing one-liners into the mix. But they’re not enough to compensate for the tiresome sections in which he reads letters from his parents or kvells over photos of his two German Shepherd dogs like a proud father (he’s never been married or had children).

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