Jim Dupree: Enthusiast

We’ll be in beautiful Kingston, Ontario for the Podcasters Across Borders conference this weekend. If you’re attending, or in the Kingston area, come say hello. And buy Dan a drink. It’s his birthday.

People just can’t hold in their praise for Jim Dupree: Enthusiast!

Over at Uncabled, Noah Mittman says that

the show is fun, hilarious and just the right length — not overstaying its welcome, but not so short that the comedic weight of a character that is so wrong about a subject that he loves isn’t felt by the viewer. After all, would we have discovered on our own that a key element of playing hide-and-go-seek is to make the other player think you’re going to kill them? No! This is the wisdom that the Enthusiast can teach us.

That is very true, Noah. But don’t forget: you should always use twine as well. That’s a very important tip that your blog entry completely overlooked.

Something To Be Desired: Behind The Scenes includes the “droll” JD:E in its shortlist of ongoing original content web series.

Rick says that

I find this video podcast tremendously amusing, although Tamara does not seem to share this view.

Thanks, Rick. Sorry, Tamara.

Freddie seems to be particularly fond of Jim Dupree: Personal Computer Enthusiast, calling the series “very funny.” He also posted a link to a site where you can download Epic Pinball. Looks like you don’t need to meet up with some sketchy French-ish Canadian in an alley to get your own copy after all…

In her comprehensive and extremely positive review of the series, Meryl had the following to say about “maybe the greatest video podcast of all time”:

It’s just so great because this character is perfect, the guy who thinks he’s so smart and interesting and funny and aren’t you lucky to know him so you, too, can glean knowledge as he reveals secrets about the world of fences and Christmas and HDTV. And he’s just so enthusiastic… I’m actually totally jealous that I didn’t have an idea like this first.

She also likens parts of the series to such television hits as The Office and The Daily Show, and compares Dan’s strikingly good looks to those of Richard Ashcroft and either David Giffels or David Giffels. Either way, this is probably my favourite part of her post.

Thanks to all who have taken the time to write about JD:E. We appreciate it so much that we now Google search our names at least twice a day.