User blog comment:Dorkpool/The Dork Report/@comment-25941663-20150412233150/@comment-25024572-20150413131150

Yes and no.

A Riff is making smartass comments throughout a bad story or movie (or a good one) for humorous effect.

A review is usually done to show why something sucks.

However, I usually find reviews of bad stories more interesting than those of good ones, and I like injecting humor in these kinds of things, and it's usually easier to inject humor in the review of a bad story.

Unlike the Riffs, I'm not making a joke or comment after every line, nor copying the story. I'm just summarizing, making a joke or two, and doing quite a bit of criticizing to say why something doesn't work.