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DVD In Living Color - Season 1
Unlike the original Saturday Night Live cast, the In Living Color ensemble was definitely ready for prime time. But, was prime time ready for In Living Color? This subversively funny 1990 sketch-comedy series boldly went where SNL feared to tread, particularly in matters of race relations and cultural stereotypes. Series creator Keenen Ivory Wayans was hot after his hilarious blaxploitation spoof, I'm Gonna Git Ya Sucka. But In Living Color was hotter. According to a "Looking Back" segment included in this three-disc set, it took him a year to sell the pilot. He fronted a young, gifted, and mostly black cast, including David Alan Grier, Tommy Davidson, Damon Wayans, Kim Wayans, and T'Keyah "Crystal" Keyman. "James" Carrey and Kelly Coffield were the white Garret Morrises.
Like the first season of SNL, In Living Color played provocateur, with such politically incorrect sketches as "Homeboy Shopping Network," "This Old Box," and "Ted Turner's Very Colorized Classics." Other sketches, such as "Riding Miss Daisy," have a stick-it-to-the-man brazenness. Don King, Mike Tyson, Milli Vanilli, and Arsenio Hall are easy targets, but In Living Color did not spare such icons as Richard Pryor. There is the inevitable Oprah roasting, but also a brilliant Star Trek spoof, "The Wrath of Farrakhan." Among the first season's breakout characters are Damon Wayans and David Alan Grier's finger-snapping "Men on Film," and Damon's Homey D. Clown. Carrey struts his stuff as "female" bodybuilder Vera DeMilo. Coffey is a scream as Samantha Kinison and Andrea Dice Clay. While much of the topical humor has dated, sketches such as "Michael Jackson Potato Head" are timeless. The fun of revisiting this groundbreaking series is watching these fearless and talented performers go for broke, and make the most of their unlikely opportunity. --Donald Liebenson
I love this show. I remember watching it in NZ when I was 9 or 10 years old. Even then I remember laughing my head off and couldn't wait for each week for it to be back on. I absolutely love Blaine and Antoine - they are hillarious. There were plenty of skits done by a little known guy called James Carey (guess who), and he was amazing. A while later he was doing great skits playing Venus de Milo. So funny. Overall, with the music, dancing and laughing, this should appeal to the majority of people. You would be hard pressed not finding something to laugh at. I have seasons 1,2 and 3 and watch them often.
Not for everybody....
I was not really that disappointed when I purchased the product. Yes, the jokes were really dated but some were still very funny. I did had a great time watching the first few episodes but after that, I kind of got tired.
I purchased this DVD set because I saw the Wayans family in Oprah and thought that's it's got to be great entertainment. Well, it is... for colored people, for people who enjoy black humor and entertainment.
I would have rather rented the dvd set if I will be able to find one here in the Philippines. Unfortunately, not everything released in the US or Europe is released in Asia, so really have to spend for it. Over-all, it's fun, not totally amusing.
Blaine & Antoine had the Gay Stereotype s Down Cold...
I loved In Living Color. These Bold Skits depicting over the top caractures were of black life were extremely funny. What Norma Desmond was to Hollywood in over the top farce steeped in fun with just enough raw truth to make it hallarious In Living Color is to the African American Experience.
Some of the skits were very close to real in places. It was all good natured fun sort of like Saturday Night Live with a bold definite spark of black Flava. Cut or not the skits are still funny. In Living Color work as a whole still holds its comedic zing. The Gay Blaine and Antoine characters had a blast being over the top. Blaine and Antoine appear to be modeled after the total "Ms Thing", "Ms It" "Gurlfriend" kind of queens I knew growing up in the 1970's they were just as fun and camp and wild and trust me if they wanted to make you laugh you like would totally be spliting your side howling with Laughter I sure was.
The jokes weather time well and far as I am concerned everyone appearing in these In Living Color DVD's should repeat after me the following. The words of Norma Desmond, This is my life. It always will be... There's no one else just us, the camera's and all those wonderful people out there in the dark..... Alright Mr DeMille We are ready for our close up!"
To label In Living Color "the black SNL" is to not give this groundbreaking sketch comedy its props. Like its late-night counterpart, In Living Color pushed the envelope with sketches that remain in questionable taste ("Fashion Tampons"). It also presented its share of TV show, movie, and commercial parodies. But its racially charged humor that tackled race relations and subverted cultural stereotypes was something 1990 TV viewers were not used to seeing, especially in prime time. Among the most potent sketches featured series creator Keenen Ivory Wayans and brother Damon as the Brothers Brothers, two oblivious Toms who, in one sketch, act as spokespersons for the Arizona Tourism Commission in the wake of that state's controversial decision not to recognize Martin... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 28 September 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Where's the COMPLETE episodes for Season 3? After editing Season 2, we now get a very edited Season 3. Well, Fox won't be getting my money. More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Keenen Ivory Wayans DVD Release Date: Released the 10 May 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The 2003 debut of Chappelle's Show on Comedy Central marked a high point for the cable channel, and now the entire, wildly creative first season can be seen, with hundreds of bleeps removed. That's not to say Chappelle's Show is perfect entertainment: there are too many moments among the 12 episodes here that descend into pointless scatology and booty fever. But for the most part, Chappelle, a talented comic slowly growing into greatness, is trying to push the sketch-humor envelope and succeeds at surprising us with original concepts and merciless execution.
The merely clever material includes "National Geography's Third World Girls Gone Wild," basically an update on those topless-native-women gags of yore, and Chappelle's "Educated Guess Line," in which the sage comic... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Dave Chappelle Director(s): Andre Allen (II) - Bill Berner - Todd Broder - Rusty Cundieff - Bob Goldthwait DVD Release Date: Released the 24 February 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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i don't agree with anyone who thinks this season is awesome. most of the skits are only 15 minutes in length. once again cheap fox won't buy the music rights. there is sections (i think) that have been either doctored or just cut out. you'll be watching an episode and you'll see the screen mismatch up for a brief moment. you'll think it's your eyes but it's not. thank you fox for butchering all of the seasons of in living color. even though my review isn't that great i still believe that in living color was and is one of the best sketch comedy series on t.v. so they're all still worth buying. More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Jim Carrey DVD Release Date: Released the 25 October 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Dave Chappelle's shrewd parodies, stinging satires, and boldly imaginative fantasias simply pour from the second season of his Comedy Central show, in every respect as funny as his well-received debut year. The structure is the same: a relaxed Chappelle introduces each sketch to an enthusiastic, studio audience (some of these introductions amount to stand-up routines), and then the madness begins. Among the many highlights from the 13 episodes on this boxed set's three discs is a mock ad for Samuel L. Jackson beer, featuring Chappelle's hilarious impression of Jackson's stern, overbearing persona from Pulp Fiction, and a dozen other features. Chappelle, considering a career in politics, floats a couple of trial campaign commercials, including one that promises to solve America's... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Dave Chappelle Director(s): Andre Allen (II) - Bill Berner - Todd Broder - Rusty Cundieff - Bob Goldthwait DVD Release Date: Released the 24 May 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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