As a fan of standup, what I love most about this set is the mix of comics featured, ranging from Margaret Cho to Ellen DeGeneres to Rosie and so on. So many times, when I view a single comic's work, the flow of the performance has weak spots, sometimes even by design. In this, it's hot moment after hot moment, all assembled with a great pace as it takes you from one performance to another.
With a loose, free-associative flow, Ellen DeGeneres glides through her 2003 HBO special, Here and Now. In just the first 10 minutes she touches on procrastination, new paint colors, television commercials, and mental disorders--topics that fit into the show's subtitle, Modern Life and Other Inconveniences. By the end, she's also spun out sneaky jokes about cell phones, memory loss, elevators, vocal inflections, pickle jars, and social embarrassment. Her genius is that she never seems like a genius; on the contrary, DeGeneres seems like your next door neighbor pointing out the obvious, yet somehow an hour whizzes by in complete enjoyment. It's peerless observational humor--nothing groundbreaking or piercingly satirical, but simply fun. --Bret FetzerMore Info about this DVD Director(s): Joel Gallen DVD Release Date: Released the 01 June 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This post-coming-out performance fully acknowledges Ellen DeGeneres's status as America's most famous lesbian, but it is nevertheless imbued with a sense of fun. For instance, rather than describe the experience of closet-exiting on her self-titled situation comedy in the late 1990s, she performs an amusing "interpretive dance." She uses her trademark goofiness to ruminate on the necessity of directions on shampoo bottles, ant road rage, and the possible nightmarish consequences of buying cheese. While the performance is not orientation-specific, the comedienne spends a fair amount of time on sex-related issues, including jokes about blow-up dolls and people who videotape their relations. She does venture into the political with an appeal for same-sex marriage and a monologue on... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Joel Gallen DVD Release Date: Released the 07 August 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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If you take the number of laughs included in the multi-disk, multi-hour set, and compare it to the cost of the set, Best of the Improv is an incredible value. I own some of the singles that were released originally, and they are fantastic. Now, with this boxed collection, I can laugh for hours at a cost that fits my pocketbook. It's a comedy fans' dream come true! Super! More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Jerry Seinfeld DVD Release Date: Released the 09 March 2004 Usually ships within 24 hours
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