This consists of two half hour shows in rough, un-remastered black and white, plus a public information film about not dropping litter. It is not a researched, 'best of' clip compilation as the blurb may suggest. Can't have been hard to out together. The show with Art Carney has its moments, with some genuinely funny moments of spontaneity, though I found Carney slightly over-competitive and annoying. It ends with a strangely sanctimonious, 'serious' speech from Winters about how much he loves spending time with his family. The Andy Williams show is in poor quality b/w video and is not terribly funny.
There doesn't seem to be much of Winters available on dvd, which is a shame. I would recommend the wonderful Dean Martin Variety Show dvds (available elsewhere) which feature lots of Winters' very funny contributions in glorious colour.
Rare but not necessarily Riotous
Jonathan Winters on the Loose is the ultimate review but this is very interesting. Shows the Winters family, too. The best part is the struggle between Art Carney and JW to top each other.
Jonathan Winters, a comedian whose improvisational style began breaking all the rules back in the 1950s, looks back on his long, strange career in this documentary filled with some of his most inspired bits. In a clip from a TV appearance in the early 1960s, Winters enters a room filled with hats ranging from medieval crowns to space helmets. In the course of several minutes he changes hats at a furious pace, and as each hat goes onto his head, Winters also assumes the facial expressions and voice of a new character. It's a very funny and very weird bit that few other comics could pull off. Robin Williams, who has always been lavish in his praise of Winters, appears in typically manic interview segments to comment on him as a performer. Winters's wife and children also provide their... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Jonathan Winters DVD Release Date: Released the 05 September 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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For anyone interested in the history of television comedy, The Best of Ernie Kovacs is indispensable. This five-part series, originally broadcast on PBS, is a six-hour guided tour through Kovacsland, and a more surreal or cockeyed landscape has never been broadcast over "the orthicon tube." The best cigar-mustache combo since Groucho, Kovacs, who perished in a car wreck in 1962, was one of the fledgling medium's pioneers. He turned staid television convention on its ear and satirized the medium itself (David Letterman is a kindred spirit). The Best of Ernie Kovacs offers a generous sampling of more than 100 blackouts, musical diversions (including a simian version of "Swan Lake"), sketches, and technological dalliances. The macabre game show "Whom Dunnit," in which a panel... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Ernie Kovacs DVD Release Date: Released the 05 December 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Rodney Dangerfeild is always hillarious. I don't like the fact that this spotlight reveiw guy up there on his high horse is dropping such petty complaints. I don't care how many books he's read, he's LAME.
THIS IS THE ONLY STAND UP PACKAGE AVAILABLE! WHAT DO YOU WANT, HE IS NO LONGER ALIVE TO RELEASE NEW MATERIAL! GIVE HIM SOME F'IN RESPECT!
This box had everything I hoped for, material from days past, all the classics. The network TV specials are a little bit goofy but I still enjoyed them.
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