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Summary: BANNED FROM HBO
Review: Well not exactly, but where are the new episodes? Be careful, if you get this you will become a MR. SHOW addict. There is nothing to compare to the bizarre and twisted knack for the off color mental double take that these underated (well David anyway (ok, ok Bob's cool too) - hehe) geniuses spew forth! Multi-layered, Dark Side of the Moon-esque transitions, sexuality, drugs, rock n' roll, shampoo, shampoo!
You will watch the DVD so much it will melt!
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Summary: The best comedy ever written
Review: Mr. Show is the funniest show ever to air on TV in the history of television all over the world. I am not exaggerating. This comedy is wasted on most people (i.e. tools at Newline who are letting the Mr. Show movie rot in oblivion). If this DVD ever actually gets released, I'm going to pay the highest retail mark-up possible to get it... thereby rewarding whoever has the savvy to stock it...
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Summary: Funniest television show ever
Review: Do not buy this if you like any of the following: MAD TV, Arli$$, America's Funniest. Do buy this if you like any of the following: Larry Sanders, Get a Life, Kids in the Hall.This show will blow your mind, if you have one.
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Summary: it's about time.
Review: mr. show is far and away the greatest sketch comedy show of all time. it existed (briefly) completely outside of trends, outside of convention, and not suprisingly, outside the mainstream. it was to comedy what yo la tengo is to creed, what ghost world is to titanic, or what the simpsons is to survivor: the noisy, angry, and super-intelligent next-door neighbor. janeane garofalo was right: "the average tv watcher doesn't even deserve mr. show."
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Summary: Pure genius!!
Review: Mr Show with Bob and David is easily one of the greatest comedy
shows of all time! I don't mean that lightly. I hold Monty Python's Flying Circus, SNL (when it was funny), and the Kids in the Hall with the highest reguard, but Mr Show may be the funniest of the lot. How is it that these guys aren't household names? HBO foolishly put them on at 12:00 am Mondaynights with little promotional support. Sadly, I think the bigger problem lies in the fact that many people don't like their comedy (or entertainment in general) to challange them. Mr Show does just that. It's comedy thats edgy and surreal while remaining extraordinarily relevant. A must own! Absolutely hillarious!!
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Summary: Greatest American sketch comedy
Review: The only reason I wouldn't give this disc a full 5 stars is that the first season showed Bob and David finding their way and the writing is just not as consistent, though the sketch involving the flag and why performance artists can't crap on it is amazing. The second season -- unbelievable -- may be the best of the bunch -- the Cross/Odenkirk facility for multi-layered sketches that manage to not just pick one easy target, but combine targets to make points. As silly as they could get, Bob and David definitely had a viewpoint about American life. Mr. Show was never a litany of one-joke characters like Saturday Night Live. And look out for the Jeepers Creepers skit (a slacker version of Jesus Christ Superstar) with a bravado performance by occasional cast member Jack Black.
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Summary: This kicks butt
Review: Anybody that claims to like comedy and doesn't like this is a liar. This isn't for the Charles in Charge "comedy" lover. This is for those who can think, understand, and appreciate real comedy. Leonard Maltin need not apply.
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Summary: Hey everyone, It's BOB and DAVID!
Review: Everyone loves sketch comedy, be it Kids in the Hall, Benny Hill, or Monty Python. But wait, where's our contribution? America? Hello? HBO provided one, ever so briefly to us that became a bit of a phenomenon. Mr. Show with Bob and David. It's a bit hard to describe, there's no recurring characters, and it's offensive as all get out. But it's all good. Mr. Show is the sketch comedy show that leaves flaming bags of human feces on doorsteps of other sketch comedy shows, not satisfied with dog poo. HBO's allowance of crude language and material allowed Bob, David, and co. free reign to be as offensive as any of their standup acts, and not have to apologise for any of it. See sketches such as the Satanist religion network, Show us your Weenis, or The New San Francisco. After watching this set, you'll find yourself surprised on two counts, that some of these guys were allowed to work again, and that most of them you watch on TV on 2 to 3 shows a week. What's also surprising is that even though the show has been out of production for 3 years it's still referenced often when one of the cast members wants to do a personal appearance. Highly recommended, if only for a glimpse into what kind of damage American sketch comedy can do against the big boys of Britain.
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Summary: The funniest Show of the 1990's
Review: Mr. Show was by far the funniest show of the 1990's, and the funniest sketch show I have ever seen. It can be described as somewhat of a modern-day Monty Python's Flying Circus, in that sketches led into each other. What makes this series destined to become classic is that Bob and David avoided doing topical humor, and it wasn't often they did parody, and when they DID parody something, it was written so that you didn't really have to get the parody for it to be funny. An excellent excellent comedy series. I can not think of one skit they did that I would call bad.
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Summary: Sad songs are nature's onions.
Review: This is the fourth time I have watched this first and second season of Mr. Show, and I must admit, it is one of those rare programs that continues to get funnier and funnier each time that you watch it. Literally, you catch something new and fresh each time it is placed inside of your DVD player. What makes this series work better than most other television comedies out there is the chemistry of the cast. Bob Odenkirk and David Cross are perfectly matched while also being completely random choices for the hosts of the show. I had not heard about either of them before watching this series (which I bought due to a recommendation from a friend), now I have watched Melvin Goes to Dinner several times and listened to David Cross' stand-up comedy whenever I need a very social pick-me-up! Needless to say, I have full submersed myself into their world after watching this groundbreaking series.
What continues to work with this program is that the jokes are not your typical slapstick humor that the average "Joe" can get from watching reruns of Friends on NBC. Mr. Show is hard hitting, in your face, political, yet not so political, social satire about the world around us. While you may just see this as just another comedy show, I see it as so much more. The cohesiveness of the skits and the underlying message throughout each show seem to represent the voices that we hear coming from our local papers on a daily basis. They are not afraid to take a delicate issue and twist it into a hysterical moment. The brutal honesty of David Cross makes this show thoroughly enjoyable while the approachable Bob Odenkirk brings it to our level. Also, the interweaving of comic geniuses throughout the show keeps you wanting more. Jack Black is a regular on the program (and really proves why he is funny), and there are appearances by Dave Foley, Sarah Silverman, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Patton Oswalt, Julia Sweeney, Janeane Garofalo, Ben Stiller, Conan O'Brien, and Andy Richter. This is not a show for everyone, but it does showcase the beauty of HBO and the ability that they have to see, and go forward, with avant-garde comedy.
My favorite episodes were the News Report featured in the extras, Operation Hell on Earth, and If You're Going to Write a Comedy Scene, You're Going to Have Some Rat Feces in There, and the infamous milk machine joke song with Jack Black! Utterly hysterical. (no pun intended)
This DVD set of the first and second seasons is packaged very well. With every season uncensored (were they ever with HBO), you get Mr. Show as it should be and will always be remembered. It also is chalked full of extras that will quench every drop of Mr. Show that resides in you. The news report that they do in the extras portion of this DVD is worth buying alone. Again, it shows the creativity and originality of a program that knew no boundaries. I cannot wait to get my hands on the other seasons and fully explore the world in which I live ... which is the world showcased continually on Mr. Show. The absurdity of our culture is redefined with this program.
Grade: ***** out of *****
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