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Summary: The Best of Saturday Night Live Yet!!
Review: I first saw this on television and it seemed to be done greatly. With many of the cast tributes, Muscial Performers, and great famous skits. This is a five star.
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Summary: Almost As I Expected!
Review: I have read other customer reviews complaining about how several skits were cut short. While I completely agree with them, I still say this is a very funny DVD, a close second to the TV program itself. My biggest complaint along those lines was the Jeopardy skit with the Sean Connery impersonation. This was hysterical on TV. Why did they cut some much of that one out, I will never know!Nevertheless, I highly recommend this DVD. There were many funny skits that did not have as much cut out. And the picture/audio quality were awesome. This is one for the collection library!
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Summary: DVD's are great because you can skip the boring parts
Review: I watched this DVD of the special SNL 25th anniversary 2+ hour show once all the way through. The show can be easily broken down into two varieties: the montages of the funniest skits you remember from the past 25 years and the other boring intro stuff in between. You'll get some chuckles from Tom Hanks' "impromptu" questions from the audience (including Christopher Walken) and seeing demi-god David Bowie banter with Jerry Seinfeld, but the gems of the show were the clips from Saturday Night Live and the tributes to the comediens who passed away over the years. Sometimes I put the DVD on and choose the tribute to the first five years chapter, or something that will get me a quick laugh without having to listen to Sarah Michelle Gellar. This DVD is great for someone who likes only what they can imitate from SNL and thinks stars doing half-a** jobs at improvs is funny. Otherwise, I'd recommend something that has more SNL skit content.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: If you are looking for a reproduction of the TV broadcast, you'll be disappointed. One of the biggest omissions is the musical guest montages...one of the reasons I bought the video. What is on the tape is good, but just not enough of the broadcast. If you want the entire TV broadcast, find a friend who taped it.
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Summary: Stop releasing the Best of dvd's
Review: It has been such a long time that I have laughed this hard. Although I didn't start watching SNL until the late 80s, my sides were aching right from the beginning.
The tributes were nicely done for Gilda Radner, John Belushi, Phil Hartman and my personal fave, Chris Farley.
All the favorites were in this 3 hour anniversary DVD. Sprockets feat. Mike Myers, Dana Carvey as President Bush, Molly Shannon aka 'Superstar' and so many more. I forgot just how funny the Weekend Update really was. SNL has done a great job producing a weekly show and here's to another 25 years!
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Summary: Long Live SNL
Review: It has been such a long time that I have laughed this hard. Although I didn't start watching SNL until the late 80s, my sides were aching right from the beginning.
The tributes were nicely done for Gilda Radner, John Belushi, Phil Hartman and my personal fave, Chris Farley.
All the favorites were in this 3 hour anniversary DVD. Sprockets feat. Mike Myers, Dana Carvey as President Bush, Molly Shannon aka 'Superstar' and so many more. I forgot just how funny the Weekend Update really was. SNL has done a great job producing a weekly show and here's to another 25 years!
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Summary: Saturday Night LAME....
Review: Let me start by stating that I am a huge fan of SNL. The DVD is funny, at times very funny, but there are some problems. The skits that they show mainly last about 15 seconds. Just when you get rolling with your favorite skit, and start remembering it they shoot to the best scene of another skit, not giving you a chance to enjoy them. Another problem is that this was taped in front of a large audience of today's stars (Tom Hanks, Sarah Michelle Gellar etc.) and when they are playing the clips from past episodes the laughter from the audience TOTALLY drowns out the sound of the skit resulting in alot of missed words and "what did he say"'s. This in my case is very dissapointing, especially due to the fact that as I mentioned earlier the skits last 10-15 seconds, and when you miss 5 seconds of a skit due to laughter it doesnt leave much more to enjoy. When making the DVD they should have surpressed the live audience track alot, but I am not sure if thats possible. All in all its not a bad DVD, but surely not what I expected. I dont plan to watch it again :-(
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Summary: viva NSYNC
Review: lo mas cool de SNL fue NSYNC, chao
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Summary: Shared the Beginnings of SNL With My 8-Yr Old
Review: Loved the early skits featuring "Land Shark","Tod and Lisa" "Weekend Update" my kid finally got to see what Mom was talking about.She loved the Gilda skits and the "cheeseburger, cheeseburger" bits as well as the bare chested Steve Martin's "King Tut".I got to catch up on the mid-years of SNL highlights. Celebs abound in the audience.A bit long.
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Summary: I personally think the 15th reunion was better, but.....
Review: O.k., except for the old farts who don't like profanity, the wheezer who only thought 20 minutes of it was entertaining and the chick who thought the intro was lame (Bill Murry's send-up of the reservation theme was genius), this is a very funny DVD. There are definitely some lame moments (David Spade's trying too hard to be `cooler than everyone else in the room' shtick), some painful moments (Adam Sandler's piece was embarrassingly horrible) and yet one more intensely boring musical piece from the lately ubiquitous Prince, whose own shtick of sexual ambivalence, wimpy voice and imminently forgettable tunes only rival his/her movie exploits for tedium.
Anyhow, although I think the MadTV folks do occasionally find a finer honed edge than the SNL crowd (and the first two seasons were consistently funnier), they are also taped and would have a hard time doing it live on a consistent basis. Like the ebb and flow of sun-spot activity, SNL has had good and bad casts, strong and weak seasons, but always has something going on that makes it worth while watching, and almost always pulls off one immensely funny skit during the evening. This is a collection of those efforts. Don't miss it. I just wish they would release the 15th anniversary taping. It was hilarious.
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