Saturday Night Live - The Best of Steve Martin

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Summary: WARNING...!
Review: This DVD states it contains skits including Mr.Bill, Father Guido Sarducci, and The Blues Brothers. These are not on this DVD....false advertising at it's worst!...I returned it.

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Summary: Not even close to the best of Steve Martin
Review: Very disappointed in this. It is not Steve Martin at his best. I was looking forwared to seeing some of the SNL sketches from the early days.....these are a BIG disapointment. I've seen his King Tut done much better than the version included in this DVD. Won't watch it twice...I'll be donating this to my local library fundraiser.

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Summary: A Bit of a Misfire
Review: While Steve Martin is certainly one of the best hosts of the "classic" years of SNL, the decision to not include the "Dancing in the Dark" sketch with Gilda Radner is an unforgiveable oversight. They could have easily dropped one of the newer, less funny bits (although they're not as bad as I'd feared) in favor of this gem. And why is it that of all the Festrunk Brothers sketches, the same one appears on every anthology I've seen? Still, lots of laughs here, but the DVD notes that there are "special appearances by Father Guido Sarducci, Mr. Bill and the Blues Brothers" which in fact are not on the DVD. At least the two bonus sketches are from the "classic" period (1975-1979). One disturbing aspect about the DVD continues to bug me--the lack of cast and writer credits, a real insult to the talents who created these (mostly) funny television moments. Trimark/SNL Studios: Release the 1975 episode hosted by Richard Pryor and all will be forgiven.