Saturday Night Live - The Best of Will Ferrell

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Summary: Hardly a "Best of" Collection
Review: Unless you are amused by EVERYTHING SNL produced with Will Farrell, prepare to be disappointed by this DVD. There are so many bland skits in this collection (the post 12:30 AM garbage) that you wonder who complied this thing. The distributors must be considering parcelling out the best skits among several disks (perhaps including those under the names of other SNL best-of titles). This collection had a few highlights, but was mostly composed of mediocre crapola... don't bother with it.

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Summary: Hillarious
Review: After seeing many of the "best of" DVD's in the SNL franchise i thought that this one was the funniest. The Robert Goulay skit, along with Clebrity Jeapoardy, The Behind the Music (Dont fear the reaper skit), and the Devil playing guitar were all very funny.
But i thought the funniest was the Night at the Roxbury skit (which was made into a movie). That was so funny. Probably because of Jim Carrey in it. So over all i thought it was a great movie and highly reccomend it to someone who would want a good laugh.

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Summary: Not great but some of his really funny skits, you will laugh
Review: I bought this because I started getting into the reruns of SNL on Comedy Central last year. SNL has always been hit and miss, and depending on the cast, either funny or just plain stupid. When Will Ferrell was still in the cast which I think was about 5 years, it may have been longer, he created some unique and funny characters. The funniest skits on here are the "Behind the Music" with Christopher Walken and "Don't Fear the Reaper". I need more COWBELL is hilarious! The Robert Goulet album endorsement is also extremely funny as well as his playing the organ as a medley with Ana as an older couple trying to act hip, a classic character combination. The voice modulation character is hilarious but I would have rather saw a different one where I believe he was talking about China. Unfortuantely, they cut this short with the ending credits, unnecessary. All is not great but the majority will get you laughing. I just bought volume 2 hoping for some of the bits that didn't make this one. I only saw Adam Sandler's SNL dvd and this is much funnier. I bought mine at deep discount dvd for under $10, great place for dvds with no shipping fees.

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Summary: Very Disappointing
Review: I purchased volumes 1 and 2 as a package, and I must say that I don't recall ever being so disappointed in a DVD purchase.

Will Farrell, in my opinion, is one of the funniest actors to hit the set of SNL. There were mountains of classic sketches from which to choose when compiling these this set, yet these releases are terrible. Volume 1 has one Jeopardy sketch (quite funny, of course) and a very, VERY small snippet of Farrell doing his Bush thing. Everything else is pretty much trash on Volume 1. Scattered throughout volume 1 are a bunch of three- or four second clips from "C+/C" sketches. I kept getting pissed when one would start and I'd think to myself "finally, one that I can force myself to laugh at", and it would get cut off. Well, in volume 2, some of these sketches are shown in their entirety. You can't but feel double-charged for SNL's double-dip on these clips. Volume 2 is just as empty as volume 1 in that it really doesn't contain Farrell's best material. Where are the presidential debates? Where are the other jeopardy sketches (remember: out of BOTH releases, we only get ONE)? Where are the sketches of the angry father who lashes out at his kids in sudden bursts of rage? I'm not exaggerating when I say that the entire collection seems like the producers ordered all of Farrell's sketches from "most hysterical" to "barely made the cut", and then started at the wrong end.

I won't be surprised when volume 3 is released: "Best of Will Farrell: No, seriously."

This entire collection is just dreadful. I'm a big fan of Farrell's and this collection is a disgrace. I wouldn't recommend either release to even the most loyal of fans. I'm giving it two stars instead of just one only because it's Farrell.

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Summary: Foul Ferrell
Review: Once upon a time Saturday Night Live was funny. Now they have the occassional amusing skit and the rare standout castmember. Will Ferrell is one of those standouts. Unfortunately, this DVD doesn't do him justice. Rather than a greatest hits collection, we're provided with a random sampling of Ferrell's skits and characters. This DVD would be more aptly titled Will Ferrell's Most Mediocre Moments.

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Summary: BLECCH!!!
Review: Will Farrell is the least funny human to ever be called a comedian. You know what's funnier than Will Farrell? Getting eaten by zombies while dogs poop on you. He is horrible.