Saturday Night Live: The Best of Chris Farley

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Summary: this is the best fukin SNL movie ever
Review: I saw this at a friends house. It's pretty funny, but some is not.

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Summary: Mostly great for boring times
Review: I saw this at a friends house. It's pretty funny, but some is not.

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Summary: Hilarious!!!!
Review: I would give this dvd 8 stars if i could. it is extremely funny and will make you laugh no matter what. some of my favorite sketches are Bill Swerksys Super Fans, Chipindales, and Matt Foley the Motivational Speaker. Chris Farley was one of the best comedians ever but unfortunately died before he could have done so much more. This dvd is a must for your dvd collection!!!

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Summary: Great
Review: This is a great compilation of SNL skits that featured Chris Farley. All of his famous stuff is here. Matt Foley,Bennett Brower,The Bulls Fan,and more. It's only an hour long,but it's great.
The DVD has some great bonus features..such as footage from Chris being on Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien...and more.

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Summary: Excellent skits, but they took out a couple things
Review: This is a great DVD - very funny. If you like SNL, you will probably like this DVD. I had only seen the original 2000 release (by the exact same name as this one) of this DVD before buying this new 2003 release. The 2000 release was made by Vidmark/Trimark (ASIN: 157362862X @ amazon.com) instead of from Lions Gate Home Entertainment. This version is edited a little from the original, so the actual tribute is probably about a couple minutes shorter than the original release. However, the one upgrade is more extras (special features). There are two hilarious clips of late show appearances that are not on the original release. Then there is a short outtakes reel which is decent, a deleted skit which isn't very good, and some photos to look at. So it depends on which you would rather have.

Here are the cons:

I'm not sure exactly how much was left out on this new release but I do know that the "Herlihy Boy: House Sitting Service" skit with Adam Sandler was cut out (which is my favorite SNL skit of all time). Another great segment that was left out was the "Little Women"-esque sequence where they fall through the ice and start cursing and make a pact with the devil. Yet another skit that was taken out was the "Shmitt's Gay Beer" skit, which doesn't bother me because I did not like it anyways (but some people like it). One final segment that was left out was the "in memoriam" introduction by Tim Meadows at the beginning of the previous release.

Now for the pros:

Excellent skits include Matt Foley's Motivational Speaker "Go For It" skit, "Hidden Camera Commercials," the "Chris Farley Show" with Paul McCartney (and clips of 2 more), & the Japanese Game Show, which are four of my favorite SNL skits ever (after the "Herlihy Boy" skit of course).

Some more pretty good skits include a classic Bennett Brower skit, the Superfans skit with Michael Jordan, "El Nino," "General Norman Shwarskoff: I Want Holyfield!," "Lunch Lady Land," & "Chippendales,"

They did try to substitute some new scenes for the left out scenes. "Focus on Beauty II" is an added segment that is decent but not great.

Although this release is missing some skits, "The Herlihy Boy" & the "Schmitt's Gay Beer" skits are both on the new "Best of Adam Sandler" DVD (from Lions Gate), so I bought that in addition to this DVD to get the missing skits. I'm satisfied enough because the Adam Sandler DVD is pretty good too (although not as good as this Chris Farley DVD)

Now that Will Ferrell got a Volume 2, it would be pretty sweet if Lions Gate made a Volume 2 for Chris Farley. they could include the falling-through-the-ice segment, as well as some more skits that don't appear on either release of Volume 1. The first skit that comes to mind is the hilarious "baseball commentary" on Weekend Update when Farley was talking about his favorite baseball memory (he remembers the 1978 World Series and he talks about "climbing over the fence out onto the field and running around wild and free until the security guards come." Some more great additions would be some more Bennett Brower reports, or some more "Matt Foley: motivational speaker" skits, some "valley girl" skits, & some more "Bill Sharwsky's Superfans." I'm sure they shouldn't have a problem finding at least an hours worth of footage to please us with. They could even put a biography, or some interesting special feature in the Extras section.

Even if they don't make a volume 2, this release is pretty good. If you liked Chris Farley on SNL, this is a must have DVD for your collection. You shouldn't be disappointed. I definitely recommend it.

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Summary: Hilarious!
Review: This is Chris Farley at his best. Hyper, crazy, and A LOT of fun. He had me laughin so hard on the "HOW CAN YOU GET BACK ON THE RIGHT TRACK!" VERY VERY funny DVD, a must have for all Chris Farley fans and "SNL Best Of" Collectors. GREAT DVD

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Summary: this is the best fukin SNL movie ever
Review: this is one hilarious gut busting comedy with all of chris farleys greatest SNL moments. GET THIS DVD

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Summary: An Icon Of 90's Comedy
Review: This is one of the most hilarious DVD's I have ever laid my eyes to. The only flaw is that they cut the Zagat's skit short, but you can easily watch the full version on the Best of Adam Sandler, which I also have. Favorites include Matt Foley, who lives in a van down by the river, Bennett Brauer, telling kids not to "eat their own dandruff" and "leave dried up deodorant cakes under their armpits for long periods of time" and such, the Tokyo Gameshow with contestant Larry Templeton (I think that's how you spell it) who doesn't speak Japanese (you can also view this on the best of Mike Myers), and, of course, the HiberNol commercial.

I wish they had "The Herlihy Boy" or "Schmitts Gay" on there, because they're on the best of Adam Sandler.

R.I.P. Chris Farley
1964-1997