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The Best of Bizarre: Uncensored Vols. 1 - 10

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Bizarre was a comedy series that ran for 6 seasons on Showtime in the early 80s and featured outrageous politically incorrect humor with occasional nude scenes. It was unusually HILARIOUS! Very few shows can actually rip the laugh right out of you but Bizarre is one of those rare excellent comedy shows that does it more often than any other comedy show! Fans of SNL, SCTV and shows like it are in for a real shock if they check out this series! Bizarre had many more GREAT sketches than not, and none of them are awful. The charming dimwit stuntman 'Super Dave' got his start in this series and his funniest stunts are in these episodes! Also another comedy sketch classic 'The Bigots' (a family of ethnic diversity who hurl slurs at each other constantly) are featured in many of these episodes. Each disc contains 4 hours of episodes (dual layer so the picture quality is good)! This is the way DVD collections should be! Any comedy fan who wants to laugh till they cry will LOVE this collection!

This is from an era when people weren't paranoid about not being "politically correct"
This is a time when people could still laugh at themselves and
at each other and fill
good about it.
From start to finish this is nothing but one laugh after another, then you'll
want to start all over again from the beginning.
Worth every penny.

Sal

Got a great price for a new set of the entire series. Two reviewers loved it and one hates it. All my life I've been surrounded by people who love "comedy" that I can't stand, and never heard of some of my favorite stuff (e.g., Dangerfield movie "Meet Wally Sparks"), let alone disliked it.. No way am I not going to take a chance of something that's odd and two people loved. The guy who hates it may be right, but comedy is too important to let other people cut me off from it. If I don't like it, I'll stop watching. The upside vs the downside is worth more than the $30 I'm paying. Nobody tells me what's funny -- I decide.

Will update after watching.

Bizarre was a series of half hour sketches which ran on CTV and Showtime for about five years in the early eighties. Humour was "broad" and slapstick with "star" Jn. Byner doing numerous ingenious personality impressions. Sometimes notable up and comers--both actors (e.g. Maury Chakin) and comedians, particularly noticeable Victoria Jackson and others (including Howie Mandell) appeared periodically as well as veterans like Henny Youngman.

DVDs have been minimally edited--most noticeable the elimination of Super Dave Osborne's hilarious lip sync rendition of Dolly Parton's "9 to 5"--and the shows are not arranged in chronological order. I've had trouble with two of the eight out of ten discs that I have watched--most notably with menus that failed to operate properly.

Despite these problems a wonderful opportunity of reminiscing and remembering--and actually a few genuinely funny skits (as well as many clinkers also). Byner was certainly a gifted and versatile impressionist!

Terrible, terrible show. Seriously, how can anyone watching this not want to strangle all involved in making it for being such morons? A guy wears a wig and talks like an old person. Wow. That's hilarious. Girls show their naked breasts. How cutting edge. Super Dave gets trash compacted in a car. What a riot. People talk using words on their shirts. Oh my god, that's so crazy. A guy with his cheeks stuffed talks like Marlon Brando in The Godfather. How groundbreaking. Yep that's it. For as many DVDs in the various volumes for sale as you'd care to waste your money on. You were warned.