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The Best of the Colbert Report

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If you're a dedicated viewer of the Report, you might find yourself a bit disappointed with this DVD. While it does feature some of the major highlights of the past couple years, there is so much missing: no gag reel, no behind-the-scenes, no sign of segments like Tip of the Hat, Who's Honoring Me Now, Alpha Dog of the Week, Cheating Death, Bears and Balls, the Atone Phone, etc. The disc features only one Threatdown and two Words. The Report is a big show packed with hilarity, and often it's the little things (character breaks, malfunctions, random absurdity) that truly make it great. Comedy Central would do well in the future to include some montages that capture more of TCR's daily wit instead of presenting only the biggest events as an uninspired overview.

I have to agree with those who have reviewed this DVD now it has been released. I found it a big disappointment, sloppily put together, arguably not even the best bits of the show thus far. Some of the "Better know a district" segments didn't even have the lead in, just jumped straight to the interview (e.g. John Hall). No doubt that the show is one of the funniest things on TV, and I'm a huge Colbert fan, but this DVD was very, very disappointing.

I love the Colbert Report and was very happy a release of the best of clips dvd. I got the dvd and thought the set up of the dvd was big disappointment. The menu is basic scroll of clips and thats about it, well previews of other Comedy Central releases. Its not really the best of the show. Poor selection of clips, whoever picked them. The only saving grace for the dvd is the Better Know a District segements, which is one of the funniest segements in any variety/news show. Still I recommend it to Colbert fans because they love him no matter what.

I laughed all the way through. I love Stephen Colbert and this was a great collecton of all my favorite moments from his show! I hope that Stephen will come out with another. If you're a fan of his show... then you will love The Best of the Colbert Report.

Colbert is a favorite of mine and while I'm not sure these are "the best" clips from the show, the dvd is sure to entertain.

If you like Stephen Colbert, then this is for you. Highlights of the best moments of the show. not disappointed at all.

I love the Stephen Colbert Show, and thought it would be hard for someone to pick "the best". But, after watching the DVD, these really are some of his best shows. Now I patiently wait for another DVD...Volume 2, perhaps??

By saved my life I mean filled me with the American spirit, of course.

What this DVD is, in a nutshell, is Comedy Central compiling all of the clips that we'd probably look for on youtube to show our friends. This is a collection of the times that Stephen has not just reported on the news, but created it.

~The Word/Dictionary hijinkery
~The Star Wars Green Screen Challenge! (not a contest)
~His shred down with The Decemberists
~Robert Wexler
~And more!

It's hilarious. We giggled for hours. Seriously, this DVD was long! I was extremely pleased and will be sharing this with my friends for sure. =) A+ for Stephen!

I have enjoyed watching Colbert ever since his Daily Show days with 'This Week in God'. He is extremely talented and has a great writing staff. His segments are legendary and have become the stuff of Wikipedia and even dictionaries (via gluestick, at least).

The first hour of this "Best of" is hilarious. We are treated to multiple segments of 'The Word' and 'Better Know a District'; District of Columbia's Representative put up quite a fight, even though she came off as both racist and nationist.

However, this DVD became tiring after the first hour; 'Shock and Awe' was a unique segment, but the 22 minutes devoted to it could have been reduced. I soon left the DVD running while I performed other tasks, listening to it instead. My attention-span was no match for the three hours this DVD requires.

This is a long and meaty collection of what someone somewhere deemed the best of the Report. Too bad they didn't ask me for help, they'd have ended up with a much better collection.

Its still great though. We've missed a lot of the Report, so we were able to catch up on the highlights of some of what we had missed, and see again some of our favorite bits.

A good gift, but hardly definitive, collection.