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Delirious [VHS]

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I first saw this when I was 10 years old (granted it was too young because he is pretty crass), and I have loved it ever since. How it is possible that more people don't know about this is beyond me. I find myself quoting him in my everyday life - HEY BOY! HEY BOY! YOU LOOK MIGHTY CUTE IN THEM JEANS! - every once in a while I come across someone who has seen it and it's almost like we belong to a secret club. Sometimes I laugh out loud even if I'm just thinking about it, especially if I'm thinking about the sketches about the ice cream man and the family picnic. I recommend this to EVERYONE. If I could rate this higher I would. I join other reviewers in wishing there was a wider availability, but you can find it somewhere. Watch it and join the club.

I really think that I speak for everyone when I say: "PLEASE GIVE US THIS DVD SOON!!!" Hasn't it been long enough? Don't we deserve to own the single most anticipated DVD release of THIS (or any other) century? This is the best stand-up comedy movie ever made......EVER!!! Before we die, give us one last moment of joy. Release this title on DVD as soon as possible. We remain, as always, your humble servants.

Eddie Murphy. We all know he's funny, but do people realise how funny he was in stand-up around the time 48 Hours came out?

I recommended it to all my mates at school (even though I'm under 18). We still haven't stopped saying the lines every now and then since four years ago when I first saw it. "Goonie Goo Goo!"

He does impersonations of Mr T, Stevie Wonder, his family and more. Subjects include sex, celebrities, singers, family cook-outs and Eddie's past experiences from childhood.

His stand-up comedy is so funny that once you've seen it, nothing else seems anywhere near as funny except a couple of his other stand-up performances, one of which I think is only available on audio tape and realeased in 1982.

Classic stand-up comedy, that you must get your hands on. It may have been made in 1983, but often it is unavailable at video stores to hire for long periods.

Normally I dislike comedy that is oriented toward vulgarity, because vulgarity's only purpose in comedy is shock value and it wears off after a while. And Eddie Murphy's comedy routine in Delirious is as vulgar as anything ever put to record or videotape. Yet Murphy is at the same time as funny as any comedian ever heard to that point.

Murphy circa-1983 is proudly offensive, skewering his subjects with hilarious venom. Today people will cringe at his blatant homophobia, ignoring that his comedy nails down the patent absurdity involved in homosexuality. Murphy also nails other subjects, one of which is strikingly relevent circa 2003 - Murphy skewers pop singer Michael Jackson and elements of his female fandom, and seen today it graphically reminds the viewer just what Michael Jackson truly is. The amazing part is Murphy's lampoon is done with a completely straight face, even as the packed house overwhelms the sound system as the audience dies laughing and screaming as Murphy skewer's Jackson's song "She's Out Of My Life"; that Murphy can maintain his comedic composure through all this is a sign of a true pro.

He gets what amounts to a standing ovation repeatedly throughout the performance, notably during the Michael Jackson lampoon and also when he imitates Elvis Presley, capturing Presley's posture before his death; the sight of Murphy walking as circa-1970s Elvis is worth the price of admission by itself.

Then there is the epic of the mother who uses a shoe to strike her unruly children, told as played by Clint Eastwood - "Why'd you eat the ice cream off the floor?" after Murphy whistles the "Fistful of Dollars" theme once again brings the house down, and it happens again in the funniest part of the subject - the mother and father preparing to go out one night, but the mother hears (via Murphy's dead-on imitation of the Six Million Dollar Man scanning sound effect) her unruly children and their friends on bunkbeds and a high heel shoe becomes the perfect boomerang.

Offensive, yes, and proudly so, and in these times of intellectual ossification known as political correctness such offensiveness can actually be a necessity.

I found copies of Delerious. There is at least 30 left. To find out where and how to get a copy: E-mail me at dmbschwag@email.com

This is one of the best comedies EVER! I can't believe we are begging for it to be sold on DVD! PLEASE release this title soon!

By far the funniest Stand-up Comedy ever! I love the greats (Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, etc...) too, don't get me wrong, but "Delirious" tops them all. This needs to come out on DVD ASAP!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE bring it out on DVD. There are THOUSANDS of us in Australia that want it NOW. As soon as Raw came out we were there. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. Don't make me come up there!!!!!!! I'll smack your little bottoms.

I have been waitng for this video to come out on DVD ever since i first seen it. This is the funniest stand-up comedy movie of all time. Like the other person said it is 100000000.99
times better than RAW and RAW is pretty funny. If this DVD was released Iwould give it to every1 for Christmas, that's how good it is.

Please format this to DVD - it is a collectors item...I can't find it any where and do not own a VHS any longer. I work with younger people who have never seen this and I look like a fool doing the ice cream reinactiment! We must educate the younger generations!