Product Details

• Actors: Jonathan Winters, Susan Anton, Milton Berle, Phyllis Diller, Lee Meriwether
• Directors: Peter Ferrara
• Format: NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: M.C.E.G./Virgin Visi
• VHS Release Date: May 31, 1989
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 630178510X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #332,902 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Cardboard sleeve has very light wear. No visible damage to cassette, looks like new. No library or rental stickers. Acquired in estate sale.

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5.0 out of 5 stars This is great!!!!, February 22, 2011

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Wagonmaster (Nebraska) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jonathan Winters - On The Ledge [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I have been a fan of Jonathan Winters since the early 60's. I watched his many TV appearances on Jack Parr, Johnny Carson and Dean Martin to mention a few. I own almost all of his classic Verve albums and highly recommend them. This video is Winters Showtime special from 1987 and has star power galore. Sure some of them don't exactly fit but it is good time watching these stars do improv with the great one. The bits with Robin Williams are laugh out loud funny. I recently watched this again with friends and I very highly recommend this. You won't be disappointed.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Semi-entertaining TV Special From the King of Improv, April 28, 2002

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"hogmild" (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jonathan Winters - On The Ledge [VHS] (VHS Tape)

"Jonathan Winters On the Ledge" is a TV special Jonathan made in 1987. Completely improvised, this choppy, poorly directed special co-stars Robin Williams, Milton Berle, Mort Sahl, Michael Richards, Lee Meriwether, Phyllis Diller, Martin Mull, and (for what reason I'll probably never know) Susan Anton.

The special is simply a bunch of improvised skits that are supposed to be somehow connected, but I'm still trying to figure out how. Although some of the sketches contain a few laughs, most are simply unfunny and one wonders how they made it into the final cut. (If this was the funniest material they could gather for a special, I'd HATE to see what didn't make it in!) There's only so much entertainment value in watching actors and comedians who are clearly not used to improvisation bumble around in skits in which Winters is clearly the only one who knows what he's doing. Even skits with Robin Williams just seem to dry up and go nowhere after a minute or two.

The only one who makes it out of this thing with any dignity (besides Winters himself, who really deserved a much better production to showcase his amazing talents) is Martin Mull, who has some of the best lines in an early skit in which he plays a customer in Jonathan's antique shop. Of all the entertainers who appear in this special, Mull is the only one who really seemed capable of sharing a skit with Winters and actually creating a humerous scenario that moved forward and went somewhere.

Buy this video ONLY if your're a die-hard fan of Jonathan Winters. If you're looking for good Winters videos, check out Gone Fish'n, The Unkown Jonathan Winters On the Loose, or even It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.