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Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler

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This is even better than the rest of the SNL DVDs where very often you get the typical New York aloof druggy self-indulgent drivel sometimes. This is a very good DVD, almost 2 hours long of some of the best bits by a very talented comedienne. It starts off on a very strong note by the skit with Tina Fey as Sarah Palin and Poehler as Hillary Clinton. There is not almost one bas skit. Fantastic also is the one about teh couple that should be divorced. Poehler is very funny and extremely talented and this comes well across in a long section of short character skits that is simply splendid. It is very cheap and if you have missed these things it is worth the price. Justin timberlake and Hillary Clinton herself even appear.

By far one of the funniest BEST OF SNLs out there. I have 2 Will Ferrells, 1 Jimmy Fallon, 06/07 and 09/10 and only Jimmy Fallon comes close to be as good as Amy Poehler's!!! Seriously!!! All the sketches are great and the out takes are like getting a bonus DVD in itself(Contained on the same disc!)

This video is extremely hilarious, although I wish it was longer. Amy is the best impersonator and can play any character. SNL just isn't the same without her. She's my idol!

This DVD is good. I'd say 4 stars good. Amy is one of my favorite people and she had some great SNL characters. I was disappointed with the choice of the some of the sketches (for example, Tom Brady or Lindsay Lohan eps would have been funnier choices for Kaitlin...) but the commercials alone really make this a strong compilation.

What brings it to 5 stars for me are the extra features. If you liked Weekend Update with Seth and Amy, you should watch the DVD again with the commentary. JUST DO IT. It is just Amy and Seth talking about (although usually just over) the sketches. They give some background info (Emily Spivey wrote most of Amy's character sketches with her and then went on to create Up All Night), and mainly a BUNCH of extra laughs.

Highly recommended for a fan of SNL in the 2000's.

Amy Poehler at her best! Just like the other SNL dvd's, a great collection of her skits. If you are a fan, you will not be disappointed.

Poehler had some great moments on SNL and many are here, especially the opener, featuring her very crisp Hillary in full flight. One thing noticeable on this collection is that Amy does tend to use the same lynchpin for many of her funniest impressions: nervous laughter. She's really good at it, but seeing so many of her characters use it takes away some of the magic.

But the lady is funny in general and while never hitting the heights of Hartman, Ferrell or Carvey at their peaks, Poehler's best-of dvd is full of laughs, most of them much kinder than the average acerbic fare on SNL; she's clearly got a truly good heart. The dollar bill skit is a real classic and gets truer every year, sadly (thanks to GS and QE46 for that!). The dvd extras include a commentary of the whole dvd with Amy and Seth Myers, which is a rarity for this series and a treat for any fan of the show. Other extras are two cut skits and five minutes of Weekend Update outtakes, some of which are very funny.

Poehler's is not the best of the SNL star series by a long shot, but like the rest it's well worth watching for the laughs.

Fabulous DVD. We are big fans of SNL and have rarely missed a show for many years. We have most of the "Best of SNL" DVD's and this is a great one, perhaps the best! Amy Poehler is so talented and has such a range of great characters. Big loss for SNL when she moved on. "Best of SNL" DVD's are fabulous - no commercials and only terrific sketches.

I had watched her best of special when it recently was aired shortly after her leaving SNL. I found it to be absolutely hilarious! She was my favorite member on SNL besides Tina Fey. There wasn't a sketch she did that wasn't hilarious. To see her in films, this I believe is the next best thing and waiting for her to do more movies, because she is just a natural at what she does. I can't wait for this best of collection to be released!!

Amy Poehler in general is quite funny, much of this is related to her keen ability to understand people, allowing her to portray completely off the wall characters in a way that seems all too real- thereby putting her in the female comedy big wigs. Unfortuantely, this DVD doesn't show that. The montages in which clips of skecthes are shown are often times funnier than the complete sketches that are. Often times the ones selected were clearly chosen due to political reasons as if NBC is attempting to make a negative statement about politicians like former president George W. Bush and former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. While this is clearly what has happened, after all MSNBC's political bend is very clear the simple truth is that while these skecthes are funny for a brief period of time, after a while they wear on you, and one just skips to the next skecth wondering why another wasn't selected. Now, I admit that I haven't been impressed and continually let down by SNL for about the last ten years, it's clearly just being phoned in at this point. But Amy Poehler was one of the few bright spots of the show within the last ten years so I was looking forward to this compilation only to be let down yet once again by "the new Saturday Night Live." I do reccomend to everyone though: watch Amy on Parks and Rec on NBC and just leave this one on the shelf.

It's about time we got another Best of from the more recent cast. The last great one was Jimmy Fallon's! This was an awesome collection on TV and should be even better on DVD as it will have some extra features from Amy's years on SNL. I can't wait for the release! Hopefully more 'SNL Best of's will be forthcoming, such as Tina Fey! That one is much needed as well!