Product Details

• Actors: David Faustino, Corin Nemec, Ed O'Neill, Katey Segal, Christina Applegate
• Directors: Sam Kass
• Writers: David Faustino, Corin Nemec, Sam Kass, Todd Bringewatt
• Producers: Shea Farrell
• Format: NTSC
• Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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• Studio: Sony Pictures
• DVD Release Date: July 23, 2009
• Run Time: 91 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002HMDSOY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #95,905 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• Learn more about "Star-ving: The Complete First Season" on IMDb

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Rude, crude, and compulsively watchable, web series Star-ving pushes the degradations of celebrity life to truly vile depths. David Faustino, the former Bud Bundy on that long-lived festival of crass Married...with Children, plays David Faustino, washed-up child star, who is now broke and desperate for attention, money, and sex. To achieve these ends, David and his sidekick, Corin Nemec (played by Corin Nemec, formerly of Parker Lewis Can't Lose), will beg, rob, kidnap, and appear in scatalogical snuff films. In the 12 episodes of the first season (each between five and nine minutes long), they accidentally kill the mentally challenged son of foghorn comic Gilbert Gottfried, get threatened with sexual assault in jail by former OJ Simpson houseguest Kato Kaelin, get maced by Tracey Gold (former star of Growing Pains), and agree to costar in a sitcom with Osama Bin Laden. Star-ving wipes away any distinction between satire and reality. Both stars, depicting actors who would debase themselves for a hint of their former success, appear naked and feces-smeared in multiple episodes. The result is impressively grotesque and, while not always funny in the usual sense, has the hypnotic appeal of fearlessness (or utter cluelessness). Some of the best bits feature guest appearances by Faustino's former castmates and other post-fame celebrities like Coolio, Alan Thicke, and Ed Asner. In one of the best episodes, Seth Green gets cast to replace Faustino in the fictional movie version of Married...with Children. --Bret Fetzer




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Product Description

Having been screwed out of "Married ... with Children" residuals by his convalescent manager, David "Bud Bundy" Faustino is now a pathetic, washed-up porn store proprietor. Star-ving follows his attempt at regaining stardom. Bringing along his old buddy, Corin Nemec ("Parker Lewis Can't Lose"), Faustino gets attacked by an angry black mob, reunites with his "Married ... with Children" cast members, kidnaps Alan Thicke, steals money from Coolio, and kills Gilbert Gottfried's 34-year-old mentally challenged son- all to get back into the Hollywood game. Amazing guest appearances include his "Married ... with Children" family - Christina Applegate, Ed O'Neill and Katey Sagal - as well as Gilbert Gottfried, Ed Asner, Alan Thicke, Tracey Gold, Jeremy Miller, Seth Green, Kato Kaelin, rapper Coolio and even porn star legend, Ron Jeremy!

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars finally there's proof that you have to take the bitter with the sour August 8, 2009

By Matthew G. Sherwin HALL OF FAMETOP 100 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

David Faustino and Corin Nemec star in this absolutely hilarious set of episodes that make up the first season of Star-ving. The episodes may be short but make no mistake about it--this is so funny you'll be laughing you're a** off from the very first minute and all the way through! The acting and casting are great; and the episodes are done in such a way that the laughs keep coming so fast so I could never got bored; in fact I wish there was more--much more--material on this disc! It was even great to view it the second time around just after I finished watching it the first time!

There's a lot of episodes on this DVD; they last anywhere from roughly five minutes to about eight or nine minutes. David Faustino does a great job of acting so well; comedy is truly his calling as he plays an actor whose career is on the skids, to say the least. In addition, Corin Nemec does every bit as well as David's loser, has-been friend with a Hollywood career that's also gone bust. Together David and Corin get themselves into all sorts of troublesome situations that are invariably over the top; and there are plenty of guest star appearances to make things even more interesting. Guest stars include the principle cast of Married With Children; Alan Thicke; Ed Asner; Coolio; Kato Kaelin (yes, that Kato Kaelin); Gilbert Gottfried--and others!

My favorite episodes are the ones that include cast members of Married With Children; "Straight Outta Compton;" "Starving...Literally;" Going OJ" and "Stealing Alan Thicke." The other episodes are also quite good.

The bonuses we get are deleted and extended scenes with an optional commentary.

Overall, Star-ving: The Complete First Season features David Faustino at his usual best and Corin Nemec is great as David's buddy and sidekick. Fans of Married With Children will enjoy this immensely; and people who like good comedy will love this, too. A few of the jokes are crude but actually most of the humor is much better than I expected it to be. I hope a major network picks this up to be a weekly sitcom that can fit into a half-hour time slot; David, Corin and the rest certainly deserve it!

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars not for the faint of heart (or funny bone) August 5, 2009

By K. Stuckey VINE™ VOICE

If you like good, clean fun, this is NOT the show for you. But if you like edgy, dark, dirty, stinky sh&%...this is for you! I watched the entire first season in one night and nearly peed my pants laughing. Watching Ed O'Neill drop the f-bomb, Kato in the dumpster, "we can't have one beer? What kind of p*ssies are we?", German scheize videos, and Corin Nemec. It is SO freaking hilarious what depths David Faustino has sunk to. I'm glad he can laugh at himself, I am laughing with him.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars manufactured on demand? he must be cursed! December 28, 2009

By reluctant techie

Ok, these are webisodes of my hero. the fact that these were never aired coupled with the fact they are manufactured on a per-order basis is flipping brilliantly indicative that dave faust. is being screwed by god herself.
this is bottom-of-the-barrel humor, his last attempt at entertaining us and it is actually pretty darned good YET unheard of.

I found it by accident and i am telling everyone
It is the least I can do. He let me take a pic with him in like 1991 at knott's berry farm premiere of a new roller coaster ride. I snuck into the stars only area(fake press credentials) and got the pic(still framed on my mom's piano). later I waited for a ride to end while he made out with some chick on a bench next to me. The closest I have ever been or ever will be to stardom. GO DAVE!