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The Very Best of America's Funniest Comedians

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If you pan a comedy DVD because you "never heard of Paul Rodriguez, Norm Macdonald, or Richard Belzer", well...maybe the problem isn't the product. If you know comedy, you'll know these names. If you think the comedy spectrum runs from Carrot Top to Jeff Foxworthy, well...enjoy that vanilla ice cream.

That said, you're getting what you pay for here - a machine gun riff through early material (the photos on the cover are a tipoff) by people who for the most part do better work elsewhere. Consider it a museum piece; a Time-Life collection of clips assembled for convenience. For completists; the curious might want to wait for a cheap used copy.

After reading the other reviews I have to say true, it must have been taped in the early 90s, BUT excellent comedy never grows old. Jeanine Garaffalo is hysterical with her dysfunctional family deadpanning; Jim Carrey does an excellent imitation of both Sammy Davis Jr. and Tom Jones (his hips Never stop gyrating); Tim Allen in his pre-sitcom days perfecting his now classic grunting like an ape (pig?); Seinfeld's rarely seen Jason Alexander; Jeff Foxworthy drawing his Southern comparisons, and on and on. It's completely worth seeing if only to gasp at how different these comedians look today: Richard Lewis was a true Hottie and Chris Rock and Ellen DeGeneres must have been in high school. I'd give it three and a half stars because the hour and some odd minutes took me by surprise a couple of times with my laughing out loud but I'll round it up to four stars because I was able to watch without having to wade through cursing and crude racial comparisons -- always a banner day.

This a pretty old recording of some currently famous comedians. With the exception of Norm MacDonald, Ray Romano, Tim Allen, and one of the two Adam Sandler clips, most of these excerpts are not that funny. It is hard to imagine how this is the "very best" of the material available from these comedians.

Now this was fun! True, this is older stuff from the late 80's and early 90's but a lot of the material still makes me laugh. It interesting to see them when they were early in their career. The funnest were Carrot Top, Jim Carrey, Drew Carey and Tim Allen. Weakest was Norm Macdonald, 1st performance by Adam Sandler, Richard Lewis and Richard Belzer. Good thing Belzer plays a cop on Law and Order because he sucks as a comic.

This is obviously the work of someone who bought the rights to this material. The Seinfeld clip is exactly 30 to 50 seconds long and his name is featured prominently on the box. The DVD is poorly made and the material is short and old. I wouldn't mind it being old if it wasn't so short. ("The portions are so small.") The only reason to buy it is because it's cheap - and it isn't here, so don't.

I really enjoyed seeing some of the great comedians on this DVD...this DVD is not a complete show of all the comedians but it's shows some of the best segments of their shows...very funny.

Chris Rock isn't very funny, and I've never heard of Paul Rodriguez, Norm Macdonald, or Richard Belzer, so they weren't too great. Ellen Degeneres was funny, though, because she talked about how things always are on airplanes. That was funny. Rosie O'donnell was funny too. I think this dvd was about the comedy before these comedians became who they are today. It becomes manageable by including: Carrot Top, Cheech Marin, Jim Carrey, Tim Allen, Jason Alexander, Jeff Foxworthy, 2 performances by Adam Sandler, Janeane Garofalo, Ray Ramano, Drew Carey, Jerry Seinfeld and Kelsey Grammer. 3 and a half stars.