Saturday Night Live - The Best of Chris Rock (Bonus Edition)

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Chris Rock is one of the greatest comic minds of his generation, and it all started on Saturday Night Live. Watch the best of The Dark Side with Nat X, I'm Chillin' and Def Jam and maybe even learn how to survive the Apollo. The Best of Chris Rock also features bonus material, including hilarious outtakes and scenes that were cut after dress rehearsal and never seen until now.
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Saturday Night Live - The Best of Chris Rock (Bonus Edition)
Starring: Chris Rock , Akira Yoshimura (II) , Victoria Jackson , Dana Carvey , and Sinbad Director: Beth McCarthy-Miller , Dave Wilson , and James Signorelli Manufacturer: Lions Gate ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00014NE9Y Release Date: 2004-02-24 |
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Chris Rock is one of the greatest comic minds of his generation, and it all started on Saturday Night Live. Watch the best of The Dark Side with Nat X, I'm Chillin' and Def Jam and maybe even learn how to survive the Apollo. The Best of Chris Rock also features bonus material, including hilarious outtakes and scenes that were cut after dress rehearsal and never seen until now.
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Saturday Night Live - The Best of Chris Rock
Starring: Mario Joyner , and Wanda Sykes Manufacturer: Lions Gate ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00003L9CM Release Date: 2000-02-29 |
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Comedian Chris Rock spent several seasons on Saturday Night Live, and this compilation tape of his best moments showcases his considerable talents while unintentionally highlighting how uneven the show itself is. Even in a video selected to showcase Rock alone, he is all too often mired as the second or third banana in an SNL skit. But there are, thankfully, plenty of opportunities in this video for Rock to shine without being upstaged by other performers or left adrift by limp writing. When he appears behind the "Weekend Update" desk to deliver an editorial commentary or a news report, Rock put his considerable skills as a comedian to perfect use. And in the skits where the focus is on him, he proves himself to be adept at characterizations, such as when he dons a colossal Afro wig to become radical talk show host Nat X, host of "The Dark Side." One peculiar surprise about the video: some of the language in "Def Jam" parodies that was bleeped out for the broadcast of SNL is here presented uncensored, so while this is Chris Rock delivering perhaps his cleanest material, a few choice words are nonetheless delivered loud and clear. --Robert J. McNamara
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Best of The Chris Rock Show / Best of The Chris Rock Show 2 / Bigger & Blacker (3 Pack) (Region 1 DVD)
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD ASIN: B00020E3IS |
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B(Region 1 DVD)best of the Chris Rock Show (1997), The Best of The Chris Rock Show - Volume 2 , Chris Rock - Bigger and Blacker (1999)
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Saturday Night Live 4-Pack (The Best of Dana Carvey/Mike Myers/Chris Rock/Chris Farley)
Starring: Dana Carvey , Chris Farley , Mike Myers , and Chris Rock Manufacturer: Trimark ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00004Y7DW Release Date: 2000-10-10 |
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Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dana Carvey
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Chris Farley
The Best of Chris Farley blasts through 68 minutes of the wildly hilarious characters the comic actor created while with Saturday Night Live in the early 1990s. Farley was a comedic gem--not only because he created such bizarre, repulsively funny characters, such as Matt Foley, Motivational Speaker, or Lori Davis, cosmetics infomercial queen, but because he lived completely inside the character, delivering lines with whatever fury, stupidity, hypertension, insecurity, or femininity the situation demanded. Clearly, Farley loved making people laugh and he wasn't afraid to use his big bulk to do it, whether it entailed stripping as a Chippendale's dancer, belly flopping on coffee tables, rolling around on a couch as Tom Arnold, or punching his forehead in dismay on the "Chris Farley Show." What's great about this collection is all of those characters appear; what's disappointing is that some don't linger long enough, while others appear a bit too long. The cafeteria-lady number could've been cut short in lieu of a longer Tom Arnold segment, or Herlihy Boy could've been removed altogether in favor of complete "Chris Farley Show" segments. Still, if you forgot how side-splitting Farley's portrayal of Dom DeLuise or the French-fry-stuffing Gap girl was, this video will happily jog your memory. --Karen Karleski
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Mike Myers
From "Wayne's World" to the creepy hilarity of "Sprockets" and its slinky German host Dieter, this 16-sketch compilation showcases Mike Myers in his Saturday Night Live prime. Wayne Campbell and his sidekick Garth (Dana Carvey) are featured in two memorable sketches, jamming with Aerosmith and enjoying a sexy dream sequence with the babelicious Madonna. The Material Girl shows up again as the daughter of "Coffee Talk" hostess Linda Richman (who was inspired by Myers's mother-in-law) in a choice sketch with Roseanne, featuring a cameo by Barbra Streisand that is, as Linda would say, "like buttah."
More obscure sketches show Myers at his most bizarre, charming, and experimental. "Lothar of the Hill People" challenged network censors with not-so-subtle allusions to masturbation and female genitalia, while Myers's penchant for all things British is frequently indulged, including spot-on send-ups of Ron Wood and Mick Jagger. His portrayal of a hypoglycemic, hyperactive 6-year-old--complete with safety helmet and restraining harness--is both outrageously funny and more than a little dangerous. (It's a miracle that guest host Nicole Kidman keeps a straight face as she feeds the "kid" a chocolate bar, with the expected results.) And while other sketches such as "Middle Aged Man" were not likely to follow Wayne and Dieter to big-screen success, they show Myers doing what he does best: conceiving original characters and pushing them to comedic extremes. --Jeff Shannon
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Chris Rock
Comedian Chris Rock spent several seasons on Saturday Night Live, and this compilation tape of his best moments showcases his considerable talents while unintentionally highlighting how uneven the show itself is. Even in a video selected to showcase Rock alone, he is all too often mired as the second or third banana in an SNL skit. But there are, thankfully, plenty of opportunities in this video for Rock to shine without being upstaged by other performers or left adrift by limp writing. When he appears behind the "Weekend Update" desk to deliver an editorial commentary or a news report, Rock puts his considerable skills as a comedian to perfect use. And in the skits where the focus is on him, he proves himself to be adept at characterizations, such as when he dons a colossal Afro wig to become radical talk show host Nat X, host of "The Dark Side." One peculiar surprise about the video: some of the language in the "Def Jam" parodies that was bleeped out for the broadcast of SNL is here presented uncensored, so while this is Chris Rock delivering perhaps his cleanest material, a few choice words are nonetheless delivered loud and clear. --Robert J. McNamara
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