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Saturday Night Live 4-Pack (The Best of Dana Carvey/Mike Myers/Chris Rock/Chris Farley)Rating:
Release Date: 10 October, 2000 Retail Price: $49.98 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Complete Cast (5 total) |
Saturday Night Live 4-Pack (The Best of Dana Carvey/Mike Myers/Chris Rock/Chris Farley) Reviews
Greate DVD Box Set
The Saturday Night Live 4-pack contains some of the best skits from the long running late night show. The Chris Farley disc is hilarious, containg classic material such as "Matt Foley: Motivational Speaker" and "Schmitts Gay Beer." Mike Meyers, Chris Rock and Dana Carvey also provide enough laughs to make your stomach ache with characters such as "Wayne & Garth from Waynes World," "The Church Lady," and imitations of former president George Bush. DEFINITELY a box set to add to your DVD collection.
Long Before Austin Powers and Nurse Betty...
With the departure of Eddie Murphy, Dan Akroyd, and other stars that made Saturday Night Live a hit in the early 1980's, Lorne Michaels was faced with a major challenge. Where was he going to get cast members who would be able to capture the humor and wit that the show's early stars emitted every Saturday night on NBC.
Well Lorne went to many of the best comedy clubs in America and Canada to find the new class of comedians that would make SNL a major smash during the early 1990's. Fellow Canadian Mike Meyers, New York native Chris Rock, Chicago native Farley and Midwesterner Dana Carvey round up this collection of the best of the best comedians to ever be cast members on SNL.
"The Best of Dana Carvey" features many of his classic characters including the popular Church Lady. The DVD also features an artistic collage of some of Carvey's best performances including his Johnny Carson sendups, Garth from "Wayne's World" and the ever-irritable Ross Perot. The DVD also contains bonus material such as Carvey's audition tape and other sketches not found on the VHS release.
"The Best of Chris Farley" has some of the best moments the late comic gave on SNL. My favorites have to be the chubby Gap girl who appears in a popular sketch featuring David Spade and Adam Sandler. Another of my favorites, although brief was his impersonation of Carnie Wilson of "Wilson Phillips" fame and Laurie Davis (the infomercial woman who made Cher a laughing stock for a while).
"The Best of Mike Meyers" has to be one of the best in this collection, as it features some of Meyer's most classic characters. Wayne from "Wayne's World", Linda Richman from "Coffee Talk", and Teutonic nutball Dieter from "Sprockets" are all here. I only wish that the DVD contained more Dieter sketches since the sketch titles "Dieter's Dream" left me unamused. The Madonna Dream from "Wayne's World" is also found on this DVD which features a classic comedic performance by Madonna. Madonna also appears in another sketch, this time a "Coffee Talk" sketch where Linda Richman (based on Meyer's real-life Mother-in-Law), Madonna, and Roseanne Barr pay tribute to Barbra Streisand (guess who pops up to surprise the girls at the end?).
Finally, the "Best of Chris Rock" features Rock's classic urban humor and wit. Luther Campbell, "Russell Simmons' Def Jam" shows, and other urban-related comedy sketches are all here. My favorite has to be Nat X and his outrageous talk show. Rock's opening monologue is also hysterical as he points out things that are so true.
Overall, this is a great collection, however I would love to see a DVD compilation of the best works by Adam Sandler, David Spade, and the late Phil Hartman added to this box set. All three comics deserve to be in a box set, and maybe in the future they will be in one. In conclusion, this is an excellent box set of comedy classics from some of today's best young comics. It's a must have for any SNL fan.
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