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DVD : Saturday Night Live - The Best of Saturday TV Funhouse |
- great compilationTV funhouse some of the most enjoyable segments of SNL over the past few years. This has some new connecting stuff done by Colbert in which the AGD is hanging around the SNL set trying to meet Jimmy Fallon.
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- Funny Cartoons but missing some favoritesWished they had the first Michael Jackson cartoon in particular - "Ixnay on the erversionpay, ixnay on the erversionpay"
Hopefully when Robert creates enough new ones or stops creating new cartoons altogether, some of the uncollected old ones will be included on a volume 2.
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- Saturday TV Funhouse Rocks!I always ejoyed these clips on Saturday Night Live. There's more to Smigel than The Ambiguously Gay Duo, particularly the Ex-Presidents and those cartoon parodies that look so real, but have very adult themes.
I bust a gut over Shazang's sadism.
This DVD is loaded with extras, clips that didn't make it on to the 2 hour feature.
It's great for home viewing, but make sure your guests don't require a lot of political correctness before showing it to them.
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- TV Dud HousePossibly the biggest let down yet. Now I know why they kept the discription so vague. The phraseing to watch out for here is "best of" and not complete. I expected a copulation dvd and got a small sampling of what I thought would be on the disk. Why even bother to rip off what few people may even be interested in this, did they think they where going to get enough customers for a box set? Don't waste your money on this limited poor showing, it will only leave you wanting the episodes you thought should be on the DVD. I bought this as a gift too, made me look bad.
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- Better Than Your Average SNL Special.The comedy at Saturday Night Live comes and goes in spurts and currently (Jan. 2007) it is rare for an episode, let alone an entire season, to be all that funny. However, for over a decade there is one portion of the show that has remained consistently funny and that is when one of Robert Smigel's Saturday TV Funhouse cartoons air. The Saturday TV Funhouse cartoon first began showing up on SNL in the mid-1990s. The cartoons have always been a welcome break in the usual format of the show and when first seen brought a new dimension of comedy to the famed sketch-comedy series, the type of witty satire that first made SNL a staple of American culture.
THE BEST OF SATURDAY TV FUNHOUSE was a special that aired on SNL in spring of 2006. The special was a collection of some of the best Saturday TV Funhouse cartoons ever. From the Award-winning (I think it was even nominated for an Emmy) "Saddam and Osama" to the Ambiguously Gay Due and X-Presidents cartoon, THE BEST OF SATURDAY TV FUNHOUSE DVD is filled with hilarious, short snippets of satirical animation that both critique and comment on our society and culture. Some of the cartoons are nothing more than teasing nostalgia, such as the "Globetrotters Christmas" episode (found on the special features) or "The New Adventures of Mr. T." Others are clearly aimed at ridiculing powerful corporations in attempt to awaken public awareness, such as the many Disney parodies found on the disc--"Inside the Disney Vault" and "Titey" are the best of these--and the Schoolhouse Rock spoof, "Conspiracy Theory Rock" that shows the corruption of powerful media companies such as NBC. Other gems on the disc include "Smurfette" and "The Narrator That Ruined Christmas" and the delightful "Santa and the States" found on the special features.
There are many, many, many funny cartoons found on this disc. It's something that anyone whom is a fan of good SNL or satirical animation, e.g. THE SIMPSONS, SOUTH PARK, or ROBOT CHICKEN, will probably enjoy. I enjoyed almost all of the cartoons on the disc. However, I only purchased the disc because of one cartoon that is contained: "Fun With Real Audio Christmas". As Robert Smigel points out on the commentary, this is the most popular Saturday TV Funhouse cartoon of them all. The cartoon involves Jesus and the Peanuts, but its message is universal and isn't just limited to Christians are Charles Schultz fans. I remember watching the cartoon the first time it aired. Watching SNL was a rare occurrence for me then, but for whatever reason I saw the "Fun With Real Audio Christmas" and it stuck to me. Like the images from certain television specials, lines from popular movies, are snippets of overplayed songs, the cartoon has always remained with me. This DVD is worth owning for that one little cartoon alone and everything else is just bonus.
The DVD includes over an hour of extra cartoons, some of which are even better than the ones in the main feature. The entire main feature has a commentary mostly with Smigel and his chief animators. However, other guests, such as Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert, also comment at parts. Surprisingly, most of the extra cartoons also include commentary.
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