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It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia Season 3

I wish I had come across It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia before the Season 3 3 DVD 15 episode box set. This is a surreal situation comedy that deserves high marks for originality and for rising way above the banal ... More

Smut

It takes stand-up comic Don Tjernagel 15 seconds to get dirty on his first (and it's about time) stand-up comedy DVD Smut. There has never been a more appropriately titled release. There is nothing sacred for this comedian aside from ... More

A Prairie Home Companion 2nd Annual Farewell Performance

A Prairie Home Companion 2nd Annual Farewell Performance is the integral recording of the Radio City Music Hall show Garrison Keillor gave in New York City June 4th 1988. This Prairie Home Companion CD set contains some especially magical moments, ... More

Comedy Now! August 30th and 31st 2008 10 P.M.

Canadian comic Sean Proudlove opens his Comedy Now! special with a good bit on going to the movies and the food stand. This is good, middle of the road material with a hint of an edge. It sets the tone ... More

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Heckler

Heckler is at first a great documentary DVD about comedy club hecklers and how comics react to them. After that it is an only interesting documentary about critics and reviewers in general. Producer Jamie Kennedy had enough of being heckled on ... More

A Prairie Home Companion 4th Annual Farewell Performance

A Prairie Home Companion 4th Annual Farewell Performance is a 2 CD Garrison Keillor set of the complete June 16th 1990 show in Iowa City. If you are going to re-release something, might as well do it right and HighBridge ... More

Comedy Now! August 23rd and 24th 2008 10 P.M.

Stand-up comic Jenn Grant brings her A material to her Comedy Now! performance airing at 10 P.M. August 23rd on CTV and 24th on The Comedy Network. This is a solid, fast- paced performance that makes you want to go ... More

Lou Diamond Philips?

Tom McCaffrey is a good stand-up comic, right? It took me like a while to figure out why I like only somewhat enjoyed his stand-up comedy CD, right? I kept like thinking Lou Diamond Phillips? is pretty funny stuff, right? ... More

The Baker - Damian Lewis

The only thing better than a black comedy is an over the top, absurd, and wickedly funny black comedy. The Baker, starring Damian Lewis, is one hell of a funny black comedy DVD. Damian Lewis plays Milo, a hit man who ... More

My Life On The D-List Season 4

Kathy Griffin My Life on the D-List season 4 begins airing Friday August 15th 2008 at 10 P.M. on The Comedy Network (of course!). Season 4 of the Kathy Griffin sort of reality TV show opens with the comic having ... More

Tiny Toon Adventures Season 1 Volume 1

CLICK PIC FOR CLIP I very wrongly assumed Tiny Toon was just a cheap knock off of the Warner Brothers classic characters made to fill in some space between Saturday morning commercials. The 4 DVD Tiny Toon Adventures Season 1 ... More

Get Smart - could have been smarter.

Get Smart is still in the theaters and is one of the few light, live action, comedies that you can take your kids to this year. Choosing Steve Carell (Anchorman, The Office, 40 Year Old Virgin) to play Maxwell Smart ... More