You certainly get your money's worth with this very generous collection of eight Comedy Central specials featuring some of today's very best practitioners of the art of stand-up (plus the unaccountably popular Dane Cook and Carlos Mencia). The well-chosen all-star lineup represents a variety of styles: tightly-wound social commentator (Lewis Black), observational (the clean-working Jim Gaffigan and Brian Regan), ventriloquist (Jeff Dunham), and off-center jokesters (the late Mitch Hedberg and the thoroughly fresh Demetri Martin), but—surprisingly—women and African-American comics are missing here. Although the specials span the years1999-2004, time has not dulled even the more topical material: watching Black work himself into a lather over the 2001 Super Bowl's halftime show featuring the unholy trinity of *NSYNC, Aerosmith, and Britney Spears just doesn't get old. Classic bits preserved here include Gaffigan's reflections on the manatee, Regan's deconstruction of the instructions on the Pop Tarts box, and Black's apocalyptic discovery of a Houston street corner that featured a Starbucks across the street from another Starbucks. Mencia has developed a reputation for stealing other comedians' material: while not quite a smoking gun, one bit—in which he excoriates people who live in uninhabitable or dangerous areas to move—echoes Sam Kinison's classic “world hunger” routine. The profanities, bleeped on television, are unbleeped here. DVD extras are confined to brief promos for The Colbert Report, L'il Bush, The Sarah Silverman Show, and South Park. Highly recommended. Aud: P. (D. Liebenson)
The Best of Comedy Central Presents: Uncensored
(2007) 176 min. DVD: $19.99. Paramount Home Entertainment (avail. from most distributors). Closed captioned. ISBN: 1-4157-1444-4. May 12, 2008
The Best of Comedy Central Presents: Uncensored
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