Flaherty, Paul

Clifford

Get ready for mischief mayhem and madness with this outrageous comedy starring the "truly hysterical" (LA Reader) Martin Short. Co-starring Charles Grodin and Mary Steenburgen Clifford is crammed with enough "laugh-out-loud moments" (Los Angeles Times) and "brilliantly subtle sophisticated humor" (Entertainment Today) to spoil you for good!Smart hyperactive and dangerous ten-year-old Clifford (Short) has a lifelong dream: to visit the Dinosaur World theme park. Happily his uncle Martin (Grodin) has agreed to take him. But when Martin suddenly reneges on his promise Clifford hatches a devious plan to get even and teach his uncle that all work and no play makes Clifford a very bad boy!System Requirements: Running Time 90 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: PG UPC: 027616902900 Manufacturer No: 1006067

Best of MadTV Seasons 8, 9 & 10

The Best of MADtv Seasons 8 9 & 10 contains three hours of the most hilarious sketches from irreverent hit comedy show MADtv. MADtv is a late night sketch-comedy show based on the humor of the popular MAD magazine. Material includes celebrity impersonations music video commercial movie and TV show parodies recurring characters musical guests and the occasional mock cartoons. The show competes against another popular sketch-comedy show the long-running Saturday Night Live but the show is aimed at a younger audience. With the show's revolving-door cast of talented comedic actors and numerous Emmy Award nominations MADtv is truly a success story.System Requirements:Running Time 175 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 012569724327

Following the release of MadTV's complete first season, this generous three-hour single-disc collection of sketches, spoofs, and parodies from the long-running series' three most recent seasons seems a little slapdash. There is, for example, no opening-credit sequence, so a newcomer to the series might never know just who is doing the dead-on Ellen DeGeneres imitation in the season 9 sketch "Letters to Lincoln." This collection includes some of MadTV's most inspired cross-parodies, including "Oprah: Jackass" and a pitch-perfect reality TV collision between The Osbournes, The Anna Nichole Show, Cops, and even a "Jay Walking" Jay Leno. Also included is one of MadTV's most epic movie parodies, the "Lords of the Bling: The Two Ta-Tas" as well as "The Honeymooners 2003," still in black and white, but with much coarser language and a terror alert. Sketches featuring such singularly annoying characters as hyper-child Stuart (Michael McDonald), ditzy Dot (Stephnie Weir), and throat-clearing Lorraine are a matter of taste, although the wildly enthusiastic studio audience greets their entrances as if they were rock-star royalty). --Donald Liebenson

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MADtv - The Complete First Season

MADtv is a late night sketch-comedy show based on the humor of the popular MAD magazine. Material includes celebrity impersonations music video commercial movie and TV show parodies recurring characters musical guests and the occasional mock cartoons. The show competes against another popular sketch-comedy show the long-running Saturday Night Live but the show is aimed at a younger audience. With the show's revolving-door cast of talented comedic actors and numerous Emmy Award nominations MADtv is truly a success story. MADtv airs at 11 PM Saturdays with most FOX affiliates and episodes from the first 8 seasons air on Comedy Central at various times of the day.Running Time: 806 min.System Requirements:Running Time 806 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: NR UPC: 012569423022 Manufacturer No: 4230

A fan and critical favorite for 10 seasons, the sketch comedy series MadTV makes its long-awaited DVD debut in a three-disc set that compiles its first season, along with choice skits and outtakes culled from its entire network run. Like its magazine namesake, MadTV earned its stripes on the strength of its parodies of pop culture, which included clever potshots at Hollywood ("Gump Fiction"), rock & roll, children's animation ("Gumboy and Pokey") and politics. The irreverence of the skits was well served by its versatile cast, which included future breakout performers Orlando Jones, Nicole Sullivan, and Artie Lange in the first season (1995-96) lineup. Though MadTV rarely landed celebrity guests on par with its main competition, Saturday Night Live (first-season highlights are ex-Kids in the Hall Dave Foley and Bruce McCullough), the quality of the writing and performances really didn't require added star power to earn its laughs. In addition to all 19 episodes of the first season, the set includes a number of unaired skits and bloopers, the series' 200th episode (from season 9), which features the return of several first-season players, and a collection of parodies from all 10 seasons. --Paul Gaita

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Clifford [Region 2]