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Best of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In 2 (Disc 1 of 3) (2003)
The Best of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Vol. 2 picks up where the first set of three discs left off, with six good installments of the show, featuring guests Truman Capote, Milton Berle, Mickey Rooney (at just about the time he turned down All in the Family), Greer Garson (around the time she did the Red Skelton Christmas show), Buddy Hackett, et al. The best parts of this set, however, are the interviews. Alan Sues recalls Garson's diverse career, both before and after Laugh-In, including a complete bomb out with an improvisational act in Las Vegas in 1967, immediately before being pegged for Laugh-In, and the surprising care with which some of his characters were devised on the show. Dick Martin, in a subdued manner, runs engagingly through his whole career leading up to Laugh-In, including several successful earlier Rowan and Martin television ventures. He also explains his unexpected second career as a television director, which came about by accident when Dan Rowan retired.
Scholar Hal Erickson, on disc three, gives a fascinating talk filling in all of the blanks left between the other interviews, and he's almost as entertaining as the show, giving full and long-overdue acknowledgement to the comedy team Olsen and Johnson as one of the sources of inspiration for this program. It's all great fun, and one can only hope to see a third or fourth volume someday, perhaps with recollections by Goldie Hawn and others not represented in the bonus features on the first two sets. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide.
Best of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In 2 (Disc 2 of 3) (1968)
Best of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In 2 (Disc 3 of 3) (2003)
The Best of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Vol. 2 picks up where the first set of three discs left off, with six good installments of the show, featuring guests Truman Capote, Milton Berle, Mickey Rooney (at just about the time he turned down All in the Family), Greer Garson (around the time she did the Red Skelton Christmas show), Buddy Hackett, et al. The best parts of this set, however, are the interviews. Alan Sues recalls Garson's diverse career, both before and after Laugh-In, including a complete bomb out with an improvisational act in Las Vegas in 1967, immediately before being pegged for Laugh-In, and the surprising care with which some of his characters were devised on the show. Dick Martin, in a subdued manner, runs engagingly through his whole career leading up to Laugh-In, including several successful earlier Rowan and Martin television ventures. He also explains his unexpected second career as a television director, which came about by accident when Dan Rowan retired.
Scholar Hal Erickson, on disc three, gives a fascinating talk filling in all of the blanks left between the other interviews, and he's almost as entertaining as the show, giving full and long-overdue acknowledgement to the comedy team Olsen and Johnson as one of the sources of inspiration for this program. It's all great fun, and one can only hope to see a third or fourth volume someday, perhaps with recollections by Goldie Hawn and others not represented in the bonus features on the first two sets. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide.
Disc One contains episodes 52 & 54.
Special Features:
- Extensive interview with Alan Sues
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| Good laughs
by Trevin
February 16, 2005 - 11:05 PM PST
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0 out of 1 members found this review helpful
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The episodes on this DVD are surprisingly good (better than disc 1). Jill St. John makes an appearance, but she doesn't get nearly enough screen time. Johnny Carson also gets in a lot of quickies. There are also jokes from Tennessee Williams and running gags with Milton Berle.
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| Not much to say
by Trevin
February 11, 2005 - 7:11 AM PST
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0 out of 1 members found this review helpful
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I can't quite put my finger on it, but overall this show doesn't feel quite as zany or funny as the earier shows in the first "Best of" collection. Even Ruth Buzzi herself thought that Gladys and Tyrone getting engaged was a bad idea. I think we have a lot less bikini dancing here. I did enjoy Danny Kay's appearance.
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