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Best of the Chris Rock Show

Best of the Chris Rock Show

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A must see!
Review: Chris only gets better as time passes by, this is Chris Rock at his best....Chris Rock is the bomb!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: "The Best Of Chris Rock Show" is a Best Buy !!!
Review: Chris Rock and his cast on the show are extremely funny. I watch this DVD almost every other day. Everyone in my family just dies with laughter. This DVD features great classic skits from the early years of the ever popular HBO hit t.v. show. Everytime I think about this DVD,I can't help but laugh while I pop it in the DVD player to watch the show again. Buy this DVD, its well worth it. And the price is also another reason why this "Best Of Chris Rock Show is a best buy. How can you go wrong this is Chris Rock, buy it- buy it- buy it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: "The Best Of Chris Rock Show" is a Best Buy !!!
Review: Chris Rock and his cast on the show are extremely funny. I watch this DVD almost every other day. Everyone in my family just dies with laughter. This DVD features great classic skits from the early years of the ever popular HBO hit t.v. show. Everytime I think about this DVD,I can't help but laugh while I pop it in the DVD player to watch the show again. Buy this DVD, its well worth it. And the price is also another reason why this "Best Of Chris Rock Show is a best buy. How can you go wrong this is Chris Rock, buy it- buy it- buy it.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: The lighter (but still damn funny) side of Chris Rock...
Review: Chris Rock has proven himself to be a fantastic comedian as well as a tremedous political satirist. I have come to love his sharp but hilarious riffs on class and racial inequalities in his standup; he has a manner which lends itself to biting commentary without seeming mean-spirited, a true rarity.

This video is an hour or so of sketches from Rock's HBO "talk show," a critically acclaimed endeavor. The sketches are pretty light in nature, unlike much of his standup, but he still manages to remains sharp. The subjects range from "Monica-gate"(hilarious!) to the inscrutability of slang, and move fairly quickly.

The best moments are the ones where he goes out on the streets and talks to real people, such as his petition to change a street name to "Tupac Shakur Blvd." Another section takes on the alleged impact of Tiger Woods' success in golf on the African American community. Yet another is a riff on HBO's popular "Taxicab Confessions," with Rock playing a chatty taxi driver. The interaction with real people allows Rock to push the envelope and create a commotion.

All in all, this video is great -- especially since we don't have HBO in my apartment, so this is my only chance to see Rock's talk show work. However, I did miss the edginess of Rock's standup social satire -- for that, I would try one of his standup specials (which are, for my money, the best Chris Rock for the buck). But if you've already memorized them all, and you're looking for more laughs, try this wonderful video.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: CHRIS ROCK IS VERY TRUTHFUL IN HIS ANNOLOGY OF HUMAN SATTIRE
Review: CHRIS ROCK IS SATTIRE OF THE THE NEW MELLINUM. NO ONE CANNOT LIKE HIS HUMOR UNLESS THEY DO NOT HAVE HUMOR IN THEIR LIFE!!!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Snoozer
Review: Don't buy this expecting anything near as good as his HBO specials. The material here is about average for the Chris Rock Show... but even their selection criteria confuses me, as there have been numerous hilarious segments of the show they didn't select, and the ones they did select are (to me) by no means the best.

I'd rate it as good as a random 1hr sampling of the show itself. Save your money and watch two episodes.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Snoozer
Review: Don't buy this expecting anything near as good as his HBO specials. The material here is about average for the Chris Rock Show... but even their selection criteria confuses me, as there have been numerous hilarious segments of the show they didn't select, and the ones they did select are (to me) by no means the best.

I'd rate it as good as a random 1hr sampling of the show itself. Save your money and watch two episodes.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Chris Rock is hilarious but this DVD isn't
Review: I personally believe Chris Rock is the funniest comedian ever. I purchase both Vol1 & Vol2 of "the Best of the Chris Rock Show". The 2nd DVD deserves 4.5 out of 5 stars, without a doubt but the first volumne is pale in quality, length & content.

This seems to just be grabs of random pieces of his show and are bar far NOT "the best off". The 2nd volumne has 55mins of skits and then another 45mins of his "Taxi Cab Driver Confessions" which alone almost makes the disk worth the purchase. This disk is just a poor collection of skits from the show, then 2 skits from the Taxi Cab. If you want a good Chris Rock DVD, buy volumne 2, but pass this one up, its not worth it, not even with a less than (...) pricetag.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Chris Rock is hilarious but this DVD isn't
Review: I personally believe Chris Rock is the funniest comedian ever. I purchase both Vol1 & Vol2 of "the Best of the Chris Rock Show". The 2nd DVD deserves 4.5 out of 5 stars, without a doubt but the first volumne is pale in quality, length & content.

This seems to just be grabs of random pieces of his show and are bar far NOT "the best off". The 2nd volumne has 55mins of skits and then another 45mins of his "Taxi Cab Driver Confessions" which alone almost makes the disk worth the purchase. This disk is just a poor collection of skits from the show, then 2 skits from the Taxi Cab. If you want a good Chris Rock DVD, buy volumne 2, but pass this one up, its not worth it, not even with a less than (...) pricetag.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Never seen an episode
Review: I was in for a treat. This was al new Chris Rock of me. And I ate it up. Chris Rock is simply the best comic in a one man show. I don't have cable TV, and if I did, I would never be home to watch it, so with this being my first exposure to the Chris Rock Show, no wonder it is the hit it is. Great work.


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