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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: A&E
EAN: 0733961747058
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: A&E Home Video
Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: A&E Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 28, 2006
Running Time: 197 minutes
Sales Rank: 29464
Studio: A&E Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
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Not the 9 O Clock News The Best ofAttention comedy fans: NOT THE NINE O'CLOCK NEWS is the real thing. This is scathing no-holds-barred Brit humor at its best. Rapid-fire skits starring Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) are as politically incorrect as they are side-bustingly funny sparing no one as they take on the British Royal Family Margaret Thatcher Scotland Yard country music Christianity devil worship punk rock and bathroom etiquette. NOT THE NINE O'CLOCK NEWS is so irreverent that when the pilot was due to air in April 1979 the BBC cancelled it due to its incendiary political content. When at last it aired the greatest comedy group to hit England since Monty Python's Flying Circus stormed the airwaves and revolutionized British and American television alike. Discover the show that set the standard for the anarchic cynicism that defined the alternative comedy of the 80's.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 733961747058 Manufacturer No: AAE-74705
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This two-disc set doesn't collect the best of Not the 9 O'Clock News per se, but, more accurately, eight extremely funny episodes of this 1979 British sketch comedy series that launched the careers of Rowan Atkinson (Blackadder, Mr. Bean), Pamela Stevenson (later wasted on Saturday Night Live), and Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones (Alas Smith & Jones). Between a squashed hedgehog and a dead parrot, comparisons with Monty Python's Flying Circus are inevitable. Not the 9 O'Clock News is more aggressively paced, with a riot of sketches, fun-with-real-video segments, non-sequitur bits, visual gags, and musical spoofs. It was also more topical, so it has perhaps not aged as well as Python. But one doesn't have to be familiar with the British politicians and personalities being pilloried (sorry, Britt Eckland) or the television game and talk shows being spoofed to enjoy the commitment of the performances and the savvy and sometimes savage writing. In the first episode, talk show panelists respond to news that Russian bombs are 4 ½ minutes from England, prompting a leftist to decry "the appalling record of this conservative government... that three million people will die unemployed." The silly bits are the most lasting, including footage of a golf tournament repurposed as the "Pro Am Silly Pants Tournament" and Atkinson and Smith as an urbane gorilla and his trainer ("He was completely wild." "Wild? I was absolutely livid"). This marks 9 O'Clock's DVD debut, and that's good news for British comedy fans. --Donald Liebenson
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The content is funny, but it's incomplete. The snips are too short and you can tell there's more. I'm disappointed.
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Besides Monty Python's Flying Circus, Not the Nine O'Clock proved to be one of the leading sketch shows of British television. This DVD is a great one to add to your collection, whether you are a fan of the show itself, a fan of British comedy, or a fan of Rowan Atkinson. This DVD does not disappoint. However, it has to be noted that the DVD is highly edited, compared to the original aired version of the episodes. But since there are no plans to release the full series any time soon, this is probably ... Read More
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"Not The 9 O'clock News" took the baton from "Monty Python's Flying Circus" in the world of British comedy in the early 1980s. Like "Python," the show features fast paced sketch comedy intermixed with real footage and musical numbers, and blends them into an amalgam that is sometimes very original, yet occasionally noticeably derivative of earlier work (notably of "Python" and Peter Cook.) Of the four principals involved here, Rowan Atkinson, of course, became the standout, and in fact already was even ... Read More
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My only beef with this set is the same beef I had with the import versions - THEY MOVED THE SQUASHED HEDGEHOG!!
One of my favourite bits from this show, ever since I watched it on PBS in the early 80's, is the "I Love Trucking" music video. This sketch originally began with a shot of a truck running over a little fake whitish colored Hedgehog on the road, spilling what appears to be several pieces of deli meat from within. Always loved the gross-out laugh it gave the audience, followed by a ... Read More
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It's really thrilling to see this out on DVD stateside, even though if you don't recall much of the late 1970s/early 1980s and aren't up on government history in the UK during the time (and if not, a few hours with the Young Ones will help), you might be at a bit of a loss on certain parts. If you are still moping over Princess Di being in the past tense namewise, you might be squeamish over parts of this as she still had that new Windsor smell at the time these were made.
Okay, caveats aside, ... Read More
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